Inhaftierte als Druckmittel in Belarus
Von Barbara Oertel
Vorsicht ist geboten für den, der nach Minsk reisen will. Zu leicht kann man in die Fänge des gnadenlosen Alexander Lukaschenko geraten.
Schwerpunkt: Krisenherd Belarus
#taz #tageszeitung #Todesstrafe #Minsk #Alexander #Lukaschenko
Vorsicht ist geboten für den, der nach Minsk reisen will. Zu leicht kann man in die Fänge des gnadenlosen Alexander Lukaschenko geraten.#Todesstrafe #Minsk #AlexanderLukaschenko #KrisenherdBelarus #Europa #Politik #Schwerpunkt
Inhaftierte als Druckmittel in Belarus: Vom Besuch ist abzuraten
Back in Donetsk anew, I interviewed war correspondent and journalist, Christelle Néant. Christelle arrived in #Donetsk in 2016 to report on what had already been two bloody years of #Ukraine warring on its former population in the Donetsk and #Lugansk Peoples Republics.
She reported from extremely dangerous frontline positions, documenting the Ukrainian shelling and violations of the #Minsk accords, also giving a human face to the civilians being terrorized by Kiev’s forces.
In his (highly recommendable) book "The Russian Art of #War", the former Swiss military intelligence officer Jacques Baud described the reason why the current fighting in Ukraine started out as a "Special Military Operation" within a larger context:
The use of the word "war" would imply a different structure of conduct than that envisioned by the Russians in Ukraine, and would have other structural implications in Russia itself. Moreover - and this is a central point - as #NATO Secretary General Jens #Stoltenberg himself acknowledges,"the war began in 2014" and should have been ended by the #Minsk Agreements. The #SMO is therefore a "military operation" and not a new "war", as many Western "experts" claim.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/03/russia-is-at-war-.html#more
#nuland #biden #russia #ukraine #usa #history #minsk #trump ">Is ground beneath Biden’s Russia policy shifting? - Indian Punchline In a surprise development, US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to retire from the foreign service (...) Nuland was very active regarding Minsk agreements and in early 2016 met several times with then Russian presidential aide Vladislav Surkov and discussed plans for the implementation of the political part of the agreements regarding the special status of Donbass within Ukraine. However, once Donald Trump came to power in January 2017, the momentum was lost.. (...) Nuland also noted that she did not know any other way to get Russia to withdraw from Ukraine other than the Minsk document, which after all, President Putin himself signed. However, as it happened, Biden’s Russia policies took an entirely different trajectory....
— According to the British media The Times, Belarusian exiles in Poland are training for a future armed insurrection, insurgency in their home nation, Belarus
In Poznan, Western Poland, ByPol — a group of former officers from Belarus’s security services who defected from the regime during the protests of 2020 — is "actively preparing for the final day", dubbed “Time X”, when they will return to their country to "take on the Lukashenko's Regime"
— “We tried the peaceful route,” said “Grandad”, an electrician in his sixties who recently recovered from a heart attack after the stress of starting a life from scratch in Poland last year. “[But] never has a state won its freedom without blood.”, in interview to #TheTimes
Per the #british newspaper, this session is the first of its kind in #Poznan, but other groups have been training in #Poland for months with recruits numbering in the hundreds, according to Aliaksandr Azarau, the leader of #Bypol
According to him, guerrilla fighters and partisans linked to Bypol have already conducted small successful operations in #Belarus. They sabotaged railways carrying Russian troops to #Ukraine last spring and in February this year Bypol claimed responsibility for blowing up a Russian reconnaissance plane at an airport near #Minsk with two small drones (which as previously reported here, did not happen)
#minsk #merkel #cheat #lies #ICBM-force #ABM-treaty #INF-treaty #Putin is the restrained one #Biden says what ever comes to his head.
It is probably less dangerous to leave your money to a pickpocket than to believe Biden and his acolytes.
#Russia had no other options. #Putin could have chosen peace. #Biden said that Washington has no intention of deploying offensive strike missiles in Ukraine. Biden's negotiators refused, and Biden did not talk about it again.
The West double-crossed Putin, yet history begins for some only 2022 Feb 22. Moving the Russian Army in to Ukraine violated international laws. During the Cuban missile crisis, we were living in safer times. Now, the trust is
5:05 2021 Dec 21Russia requested a written declaration that Moscow will not be attacked with the rockets stationed in the neighboring countries.
10:58 Does the West plan to use or has the West been using Ukraine as a battering ram against Putin? - Yes.
Judge Napolitano
In Belarus ist der frühere Regierungskritiker Roman Protassewitsch begnadigt worden. Sein Fall hatte vor zwei Jahren weltweit für Aufsehen gesorgt.#Belarus #AlexanderLukaschenko #RomanProtassewitsch #SofiaSapega #Minsk #Ryanair
Belarussischer Blogger Roman Protassewitsch begnadigt | DW | 22.05.2023
In Belarus ist der frühere Regierungskritiker Roman Protassewitsch begnadigt worden. Sein Fall hatte vor zwei Jahren weltweit für Aufsehen gesorgt.#Belarus #AlexanderLukaschenko #RomanProtassewitsch #SofiaSapega #Minsk #Blogger #Ryanair
Belarussischer Blogger Protassewitsch begnadigt | DW | 22.05.2023
Autor Viktor Martinowitsch über sein Land
Von Jens Uthoff
Victor Martinowitsch schreibt Romane, die in Belarus nicht in die Läden kommen. Ein Gespräch über Isolation und Hoffnung.
