Ukrainian MP: Lukashenko Fulfills Putin's Assignment In DPRK

The Belarusian ruler is a tool of the Kremlin.

Lukashenko is going to visit North Korea to the local dictator Kim Jong-un.

What could this visit be related to? Such a question Charter97.org asked the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the party "Servant of the People" Oleg Dunda:

- Where else can Lukashenko go? He can't go to Moscow all the time. He also wants to see the world.

If you look at this story seriously, it is actually another trade, I would say, which Lukashenko has always been engaged in. That is, on the one hand, he can make concessions to Western democracies, in this case the United States and the Trump administration, and on the other hand, he can threaten them and say: look, look, you will not cooperate further - I can go to Pyongyang, I can talk there, I can talk to Beijing and everyone else.

- What benefit can the Kremlin get from this trip?

- In this case, Belarus and Lukashenko are absolutely its own tools for Moscow, which it uses. And it uses them in the paradigm that Lukashenko himself likes - as an instrument of trade.

I would probably compare Belarus to the GDR of the Warsaw Bloc times. Formally, they seem to have their own power. But, on the other hand, they are completely dependent on Moscow. Moreover, on many issues, they sometimes turn out to be even more repressive than Moscow itself. At the same time, Moscow used the GDR as a base for various operations, both spying and economic. It took advantage of the fact that the GDR was considered by the Western world as if a little separate from Moscow, as an independent part.

Based on this experience of the KGB, and in fact the FSB (and the FSB is the KGB, and Putin is a part of this system), history is repeating itself and the same model is being reproduced with regard to Belarus.

I will remind such a unique example as the UN. After all, it was founded not only by the USSR as such, but also by Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. On the one hand, these were dependent parts of the Soviet Union. But at a certain point, for Moscow's purposes, both Kiev and Minsk were used as separate entities in order to have more ties and get more bargaining power. In this case, Moscow is much more flexible in its actions than many want to portray. It is not as rigid as it is often said to be.

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