Vassal State by Angus Hanton, review: Britain, 51st state
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reporter: alexandr lukashenko rules belarus like a personal fiefdom, president since its creation in 1994, he brooks little opposition. dubbed europe s last dictator, lukashenko has come to be defined by his fealty to his powerful neighbor, russia s president vladimir putin, transforming belarus into a nearby vassal state. putin used lukashenko and belarus to help launch his 2022 invasion of ukraine, driving tanks over belarus border towards kyiv and using belarusian skies to bomb ukrainians. translator: we will never be enemies of russia, and we will never look disprovingly at russia. this is the country closest to us, the people closest us to. i think that while we re in power, we will stick to this tendency. if it were otherwise, it would be like in ukraine.
is that a safe haven? belarus is basically it s a vassal state. well, it s a vassal state of russia. it s at least a temporary way station, right? he could leave. prigozhin could depart and rejoin his wagner forces elsewhere. they re in yemen. they re in syria. they re in africa. they re in ukraine. they are in ukraine. i don t know how that s going to work when you ve got the military force, which is the russian military force, which has clearly demonstrated its incompetence. how will wagner force integrate itself into the russian force? i find that a very, very difficult task. with a question about who s actually running things. major general spider marx, thanks so much as always. president biden is back at the white house after spending a working weekend at camp david. he remained largely silent publicly on the rebellion in russia, but the white house says he spoke with ukraine s president zelenskyy privately earlier as well as canada s
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