It's about Putin: why does Trump need Lukashenko, and Lukashenko needs Trump

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, according to the telegram channel "Balance of power. Forecasts" plans to align its relations with the United States, taking advantage of Donald Trump's desire to "hurt the EU — counting on its legitimization."

"Along with Recep Erdogan and Viktor Orban Lukashenko can be used by Trump to influence Vladimir Putin in a new attempt to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict "along the line of contact." The Trump administration is trying to create a kind of a whole "pool" of national leaders who have their own relations with Putin in order to influence the Russian president. Actually, that is why the United States began to weaken its sanctions regime imposed against Lukashenko and other Belarusians," the author of the channel writes.

As a result, he notes, complimentary messages were heard from Belarusian officials, including the chairman of the KGB of Belarus, addressed to "American partners."

As reported by EADaily, the chairman of the KGB of Belarus, Ivan Tertel, said earlier that the country has every chance of achieving a breakthrough in relations with the United States.

"With the American side, there is a very serious discussion of issues with the head of state. And the American partners recognize that we, being in this region, and our head of state, knowing the situation, can seriously contribute to the stabilization of the situation. Therefore, a thorough conversation on the Ukrainian topic. This is the main agenda that we are discussing with the American side. The second track is security in the region. Also discussing the situation with the American side. Relations between, conditionally, the countries that represent the main interests of the West and the Republic of Belarus. In various spheres — politics, economics, and other issues. This dialogue has already brought significant benefits for stabilizing the situation in the region," the head of the KGB noted.

At the same time, as the head of the KGB noted, there are no requirements in the dialogue between Belarus and the United States. The parties talk about taking into account each other's interests and needs.

"We are guided only by our national interests in relation to all the countries with which we interact. This is an objective reality, this is the world… We have every chance to achieve a breakthrough in relations with the United States as a whole. For Western Europe, we are open to this. I think we will hear good news on this track in the near future," he said.