With Vladimir Putin fresh off the largest challenge to his years-long hold on power, Belarus' strongman Alexander Lukashenko is using his role brokering an end to the mutiny to boost his reputation.
over the weekend, Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko is already well underway on his victory lap—part of an apparent campaign to change his image as a willing puppet of Russian President Vladimir.
But even as Prigozhin has made his way to Belarus to begin his exile, Lukashenko has taken the opportunity in recent days to beat his chest in a series of remarks, brandishing wins from his dealmaking and painting his involvement as key to simmering tensions, with an almost caricature-like description of himself.
From sensationalizing his phone call with Prigozhin in the heat of the negotiations—while Wagner mercenaries were marching just outside Moscow—to calling out infighting between Putin and Prigozhin, to painting Putin as a somewhat unwilling negotiator, Lukashenko is making sure all of his hard work does not go unacknowledged.
One thing’s for sure: Lukashenko’s triumphant posturing this week is a far cry from his political standing over the last few years. It’s not currently clear what Lukashenko’s political agenda looks like moving forward—or what, if anything, he might ask of Putin in the future. There is likely a limit to Putin’s willingness to put up with Lukashenko’s victory lap, however, according to Yalowitz.
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