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Migrants: Europe challenged by Belarus

2021-11-19T04:21:51.184Z


STORY - Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are at the forefront of the cynicism of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko who manipulates migrants. These countries have decided to turn back those who enter their territory by force.


It is now a proven method.

The migrant has become the instrument of a new kind of “hybrid war”.

Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks uses the expression

“hybrid war”, which is

more direct than that of

“hybrid threat”

.

Seeing the images of soldiers lined up on either side of the border, one thinks in fact of a strange war, or a war that does not speak its name.

In 2011, in 2015, the desperation of migrants set the tone.

Thousands of them threw themselves towards the shores of the Old Continent to flee who the Libyan chaos, which the Syrian civil war, which the war against the Islamic State in northern Iraq.

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Of course, Europe's big neighbors have understood what advantage they could draw from the panic of public opinion in the face of these reservoirs of migrants ready to do anything for a better life.

It was first of all Turkey, which received from the European Union a compensation of 3.5 billion euros in exchange for the maintenance of 3 million euros.

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Source: lefigaro

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