“The EU is playing the lead role as far as the Western response. The US is nowhere,” Nigel Gould-Davies, a senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) who served as the British ambassador to Belarus from 2007 to 2009, told BuzzFeed News…
It’s also possible, Gould-Davies said, that Belarus’s problems are not that compelling to the president. “This is a White House that’s never spoken about human rights at all,” he said…
“President Trump should voice strong US support for the Belarus opposition movement. The moment for freedom in Belarus is here and it will take our leadership to make it happen. Russian influence must be checked with American strength and resolve,” Bolton tweeted.
There are some inside the State Department who agree with Bolton’s sentiment and have looked on in frustration as the US largely ignores events Belarus.
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