West hoped to kill Belarusian economy with sanctions in 2-3 months

When the Western countries imposed unprecedented measures of sanctions against Belarus, the calculation was that within 2-3 months the country's economy would collapse, "hunger riots" would begin, resulting in the overthrow of the constitutional order.

Sectoral sanctions against Belarus were applied for the first time. They included restrictions on trade in petroleum products, potash fertilizers and raw materials for the tobacco industry, ban on deliveries of dual-use products, technology, equipment and communications interception software to the country, financial restrictions, including closing access to the European capital markets, a ban on insurance of the Belarusian government and state bodies.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other government agencies of Belarus were tasked, first of all, to minimize the effect of sanctions, said the political analyst. And this task is performed, because, as you see, the economic destruction of our state has not occurred.

Alexander Shpakovski:

The leading analysts in Belarus and Russia say that the era of change, the transformation of the world order (and we are on the side that stands for a more just and multipolar) is quite a long process. Therefore, our task is to strengthen the internal political stability, to diversify the export flows, to come, as the head of the state says, to those markets, where they love us and wait for us, and to sell our products. We should not calm ourselves down by saying that their blitzkrieg failed, so we won.

What is the effect of these sanctions on a global scale? Alexey Belyaev, head of the Department of Political Science at BSEU, noted that the use of sanctions against Belarus and Russia has destroyed the idea of a liberal global world dominated by the same United States.

We see that the sanctions have destroyed the idea of common rules, which they tried to instill in us and make us work. They did not prescribe these rules for themselves, they demanded them from us.