[NorseViking]

What ‘Lukashenko antics’? I see Poland and Lithuania actively meddling in Belarusian affairs for a couple years already. I don’t see Lukashenko doing something in these countries.

[pierrem15]

There's a substantial Polish minority in Belarus. Lukashenko has been trying to shutdown Polish language schools and arrested most of the leadership of the Polish community organization after the protests started. Plus the air piracy to grab the Belarussian blogger and now shipping Middle Eastern migrants to Lithuania.

It's one thing to oppose politically motivated hyping of the Russia "threat." But the reflexive defense of tin pot dictators and murderers like Lukashenko and Putin I see on FR is nauseating.