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First, it was Poland. Putin’s client regime in Belarus began sending massive numbers of Iraqis into Poland.
Migrants who reached Minsk were put up in at least three government-owned hotels, according to Latvia’s defense minister, Artis Pabriks, and Franak Viacorka, a senior adviser to a Belarusian opposition leader, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.
Mr. Pabriks said that Belarusian intelligence agents had been involved in transferring migrants to the borders, and that military buses were used.
Bayar Awat, an Iraqi Kurd stranded on the Belarusian side of the Polish border, said that Belarusian guards had helped his group reach the border by pointing out a route that bypassed the official border crossing and emerged near a gap cut in the border fence.
“The Belarus police guided us to the forest, then pointed directions to lead us inside the forest to keep us away from the official border crossing,” he said.
On Thursday, a Belarusian soldier was overheard on the phone ordering an Iraqi Kurd to direct a group of 400 to 500 migrants from the Lithuanian border toward the Polish border.
Now, Russia is doing this even more directly with Finland.
Finland has accused Russia of handing out bicycles and foot-scooters to migrants to help them cross the border as part of a plan to destabilise Europe.
Antti Häkkänen, the Finnish defence minister, also accused the Kremlin of dipping into its “playbook” on hybrid war by encouraging migrants to enter the country without the correct documents.
Finnish officials said that the timing of the migrant surge from Russia was not a coincidence. Finland joined Nato this year, angering the Kremlin, and will host its first major naval exercise as a member of the Western military alliance on Monday.
Finnish media reported that 300 migrants, mainly young men from Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Somalia, had crossed into Finland from Russia this week, up from near zero in a normal week.
Some people keep pushing the “Putin is defending Christianity” shtick. Sending Muslims to invade a Christian country is the opposite of defending Christianity.
Putin has done this to Poland, Finland and now Estonia.
Estonian Interior Minister Lauri Läänemets said on Thursday Russia extended a provocative measure, originally aimed at Finland, to Estonia by “deliberately” allowing asylum seekers without visas or residence permits to reach a crossing point on its shared border, according to news outlet Delfi.
Läänemets also said that Estonia has so far returned every person trying to cross the border without documents or permission, reinforced its preparedness and it was in close communication with Finland and other neighboring countries.
The larger takeaway is that Islamic migration is a weapon of war. It’s been used that way by Turkey and Russia. We should start treating it the same way.
The Kremlin accused Finland of taking a path of “destroying bilateral relations” over Finland’s decision to close some border crossings with Russia, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on Nov. 17.
“Finland has chosen the path of confrontation with Russia. From the Kremlin’s point of view, this is a big mistake,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
“How dare you try to protect yourselves from our attack on you.” Sounds familiar.
NAVY ET1 says
A very interesting turn of events. I too have heard anti-Russia-Ukraine war commentary stating Putin was backing Christianity, and while I’m no friend of the pervasive corruption prevalent in the Ukraine, I’m not naive enough to believe Vlad’s on the side of Christians either.
As a Christian and student of biblical eschatology, I find the headlines filled with signs of the end times daily. Just this past weekend came news from an underground Christian group, working as aid workers in Gaza, who not only provided humanitarian aid but figured out a way to maintain a captive audience by washing their clothes while they waited. During that wait time, Palestinians heard the gospel message. On one of the following days after such “washings”, over 200 Palestinian men came back, asking them to “Tell us more about this Jesus”, and ALL OF THEM stating that they’d been visited by Christ in their dreams the night before. God still moves the hearts of men.
While so many news articles point to “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jeremiah 30:7), Russia putting out Muslim invaders would seem to counter that, since an unholy alliance between Russia and Iran must eventually take place, leading to the invasion of Israel and Armageddon. So it would appear, if only temporarily, the clock has been paused for now.
Taylor says
Putin isn’t our friend and even if we shouldn’t be involved in its dispute with Ukraine, we shouldn’t treat Putin as a friend. Sad to see certain right wing Americans be fooled and consumed by a manichean choice of Putin good/Zelensky bad gibberish.
Algorithmic Analyst says
Proves the need for border walls.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Finland should just send them all back to Moscow the same way Texas is dealing with the Invaders from the south and sending them to the District of Crooks
Jeff Bargholz says
II notice the Finns and Poles caught them.
Justin Swingle says
THE MUSLIM DESTRUCTION OF EUROPE – POISON PUTIN KNOWS HOW TO DO IT!
America on the Edge of the Cliff
By Fletch Daniels
4. So what would an American collapse leave behind? That should be more obvious now than perhaps it was before the brutal Hamas attacks of October 7. Most of Europe is falling to Islam and is too far gone to reverse course. Death-spiral birth rates among native Europeans combined with out-of-control migration from the Islamic world has led Europe to where it is today: a continent full of countries whose policies will increasingly reflect its population. While the blatant antisemitism is on full display for all to see, it’s going to get a lot worse, to the point where anyone who is not willing to convert to Islam will find himself either under attack or marginalized as a second-class citizen. The left prattles on about Islamophobia, even as it tries to ignore and gloss over very real antisemitism, but no such thing as Islamophobia can actually exist, since a phobia is an irrational fear.
The pro-terrorist mobs who blot out the scenery in London and other European cities (and take over the previously mentioned American universities) will seem quaint in another decade. Even if migration were cut off tomorrow, it wouldn’t matter at this point based on disparity of birth rates.
Why does this matter to America? For one, our politicians are every bit as foolish as the globalist Europeans we are emulating. The only thing that has slowed down America from suffering the same fate is geography. As horrific as our open borders are, they would be far worse if we bordered Islamic states.Even at that, Islamic migration is already influencing our electoral politics and policy positions, which was on display when the president tried to bully Israel into a foolish ceasefire, almost certainly out of concern over losing Michigan, as just one obvious example.More importantly, it is hard to imagine America flourishing in a world where most of its traditional allies have fallen to Islam. Indeed, this will only exacerbate the descent into brutish darkness. How could Israel even survive in such a world?
Fred A. says
Why didn’t the migrants seek asylum in Russia? Could it be because the benefits are better in Finland, France, England, and Germany. Why work when the government will take care of you for life and your family. Remember the law as it relates to asylum seekers and refugees. They are to apply for asylum in the first country that is safe. In this case, that would be Russia.