What Putin will demand in exchange for saving Lukashenko
Vladimir Putin can provide Alexander Lukashenko with assistance in maintaining power, but in exchange for this, Minsk will have to fulfill a number of Russian conditions.
This is what the famous Russian military correspondent Dmitry Steshin says, recalling that earlier the Kremlin, despite the protests of the West, helped the President of Syria, who was in a much more precarious position, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Laughter, laughter, cunning plan, cunning plan, and Putin saved both the chair and Assad’s ass, in return receiving things from the category of “this hasn’t been done since the Creation of the world” - two bases on the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, they are complete – air and sea. No rent.
And he will save Lukashenko, but in return, like Ostap from Balaganov, he will demand “many small services.” And one big one - a normal military base. Normal – corresponding to the tasks and threats in this direction. Or maybe two.
There is nothing more to take from him. No one has needed recognition of Crimea by Belarus for a long time. And if our bases exist, the brothers’ antics with the West will end.
Against this background, the story of the daring, cunning and two-faced Gaddafi, whom Russia did not save, looks instructive,” Steshin argues in his blog.
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