Andrei Piontkovskiy: Situation In Belarus Appears One Of Thrilling Plots In 2017

Russia is divesting Lukashenka off power.

The situation in Belarus remains very serious now. In the opinion of famous Russian political analyst Andrei Piontkovskiy, and attempt of a hybrid overturn and the divestment Aliaksandr Lukashenka off power is ongoing.

The political analyst said this in an interview published by kasparov.ru.

Piontkovskiy claims that the situation in Belarus appears “one of the thrilling plots in 2017”.

- This is one of the extremely thrilling plots of the year 2017, and the moment of truth might happen during the joint military exercise of the Russian and Belarusian armies, scheduled for March. This is a perfect opportunity for a military-political coup, the political analyst has claimed.

Answering the question on possible existence of the pro-Russian ground in the current Belarus, Piontkovskiy has noted that “Moscow will not find mass support of its project”.

- Since 1995, when Moscow helped Lukashenka seize the power, they expected all the time that sooner or later he would agree that Belarus should merge in the Russian Federation. Back then, there was no strong national self-conscience in Belarus, so given any other traditional nomenclature leader, the Kremlin would have managed to drag Belarus into its Russian Federation sooner or later. However, in Lukashenka’s personality they came across a real wolf who had no desire to change his position of a dictator of a European state for the post of Minsk regional committee head. He stubbornly resisted to all attempts of merger. The realization of own statehood eventually grew in Belarus, and I don’t think Moscow will find massive support for its project now. Belarusians have a quite positive attitude towards Russians but they want to have their own state.

- Do the Kremlin’s plans presume that Belarus will be just the first step, and the Baltic States will follow?

- I think NATO already answered the question asked by nuclear extortionist Putin three years ago: “Are you ready to die for Narva?” The West gave a clear response to that: “We will defend Narva just like any other territory of a country-member of the NATO.” And then the West returned the question back to Putin: “What about you, Mr.Putin – are you ready to die for Narva?” I believe the regime wouldn’t dare for the aggression against the NATO countries now. No Trump could change it, although they had great expectations on him. Especially when idiot Gringich, whom many believed to become the future Secretary of State under Trump, made his famous statement: “Estonia is in the suburbs of St. Petersburg. I’m not sure I would risk a nuclear war over some place which is the suburbs of St. Petersburg.”

However, such views gained no support in the Republicans’ establishment, but rather provoked strict resistance to this capitulatory line.

Putin will not have a shot at NATO, but the Russian society will pay the price of unacceptable losses of military men for the military escalation in Ukraine. However, the bitter disappointment after the failure of the “Trump” operation might push the Kremlin towards some fresh, and, as they may think, feasible post-imperialistic reckless schemes. In the same Republic of Belarus, or Libya.