Sabber-rattling on the European Union-Belarus border, the U.S. and EU continue to blame Belarus for the current border crisis where thousands of Iraqi and Afghan Immigrants miscalculated they could get into the EU through Poland and Baltic states. EU and U.S. leaders blamed 67-year-old Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko for the mess when, in fact, it’s the EU’s open-door refugee policies resisted by Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and other countries, despite the official Brussels’ immigration policy. EU and U.S. press continuing the relentless waves of anti-Russian propaganda, blaming 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some fake EU and U.S. reports indicate that Putin was using Russian Aeroflot Airlines to fly Iraqi and Afghan refuges to the Polish frontier. Nothing could be more preposterous with U.S. wars causing mass flows of Mideast refugees.
Recent exodus out of Afghanistan from the abrupt Aug. 31 U.S. withdrawal, fearing oppression under the Taliban started the latest refugee flows into Europe. Seeking entrance from Belarus into Poland was a grave mistake from immigrant flows knowing that Poliand wants no part of Mideast immigrants. Plain truth about the EU is that it’s strongly divided to the point of breaking up the union over refugee policy. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 68, and 43-year-old French President Emmanuel Macron like to speak for other EU countries about taking Mideast and North African refugees. If there’s a crisis on the Polish border, the EU could solve it in a heartbeat, taking the refugees and distributing them to EU states willing to take refugees. But no, the EU wants to escalate tensions with Moscow and Minsk, when several EU states want no part of Mideast refugees.
Somehow the propaganda-driven EU and U.S. media conflate the Belarus refugee crisis with 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin amassing 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border. Putin wants to send a message to 44-year-old Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelensky to stop seeking NATO membership or potentially face losing more Ukrainian territory. Western press blames Putin for annexing the Crimean Peninsula March 1, 2014, after a pro-Western, CIA-backed coup toppled the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovych. Yet to the Western press, Putin’s the aggressor because he seized Crimea to protect his Sevastopol naval base. When it comes to the immigrant crisis in Belarus, it’s directly related to failed U.S. and EU policies in the Middle East. Refugees would not have flowed into Europe if the U.S. didn’t start the Afghan and Iraq Wars.
Instead of ratcheting up tensions with the Kremlin, the EU should take responsibility for the refugee crisis in Belarus. Belarus President Lukashenko wants no part of the refugee crisis. Nor do any of the refugees want to stay in Belarus. All Mideast refuges seek immigration to the EU, facing the blunt reality that they’re not wanted in Poland and other EU states. If Merkel and Macron want to defuse the crisis, they’d coordinate with Belarus to airlift the Iraqi and Afghan refugees to EU countries willing to take them. “Our willingness to defend Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity was reiterated by the president,” adviser to Macron said today. Where was Macron March 1, 2014 when Putin marched the Red Army into Crimea? Macron and other EU leaders are bluffing when it comes to defending Ukraine. EU didn’t defend Ukraine in 2014 and they won’t defend it now.
When it comes to defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, it’s not the U.S., EU or NATO’s responsibility to defend Kiev. Zelensky presides over Kiev and can decide what direction is best for his country. Why he thinks the U.S., EU or NATO should fight Ukraine’s battles is anyone’s guess. One thing’s for sure, the refugee crisis in Belarus has nothing to do with Putin amassing Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. Refugees have sought entrance into Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. If any of those three countries wanted to help the Iraqi and Afghan refugees in Belarus, they certainly could have offered help. Blaming Lukashenko or Putin shows the kind of disinformation spread by the U.S. and EU states to hide the fact that most EU countries want no part of Mideast refugees. Merkel and Macron could end the Belarus crisis immediately telling Lukashenko they’d send commercial jets to Minsk to airlift the refugees from Belarus.
If the EU’s 74-year-old High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell wants to solve the Belarus refugee crisis, he needs to get approval from Brussels to coordinate with the Baltic States to take in the refugees temporarily to process them for re-location to receptive EU countries. It embarrasses Brussels to know that Poland is just as adamant as Belarus in keeping Mideast refuges out of its country. Instead of sending humanitarian aid to Afghans and Iraqis on the Belarus border, Borrell should work urgently to transfer the refugees to the Baltic States for immigration processing in the EU. Neither Lukashenko nor Putin had anything to do with the immigrations flows from war-torn countries in the Middle East. U.S. and EU officials should stop blaming Belarus and Russia for a problem of their own making. U.S. and EU wars in the Mideast drove millions from their homes.
