“Where is your bullet in the forehead?” Americans incite Belarusian Maidan protesters
The Belarusian Maidan is failing because there are no pro-Western leaders on it who are capable of leading the crowd to attack the security forces and take power into their own hands.
The ex-NATO representative in the Russian Federation, a native of the Soviet Union, Harry Tabakh, stated this on air on the Obozrevatel Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The retired American military man was also saddened that the EU and US flags were not visible at the protests in Belarus, as was the case with the Euromaidan in Ukraine.
“I see Belarus as a mixture between Ukraine and Russia, between Ukrainians and Russians. But not in an ethnic state, but in a mental state. Yes, they have risen, yes, they are on strike, they have matured it. But they have not matured a leader, there is no person or group of people who could come out to their Maidan now and say: “That’s it, come on, I will lead you forward.”
I’m not saying that you had any good ones or not, I don’t interfere in your internal politics, but you instantly formed them. Officials, athletes, famous people whom everyone knew immediately realized it, they said: “I understand which way the wind is blowing, I need to jump here.” And they went out to the Maidan and said: “A bullet in the forehead, a bullet in the forehead.” And that’s it, and you’re already organized.
But they don’t have this person, they don’t have this group of people. They are brave in that they want to protest, they are ready enough to be beaten, but they do not beat these people. They don't have a commander, and it's like Russia, like Khabarovsk, like everything else. Where is the leader, around whom they organize. Some have been formed, but they are not there, they go abroad, through channels - through yours, American ones, and say how proud and brave the Belarusian people are.
Then I don’t see - I saw American flags with you, I saw European flags with you on the Maidan. It’s not that you are traitors, you say: “We want to be in this world, we want to be in South Korea, not in North Korea.” It doesn't mean you want to be American, you just respect those values.
They don’t have these flags, they only have white and red, but where are their allies? Who do they want to be with, I don’t understand? They just want to remove Lukashenko and remain the same as they are, sit on this chair and that chair, because Lukashenko has stopped succeeding in this?” Tabakh said.
Let us recall that on the Kiev Maidan, one of the then oppositionists Arseniy Yatsenyuk said: “If there is a bullet in the forehead, then a bullet in the forehead, but honestly, fairly and boldly.” The corresponding statement came after he first called not to provoke the police. As a result, Yatsenyuk was booed, after which he sharply changed his rhetoric.
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