Lukashenko is responding to the oppositions platform which was released on the oppositions website before they took it down

Someone managed to archive the site though and can be read in full here

https://old.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/idu3nu/privatization_and_decommunization_what_the/

• return the status of the only state language to the Belarusian language;

To your

; it seems weird to me that the opposition would alienate such a large portion of the population during a time they need as much support as they can get.

Comrade the opposition only got 10 percent of the vote then claimed victory. Fascists have never been very clever. I guess we can um and ar whether the election was rigged but I think its clear Lukashenko had a majority despite how many CIA paid protestors the opposition are able to get out waving the nazi collaboratoring white-red-white flag

Ukraine fascists split the country in 2, ruined their own countrymen and now pay premium price for US gas instead of cheap Russian gas.

Hitler made Germany the 5th largest power in Berlin... etc. etc.

Fascists want power and they'd consider being king of the ashes worth it. They aren't very clever

Read through this article to understand the nazi origins of a lot of the symbols in the Belarus protests

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=tr&u=https://www.a3haber.com/2020/08/17/belarus-muhalefetinin-neo-nazi-kokenleri-mesele-abd-rusya-kapismasi-mi/&prev=search&pto=aue