A Master Class In Cynicism From Lukashenko
- 27.06.2025, 16:30
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The dictator began to defend the Iranian regime.
Days after the cessation of shelling between Iran and Israel, Alexander Lukashenko decided to condemn the attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. "Salidarnasts" explains the cynicism of these statements.
According to political observers, the ruler of Belarus was clearly pausing in anticipation of the visit to Minsk of U.S. Presidential Special Envoy Keith Kellogg, not wanting to disrupt it with pro-Iranian statements.
But his fresh statements are notable primarily for their content, not for the forced postponement or the setting in which they were delivered - during a meeting of the EAEU Supreme State Council.
"The recent strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities under IAEA control violate in the most dangerous way the provisions of international law, including the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Geneva Conventions of 1949. I won't even talk about the feelings that such actions arouse in Belarus, the country most affected by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant," said Lukashenko.
And this is a master class in cynicism and double standards. We explain point by point.
It was Lukashenko who initiated and made every effort to build a Russian-style nuclear power plant in Belarus - contrary to public and expert opinion.
February 24, 2022, in the first days of a full-scale invasion, Russian occupation troops entered the exclusion zone from the territory of Belarus and temporarily seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Belarusians who opposed the war were seized across the country.
In February of this year, a Russian drone damaged the roof of the sarcophagus over the destroyed power unit, causing a long-running fire. Ukrainian Pripyat, to put it mildly, is much closer to Belarus than Iranian Fordow, but we haven't heard Lukashenko condemn the February attack.
The ruler had no objections to the seizure of Europe's largest nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye by Russian invaders either. And if for any reason it explodes there, the Belarusians are guaranteed to get it too.
The ruler of Belarus is proud of the fact that he allegedly achieved the deployment of Russian tactical weapons in our country, having actually drawn a fat target on the map of the country. And where is his concern for the feelings of the people who suffered the most from the biggest nuclear disaster?
Denouncing other people's attacks on nuclear facilities, Lukashenko does not notice a log the size of a nuclear mushroom in his own eye.