“Massive protests flood Belarus once more, as Lukashenko appears brandishing assault rifle,” ABC News reports from Minsk.
As one pro-Kremlin political consultant has remarked on his Telegram channel, “Lukashenko is cosplaying Allende and Pinochet at the same time.”
Another, less pro-Kremlin Telegram commenter has compared Lukashenko’s parading in a bulletproof vest with a rifle to Michael Dukakis’s 1988 tank ride.
As I’ve said before, we’re only observing a galvanized corpse, politically speaking, although the dictator’s physical body may evade death for a couple more decades.
