Why Belarus is Constantly Attacking Europe

This video is possible by reducing your monthly phone bill and getting 25 free credits by following the link in the description. If you've been paying attention to international news recently, you may have noticed a lot going on. in

belarus

, a small landlocked post-soviet country in eastern

europe

with just over 9 million inhabitants, while

belarus

borders five countries, including russia and ukraine, are its borders with the

europe

an union and particularly with poland and lithuania the ones that have been getting the most press Lately, in recent months, around 4,000 refugees from areas such as Syria, Iraq and Yemen have been trapped in a narrow strip of land on the border between Belarus and Poland, at the same time causing a humanitarian catastrophe and a political nightmare for the European Union.

The few thousand refugees are migrants attempting to cross from Belarus into Poland and then into the wider European Union from there, but Poland's current government under the Law and Justice party gained power in 2015 with an expressly anti-immigration stance for both its own nation as for In the EU as a whole, in 2015 alone, more than 1.3 million refugees entered Europe seeking asylum, the highest number on the continent since the Second World War, and in response, the promise to stop them became in one of the backbones of the Law and Justice party's campaign message, but Poland. Historically, over the last decade, most immigrants have entered the continent through Greece or Italy with few of them venturing towards Poland and most preferring to travel to wealthier and more welcoming states. such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom or Sweden, for comparison, fewer than 300 Syrians applied for refugee status in Poland per year before 2021, while neighboring Germany hosts almost 600,000 refugees from Syria, so Poland has practically always been able to maintain its toughest stance of avoiding accepting refugees without the rest of the world really caring or even noticing until now on its border with belarus and this is all because of one man alexander lukashinko luka shinko is The current leader and disputed president of Belarus, one of the most fascinatingly strange leaders of the 21st century, has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than 25 years and has now often been described as Europe's last great dictator.

Belarus has the lowest press freedom in Europe and is Europe's last great dictator. European state that maintains the death penalty and carries out executions The Wikipedia page on human rights abuses in Belarus has literally dozens of pages with too many controversies to mention here, but throughout those almost three decades of authoritarian rule it was the Lukashenko's poor response to the coronavirus pandemic earning him the most recent scorn, he initially claimed that the virus did not even exist and refused to implement any measures within Belarus for public safety, on top of that he even told citizens Belarusians who simply drank vodka and visited the sauna twice. a week to protect themselves from the virus, more than 5,000 Belarusians have since died from kovid, while just over a quarter of the population is currently fully vaccinated and it should be noted that lukachenko was not exactly well-liked by all citizens of Belarus Before this, during his first year in office, he dissolved the Belarusian parliament and filled it with loyal members of his party, instead his political opponents are often arrested and imprisoned or simply disappear. prison and for years it was illegal to photograph him from behind due to his embarrassment over his thinning hair and never good looks for a head of state.

Lukachenko is also the richest person in the country and his own personal net worth is estimated to be anywhere. between 9 and 30 billion dollars and, in addition, he is well known for his frequent homophobic, misogynistic and anti-Semitic comments. Needless to say, his popularity within the country has been declining in recent years, which brings us to the 2020 presidential election. In Belarus, Lucasianco's poor response to the pandemic, along with the frustration of the new generation of young voters for having had only one president in their entire life, as well as a variety of other issues, led to a push for a very strong opposition, Lucasianco's main electoral rival emerged. in the form of this man, Sergey Tiganovsky, but shortly after announcing that he was running, he was arrested and temporarily imprisoned.

Then, due to his incarceration, Tiganovsky was no longer able to complete the proper paperwork to legalize his candidacy, which was probably the point behind it. his arrest, so his wife, Svetlana Sikonuskaya, announced that she was running for president and filled out the paperwork herself, formed a coalition of several opposing parties and created a new unified popular front against the dictator's campaign, but when he finally arrived On election day, the elections arrived. Stations across the country were drastically reduced in number, including Belarusian stations and embassies around the world. The official reason stated by the government was due to public safety concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, but it is understandable that most people called it a foul due to Luka Shinko's previous actions during the pandemic and before it was shut down.

The pulse, the government had announced that Lukashenko had won with 70 votes, which was suspiciously high, especially considering that the polls were still open on election night, Ziganuskaya filed a complaint with the central electoral committee of Belarus and was then quickly detained by Belarusian authorities for several hours and the next day the government claimed that Lukashenko had won with more than 80 percent of the vote, a figure that most critics believe is virtually impossible due to the great unlikelihood of these numerous protests throughout the country. Elections broke out across the country and, although the Belarusian government has often annulled all ascendancy, the methods used in 2020 were particularly extreme water cannons, rubber bullets, tear gas and even live ammunition from firearms were used against protesters. fire, which caused many injuries and several deaths.

