The Belarus border crisis shows it’s getting easier to ‘weaponize’ refugees Lars Viise

 The Belarus border crisis shows it’s getting easier to ‘weaponize’ refugees (msn.com)

(Note this was meant for November 21 date)

Throughout history, demographics have been used as a weapon various time. For the most part this was due to wanting a loyal population in a place in order to reduce separatism. For example, look at how the Russians settled Germans in the Crimea after they captured them from the Ottomans in order to combat the Crimean Tatars. Now however this is mostly due to wanting to destabilize the EU by allowing thousands of illegal migrants. This will as always lead to a further breakdown of social order, more strain on the EU economy and an increase of terrorism. We saw this in 2015 during the migrant crisis where "refugees" from the MENA region brought ISIS affiliated bombings and shootings due to the failures of assimilation and the horrible vetting process. Belarus understands this, which is why they are inviting them over as a way to retaliate against the EU calling their election controversial. And now even Poland is getting flack for protecting their borders against violent migrants who are attacking the border control through non-lethal methods (such as water cannons) and "allowing" people to freeze and starve in the woods. This is despite the fact that Belarus invited them or that most of them are economic migrants from the safe region of Iraqi Kurdistan. I mean if they were refugees, they would ask for asylum in the closest safe country such as Iran, Saudi Arabia or Israel. 

The EU needs to decide whether they want to be a home for the European people who built the various states and defended them for millennia, or random migrants who are culturally, ethnically and religiously alien and will hurt more than help the member states.