Lukashenko Finally Found Reason to Blame Jews

Finally.

After four years of meticulously searching for who is to blame for the ongoing war in Ukraine, the answer is…

The Jews.

But this time, much to the Jewish delight (or perhaps on the contrary), the blame is also shared by…

the Vatican.

Now, if you think I’m talking gibberish, I can’t blame you because you’re partly right. The findings I just presented come from one of the least credible sources this side of the Kremlin: Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko.

In a recent interview, Lukashenko made some shocking statements. To begin with, he suddenly apologized to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But he also informed the public why Russia allegedly did not capture Kyiv in 2022. Brace yourselves:

“I believe—and our General Staff military representatives believe as well—that if Russian troops had continued their advance on Kyiv, neither Volodymyr Zelenskyy nor anyone else would have remained there. Once again, we were probably deceived. It was the Vatican and, surprisingly, the Jewish lobby—the Israelis. On behalf of President Zelenskyy, they were saying: ‘That’s it, we’re going for peace, we agree.’ Others were saying the same thing. I acted on that assumption. And then the war dragged on.”

He also claimed that Russian forces had effectively reached Kyiv in 2022 and that, until Putin agreed to withdraw troops from the Ukrainian capital, “everyone understood that Ukraine’s days were numbered.”

I don’t know how closely Israelis follow this “funny dictator,” but Lukashenko possesses a truly unparalleled gift for storytelling and an extraordinarily prolific imagination.

Among his previous claims are that Russia’s war against Ukraine would last no more than three days because “there would be nobody left to fight,” promises to unveil a mysterious Hogwarts-like battle map supposedly proving an imminent attack on Belarus, countless other works of fiction, his personal understanding of why some women are lesbians, and beauty advice to women to wash face with snow.

On a more serious note, Lukashenko’s remarks, audacious and unfounded as they are, are not merely another instance of antisemitism that somehow became Vatican-adjacent.

I have documented plenty of similar examples in previous blogs. I can only add that one of the more recent cases involved a local representative of Russia’s Communist Party, who declared that in Ukraine, Russia must defeat not only “Nazis” but also “Zionists.”

More importantly, Lukashenko’s statement reveals how desperate Russia remains to preserve the image of a military powerhouse.

Four and a half years into the full-scale invasion, Russia is still largely fighting for villages in eastern Ukraine while Ukraine continues striking oil refineries, military facilities, and other strategic targets deep inside Russian territory. The situation has become so absurd that Muscovites recently reported kilometer-long queues at gas stations.

Naturally, someone has to be blamed for such a debacle – and the Jews are a convenient choice, especially given that in early 2022, then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett traveled repeatedly between Kyiv and Moscow in an attempt to facilitate negotiations.

Yet Bennett’s mediation efforts had very little to do with Russia’s withdrawal from northern Ukraine. Russia did not leave the Kyiv region because of some grand peace deal supposedly sabotaged by Jews, Israelis, or the Vatican.

It withdrew because its offensive had stalled; its logistics had collapsed; its armored columns had become vulnerable; and its soldiers suffered heavy losses.

Not because of Russia’s perennial “obmanuli, naduli” reason, – Russian for “deceived and fooled.”