America’s ongoing rapprochement with Minsk, Russia’s growing domination, and recent signals from Belarus have brought the old „Belarus dilemma” back to the table, reigniting debate over whether the EU and Poland should revisit their policy of isolating Lukashenko. Could limited re-engagement with the dictatorship prove beneficial for regional stability and Belarusian sovereignty? Belarus’s relations with the West have long followed a cycle of freeze and thaw, driven by Lukashenko’s domestic