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The US/NATO are attempting a "color revolution" to overthrow the government in Belarus, the only remaining ex-Soviet state that still has socialistic policies and state control over the economy

Stratfor, "the Shadow CIA," is admitting they want a neoliberal Western puppet regime
US government propaganda outlet RFE/RL is doing nonstop coverage amplifying the neoliberal opposition in Belarus, acting as its megaphone
The neoliberal opposition in Belarus was being advised by a "high-profile" Washington analyst and Harvard Uni fellow who worked on the Obama campaign and was a "senior adviser to many opposition and presidential candidates in Russia, Georgia, and Ukraine"
themoscowtimes.com/2020/07/29/hig…
Even the neoliberal, US-dominated World Bank had to reluctantly acknowledge the fact that Belarus decreased poverty from 41.9% in 2000 to 5.7% in 2016

Belarus reduced "the poverty rate faster than all other countries in the Europe and Central Asia region"
worldbank.org/en/news/featur…
"The fall in the poverty rate in Belarus reflects the inclusiveness of the country’s economic growth... Belarus exhibited the highest rate of growth of expenditures of the bottom 40% of the population during the period 2006-2011, at a time when" the opposite happened elsewhere
In Belarus, "Gov't taxes and spending help shift money from the rich to the poor... Direct transfers–pensions, in particular–are the most equalizing and pro-poor of the fiscal interventions in Belarus. Direct transfers and direct taxes lower the national poverty headcount by 17%"
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