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US has no regard for ‘democracy or human rights’ – Lukashenko to RT’s Rick Sanchez (VIDEO)

Washington talks of humanitarian concepts as it kills people in other countries over resources, the Belarusian president has said
Published 17 Apr, 2026 17:58 | Updated 17 Apr, 2026 19:00
US has no regard for ‘democracy or human rights’ – Lukashenko to RT’s Rick Sanchez (VIDEO)

The US is a “dictatorship” that is “willing to bomb, break and destroy without regard to human rights” in order to rob other countries of natural resources, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has told RT’s Rick Sanchez.

In an interview set to be aired on Monday, Sanchez asked the Belarusian leader about US foreign policy staying the same regardless of whom Americans vote into the White House.

Washington’s policy in Venezuela and Cuba, as well as its Middle East wars “show that you are true dictators,” Lukashenko said, arguing that US rhetoric about democracy and human rights strikes hollow in light of massacres like the attack on the Iranian school in Minab in February. The bombing killed at least 175 people, most of them children, according to Tehran.

“If you care about human rights, then let people exercise their main right, the right to live,” the Belarusian leader said.

Washington pursues its main interests, “control over oil and gas,” by “any means necessary,” he said. “You’re willing to bomb, break and destroy without regard to human rights. That’s the essence of a dictatorship.”

Watch the full interview on RT on Monday at 8:30 AM Moscow time.

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