This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

Belarus. Belarus is part of the Russian Federation and then it's also at the frontier of NATO

and it's toe-to-toe with Poland. Recently in the news Belarus as the pleasure or risk

of hosting a rump of the Wagner Group after the failed mutiny or aborted mutiny earlier this

summer, the Wagner Group is deployed there in X number of thousands, unsure. The Polish

Army has moved 2,000 to the frontier we're told, 2,000 soldiers just in case.

And then again, Alexander Lukashenko, born 1954, has now come out with an odd statement

about Poland, about Belarus, about the future. This is Lukashenko, a man in power in Minsk

for 40 years, a man who much attends to Vladimir Putin in Moscow, now and again and often

now, a man who has spoken of Russia deploying nuclear weapons in his country and then said,

we know where they are. Now a quote from Lukashenko in a recent speech,

from following George Friedman, the founder and chairman of geopolitical futures, his column

and his quote, now we make money primarily in the east of Lukashenko in Russia, China,

but we must not discard contacts with the high-tech west, they are nearby, the European Union

is our neighbor, and we should maintain contacts with them. We are ready for this, but there

should be the due consideration for our interests. Believe me, the time will come using your professional

terms, I would say, that now we are going through the period of turbulence. And in 2024,

2025, there will be serious changes in the world. George, a very good evening to you. That

is a strange paragraph. What does it mean? Good evening to you, George.

Good evening to you. It's interesting in that he's asking for closer relationships to

the EU, which would seem out of line with the Russian position, and he's seeking better

ties with Poland, which is very much outside. So either this man who is in office really

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