Belarus and Lukashenko - The nature of power of a Stage Red/Blue politician.

[Fleetinglife]

Here is a brief educational summation exposed by the BBC of how a stage RED/BLUE power tyrant and conspiratorial mindset works:

This is one of the finest display of the sin of WRATH/PRIDE if ever saw one and what it does to person centered this much in it in his being, paranoid and overprotective of his power and ego and what dangers it posses for the people of his country with a ruler so much soaked in it and with is being centered around it. He looks like an oversized angry man-child in his demeanor, gesticulation and vocabulary that used several Stalinistic terms straight from the Moscow trails period like 'liquidate' at moments:

Edited November 25, 2021 by Fleetinglife

[Bojan V]

Well, Lukašenko is typical tyrant. No doubt about that.

Just like Tito in ex Yugoslavia...

[Space Lizard]

Keep in mind that the Western media is intensely Russophobic, and they can make anyone look bad with the right editing and without providing context. For example, the NGOs he is attacking are a well known vector of Western imperialism. When the West wants to meddle in a country, leading possibly to a coup like in the Ukraine or the attempted revolution in Hong Kong, they like to use NGOs. It's a way for them to subvert other societies indirectly without being too obvious about it. That's not to say that Lukashenko doesn't have tyrannical tendencies, just that you have to put things in context. When a country is always being harassed by a meddlesome superpower, its leaders tend to react badly. But the media never gives you any context, so you just think they're nasty tyrants. Imagine if they interviewed an angry homeowner who was shouting and threatening people, but they didn't tell you that he had been getting harassed by the same gang of thieves for a year; you would probably think the guy was bad news. That's the kind of thing the media does all the time with people it doesn't like. It's called propaganda.

Edited November 28, 2021 by Space Lizard

[Epikur]

9 hours ago, Space Lizard said:

Keep in mind that the Western media is intensely Russophobic, and they can make anyone look bad with the right editing and without providing context. For example, the NGOs he is attacking are a well known vector of Western imperialism. When the West wants to meddle in a country, leading possibly to a coup like in the Ukraine or the attempted revolution in Hong Kong, they like to use NGOs. It's a way for them to subvert other societies indirectly without being too obvious about it. That's not to say that Lukashenko doesn't have tyrannical tendencies, just that you have to put things in context. When a country is always being harassed by a meddlesome superpower, its leaders tend to react badly. But the media never gives you any context, so you just think they're nasty tyrants. Imagine if they interviewed an angry homeowner who was shouting and threatening people, but they didn't tell you that he had been getting harassed by the same gang of thieves for a year; you would probably think the guy was bad news. That's the kind of thing the media does all the time with people it doesn't like. It's called propaganda.

Agree. Btw they have free health care and free education in their country.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/americas-most-awkward-allies-103889/
One could start with these guys first.

 

[Fleetinglife]

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

Keep in mind that the Western media is intensely Russophobic

No doubt that they have a certain bias against Russia and its remaining political satellites since it is a European military superpower they don't have control and accountability over since its not part of any American led transnational military pact or org., but Putin and Lukashenko are intensely liberalophobic in this overblown response to everything being a political or domestic threat that comes from the West, even org. for LGBTQ rights or something propagating a more liberal and secular culture in Russia. 

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

NGOs he is attacking are a well-known vector of Western imperialism

NGOs are non-governmental organizations and they can be domestic, international, or from any country in the world. They are not by default vectors of imperialism of another country, only if they are financed by a governmental agency of another state actor to promote political aims and goals in the said country that align with the interests and goals that foreign country has for the country it is financing them in via their governmental agencies. NGOs should work on problems that exist in said countries society that there is no adequate government agency for or if that said agency is doing poorly or not adequately, their task is to explicitly be a non-aligned third party between the state and civil society in dealing with problems and malfunctions that exist between the relations of these two within a country and to be independent of both of them at the same time. A country's state shutting down supposed foreign state actor-sponsored NGOs on the sole accusation of them practicing activity or explicitly promoting content against the state advocating its destabilization or overthrow is a serious accusation that needs to be first proven if it is supported, financed, and sponsored in the interests and for the goals of another state actor and if they are guilty of that said activity provoking such a response. If a country's state starts arbitrarily shutting down NGOs without proving any of the following it is a form of state tyranny and it signals a desire and intention for totalitarian control of the civil society by the state of the said country, since it is severing any free volition ties between it and any non-governmental entity over which the government doesn't have control or accountability over, it is a form of arbitrarily practiced state tyranny to solidify power and control of the state bureaucrats over the civil society and as a result, you lack freedom, autonomy, and independence of the individual, groups of citizens and their orgs. in the society itself and have a totalitarian culture of fear and indifference to any violations of citizens' constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms in place. 

