Lukashenka Shot Himself in the Foot

The usurper is "crawling into the bottle."

In response to the EU sanctions list, official Minsk announced retaliatory sanctions: a blacklist of European officials (which will not be made public), a demand for Lithuania and Poland to reduce their diplomatic staff, the recall of ambassadors from these countries "for consultation," and the re-accreditation of foreign media journalists.

What are the consequences of this? The Belarusian authorities shot themselves in the foot, says "Salidarnasts."

The publication also cites the opinion of the political observer Aliaksandr Klaskouski, expressed on the website naviny.media:

"However, Minsk flaunts and gets itself into a fight with the West, which is rather cautious in the Belarusian issue.

The withdrawal of Belarus from joint programs and projects with the EU, which the Foreign Ministry also threatens with, will naturally strike first of all at Belarus itself.

Earlier, Lukashenka personally ordered to study the issue of transferring Belarusian exports from Lithuanian ports to Russian ones. Independent experts amicably insist that this is economically unprofitable and increases the already excessive dependence of Belarus on its eastern neighbor. However, the high authorities are apparently guided by the logic of "cutting off the nose to spite your own face."

Although the EU's personal sanctions themselves are just a mosquito bite, a purely psychological irritant, on the whole, the collapse of the Western vector of foreign policy will lead to enormous financial and economic losses," the political observer writes.