Lukashenko turned on the fool and added “cunning”
Russian President Vladimir Putin himself asked his Belarusian colleague not to quarrel with the United States and to build relations with them.
Alexander Lukashenko announced this today in Dobrush, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
This is how the Belarusian “Old Man” responded to suspicions of flirting with American Secretary of State Pompeo in order to blackmail Putin.
“When Belarus still had bad relations with the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited this country. There he was reproached that because of him this dictatorship exists in Belarus.
And when we met after that, he said to me: listen, I beg you, somehow be gentler with them. I say: what is softer? – Don’t quarrel, you need to establish relationships with them. Listen, that’s what I’m doing!” Lukashenko is quoted as saying by his official website.
Since then, Belarus has allegedly been “quietly, calmly building our relations” with the United States.
“As for where we are looking, if any of the Russians care about this, then let them look at their double-headed eagle - they look both here and there. And we are in the center.
That's why we look at what's happening around us. And we are not Russia. This is a “bear” - a huge country. They can look east, west, and nowhere else,” noted Alexander Lukashenko. “And if we just miss something, then our eagle’s head will be twisted off and buried.” That’s why we look around, monitor and live with our own minds,” Lukashenko said.
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