Putin’s warning to Belarus spells end for border skirmish with Poland

When the EU announced last month a further round of sanctions on the Lukashenko regime for the migrant caper, the president spun out even further. But Russia’s response gives him little room to move.

There were massive non-violent protests in Belarus last year after President Alexander Lukashenko rigged yet another election, and although they were crushed with mass arrests and beatings he is now in a state of perpetual anxiety, writes Gwynne Dyer.Wikimedia Commons photograph by Serge Serebro

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 17, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—It’s not a tempest in a teapot; it’s smaller than that. A few thousand Arabs and Kurds, mostly young men but including women and children, are trapped between Poland, which will not let them in, and Belarusian border guards and militia who will not ...

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