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Pompeo in Belarus: Putin’s vassal seeks proximity to the United States

VOn camera, Belarusian President Lukashenko says sentences like: Moscow is taking his country “right from behind”. It was important to protect Belarusian interests, the people and the state – whatever the cost. His country is waging “a war for energy”. Such sharp rhetoric towards the big brother Russia has never been heard from Minsk. To the delight of Washington, Putin, on the other hand, declared that “the Russian and Belarusian people are practically the same thing”. Given Russia’s aggression in eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, Putin’s recent statement that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” must sound like a barely veiled threat to Lukashenko. This goes too far for Minsk, so the Belarusian autocrat no longer wants to threaten to turn to the West, he announced concrete measures to become less dependent on Russia. His bang: oil imports from the west.

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