“I think that this is a color revolution,” the editor-in-chief of World Economy, Alexander Sosnowski, told Aravot Daily in an interview about the events in Belarus. The entire interview can be read in Armenian here.
Regarding Alexander Lukashenko’s statement on Sunday that NATO forces are being set up near the Belarusian border, Alexander Sosnowski said that this is a form of political blackmail. “Those who want to seriously participate with their own private military organizations instead of NATO are, of course, the Baltic countries and Poland, as well as possibly Ukraine. It is not difficult for them to organize such groups in their countries and send them to Belarus. This can also cause issues with the change of balance in those countries, which is when the massacre can begin. Belarusians are people who are not prepared to give their right cheek if their left cheek is hit. That can also cause internal conflicts, which can cause a civil war in Belarus. NATO is not prepared to go to war and NATO will never take that step because it realizes that there is an agreement for having unified states, and Russia is the one behind all of that. But NATO does not want to nor does it have the ability to fight Russia.”
When asked if Russia will help Lukashenko, he responded that there is no need for direct aid because this is an internal issue. If Russian President Vladimir Putin expresses his moral support, it will be sufficient. “But if there are external threats for Belarus, then yes, the CSTO will help. I believe that Russia will not get involved in internal issues because there are no reasons to do so. If the Belarusian government changes in a non-violent manner and without a revolution like the one in Ukraine, I think that Moscow will treat it normally. That is Belarus’ internal issue. Russia simply views Belarus as its neighbor and a brotherly people, and I believe this will continue. I believe that Putin is not interested at all in providing Lukashenko with military aid, especially since those men were imprisoned for unknown reasons and then released. Lukashenko brought this upon himself, and now he has to sit and worry about when those men were released and beaten for unknown reasons and then released. That was his critical mistake. Until then, it was plausible to expect some material support from Russia, but I think it would be difficult to expect anything now.”
Ami Chichakyan
