Posted on 11/14/2021 1:25:18 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Countries near Belarus are warning that the migrant crisis on the European Union's eastern borders could escalate into a military confrontation.
Video released by the Polish defense ministry is said to show Belarus border guards carrying heavy arms at the border, including grenade launchers and sniper rifles.
Reuters couldn't verify the grenade launcher claim, but it comes as Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania -- which are both EU and NATO members -- say the incident is posing a serious threat to European security.
And Ukraine, which is not an EU member, but is wary of becoming another flashpoint, says it will deploy 8,500 more troops to reinforce its own frontier.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is threatening to retaliate by shutting down the transit of Russian natural gas to the rest of Europe via Belarus.
But Moscow reacted angrily in the past when Ukraine, another transit country, disrupted supplies of gas to the West.
Belarus opponents allege that Minsk is using migrants to retaliate for EU sanctions.
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Belarus is earning a tactical nuke strike. Pure evil.
Heavy arms? Sniper rifles? Grenade launchers? This must be sarcasm or a joke.
Some powder-keg back story to all this. The Lukashenko regime is the last vestige of the Soviet Union. Quite a nasty bunch.
LOL! NATO being forced to choose humiliation, or enforcing borders against globalist Muslim invaders.
Well played Mr. Lukashenko.
Lukashenko is flying muslims in from Egypt and other middle east countries, sending them to the border with Poland, and giving them tools to breach to over run Poland. And Belarusian border guards and theit military are helping.
For real.
It’s an act of war.
“The Lukashenko regime is the last vestige of the Soviet Union. Quite a nasty bunch.”
That’s a fact. And he — and his sponsor, Putin — see the West as weak, especially the US under Biden-Harris.
Not our circus. Not our monkeys.
I really don’t give a d**n about the UK and Western Europe. After all, they hate our guts.
Anyone who desires to start World War Three over something so trivial is dangerously mentally ill.
The illegal Biden regime wants a war to divert attention from his spectacular failures and his crimes. I’m sorry, but I won’t be “rallying around the flag”.
Screw NATO. They never paid the price for illegally attacking Serbia.
Castro called them ‘People bullets’ for a reason.
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