In recent days, Europe has been amazed to discover the images of thousands of migrants flown from the Afghan, Syrian or Iraqi borders, who are trying, encouraged by Belarusian security forces, to force the borders of Poland and the Baltic States to ax blows and supplications.
“Germany, Germany,” they shout through hastily erected barbed wire barriers, to signal Polish border guards that they don't intend to linger at home, for their dream of 'a better life is farther away, in Angela Merkel's country.
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Migrants: Europeans in the Belarusian trap
This surreal and tragic spectacle reveals several very uncomfortable geopolitical realities.
The first is that Europe is facing an attempt to aggressively destabilize its eastern border, orchestrated almost openly, by the Belarusian despot Alexander Lukashenko, who uses migrants as a weapon of “hybrid war”.
The mobilization of state levers in Minsk to organize a ballet
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