Might Happen?

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Best laid predictions, well, sometimes they aren’t all that well laid. In spite of my last, curmudgeonly post, a video posted to RFERL today of protests in Minsk is just thrilling. It shows political engagement we’ve just never seen before in post-Soviet Belarus.

Please watch it. And this:

Nobody expected at least 200,000 people in Minsk alone.There were protests in other cities across #Belarus as well. They were historical and are clearly against #Lukashenko. People are united. At the same time, it makes the stakes v. high. He is not ready to transition the power pic.twitter.com/F9GpLb9ZDJ

— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) August 16, 2020

I’ll hold to my original thoughts for now. But it would be fun to be wrong.