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~ Alexander Lukashenko
~ Also Alexander Lukashenko
Doesn't really have anything to do with his policies, just make sure you factor in that he's a raging antisemite if you're deciding whether he's "based" or not
I don't support the sentiments voiced in these quotes, for which I would like to see more context, but we should also remember that he's allied with the Russian government in fighting genuine swastika-waving genocidal fascists (and the NATO alliance which backs them). Material reality, not opinions alone, are what makes one a fascist.
You can still be anti-semetic and fight Nazis. Hence the current Russian narrative of "judeo-globalism", "Soros", and extreme anti-LGBT sentiment.
Also I will say that you are not missing any context with those statements. Lukashenko is a known anti-semite in Belarus.
I think this is more complicated than a "enemy of my enemy is my friend" deal, Russia is finding an ally in Belarus because of their proximity to NATO. They don't exactly hold all the same ideological lines. That, and Russia isn't exactly fighting Nazism first, they're just fighting NATO encroachment and justifying it with the convenient fact that there happen to be Nazis in Ukraine to make the war sound good domestically and to make NATO look bad. Russia is just playing the self-preservation game like any other Capitalist country does.
Besides if they were actually against Nazism in every instance, they wouldn't be buddy buddy with Belarus.
I don't know anything about Lushashenko but calling him an anti-semite over those two quotes show how right he was in the first one.
So just to be clear, in the first quote, Lukashenko states that the Jews "made" the world remember the Holocaust, as if it wasn't something to remember in its own right, only something to be remembered after some kind of big Jewish campaign. A conspiracy, one might call it.
That's one way to look at it.
Another way is: You can't say anything about Jews. If you say anything remotely negative about Jews you're immediately tagged as an anti-Semite.
I can hate Evangelicals, I can hate Christians, I can hate Muslims but if I hate Jews it's over for me.