Wasn’t there a Belarusian comrade on here a few days ago that said privatization has been occurring under their current leader and everyone sucks including said leader and all the alternatives? I don’t care for Ben Norton. He always gives me a “he’ll give me the wall” type of feel.
Yeah this is my take too. Lukashenko's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been awful and people are right to be angry about it. He basically did nothing to combat it and denied it was a serious problem at one point IIRC. This was apparently why people wanted him gone and now the police brutality has only pissed people off even more.
The only problem is that this anger is being co opted to serve western interests and the workers on strike will never actually get what they want under a western client regime.
I think the best outcome is probably Lukashenko keeping power but being forced by the Party and the workers to introduce reforms (if it is the case that Lukashenko is an oligarch and privatising stuff, which I don't have any idea about), but ousting Lukashenko only to have a NATO-backed guy on power similar to Bolivia, where the military junta placed a president, delays the elections, and probably will commit actual fraud because they can't win against Arce (Morales replacement because they proscribed him and are trying to proscribe MAS), the polls are literally giving Arce about 43% of the vote... roughly Morales's own number when he won, so much for rigged elections lmao.
Wasn’t there a Belarusian comrade on here a few days ago that said privatization has been occurring under their current leader and everyone sucks including said leader and all the alternatives? I don’t care for Ben Norton. He always gives me a “he’ll give me the wall” type of feel.
Edit: here’s the post.
https://hexbear.net/post/8625
Yeah this is my take too. Lukashenko's response to the coronavirus pandemic has been awful and people are right to be angry about it. He basically did nothing to combat it and denied it was a serious problem at one point IIRC. This was apparently why people wanted him gone and now the police brutality has only pissed people off even more. The only problem is that this anger is being co opted to serve western interests and the workers on strike will never actually get what they want under a western client regime.
not a great situation overall, I hope the workers force concessions.
I think the best outcome is probably Lukashenko keeping power but being forced by the Party and the workers to introduce reforms (if it is the case that Lukashenko is an oligarch and privatising stuff, which I don't have any idea about), but ousting Lukashenko only to have a NATO-backed guy on power similar to Bolivia, where the military junta placed a president, delays the elections, and probably will commit actual fraud because they can't win against Arce (Morales replacement because they proscribed him and are trying to proscribe MAS), the polls are literally giving Arce about 43% of the vote... roughly Morales's own number when he won, so much for rigged elections lmao.