 

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

leading possibly to a coup like in Ukraine

This as far as I know after Petr Poroshenko's vow to have closer ties and to move closer politically to Russia and to snub a possible EU membership of Ukraine was facilitated and promoted directly and openly by among others US government officials and ambassadors to Ukraine, not a specific group of NGOs and besides there was large opposition in one part of Ukraine to his policy, the Eastern more Ukraine nationalistic and Orthodox Catholic part, and several ultranationalist and pro-fascist political parties and organizations were helped and got support from some US NGOs but that's about it in terms of meddling, the Pro-EU parties in Ukraine did hold their own and enjoyed by their merit support from the general populace in those pro-EU parts of Ukraine.

 

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

It's a way for them to subvert other societies indirectly without being too obvious about it.

 

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

When a country is always being harassed by a meddlesome superpower, its leaders tend to react badly. But the media never gives you any context, so you just think they're nasty tyrants. Imagine if they interviewed an angry homeowner who was shouting and threatening people, but they didn't tell you that he had been getting harassed by the same gang of thieves for a year

It's a cop-out and an exaggerated excuse of an external threat blown out of proportion that tyrants and autocrats love to use when they don't enjoy full domestic support and or are not comfortable domestically with the overall public support that they need to ground themselves in the overall populistic extended rule of overall majority support and 'presidency for life' (which is an oxymoron of what that term originally meant - someone who temporarily presides over the affairs of the state in a republic) and if they don't they have to explain away their overall failing confidence with the public support, not as a result of their won failings or failed policy but with a conspiratorial narrative outside interference or meddling in the state by some foreign state actors, which is the personal favorite enough vague and non-concrete explanation of the dictator and his sycophants not needing any specific or strong evidence and proof for it to be unscrupulously spread around in the public arena like an 'idea viral epidemic' with a permanent aura of fearmongering, blame-shifting and uncritically, lazily and stupidly formed quick unexamined and unquestioned assumptions following it wherever it finds some root and grows like a weed in some easily molded, influenced and impressionable minds. and also those who want to alienate the public from their 'beloved leader'.

 

On 11/28/2021 at 7:34 AM, Space Lizard said:

That's the kind of thing the media does all the time with people it doesn't like. It's called propaganda.

They don't have to do anything with this guy, just ask him questions as a news agency does and film his unhinged and outright terror sowing and tyrannical responses as a head of state, it is like interviewing the school bully and asking him why is he bullying, intimidating and stealing and extorting money and lunch from other kids and he goes onto say that it is the kid's fault for being weaker than him in the school grounds, better at school, more likable and popular among other kids and different from him and he goes onto blame everything on his upbringing, 'situation at home and parents. That school bully in Belarus is Lukashenko blaming NGOs for him and his ideas not being popular among the people unanimously as before in Belarus anymore and it's a conspiratorial explanation for his personal failings and the failings of his policy at home.

[Fleetinglife]

On 11/28/2021 at 6:53 AM, Bojan V said:

Just like Tito in ex Yugoslavia...

Don't you dare badmouth our former Marshall on the day of the Republic for the remembrance of the founding of our once shared brotherly panslavic international socialist state, though you did not quite do that since you wrote the comment the day before - so you are only part of the hook on that one, still blasphemous non the less! Jk 

But still on a serious note, Tito was more progressive for his time period than Janez Jansha and Vuchic are for today's world standards both combined tbh (liberal culture from the West and even the LGBTQ community was arguably for that time period in the world more accepted and even became a flourishing youth and new subculture in Yugoslavia's (in contrast with the Soviet Union for example) existing progressive and liberal enclaves of some major metropole than they were at first when the breakaway republics returned back to religious traditionalism and national conservatism as their go-to political ideology, culture, and norms for their respective ethnic majority national societies), they are both ethnic cope leaders of their respective banana republics we got leftover, though Serbia much more so arguably than Slovenia. 

Btw Happy Republics Day to You!

 

 

Edited November 30, 2021 by Fleetinglife