The Drone Is A Start

Three days of security left.

That drone that fell on Matusiewicz Street in the middle of the night simply had to come. It had no other option. A reminder of the obvious, you might say, flew in. A memory refresher. A debunker of lies. Diogenes' lantern, illuminating everything that had become familiar and therefore not very important.

Of course, propaganda immediately demonstrated inscriptions in Ukrainian on the wreckage of the fallen drone: here, look, it was an enemy drone that flew to us. But whose letters are there doesn't matter at all. Drones from both sides are equally dangerous, and if a person dies when a drone falls, it is unlikely that his or her loved ones will be relieved that the murder weapon did not come from the aggressor. The ownership of the drone is question five hundred and one. More precisely, this question does not exist at all. The drone crash disproves all propaganda narratives about a safe Belarus and burns out with napalm all Lukashenko's images with his hand pressed to his heart and vows that there is no place in the world safer than his native country. Back in the spring, he was telling that the treaty on security guarantees within the framework of the "Union State" signed with Russia guaranteed Belarus eternal peace, tranquility and prosperity. And now, please, a drone in the courtyard of a residential building - as a loud laughter over the idiocy of the security speaker.

To enter the war on the side of the aggressor, even as a passive partner, and then open one's mouth to talk about the security of Belarus, is not even simple human stupidity. An aggressor's ally, even if he is stupid, will not say anything about security during the war: simple reflexes will not allow him. But if neither intellect, nor intuition, nor reflexes work at the same time, then, of course, stories about the guaranteed safety of the Belarusian people, which they can enjoy exactly as long as Lukashenko is in power, are poured into the airwaves.

And then a drone arrives. A piece of iron that, with one of its wrecks, sends tons of papers, years of airtime, thousands of files with meaningless contracts into the trash. The drone shakes its head reproachfully: if you hadn't lied, uncle, if you hadn't shit on this earth, I wouldn't have come at all; but you lied and shit so desperately that soon my brothers of different modifications will pull up. And they will come, they won't be going anywhere.

Of course, theoretically, one could object - for example, one could recall how a missile fell on the territory of Poland in the fall of 2022. Yes, it did. Because there is a war going on, and safe places in the neighborhood of warring countries do not exist in principle. And the authorities of European countries are not ashamed to tell their citizens about the danger, do not try to make them believe that war is somewhere so far away that they should not even think about it. Can you imagine what the Poles would do if President Duda suddenly started telling them that not a hair or a drone would fall while he was in charge of the country? I think after that he would only have to be friends with Lukashenko.

A long time ago, in 2012, hundreds of teddy bears fell on Belarus - from a small plane that easily crossed the border, flew 150 kilometers undetected and shattered the myth of an indestructible allied air defense system. Bears held in their paws notes "Demanding freedom of speech!". One could say that it was a friendly action: Swedish pilots showed the complete failure of the Belarusian air defense system absolutely free of charge for the regime, absolutely safe and also beautifully. But instead of patching the holes in the defense, the regime started to arrest random people: a reporter, who took pictures of teddy bears, and a realtor, who rented an apartment to a Swede, who filmed the flight from the ground. And the authors and executors of the idea were offered to voluntarily come to the KGB for interrogation instead of "thank you". Back then many Belarusians said: one day not bears will come. So they came.

And again, instead of eliminating gaps in the air defense system, Lukashenko will guarantee security to Belarusians. And the Belarusians will answer: shut up already, you can't even guarantee us potatoes.

Irina Khalip, especially for Charter97.org.

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