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The Belarusian leader threatened to be an "eternal president" if the West did not stop "assaulting" his nation.
Belarus's longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko has claimed he will certainly never step down from his job if the West does not place an end to efforts to oust him from the nation's top job, declaring that he is prepared to deploy not only nuclear weapons but "supranuclear" tools to deter his enemies.
Speaking with journalists on Thursday, Lukashenko implicated the West in "assaulting" him and trying to stage coups in Belarus.
About a feasible transfer of power in the country, the leader, who has been in power since 1994, claimed, "if the collective West will take its sights off Belarus and not try to rescind points there, as happened in 2020, then everything will be legal and comprehensive, it will all take place earlier than they want. But, on the other hand, if they assault us, like in 2020, then I will certainly be a timeless head of state."
The strongman also asserted that Belarus was prepared to deploy nuclear arms and a lot more effective, undefined weapons to prevent dangers from the West. "In the event of an emergency, if our opponents, as well as challengers, take such mindless, silly actions, we will release not only nuclear weapons but even possible supranuclear ones, to protect our region," he said.
The Belarusian leader also did not rule out the opportunity of identifying the self-reliance of the Donetsk Individuals' Republic and Lugansk People's Republic, self-proclaimed breakaway states in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, which has been secured a conflict with Kyiv's pressures considering that 2014. However, he stressed that the decision would be made along with Russia, explaining, "we will agree with Vladimir Putin how to act in the best interests of Russia and also Belarus, yet it will certainly be a shared choice."
In 2020, mass street protests broke out in Belarus, adhering to a questioned governmental political election in which Lukashenko was awarded the victory with more than 80% of the vote. Opposition numbers and many foreign viewers claimed the outcomes were rigged in his favor. His crucial opponent in the race, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was required to leave the country or face apprehension.
Lukashenko has been implicated in imposing a harsh police crackdown on political opposition and media complying with the political election, causing numerous anti-government numbers and activists to get away from Belarus and efficiently shuttering almost all opposition media electrical outlets.