00:00And on Monday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko harshly criticized the foreign policy
00:05of the United States government, accusing Washington of acting as a dictator in regions
00:09such as Venezuela, Cuba, and the Middle East. During an interview in Minsk, the president
00:13asserted that the U.S. alleged stance on democracy and human rights is purely rhetorical, since its
00:18actions proved the contrary, citing the U.S. bombing of the Minab Girls School in Iran as an
00:23example. Furthermore, the leader warned that President Trump demonstrates an authoritarian
00:28influence that ignores the interests of his own allies, even distancing himself from
00:33NATO, urging the European Union to become an independent pillar of the world, rather than
00:38waiting for Washington to resolve its internal problems.
00:47You talk about democracy and human rights, but it's all just talk. Your policy in Venezuela,
00:56your threats against Cuba, and the war in the Middle East, along with other actions, show
01:02that you are the real dictators. You are not Democrats at all. There is no democracy, no human rights.
01:11What human rights can we speak of if, for example, you bombed a school in a sovereign country, thousands
01:20of kilometers away? It posed no threat to you. Yet you bombed a school where children and teachers
01:27were killed, nearly 200 people. How many more died because you encouraged Israel's bombings?
01:34What human rights are you talking about?
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