'If they are really planning to deploy nuclear weapons there, they will be surprised by the people,' Franak Viačorka told Newsweek.
"not to wait until it happens to coordinate these efforts with the European Union," Viačorka said.
The protests and crackdown marked a new era of Belarusian-Russian cooperation, already deep through the bilateral Union State blueprint. The first of Moscow's recent military build-ups around Ukraine began in the spring of 2021, including deployments to Belarus. Towards the end of 2022, Russian troops, aircraft and armor took up positions in Belarus in preparation for its February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"They will not manage to convince Belarusians that this is something good to do. We see that Lukashenko is trying, his propaganda is trying, but it will be useless. I'm wondering how they will explain the need, now they say that this will strengthen the Belarusian state, but definitely, no one will believe this," he said.
"He wanted nuclear weapons, but Putin is not going to give nuclear weapons to him personally. Putin wants to control the nukes that will be potentially deployed," he said."For Lukashenko, nuclear weapons are a childhood dream. He has always wanted them. He always believed that if he had nuclear weapons, no one would sanction him or put pressure on him."
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