As for Belarus, I also had the feeling that "someone" is again trying to pull off the same scenario that was used earlier in other countries, in particular, the most successful one here, in Ukraine. It’s amazing how people can be so naive, not notice the obvious and not learn from the mistakes of others. And every time at rallies and protests, we see only young people who believe that they supposedly live in a bad country and have “endured all the horrors and burdens” and want change. Seriously what? 20-25-year-old students who have lived "all their lives" in oppression? It's ridiculous and false. And all of them, of course, want prosperity, peace and justice, and for this it is necessary to "overthrow the tyrant" and then everything by itself will magically change and paradise will come. God, where is their mind?
Of course, Lukashenko is a sly fox sitting on two chairs, with the position "we will dance for yours and for ours", he didn't mind the Maidan in Ukraine and then worked closely with the junta and Poroshenko, he sold fuel for the Ukrainian army, which has been destroying his fellow citizens for 6 years now, he recently gave an interview to one of the most deceitful Ukrainian "journalists", a completely government propaganda TV channel, again composing fairy tales where he is a hero, a savior and how Ukraine should have done, how should not have given Crimea to the Russians, how it was necessary to die "thousands of people for their land" and other pathos and bile. And now he is hysterical and endlessly calls Putin, asking for help.
Nevertheless, YET, he does not give the country to be torn apart by "Western partners" and fawning with Russia (while it feeds his immense appetites), although at the same time he hobbles with European politicians opposing Russia and now with Pompeo and American "friends", hoping to select the "friend" who offers more "cookies in a basket".
While Tikhanovskaya is simply no one knows who, a person out of nowhere, who almost overnight was made an "unrecognized president" and "leader of the nation" (just like Guaido).
But regarding the Maidan in Belarus, Lukashenko's mistake is that, unlike Yanukovych, who did not want to use force at all, even when it was critically necessary to save the state and people, the Belarusian president "puts your face on the asphalt" absolutely everyone, without proceedings, women, children, bystanders... That is why they got angry at him, even those who had not previously been generally against him.
I have a friend in Minsk, I talked with him on this topic after they resumed the Internet after 4 days. He said the same thing. Even if Lukashenko is really worried about his country, he chooses the wrong methods to influence people. You cannot beat and arrest everyone in a row without figuring out who is actually a provocateur and a violator, and who just being there.
And I really hope that Belarusians will come to their senses and will not repeat the sad fate of my country, which died to me on May 2, 2014 in Odessa and which I hate with all my heart.