Belarus

https://thecommunists.org/2023/04/14/news/new-world-order-belarus-president-lukashenko-honoured-beijing-tehran/#:~:text=Rise%20of%20the,peace%2Dloving%20humanity. A growing network of economic and military cooperation outside its control is enraging US imperialism.Ignoring all western attempts at demonisation, China and Belarus upgraded their longstanding friendship to an ‘all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership’ in September 2022.Regular Proletarian readers will be familiar by now with the growing trend amongst countries oppressed by imperialism to seek greater cooperation amongst themselves, and in particular with the People’s Republic of China.In 2021, Sandinista Nicaragua re-established diplomatic relations with Beijing for the first time in over 30 years, abandoning the pro-...

Minsk and Moscow "will stop at nothing" to protect their people, Alexander Lukashenko has said FILE PHOTO: A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile Topol-M. ©  Sputnik / Anton Denisov Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko mulled the possibility of his nation hosting Russia’s strategic nuclear weapons during his annual address to parliament on Friday. The veteran leader's words came as Moscow announced its plans to deploy its tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. "I and [Russian President Vladimir] Putin can decide and deploy strategic nuclear weapons here, if need be," Lukashenko told lawmakers, adding that the move would show the two nations' readiness to defend their "sovereignty and independence." "We will stop at nothing to protect ...

Moscow will finish building a facility for tactical arms in the neighboring country by July, the Russian president has said Russian President Vladimir Putin ©  Sputnik / Gavriil Grigorov Russian tactical nuclear weapons might arrive in Belarus as early as this summer, Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed on Saturday. Moscow is completing the construction of a specialized storage facility for such arms, amid repeated calls by Minsk to deploy them on its soil, he added. The site in Belarus will be ready by July 1, Putin told Russia 24 TV. The president also said that Moscow does not plan to hand over control of any tactical nuclear weapons to Minsk and that it would only deploy its own arms to Belarus. He did not specify when exactly...

Belarus started moving closer to Russia after the US and EU rejected the 2020 elections results and started imposing sanctions. By Dave Decamp Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that sanctions and other pressure from the West have sped up the “unification process” for Russia and Belarus. The two nations signed an integration treaty in 1997. The process has been sped up since the US and its allies rejected the result of Belarus’ 2020 presidential election that saw Alexander Lukashenko win another term. After the election, the US and EU started imposing sanctions on Belarus and threw support behind an exiled opposition leader. As a result, Lukashenko drew closer to Putin, and Russia was able to launch the initial phase of its invasion of Ukraine from Bela...