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Related: About this forumGrand Betrayal! Lukashenko Growing Hatred Towards Putin is Showing. Illusions Fall - The Russian Dude
The so-called alliance between Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko is cracking, and the latest monastery meeting proved it. What was supposed to be a staged show of brotherhood turned into a humiliating spectacle. Putin appeared frail and diminished, Lukashenko looked visibly frustrated, and the entire Kremlin propaganda machine showed its sloppy decay. Instead of strength, the world saw weakness, negligence, and illusions falling apart.
This wasnt just about bad stagingit revealed the crumbling of Putins strongman image, the lazy collapse of the Kremlins PR machine, and Lukashenkos growing hatred toward the war and toward Putin himself. Behind their empty words about negotiations and positive dynamics, its clear the talks are a performance aimed at Donald Trump, not peace in Ukraine. Real life tells a different story: towns like Chasiv Yar reduced to rubble, soldiers dying in trenches, and leaders casually redefining mass death as progress.
Lukashenkos body language, smirks, and thinly veiled sarcasm spoke volumes. Once Putins obedient junior partner, he now looks like a man trapped in someone elses war, silently signaling betrayal ahead. The so-called unbreakable alliance is nothing more than two aging dictators mumbling about endless war while millions pay the price.
This is the grand betrayal playing out in real time. The cracks in the PutinLukashenko partnership, the grotesque repackaging of war crimes as positive dynamics, and the absurd spectacle of authoritarian decay. Russia is not only losing in Ukraineits losing its future, its image, and even its closest ally.
					
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						Grand Betrayal! Lukashenko Growing Hatred Towards Putin is Showing. Illusions Fall - The Russian Dude (Original Post)
						TexasTowelie
						Sep 24
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Lovie777
(20,891 posts)1. Pootie's best bud is now Hungary's asswipe, Orban.................
        Orban as well as Pootie is all in USA's business.
slightlv
(6,946 posts)2. There are times when i imagine
        The kind of world we'd have if all the old, white, patriarchal authoritarian haters could all just be collected in one central nursing home. They could live out their delusions of power with each other while they wait to die. And the rest of us could get busy fixing the world. Argh!


