{"id":212968,"date":"2020-09-03T05:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T05:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212968"},"modified":"2022-03-02T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T17:42:34","slug":"who-wants-to-overthrow-president-lukashenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212968","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to overthrow President Lukashenko?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thierry Meyssan \u2013 Voltairenet.org Sept 1, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Western press highlights Svetlana Tikhanovskaya as the winner of the Belarusian presidential election and accuses outgoing President Alexander Lukashenko of violence, nepotism and election rigging. However, an analysis of this country shows that the policies of its president correspond to the wishes of its citizens. Behind this fabricated quarrel lies the spectre of Ukrainian Euromaidan and a provoked rupture with Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Svetlana Tikhanovskaya managed to gather both thousands of liberals and neo-Nazis against President Lukashenko.<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the objectives of the Euromaidan coup (Ukraine, 2013-14) was to cut the Silk Road in Europe. China reacted by changing its route and passing it through Belarus. From then on, Minsk tried to protect itself from the same destabilization by pursuing a more balanced policy towards the West, participating in military manoeuvres with Moscow and agreeing to supply arms to Daesh, which Moscow was fighting in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, despite Minsk\u2019s prevarication, the CIA intervened on the occasion of the presidential election of 2020. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya defied the outgoing president, Alexander Lukashenko, who was running for a sixth term. She obtained only 10 per cent of the vote, cried fraud and fled to Lithuania, where Frenchman Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy rushed to welcome her. Unanimously, the Western press denounced the “dictator” and hinted that Madame Tikhanovskaya had been victorious in the election.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reality is much more complex.<\/span><\/p>\n

First of all, while it is quite possible that the elections were rigged in favour of the incumbent president, it is highly unlikely that Svetlana Tikhanovskaya came close to the majority, as what she represents is foreign to the vast majority of Belarusians. For the past 30 years or so, a debate has been going on in the country about its European identity. Is it culturally close to pro-US Western Europe or does it belong to Slavic, pro-Russian Europe? Without a doubt, the answer is that Belarusians are culturally Russian, even if some of them do not speak exactly the same language. Admittedly, two small minorities profess divergent opinions: the first calls itself “nationalist” in reference to the short-lived Belarusian People\u2019s Republic (1918-19) whose organs in exile collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War, then with the Stay-Behind networks of NATO; the second says it is in favour of the liberal model and the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike Ukraine, which is divided into two culturally distinct zones (the pro-German West and the pro-Russian East), Belarus fundamentally thinks of itself as Russian, although politically independent of Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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My encounter with #SvetlanaTikhanovskaya<\/a>, the Vaclav Havel, or Lech Walesa, of #Belarus<\/a>. Available soon in English and Russian. It\u2019s a duty, today, to echo her noble voice. #BelarusProtest<\/a> #BelarusFreedom<\/a> #BelarusSolidarity<\/a> #Lukashenko<\/a> #Minsk<\/a> #MinskMaidan<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/UZkh7lsntv<\/a><\/p>\n

— Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy (@BHL) August 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n