Lukashenko: in case of aggression against Belarus, we won’t draw red lines, we have something to respond
Belarus is not going to interfere in the lives of other countries, but in case of external aggression it will not draw red lines – as noted today by the President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, during the patriotic forum – We are Belarusians! – which is taking place at Minsk-Arena multifunctional cultural and sports complex
Aleksandr Lukashenko noted, “Time has shown that our neighbours did not appreciate our noble desire to live in peace. I’m not talking about the Polish people. I’m talking now about the elite – politicians who have been thirsting for revenge all these years. Taking this opportunity, I would like to say a few words to my neighbours, or more precisely, to the peoples of neighbouring countries: Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians. You should know that we do not draw plans to interfere in your life. We wish you only goodness, happiness and peace!”
However, Aleksandr Lukashenko continued that today this peace is so fragile that any careless movement can lead to dire and irreparable consequences, “I would really not like for our lands to once again become a theatre of military operations and millions of our citizens to be killed again, as has always been the case in history. Belarusians don’t need what doesn’t belong to them. At the same time, you should remember (I’m addressing the peoples of neighbouring states): in case of aggression against Belarus, we will not draw any red, yellow, black or blue (a topical issue) lines! This line already exists, this line is the state border! And you know that we have something to respond with. Therefore, let’s live together, like neighbours, as it was in the best times of our history.”
The President stated that today, as on the eve of the Great Patriotic War, the vultures are circling above us, “They are circling around Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian lands. They are ready to even enter into an alliance with the devil in order to take more space on the political map of the world... ‘from sea to sea’. And they would like to forever erase from world history the facts of the political shame and moral decline of their predecessors. We ourselves would like to forget how our official neighbour, Poland, was one of the first to recognise the Nazi Reich (this is a fact), signed a non-aggression pact with it and a secret agreement on the division of Czechoslovakia, how – having received part of someone else’s territory – it itself was crushed over a short time by its own former ally. Our neighbours should never forget this page in history. Would our neighbour have remained on the world map if not for the Soviet soldiers? And if so, within what boundaries? The authorities of our neighbours do not ask this question today, continuing to destroy traces of memory of their liberators. Why? They are gone, they are dead. Well, you don’t appreciate them for liberating your lands, but why rake over the old ashes? Let it remain as it is. No! They need to dig up everything with a sword and a ladle, to blow it up and to destroy it, to erase from memory the best that happened in the history of neighbouring states. And we again draw the conclusions.”
