Belarus Poland Migrant Border Chaos

[fender62]

are belarus really flying in migrants to rub up poland, tragedy that should not have begun
and what to do, no one wants them...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10177247/Lukashenkos-migrant-invasion-escalates-1-000-people-ready-cross-Belarus-Poland.html

[ichkeria]

Belarus has been doing this for months.

[Stickybottle]

Yet people wonder why we left the EU

[Togo]

The Kurds did not get to Belarus by crossing the Bosphorus Bridge or swimming the Straits. They got there via the Norther route around the Black Sea. Either through and with the help of Ukraine, or even further North through a Russian connection. Have you seen the Russian troop gatherings in that region? I know where my money lies on that bet.

[Peter Pedant]

Lukashenko has been tooling around, yes
His insurance - solid and loud supporter of Putin

[ichkeria]

How did they get to Belarus?

Quite simply by air.
Belarus has been flying them in for months in direct flights from Iraq, Syria and Turkey. It’s been largely ignored up to now

[TheChair]

"Yet people wonder why we left the EU".
What?

[youngmafbog]

Cant you read or something TheChair? The statement might be rowlocks (although no different to the EU based topics you raise) but looks clear enough.

Ich is of course correct. This is nothing new, what is new are the larger numbers in one hit and the Polsh standing up to it big time

[ichkeria]

Well I also wondered what in earth difference us not being in the EU made to this.
This is effectively people trafficking by a rogue state with the connivance of a member of the UN Security Council. It’s difficult to know what can be done to rein them in

[TheChair]

"Cant you read or something TheChair?"
Yes thanks, youngmafbog. What I can't understand is how sticky bottle thinks that in 2016 people voted to leave the EU because they knew that in 2021, Belarus would be flying refugees to Poland.

[Togo]

The "asylum seekers" are now chopping down trees to make battering rams in an attempt to get into Poland. If that is not invasion I don't know what is. Belarus and Putin's sphere of influence has no attraction for them then. Well I never.

[ichkeria]

I don’t think you’ve grasped what is actually happening: this whole scenario is a setup by the Belarusian authorities. The people in the Belarus side are being controlled by the army and actively encouraged to try to cross, presumably in an attempt to create some sort of “incident”.
Meanwhile those who’ve made it into Poland have been “sent back” across - except they’ve not been able to get beck and are freezing in the Polish forest.
The Polish authorities while doing their utmost to defend their border should at the same time treat humanely those who’ve entered their country.
Earlier in the summer the Lithuanian authorities caught Belarusian border guards literally marching refugees across the border into Lithuania.
It all started when the EU imposed sanctions on Belarus for its crime of air piracy in effectively commandeering a Ryanair plane and kidnapping two of its passengers
Not content with this, they are now engaging in people trafficking, cynically using refugees as weapons in their vendetta.
Or is a potentially dangerous situation as the Polish authorities are perhaps less tolerant than their Lithuanian allies and there’s a risk they’ll unwittingly give Lukashenko, the butcher of Minsk, what he seems to want.

[Togo]

Strange that Belarus and Lukashenkos, in particular, are being roundly and rightly condemned for "engineering" the migrant crisis. Perhaps he though the EUSSR would turn a blind eye to his criminal adventure, like they have to the identical French tactic of funneling illegal migrants to the UK for years. He is ever likely to be annoyed at the double standards on display. He is now threatening that Russia, "the largest nuclear power in the World", will support him if the EUSSR don't let the illegals in.

[Togo]

^^ Right on cue, Micron is now defending Putin with a "we can't prove it" verdict. What is he afraid of? A comparison?

[Peter Pedant]

yes
how many yes answers are 'enough'