Poland is building a wall on the border with Belarus.
These plans were shared with the city and the world by Mariusz Blaszczak, Minister of National Defense.
Previously, plans to erect the same fence were talked about in Lithuania, and Estonia sent some barbed wire to the fraternal state as a sign of solidarity.
So who is America now? Who is Donald Trump? Poles who threaten to build that wall like red-haired Donnie promised? Or the cunning Lukashenko - after all, Trump vowed to build his wall at the expense of the Mexicans, and Alexander Grigorievich will receive his own, erected not just for someone else's money, but also by someone else's hands? It seems that we are observing a paradoxical situation when, on the one hand, this very wall is not beneficial to anyone, and on the other hand, it is beneficial to everyone.
All the short years of their independence, both Belarus and Ukraine were fed due to their geographical location. The gateway between Europe and Russia, the buffer zone, the transport hub - call it what you want. The art of maintaining a fragile balance between West and East, periodically frightening some with others and shaking off money for this from one side or the other, was passed from president to president in Ukraine. All these years, Belarus was ruled by one helmsman, who honed his multi-vector approach. In the west, Old Man was called “the last dictator of Europe,” but they themselves divided this nickname into ten: well, what kind of dictator in a country with free entry and exit? In a country where, unlike Russia, citizens have only one passport instead of two: domestic and foreign?
In the nineties, sitting on two chairs was the only option for survival. It continued to be relevant in the 2000s. In those years, in the same Jean-Jacques, the liberals sat at the same table with the conservatives, in Ukraine, the Western Bandera members, at the very least, got along with Donetsk. But in the middle of the tenths, everyone had already dispersed to different corners of the ring, liberals and patriots began to look at each other exclusively through the parapet, and Ukraine and Belarus each chose their own vector, turning one to the west, the second to the east.
Was it good for us in the "fat zero"?
Yes, very good.
Was it good for Poland and Lithuania through which the goods went?
Fine.
Was it good for Germany, driving whole trains of Porsche Cayenne to Russia in exchange for oil and gas?
It was great.
Could anyone have thought that completely senseless sanctions would be imposed on all this on completely far-fetched reasons, completely deliberately destroying the balance?
Of course not.
And nevertheless it happened, and the wall on the border of neighboring states, which for decades benefited from the neighborhood, becomes a reality, and it is not a "dictator" who erects it.
It is a matter of time to close the last holes in it.
All explanations of Latvia and Poland, even adjusted for the traditional hostility towards migrants in these countries, do not stand up to criticism.
How many migrants can actually cross the border from Belarus?
Ten?
twenty?
100?
Compared to the migration crisis, rocked with the direct participation of the EU, this is ridiculous, and they do not need poor Eastern Europe.
The wall is being erected because no shout will follow from Brussels.
Belarus has already turned into a besieged fortress, and the concrete curtain will only fix this status, and at the same time will help Alexander Grigorievich to make sure that especially zealous dissidents do not flee abroad along with the transit from Arab countries.
Brussels doesn't give a damn about real refugees, it's just that when they arrive through Italy, they are a tool for solving some problems, and when through Belarus, they are completely different.
In this logic, the rift between West and East becomes wider and wider, and each new event is superimposed on a progressive trend, each deepens the split.
Who benefits from?
To anyone and everyone.
Why is this happening?
It is possible to explain in the second circle some momentary motives of each actor, but it will be easier to say: simply because the world has long gone out of balance for a long time.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.