… the demise of the U.S.S.R.—the leader who, with those of Ukraine and Belarus, signed the Minsk Accord of December 1991 … both NATO and EU officials and, of course, the Polish and Baltic states’ governments. Lukashenko didn’t mince words … its backbone in the western direction. If, God forbid, a war starts, the Belarusian army will be the first to engage …