The West has not yet decided what it wants to achieve in Belarus, and the sanctions it is now imposing will be insufficient to produce either economic collapse, any improvement in the Lukashenka regime, or the kind of political rising that occurred in that country over the last year, Vladislav Inozemtsev says.
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Paul Goble: West hasn’t yet figured out what it wants to achieve in Belarus
In this photo released by the White House, US President Joe Biden meets with Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 28, 2021.
