[spanalot]

"Mr. Lukashenko personally ordered Soviet-trained Belarusian chemists, scientists and technicians to work closely with Iran's mullahs on the deadly Shahab missile system -- designed to strike Europe and Israel -- as well as on the country's uranium enrichment and chemical warfare programs. "

Puties lap dog is doing the Kremlin's behest.

Hey all you Russophile, retired US military spin masters - this looks like a tough row to hoe - pls explain why this is good for "our" USA

[Paleo Conservative]

Someone needs to take out the trash.

[Brian Allen]

<< "Bilateral relations" between Belarus and "china" have also grown substantially over the past several years. >>

Of course.

Wherever there is an as-hesperophobic-as-itself fellow-predator-posing-as-a-politician to patronize there'll be Peking's pack of psychopaths squandering its serfdom's confiscated wealth on enslaving the subjects of yet another sorry fascissocialistic surrogate.

[Paul C. Jesup]

It seems that Iranian mulhals are getting their ducks in a row for a war with the west. Talks with Lukashenko, and also with Hamas. Moving money out of Europe. Buying ground to air missles from Russia.

This is going to get very ugly.

[humint]

Poland, a strong U.S. ally, should be approached to help pressure the authoritarian government in Minsk. The EUandUnitedNations should also use their combined influence to deter the erosion of human rights and political freedoms that has become synonymous with the Lukashenko regime. Unified action is necessary to remove the growing cancer that is Mr. Lukashenko from Europe's belly; otherwise, the disease will spread.

Gas wars with Russia

For years Belarus was getting gas paying internal Russian gas price ($25 per 1000 cubic m instead of market $80). Correspondingly Belarus held the transit tariff of transporting Russian gas to Western Europe some 2.5 times lower than neighboring Ukraine. This lead to continuous blames of who is owing who. Well it's about to end now. Putin forced Lukashenka to accept market prices on Russian gas starting January 2004. Lukashenka threatened to raise transit tariff for Russian Gas to Western Europe. This measure is viewed as means of forcing Lukashenka to give up Belarus sovereignty and become part of Russia.

Belarus Democracy Act - HR 854

Another version of the Belarus Democracy appeared in March 2003, when it called for $40 million over the 2004-05 fiscal year to promote democracy and civil society in Belarus. It also projected an additional $5 million to support Voice of America and RFE/RL broadcasts into Belarus. The 2004 Belarus Democracy Act is "meeker" than its 2003 predecessor -- it does not contain provisions about the travel ban on Belarusian officials and the prohibition of U.S. strategic exports to Belarus. It also remains noncommittal about the volume of necessary assistance to democracy advocates in Belarus. And, notably, it leaves out a reference, enclosed in the 2003 version, about Russia's role in promoting democracy in Belarus.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

Quick, give him a couple of billion dollars so he will like us.

[Jaysun]

We need to pay Egor the bodyguard $5 million to leave the back door open one, send in some jacked up cyberninja to blow his damed head off.

[Fintan]

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"Military cooperation with Iran will be carried out without danger to the world or security in the region," Mr. Lukashenko has said. ...

 

He has a bright future with CNN should he decide to quit that dictator job.

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