Russia will retain Minsk, but the internal Belarusian crisis will remain - Stankevich
There will no longer be any forceful demolition of the Belarusian regime, nor will there be a geopolitical separation of Minsk from the Eurasian coalition. However, the internal political crisis in Belarus risks becoming chronic.
Russian liberal political scientist Sergei Stankevich stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is a renewal of the Cold War, it has practically resumed. Moreover, with all its attributes, including the split now not of Europe, but of Eurasia. With the formation of opposing blocs - the Euro-Atlantic bloc on the one hand and the Eurasian bloc on the other, the basis of which is the alliance of Russia, Belarus and China.
And so, the risks that the cold war - both sanctions, and information-psychological, and trade, and financial, and whatever - will turn into a hot one are growing, unfortunately, because nothing is resisting this trend.
Moreover, at one time there was a special line of the European Union, when Juncker was at the head, Federica Mogherini was at the head, and now Ursula von der Leyen, the new head of the European Commission, and after her José Barrel, the new High Representative of the European Union for international affairs, are coming out, and such things are being said “At least take out the saints!” - said the expert.
“Thus, this special position manifested in Europe, I still think, should not be underestimated, but it is practically being buried before our eyes, and the camp opposing the Eurasian coalition is becoming more and more monolithic and aggressive. And, unfortunately, the territory of Belarus is indeed becoming an outpost of this renewed cold war.
But here, what especially worries me is the geopolitical conflict, in which the situation has become more or less clear, there will be no forceful demolition of the Belarusian regime and there will be no separation of geopolitical Belarus from the Eurasian coalition and no reorientation either. This, in principle, is already clear, the details remain to be clarified, there are still many clashes to come, but this, in principle, is already certain.
But the internal political crisis in Belarus risks becoming chronic, and it will act approximately the way rust acts, spreading, without any external outbursts and mostly in a semi-hidden form. That is, the country will not be able to develop normally, to manage normally in the development process, if this crisis is not overcome,” Stankevich said.
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