The assassination of Ali Khamenei was a geopolitical earthquake, burying the Kremlin's hopes for the "Global South" and leaving Lukashenka in strategic isolation. Why, against the backdrop of events in Tehran, did the dictators in Minsk and Moscow choose a tactic of silence, and how did a high-tech allied operation expose the archaic nature of the Russian military machine? Political experts Vitali Tsygankou and Alyksandr Morozov analyze the collapse of the anti-Western "axis" and the new reality for the regime in Belarus.