"The US Is Nowhere": As The Political Crisis In Belarus Deepens, America Is Conspicuously Absent

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Tom Namako
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“The US Is Nowhere”: As The Political Crisis In Belarus Deepens, America Is Conspicuously Absent https://buzzfeednews.com/article/christopherm51/us-quiet-on-belarus-election-crisis… via @ChristopherJM

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KYIV — As the political crisis roiling Belarus deepened this week with the arrest of two prominent protest leaders and a call for a Nobel laureate to come in for questioning, a top US diplomat met with the self-exiled Belarusian opposition leader in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The meeting between Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun and presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya came hours after more than 100,000 demonstrators in Minsk defied the threat of a military crackdown and demanded the ouster of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

On Sunday, Lukashenko, the mustachioed president who has ruled Belarus for the past 26 years, strode out of a helicopter after the crowd had dispersed wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a rifle that was missing a magazine.

Flanked by an armed entourage that included his 15-year-old son in full body armor and clumsily lugging his own rifle, the president thanked riot police who in recent weeks have terrorized peaceful protesters, detained more than 7,000 of them, and savagely beaten hundreds across the country. “They scattered like rats,” he said of protesters.

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1. No. Biden did respond

[soothsayer]

3. True that!

[world wide wally]

2. The US is no friend of democracy anymore

[soothsayer]

4. Ever since drumpf extorted Ukraine

Well he probably worked against others before that

[PSPS]

5. Belarus was part of the USSR, and we're pretty much a russian satellite nation now, so we're silent.

[crickets]

6. This is to our shame. We have so many fences to mend. nt