The only thing I know about Lukashenko is whatever was in John Oliver’s piece on him; so absolutely nothing. If y’all can help me out on that I’d be grateful.
Anyway, just saw this on twitter and thought it was very sus.
Western leaders and media spread lies about Belarus and Lukashenko because he hasn’t allowed Belarus to fall victim to neoliberal looting. The usual capitalist regime change organizations are constantly trying their tricks in Belarus, which the government makes very difficult and said organizations always call foul play on.
Here’s a very good text about Belarus and Lukashenko:
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/worlrevipoliecon.11.4.0428
Was gonna share this as well. Interesting when Chinese communists are discussing Belarusian economics they refer to it as Market Socialist, although Belarus is never included in what western MLs consider AES. It’s very complicated and could be considered more liberal than China without the end goal being to move toward communism, but it’s certainly not neoliberal either, like the “freedom fighter” opposition wants it to be.
Will someone shot her already?
Nah, she’s as funny and as dangerous as Guaido, but less famous. This kind of enemies are pretty useful, since they are showing everyone the hypocrisy and real intentions of their controllers from the west.
Batka Lukashenko to BBC reporter about western “NGOs”:
Opened comments to post this exact bit! Honestly this one specific meme is what tipped me over from flirting with being critically pro-Russian/Belarussian towards being like “yeah, okay” back in the beginning of this clusterf
