
“In condemning Lukashenko, the western nations have achieved nothing: they neither provided the democratic opposition with the material support they would have needed to topple the regime, nor did they endorse Lukashenko’s policy of soft Belarusianisation. As a result, Belarus remains both an autocracy and ‘more state than nation,’” argues Tomislav Kardum for Areo.
In launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s original plan was to seize Kyiv, decapitate the Ukrainian leadership and install a puppet government. That plan would have been impossible without…View Post







