Łukašenka urges military to avoid escalation
June 27, BPN. Alaksandr Łukašenka has urged the military to “take the necessary measures” to prevent an escalation.
“The threat of a new global conflict has never been as close as it is today,” his press office quoted him as saying as he promoted several senior officers to generals.
“If you drop a match, everything will burst into flames, even explode,” Łukašenka warned.
Belarus and the whole region are in danger, he noted.
The “external forces” are trying everything to disorient people and “inflame the situation” to impose their own rules and order, the Belarusian ruler claimed. “[This will be] an order without our countries or peoples,” he said.
In a rare instance of taking part of the blame, he acknowledged that authorities “don’t miss an opportunity to give a reason for it [inflaming the situation].” “Like I said, color revolutions don’t occur without at least the smallest of reasons for it in the country,” he stressed in an apparent reference to the 2020 post-election protests.
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