Why Is Ukraine Rejecting Its Natural Allies?
Even if Ukraine fully liberates its Russian-occupied territories, there will be no genuine security in the region as long as Belarus’s longtime dictator, Aleksandr Lukashenko, remains in power. But not only have Ukrainian leaders failed to see this; they have been spurning Lukashenko’s domestic opponents.
WARSAW – Immediately after World War II, the Paris-exiled Polish intellectual Jerzy Giedroyc (of Lithuanian origins, born in Minsk) coined a phrase that would come to define Poland’s foreign policy toward its eastern neighbors: “There will be no independent Poland without an independent Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine.”