Meanwhile, Sika Nuskaya fled across the border into Lithuania for fear of being imprisoned or worse by her political opponent who was still in power. While Belarus received some international media coverage for the fraudulent elections and crackdown on protesters, it wasn't until a few months later that Lukashenko did so. something that the international community could no longer ignore on May 21, 2021, a Ryanair passenger plane, flight 4978, had just left Greece and was heading towards Lithuania on its usual route and crossed Belarus on the way just three minutes later. Before entering Belarusian airspace, Belarusian authorities contacted the pilots of Flight 4978 and informed them that there was a bomb threat on board the plane.

They were ordered to immediately divert the flight to Minsk International Airport escorted by a Belarusian fighter jet once the plane landed. The Belarusian authorities boarded. the plane and arrested two passengers on board roman patrosvech, a belarusian citizen, and his girlfriend, sophia sapiega, a russian citizen. No bomb was ever found and minimal evidence was shown to the public. Patrosvetch is a Belarusian journalist well known for being highly critical of the Lukashenko regime. and after his arrest he was accused of citing mass unrest while his girlfriend was detained for two months without any charge until she was finally charged with revealing personal information about Belarusian officials on the Internet as of December 2021, both are still imprisoned for the Belarusian regime to effectively authorize a state-sponsored hijacking of an international airline like this to kidnap a journalist and his girlfriend who were on board absolutely shocked the rest of the world and was widely condemned by both the EU and NATO.

The EU threatens sanctions that would ban all EU flights crossing Belarus and ban all Belarusian airlines from entering EU airspace, which drastically changed the flight routes of multiple airlines, the EU further demanded the release of the over 500 political prisoners within the country, including roman patrosvech, and then, in response to all that lukacinko said that if belarus was sanctioned he would cite flooding the eu with immigrants and drugs without flinching, the eu went ahead and imposed sanctions on all Anyway, meanwhile, five thousand miles away, at the Tokyo Olympics, Kristina Simoneskaya, a Belarusian Olympic sprinter, recorded an Instagram story criticizing her coaching team while at the airport waiting to return to Belarus, Simon Uskaya decided that it would not be safe for her to return and was taken into protective custody as criticizing Belarus from abroad is illegal and can be punished by several years.

In prison, sailor Ahuskaya was offered asylum in most of the EU, but she decided on Poland, Belarus' neighbor, which brings us back to the current crisis following European Union sanctions. Belarusian officials along with state-owned travel and tourism companies began encouraging large-scale tourism to belleris from the middle east suddenly hundreds of flights were added from damascus beirut baghdad istanbul and suddenly belarusian airlines added more directly to minsk while the Prices for many flights were drastically reduced, Belarusian visas were granted to virtually anyone who flew there while Belarusian authorities flooded social media with false information about the legality and ease of crossing the border into the EU through Poland.

Upon arrival, these people were given instructions on how to reach the Polish, Lithuanian and Latvian borders and were sometimes even transported directly. there by truck and they were given wire cutters and axes to cut through the fences and if you look at the map it's easy to see why people trying to get out of a terrible situation in the Middle East and into the European Union might think that Belarus is the the best way to do it while not in the eu belarus has borders with latvia, lithuania and poland, all of which are eu states, and poland in particular borders germany and for many of those currently stuck in belarus, Your ultimate goal is to reach Germany, the country with one of the friendliest and most open asylum and refugee policies in the world;

However, the problem is that, no matter how easy it is to enter Belarus once they reach the Polish border, they are left completely alone. Poland has continued its hard line. stance of not letting anyone in and have amassed thousands of troops at the border to push anyone crossing back into Belarus. Additionally, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia recently agreed to build a border fence along their entire shared mutual border with Belarus to keep this from happening again at the same time that Belarusian border troops are preventing migrants from returning from the border to Belarus. and have rejected all requests from Polish and international aid workers who would have provided the migrants with tents in sleeping bags, among other supplies. and then from reports of abuse by Belarusian border guards to reports of families divided by Polish border patrol, hundreds of injuries and multiple deaths, things still seem like they are getting worse without any context, it all might seem understandable to think This is simply a few bad policies colliding with each other, but in the broader context it is clear that Lukashenko's Belarus is encouraging thousands of migrants and refugees to travel to Belarus with false promises that they will find safety in the country.

European Union only to then traffic. and dumping them at the border, thus creating an incredible humanitarian crisis and all in response to the sanctions imposed against it by its own authoritarian government, while Belarus has since reduced the number of flights arriving in Minsk from the Middle East and has allowed that some immigrants leave the country. border area to flee back to their home country, thousands of people remain in danger at the border and with Lukashenko showing no signs of ever giving up his own power, there is currently no end in sight to the crisis, but there probably will be There's an end in sight to how you're probably overpaying for your current cell phone plan, and Ting is here to help.

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