Lukashenko took Russia hostage
Politically, Belarus slowly but surely began to drift in the opposite direction from Russia.
Political observer Mikhail Rostovsky comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, on the pages of Moskovsky Komsomolets.
He draws attention to the fact that no one is surprised by the number of swear words from Lukashenko towards Russia. The author suggests that perhaps someone in Moscow is counting on the fact that the decline in the legitimacy and strength of Lukashenko’s political position will narrow his freedom of maneuver and increase his dependence on the Kremlin.
“Even if this calculation is correct, all its correctness is limited to the short-term or at most medium-term perspective. But if you look at it in the long run, the emerging trends, on the contrary, are definitely not in our favor. I really hope that all my gloomy forebodings will not come true. But facts are stubborn things. Belarus began to slowly but surely drift away from Russia,” the observer is convinced.
He also claims that all hopes for stopping this process “are connected with the political leader who is losing his resource, who himself initiated this drift.”
“A situation arises that cannot even be called paradoxical, only perverted. Moscow simultaneously opposes the Old Man and is his hostage. Of course, Lukashenko himself, in a sense, became a hostage to Russian policy. However, for some reason this circumstance does not reassure me at all. In strategic terms, something wrong is happening in Russian-Belarusian relations. And I’m afraid that after Lukashenko’s “victory” in his sixth presidential election, the volume of this “wrong” will only increase,” sums up Rostovsky.
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