THE TURMOIL IN BELARUS: Belarus is another place ruined by tyrannical, violent socialism– you know, kind of like Minneapolis and Portland, except Belarus has been battered since, oh, WWI followed by Soviet communism.

Now a new generation is challenging the geriatric Commie dictator and his gang. Does it matter?

Twenty-first-century political geography, however, damns Belarus with a damnation that matters. Check the map. Belarus is the linchpin of nuclear-armed Russia’s western front, the mirror image of Poland’s new role in defending NATO’s eastern front.

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