The West’s favorite Belarusian opposition figurehead, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been in Washington, asking lawmakers to impose sanctions on her country, in a bid to overthrow its embattled veteran leader, Alexander Lukashenko.
“I think it’s high time for democratic countries to unite and show their teeth,” she told politicians, articulating her dreams for her own country in pro-American terms. That has undoubtedly won her supporters in the West, and fits with Washington’s classic regime-change template – hijacking popular protests to redraw the geopolitical frontlines of the world.
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