“We too [Krievijas prezidentu Vladimiru] We are not so stupid as Putin to use the old methods. I would say that we are building a union between the two independent states that people will learn from us, “the Belarusian state news agency Balta quoted Lukashenko as saying in Vladivostok, Russia.
Mr Lukashenko, whose Belarus has provided significant support to Russia’s war in Ukraine, is visiting Russia’s Far East on the Pacific coast at Putin’s invitation.
Unlike Lukashenko, international political experts see Belarus’s accession to Russia as a fairly realistic possibility. Since the contested presidential election in 2020, in which Lukashenko declared himself the winner, Minsk has become increasingly dependent on Moscow.
Russia and Belarus have already formed a united state, but many people in both countries are worried that Russia could annex Belarus, which is completely economically dependent on it.
At present, Belarus is almost completely isolated internationally and has become financially and militarily dependent on Russia.
Although Putin has been repeatedly accused of trying to rebuild the Soviet Union, which collapsed more than 30 years ago, he himself denies such accusations, although he is convinced that its collapse was “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.”
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