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Will Europe Finally Stand Up to Belarus’s Plane-Hijacking Bully?
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight and arrest of journalist Roman Protasevich is President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s most brazen dare yet to the EU.
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Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko in 2020
The man dubbed “the last dictator in Europe” lived up
to his billing over the weekend. In a provocative dare to the entire continent,
Belarus despot Aleksandr Lukashenko effectively snatched one of his most
prominent critics out of the sky itself. The question now is whether the European
Union of which Belarus is not a member but a neighbor can find the courage and