The rapprochement involving the West and Belarus, Moscow’s restive ally, is hitting new turbulence as outrage grows over arrests of the country’s opposition leaders and its mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Europe’s longest-serving chief, in electric power considering that 1994, President Alexander Lukashenkobegan courting Washington and the European Union immediately after Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine in 2014. Keen to have Moscow’s geopolitical sway and grateful for Mr. Lukashenko’s refusal to allow Russian army bases, Western nations…