In Minsk, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry charged that the U.S. and its European allies are engaged in Goebbels-style propaganda against Belarus. The Nov. 12 meeting at the UN, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Anatoly Glaz, was called by Estonia, France and Ireland “to create another media opportunity to make groundless accusations against Belarus,” reported the Belarus Telegraph.
“This is an old Goebbels propaganda technique: Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,” Glaz continued. “Unfortunately, today we are spectators in the theater of the absurd. The European Union member states, the most powerful NATO bloc, are trying to play cheap theatrics saying that a relatively small and absolutely tolerant Belarus is a threat to peace and an aggressor. For obvious reasons, they are trying to distort and hush up the obvious fact, namely the root cause of the global migrant crisis, which was caused by the illegal interference of Western countries in the internal affairs of other countries, military interventions and the destruction of a number of states. Belarus in this situation is only a transit country, which, by the way, bears significant costs.”
Glaz said that the crisis wasn’t really about the migrants, the number of which he put at 2,000-3,000, “but about Poland, Lithuania and Latvia who stand to benefit by inflating the crisis. Especially Poland.” He vowed that if the EU insists on using the crisis as an excuse for more sanctions, “Minsk is ready for the toughest retaliatory measures.”
