[lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus

[Chris Doss]

>From: "Grant Lee" <grantlee at iinet.net.au>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:40:54 +0800
>
>Some people agree with you Chris...
>
>
>"The Prague racket"
>
>(Subtitle: "Nato is now a device to exert control and extract cash. Those
>who resist, like Belarus, are punished")
>
>John Laughland
>Friday November 22, 2002
>The Guardian
>
>"The reasons given for the west's hostility towards Belarus are that
>Lukashenko is authoritarian and a "dictator". This is an odd charge, given
>that the losing candidates in last September's presidential elections
>conceded that the incumbent president had won more votes than them. It is
>also strange for the west to revile Lukashenko when it courts so 
>assiduously
>President Putin, whose own election, like all those in Russia since 1991,
>was outrageously rigged.
---
No kidding. Lukashenko is well-liked in Belarus. Belarussians live quietly 
and comfortably. Lukashenko-bashing at a time when the West is courting the 
leaders of the Stans is inane. Anyway, if Belarussians like Lukashenko, 
obviously he should be president, regardless of what some bonehead in the 
West thinks.

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