The BelTA news agency reported that in a speech July 12 at a ceremony honoring the graduates of military institutions and top officers, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko warned about the West’s drive for an “unwinnable general war” – i.e., a nuclear war.
“Unfortunately, this Western policy is bringing the world closer to the abyss of a major war where, as you know, there won’t be a winner anymore.… Western countries, openly stage-managed by the United States, are dismantling the system of global security steadily, methodically, and even against their own national interests and [their] populations’ wishes.… Apparently, the freshly-minted ‘crusaders’ from the North Atlantic Alliance suddenly decided that this is the right time for yet another ‘eastward attack,’ forgetting how similar ventures ended for their historical predecessors.”
