Editor-in-chief of “Echo of Moscow” Venediktov: Lukashenko has two trump cards left in a conversation with Putin 
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has two trumps conversation with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. They were named by the editor-in-chief of the radio station “Echo of Moscow” Alexei Venediktov, he is quoted by the Telegram-channel “Told on Echo.” … “This is such a plus, a bonus to Putin. And the second [trump card] is blocking the transit of energy resources through the territory of Belarus from Russia to Europe. In fact, this is also a bonus to Putin, because then the importance of Nord Stream-2 will sharply increase, through which these energy resources, which Lukashenka can cut off, can go. Again Putin is in the black, ”he added.
The journalist believes that Lukashenka can still play these two aces, and when this happens, Russia and Putin will not be interested in him.
Earlier 1 December it was reported that the President of Belarus confirmed his readiness to stop the transit of energy resources from Russia to Poland in the event of Warsaw closing the Polish-Belarusian border. He also called on the Polish side “to take your chicken brains and think that you are rattling.” will end up in Poland. To a clarifying question about what systems in question, the head of state replied: “The nuclear weapons that will be most effective in such contact.”