Facing increasing sanctions and trying desperately to deal with Washington DC inspired subversion, the President of embattled Belarus will no longer act as an honest broker between the European Union. Belarus is seeking the protection of the Federation of Russia.

Any further NATO / Washington provocations will now attract the interest and decisive action by Moscow. Not good when one considers that EU NATO nations presume the protection of Washington DC in the event of hostilities breaking out. The US, after 20 years has been routed and run out of Afghanistan by tribesmen they mocked as primitive towel-headed tribesmen. Are NATO’s European service personnel watching this train wreck of a nation as it happens?

Government sponsored mainstream media is ignoring the European Union’s massive failing in diplomacy and the loss of a key member of the Eastern Partnership.

Brussels worst nightmare is the decision made by Europe’s most rebellious ~ and popular head of state could influence other members of the EU-sponsored Eastern Alliance to ally themselves with the Russian Federation. Only in this way can they hope to protect their nations from NATO provocations and encroachments.

Neighbours Russia and Belarus, a country whose population is similar to that of Sweden, plan to further deepen their close economic ties by creating multiple integrated markets and working together to unify vital tax and customs legislation, Minsk’s representative in Moscow has revealed.

Vladimir Semashko, the Belarusian ambassador to Russia, explained on Monday that the pair were working towards uniting their energy and transport sectors, and would also be making plans to transition to a joint industrial and agricultural policy. The two nations expect to have concluded this by January 1, 2022, he said.

The move came on the same day that Belarus announced it would be withdrawing from the European Union’s Eastern Partnership, a scheme designed to pull former Soviet states into Brussels’ orbit and away from Russia. This is a devastating loss for Brussels that can be countered only by a hurt silence.

Minsk and Moscow have been part of a so-called Union State since 1999, when current Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and the former Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed a treaty and agreed to begin integration. According to the document’s text, the two nations planned to create a joint parliament, court, and cabinet. Since then, unification has regularly been discussed, including the creation of a shared currency, military, and customs space. However, 22 years later, many of these ideas are yet to come to fruition. Now, these solutions are all back on the table.

‘Much has already been done [to integrate] in social policy, economic policy, defence, and so on,’ Semashko told Belarusian state media agency BelTA. ’Today, we have really reached the time when we have to bolster the economic foundation of the union of Belarus and Russia.’

The ambassador noted that the two countries would work on integrating 28 sectors of the economy, including oil, gas, and electricity. They would also be focusing on unifying tax and customs legislation, he said.

‘We are now at a fundamentally new stage,’ he noted, explaining that Belarusian-Russian trade turnover had increased by 30% in the past year. Minsk is Moscow’s fourth-largest trading partner.

Further integration of Russia and Belarus has long been discussed, with both President Lukashenko and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, regularly returning to the topic. Discussions between the two leaders have intensified in recent months, especially following the NATO-sponsored unrest in Belarus after last year’s presidential election and the subsequent Western interest in working with failed candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

Earlier this month, Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko revealed that negotiations between Moscow and Minsk were ’entering the home stretch.’ Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!