Lukashenko's Efforts Look Ridiculous

• Artyom Sinitsyn
• 2.07.2025, 9:23

Apples, Carl!

A few words about the immodest plans of Belarusian diplomacy.

"Kenya is a promising region for us. Today there are not bad starting positions. We have excellent relations at the highest level, but there is no further movement. We need to give impetus to this movement," said Ambassador of Belarus to this African country Dmitry Krasovsky.

The diplomat is convinced that our country can not only supply Kenya with food products, but also offer comprehensive solutions to ensure food security: "Starting with equipment and ending with educational services.

Those who have long been following the attempts of the Belarusian authorities to gain a foothold in the markets of African countries and the "far" arc, such a combination of unbridled optimism and statement of unpleasant reality will not be something new.

Ministers and ambassadors, encouraged by Lukashenko, have been treading on the ground for many years, trying to reach "the cherished billion of mutual trade" or "move the relations he allegedly established with yet another exotic country for our latitudes from a dead point".

The new thing in this story is that against the background of our own aggravated failures in agriculture, we are trying to offer someone "comprehensive solutions to ensure food security."

What can you teach an African country with developed agriculture if you have to buy apples from your neighbors? Apples, Karl! Not to mention potatoes and onions and cabbage.

Or do they want to offer Kenyans our unique experience of reviving serfdom in order to avoid the flight from the agricultural sector of specialists who do not want to pay with their own freedom for the failure of the system that has not been working for a long time?

The diplomat's conviction that Belarus can supply Kenya with its equipment sounds naive to the point of impudence. Belarusian trucks, buses and combines are being pushed out of the Russian market by Chinese manufacturers. As, in fact, the Russian machinery itself.

So how can the Belarusian diplomats be so sure that our manufacturers will be better off on the Kenyan market?

By the way, this spring Kenya signed a $1 billion agreement with China. It provides for financing of the Economic Transformation Program initiated by the Kenyan authorities.

The funds will be used for the development of industry, tourism and agriculture. The latter will receive slightly less than half of the total amount - about $430 million.

The efforts of Lukashenko's diplomacy look ridiculous against the background of these figures.

Artyom Sinitsyn, "Salidarnasts"