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Poland is also to blame for the manufactured migrant crisis on the Belarus border

With all the hand-wringing over Belarus using Middle Eastern refugees as a weapon against the EU, few have asked why Poland doesn't simply hear the migrants' asylum claims

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Jeremy Appel
Nov 19, 2021
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Belarusian soldiers patrol the border with Poland with service dogs in this 2012 image. (Creative Commons)

Thousands of Middle Eastern refugees are being used as a geopolitical weapon at Belarus’s borders with the EU, where they’re trapped between two nations that don’t want them. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, …

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