Military confrontation feared as Afghan migrant crisis unleashed by Belarus threatens Poland and EU
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational & research purposes:
Countries bordering Belarus have “warned the migrant crisis on the European Union’s eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands of more troops to reinforce its frontier.” Meanwhile, the EU which is at the center of the crisis remains nothing more than an “observer.”
Days ago, Poland vowed to “defend Europe” from the “migrant invasion” unleashed by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. Somebody has to do so, given the incompetent, globalist EU.
Lukashenko’s forces coerced over 1,000 refugees to smash through the border, while the EU watched. Now that violent clashes have raged through a night, the EU is raising concerns, as it accuses Belarus of “mounting a ‘hybrid attack’ on the bloc.” Ironic that Lukashenko would use a form of retaliation that the EU has been welcoming: open-door migration.
Poland now finds itself bearing the brunt of the conflict between the EU and Belarus. While the EU accusations against Lukashenko are true, the EU has steadily pushed open door Muslim migration as a “human right.” In a single year, “the highest number of arrivals – 1,015,078 – was recorded in 2015. More than 800,000 of them were trafficked by sea from Turkey to Greece, and the majority of them continued to travel through Europe to reach Germany and Sweden.” Those two countries welcomed them with open arms, with full approval from the EU, only to see chaos unleash in their respective countries with soaring crime, sex assaults, jihad threats, and no-go zones.
Adding to the trouble is now Belarusian ally Russia:
The crisis has sparked a new confrontation between the West and Russia, which dispatched two nuclear capable strategic bombers to patrol Belarusian airspace on Wednesday in a show of support for its ally.
As tensions between Poland and Belarus escalate, the EU owes Poland sufficient support and finances to deal with it.
Poland has been historically steadfast in protecting its borders from Muslim migrant invasions since the Syrian crisis, while the EU lambasted the country for not taking in migrant quotas, and threatened punitive action. The EU has also recently refused to help 12 countries financially to build needed border fences, and now Lukashenko is making a global embarrassment out of the inept EU.
Another complexity: the EU’s top court recently demanded that Poland to pay an unreasonable daily fine of over $1.1 million USD in a row over judicial reforms, described as a “bitter feud with the EU over changes that are seen as weakening the independence of Polish courts.”
The EU has a standing record of harassing EU members that do not ascribe to its self-destructive globalist policies, as it steadily encroaches upon the sovereignty of those nations. This has raised numerous concerns about other countries exiting the EU. Many fear a “Polexit,” given its recent tensions with the EU. With the new tensions at Poland’s Belarus border, the EU’s approach of mere condemnation of Lukashenko is appalling.
“Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia said Belarus posed serious threats to European security by deliberately escalating its ‘hybrid attack’ using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.” Now with a war brewing, the EU has an immediate responsibility beyond lip service to confront it.
“Neighbours of Belarus say migrant crisis risks military clash,” by Andrius Sytas and Joanna Plucinska, Reuters, November 11, 2021:
KAPCIAMIESTIS, Lithuania/WARSAW Nov 11 (Reuters) – Countries bordering Belarus on Thursday warned the migrant crisis on the European Union’s eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation while Ukraine said it would deploy thousands more troops to reinforce its frontier.
Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia said Belarus posed serious threats to European security by deliberately escalating its “hybrid attack” using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.
“This increases the possibility of provocations and serious incidents that could also spill over into the military domain,” a joint statement by the countries’ defence ministers said.
While not an EU member, Ukraine is wary of becoming another flashpoint in the escalating migrant crisis. Kyiv announced drills and the deployment of 8,500 additional troops and police officers to the country’s long northern border with Belarus. read more
Migrants stranded inside Belarus threw rocks and branches at Polish border guards and used logs to try to break down a razor wire fence overnight in new attempts to force their way into the EU, the authorities in Warsaw said.
The EU says Minsk is encouraging thousands of migrants fleeing war-torn parts of the world to try to cross its borders and may impose new sanctions on Belarus and airlines ferrying the migrants as soon as Monday. read more
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to retaliate, including by shutting down the transit of Russian natural gas via Belarus, although there was no immediate response from Russia, its close ally and financial backer.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will try to help Europe weather an energy crunch and is hoping that German authorities will soon certify the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that will carry more Russian gas to Germany.
Moscow reacted angrily in the past when Ukraine, another transit country, disrupted supplies of gas to the West and Lukashenko has proved a difficult partner, pushing back against its wishes at times while accepting loans and subsidised energy.
______________________________________________________________
SEE ALSO:
Belarus instructs how to use kids for propaganda to cross into Poland: make them ‘look dirty and tired’