I would say he's the honest social-democrat.

Something that's hard to recognize, because historical examples are so rare. Western socialdemocracy has been just a bunch of opportunist imperialists right from the split by communists in 1914, and global south socialdemocracy is either just compradors or can't do shit because being couped or imperialized by west.

As far as I know he's responsible for a Belorussian transition to capitalism where a lot of the practices of the Soviet times where kept in place, it went through a process of liberalisation much like China did post-Deng, only that in a scenario where there is a lack of a strong communist party (maybe for the best, though, since it would likely be coup'd either by the US or Gorbachev's Russia). He has done what he could to maintain the national bourgeois in check and also able to remain in the anti-imperialist block.

From the Belarussian prespective....

3/10 because of his anti-west stance and cooperation with Russia. Other then preventing Belarus from becoming an American client state like Ukraine, pretty much everything else he has done is pure liberal/capitalist garbage, and Belarus has rotted under his leadership. He is also very right wing and his social policies are horrendous.

Jews were able to make the world remember [the Holocaust], and the whole world bows to them, being afraid of saying one wrong word to them

~ Alexander Lukashenko

The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler. This corresponds with our understanding of a presidential republic and the role of a president in it

~ Also Alexander Lukashenko

Doesn't really have anything to do with his policies, just make sure you factor in that he's a raging antisemite if you're deciding whether he's "based" or not

On a scale of 10, he's around a 5 or 6 on basedeness

Market Socialism in Belarus: An Alternative to China's Socialist Market Economy

His attack on trade unions seem pretty unbased.

i rate him revisionist dogshit out of ten

He said factory farmed cows 'should live in a palace!' and that it was 'like Auschwitz', basically 10/10 based

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7TKZILMtwo

How based do you think is suppressing protests, hunting down protesters and killing network connection in protest areas?