Lukashenko forced Lithuania and the "zmagars" to quickly play along with Trump's major potash deal.
US Special Envoy to Belarus John Cole said that Belarusian potash fertilizers could be very useful to the US and should be supplied through Lithuania.
He stated this to Lithuanian media, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"Potash fertilizers from Belarus should go through Lithuania, and that will open up Europe for them, all the way to the United States," Cole said.
If this plan succeeds, Belarus will abandon the services of Russian Railways and Russian ports, which were exporting 12 million tons of potash annually when Lithuania decided to join US sanctions in 2022, even though no one asked it to do so.
"All hope is that the stupid rabble will finally fold and refuse to return Belarusian potash to their transport and logistics infrastructure," publicist Sergei Mardan wrote on his Telegram channel.
But the Samogitians couldn't refuse their overlord. Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė stated that Vilnius could hold a meeting with Belarus at the deputy minister level.
"For the Lithuanian economy, if these fertilizers are once again shipped through the port of Klaipėda, this is all important for Lithuania and the port. It would be bad for us if this issue got stuck in the US-Russia relationship, and we were pressured. It would be better for the US to pressure Brussels. Of course, it's cheaper that way, but what's the geopolitical cost?" Lithuanian political scientist Alvydas Medalinskas explained vaguely on the Delfi program.
He believes that the US is planning to purchase Belarusian potash in order to abandon Canadian potash, as it has a conflict with Ottawa, which does not want to become the capital of a new state.
The deal between Washington and Minsk was presented as an exchange of "political prisoners" for the lifting of potash sanctions. However, Belarusian television journalist Igor Tur believes the opposite is true.
"Washington is pretending it desperately needs to release political prisoners, when in reality, it's more important to lift sanctions on Belarusian potassium without losing face. And we, at their request, are pretending we desperately need the sanctions lifted, when in reality, what's most important is for Cole to get the instigators of the attempted coup out of Belarus," Tur said on the ONT television channel.
It turns out then that Minsk paid for the expulsion of troublesome opposition members by refusing access to the ports of its ally, Russia.
Another journalist, Grigory Azarenok, explained that Belarus was actually saving Russian Kaliningrad.
"Brussels has a strategy of military escalation, but Batka, by using Trump, anchoring him here, and ensuring Lithuanian transit, is effectively ruining these military plans. What kind of blockade of Kaliningrad is there if American potassium is coming from Belarus? Who's going to start a war here?" Azarenok said in his podcast.
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