#taz #tageszeitung #wochentaz #Interview #Belarus #Autor #Roman #Schriftsteller #politische #Gefangene #Minsk
Wegen ihrer Rolle bei den Protesten gegen Machthaber Alexander Lukaschenko sprach ein Gericht in Minsk die im Exil lebende ehemalige Präsidentschaftakandidatin Swetlana Tichanowskaja schuldig.#Belarus #Opposition #SwetlanaTichanowskaja #Gericht #Urteil #Haftstrafe #Minsk #Exil #AlexanderLukaschenko
Oppositionsführerin Tichanowskaja zu langer Haftstrafe verurteilt | DW | 06.03.2023
In Belarus ist der prominente Menschenrechtler Ales Bjaljazki zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilt worden. Dem Nobelpreisträger werden Finanzdelikte in Zusammenhang mit seiner Organisation Wjasna vorgeworfen.#Belarus #AlesBjaljazki #Haft #Wjasna #Friedensnobelpreisträger #Minsk
Lange Haftstrafen für Bürgerrechtler | DW | 03.03.2023
Der Nobelpreisträger wurde wegen angeblicher Finanzdelikte in Zusammenhang mit seiner Organisation Wjasna verurteilt.#Belarus #AlesBjaljazki #Haft #Wjasna #Friedensnobelpreisträger #Minsk
Zehn Jahre Haft für Bürgerrechtler Ales Bjaljazki in Belarus | DW | 03.03.2023
General a. D. Harald Kujat: Der #Ukrainekrieg ist nicht nur eine militärische Auseinandersetzung; er ist auch ein Wirtschafts- und ein Informationskrieg. In diesem #Informationskrieg kann man zu einem Kriegsteilnehmer werden, wenn man sich Informationen und Argumente zu eigen macht, die man weder verifizieren noch aufgrund eigener Kompetenz beurteilen kann. Zum Teil spielen auch als moralisch verstandene oder ideologische Motive eine Rolle. Das ist in #Deutschland besonders problematisch, weil in den #Medien überwiegend „Experten“ zu Wort kommen, die über keine sicherheitspolitischen und strategischen Kenntnisse und Erfahrungen verfügen und deshalb Meinungen äußern, die sie aus Veröffentlichungen anderer „Experten“ mit vergleichbarer Sachkenntnis beziehen. Offensichtlich wird damit auch politischer Druck auf die Bundesregierung aufgebaut.
#krieg #ukraine #russland #donbass #minsker-abkommen
#Völkerrechtsbruch
Jetzt stellt sich heraus, wir sind diejenigen, die internationale Vereinbarungen nicht einhalten
Ich möchte noch auf ein Ereignis zu sprechen kommen. Frau Merkel hat in einem Interview …
General a. D. Harald Kujat: … ja, was sie sagt, ist eindeutig. Sie hätte das #Minsk II-Abkommen nur ausgehandelt, um der Ukraine Zeit zu verschaffen. Und die Ukraine habe diese auch genutzt, um militärisch aufzurüsten. Das hat der ehemalige französische Präsident Hollande bestätigt.
Petro Poroschenko, der ehemalige ukrainische Staatspräsident, hat das ebenfalls gesagt.
General a. D. Harald Kujat: Russland bezeichnet das verständlicherweise als Betrug. Und Merkel bestätigt, dass Russland ganz bewusst getäuscht wurde. Das kann man bewerten, wie man will, aber es ist ein eklatanter #Vertrauensbruch und eine Frage der politischen Berechenbarkeit.
The #Plan to #Carve Up #Russia #US #Ukraine #NATO #Germany #Merkel #EU #Minsk #agreements #2014 #politics
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"Last week, Angela Merkel confirmed what many analysts have been saying for years, that Washington’s hostile relations with Russia –which date back more than a century– have nothing to do with ideology, ‘bad behavior’ or alleged “unprovoked aggression”. **Russia’s primary offense is that it occupies a strategic area of the world that contains vast natural resources and which is critical to Washington’s “pivot to Asia” plan.* Russia’s real crime is that its mere existence poses a threat to the globalist project to spread US military bases across #Central #Asia, encircle #China, and become the regional hegemon in the world’s most prosperous and populous region.*
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Merkel candidly admits that she participated in a 7 year-long fraud that was aimed at deceiving the Russian leadership into thinking that she genuinely wanted peace, but that proved not to be the case. In truth, **the western powers deliberately sabotaged the treaty in order to buy-time to arm and train a Ukrainian army that would be used in a war against Russia.
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"This is an astonishing admission. What **Merkel is saying is that ” the Cold War never ended” because the primary goal of weakening (“pacifying”) Russia –to the point that it could not defend its own vital interests or project power beyond its borders– was not achieved.* Merkel is implying that the main objective of the Cold War was not to defeat communism (as we were told) but to create a compliant Russian colony that would allow the globalist project to go forward unimpeded. As we can see in Ukraine, that objective has not been achieved; and the reason it hasn’t been achieved is because Russia is powerful enough to block NATO’s eastward expansion. In short, Russia has become the greatest-single obstacle to the globalist strategy for world domination.*"
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Interesting views of how the world is turning
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