The color revolution in Belarus is in high gear. CNN pictures show many thousands of people marching through Minsk today, as the government began releasing the 6,000+ people arrested over the past week.
BBC and Reuters are out in front, as usual. BBC headlines: “'Widespread Torture’ Inflicted on Jailed Protesters,” while Reuters runs a financial warfare operation under the title “Investors in Belarus Face ‘Dictator Dilemma', Putin May Hold the Key.” Reuters reports that “foreign money managers have so far shown little inclination to sell their Belarus bonds. And as recently as June they flocked to buy the country’s new dollar issues that paid juicy 5.7%-6.4% yields. On Thursday, Aug. 13, however, the pressure on President Aleksandr Lukashenko appeared to intensify, and BlueBay’s veteran emerging market strategist Tim Ash wrote that the situation felt like Ukraine in 2014 at the time of its “Color Revolution,” reported Reuters. The overt NATO/Nazi control over Belarus, as in Ukraine, is the clear intention of the controllers of the coup attempt.
The EU has quickly fallen into line, agreeing today to impose sanctions on those they will determine in their great wisdom are “responsible for the violence, arrests and fraud in connection with the election” in Belarus, as Sweden’s Foreign Minister Ann Linde said on Twitter. Ursula von der Leyen tweeted: “We need additional sanctions against those who violated democratic values or abused human rights in #Belarus.”
