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Brian Whitmore: Belarus dictator escalates EU border migrant crisis

By Brian Whitmore.
Migrants are seen through fences as they sit on the ground in a camp near the border town of Kapciamiestis, Lithuania, on July 18, 2021.
Photo by AFP

The crisis on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border is escalating as Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s autocratic regime continues to weaponize migrants from the Middle East against Europe. And with joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2021 military exercises just three weeks away, Western defense officials are increasingly on high alert.

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