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US imperialists were considering to financially support the "last dictator of Europe" as an alternative to take over Belarus

 
A 2019 report by the top US think tank, RAND Corporation, confirmed that the US imperialists were essentially seeking to provoke Russia towards military action against Ukraine, as revealed in our previous article.

The same report also focused on Belarus as Russia's most critical strategic ally, examining different ways through which the country could fall into the hands of the Western bloc. Most ideas are related with the typical US intervention process of provoking civil unrest. Yet, there is also a piece in a paragraph which clearly suggests the possibility of the exact opposite approach. That is, establishing stronger relations with Lukashenko's regime by supporting it financially! 
 
As we read: [emphasis added]
 
                        From a U.S. policy standpoint, Belarus’ unrest might present an opportunity to extend Russia by aiding the opposition, removing a long-standing Russian-allied dictator, and supporting liberalization. This aid to Lukashenko’s opposition could come in a variety of forms, ranging from public declarations of support by U.S. leaders to more direct financial and organizational assistance helping the opposition parties reach the end state of being a free and democratic Belarus. Alternatively, the United States could adopt precisely the opposite approach and try to leverage the recent unrest to build a closer relationship with Lukashenko’s regime through the offers of economic aid.
 
This is a particularly blatant proof for the level of amoralism, cynicism and hypocrisy of the US imperialist apparatus.
 
Previous paragraphs in the report describe the authoritarian behavior of Lukashenko's regime, claiming that a regime change operation will lead to a free and democratic country. Yet, there is no problem for the US hawkish "masterminds" to examine the possibility of assisting the regime and the so-called "last dictator of Europe" instead, if that would serve better the US interests. 

What more evidence do you need to understand that the US imperialists don't really care at all about democracy and human rights? That they use these values selectively whenever they want to change the status quo in a region?

It's also interesting that among the goals of depriving Russia of its most strategic ally, is undermining Russia's attempt to create an economic union in competition with the EU. And also, the further isolation of Kaliningrad, which by the way, is Russian territory with mostly Russian population.
 
As we wrote in 2015: 
 
                         The US will probably continue to arm militants in Syria, keeping Putin busy, at least until 2016 presidential elections. With a more willing puppet than Obama to follow neocon agenda (any GOP, or Hillary), Washington may then open a new front in the Russian borders. Western media focused on the recent win of Alexander Lukashenko, while insist to call him 'last dictator of Europe'.

                        It is not accidental that Lukashenko opposed Western-backed "shock therapy" during the post-Soviet transition. The one that under IMF mafia destroyed Russian economy in the late 90s. Maybe the various US think tanks design another 'color revolution' in Belarus this time, as the game in Ukraine appears to be lost for now.

 
It would be worth to mention that "IMF, reportedly offered Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko $940 million in COVID assistance on the condition that he imposed harsh pandemic restrictions. Lukashenko said he refused, proclaiming, “the IMF continues to demand from us quarantine measures, isolation, and a curfew. This is nonsense. We will not dance to anyone’s tune.”
 
US imperialists never stopped the attempts to overthrow Lukashenko since at least 2006, in order to establish a US-friendly regime. 
 
Lukashenko was targeted "by an abortive U.S.-funded “color revolution” in March 2006. The U.S. favored Mikhail Marynich, a former ambassador to Latvia and proponent of NATO membership."
 

Also, as The Grayzone reported:
 
In 2020, a protest movement in Belarus quickly morphed into a Western-backed attempt at a so-called color revolution. It aimed at overthrowing the government of President Alexander Lukashenko, a former Soviet collective farm director who has ruled Belarus since 1994 and maintained some Soviet-style policies, while pursuing friendly relations with Russia and China.

To the chagrin of the US and its EU allies, Lukashenko has overseen a relatively state-led economy with greater public ownership and more robust social programs when compared to his post-Soviet neighbors, which imposed neoliberal shock therapy and integrated their political and economic systems into NATO and Western financial markets.

While imposing suffocating economic sanctions on Belarus, the US government and European Union member states have poured millions of dollars into anti-Lukashenko groups, particularly media outlets, while helping to establish a parallel government in exile, called the Coordination Council, led by NATO-backed opposition figure Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
 
And:
 
Right-wing activist Roman Protasevich was traveling on the Irish airliner Ryanair on May 23 when the plane crossed into Belarusian airspace and was ordered to land by state authorities. Protasevich was subsequently taken off the aircraft and arrested.

The incident triggered a wave of denunciations by Western governments, and a new round of aggressive sanctions on Belarus. Many anti-interventionist critics pointed out the hypocrisy of the US government’s condemnations, recalling how, in 2013, it forcibly grounded the plane of Bolivian President Evo Morales in an egregious violation of international law because it wrongly suspected he was harboring NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
 
Effortlessly ignoring Washington’s own precedent, Western governments and major corporate media outlets blasted the government of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as a brutal dictatorship while lavishing praise on Protasevich, portraying the high-profile opposition figure as a heroic human rights defender.

What they refused to acknowledge is Protasevich’s recent history serving with a neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine, and his extensive ties to other far-right extremist organizations.
 
No matter the outcome of the war in Ukraine, US imperialists and their Western allies will never stop the dirty attempts to take over Belarus. They will never stop the attempts to further isolate and fully encircle Russia.

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