{"id":1036689,"date":"2021-11-20T13:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036689"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:43:51","slug":"lukashenko-absolutely-possible-belarus-forces-undermining-eu-border-i-wont-even-look-into-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lukashenko-absolutely-possible-belarus-forces-undermining-eu-border-i-wont-even-look-into-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Lukashenko: &#039;Absolutely Possible&#039; Belarus Forces Undermining EU Border \u2013 &#039;I Won&#039;t Even Look into This&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flukashenko-absolutely-possible-belarus-forces-undermining-eu-border-i-wont-even-look-into-this%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1036689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-172542954-e1637341235673-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told the BBC that it is \u201cabsolutely possible\u201d that his forces are helping Middle Eastern migrants break through the eastern borders of the EU and NATO, and that he will not be looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur guys are helping the migrants get into Polish territory? It\u2019s perfectly possible, I think that\u2019s absolutely possible. Maybe someone helped them. I won\u2019t even look into this,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-59343815\">told<\/a>&nbsp;BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re Slavs. We have hearts. Our troops know the migrants are going to Germany,\u201d Lukashenko said, suggesting if any soldiers were helping to violate Poland\u2019s borders they would be \u2018Good Samaritans\u2019 acting out of compassion, rather than state agents acting at his regime\u2019s behest to undermine a geopolitical rival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the EU I\u2019m not going to detain migrants on the border, hold them at the border, and if they keep coming from now on I still won\u2019t stop them, because they\u2019re not coming to my country, they\u2019re going to yours,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe West stopped talking to us and working with us. If you don\u2019t want to, then fine. We\u2019ll sort this problem out ourselves, as best we can.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lukashenko went on to deny the accusations that his regime has manufactured the migrant crisis, claiming that he \u201cdidn\u2019t invite them here\u201d, adding: \u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t want them to go through Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and officials from the EU and NATO all believe that the border crisis has been deliberately engineered by Lukashenko as a form of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/08\/23\/belarus-now-forcing-migrants-over-border-at-gunpoint-in-hybrid-warfare-bid-to-destabilise-eu\/\">hybrid warfare<\/a>\u201d against them through trafficking migrants on passenger jets from the Middle East to Minsk and ultimately to the EU frontier.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.8835978835979\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Belarus Training Afghans and Iraqis with Military Experience to Attack Polish Border, Claims Fmr Ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C59maPY6rm\">https:\/\/t.co\/C59maPY6rm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1458742799604629505?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lukashenko also addressed questions from his BBC interlocutor about the alleged beating of protesters in a detention centre, making a perhaps surprising admission that the claims are true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, OK, I admit it, I admit it. People were beaten,\u201d he conceded nonchalantly \u2014 going on to justify the violence by saying: \u201cBut there were police beaten up too and you didn\u2019t show this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenko was similarly blunt when asked about the fact that close to 300 NGOs have been shut down in Belarus since July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll answer your question with no bother: we\u2019ll massacre all the scum that you, the West, have been financing,\u201d he declared, adding contemptuously: \u201cOh, you\u2019re upset that we destroyed all your structures. Your NGOs, and all those you\u2019ve been paying for.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.6878612716763\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch: Water Cannon Deployed as Stone-Hurling Migrants Rush Polish Border, Officers Injured <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Zu1Wiw9Py\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Zu1Wiw9Py<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1460668992943702021?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span data-darkreader-inline-color>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span data-darkreader-inline-color>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span data-darkreader-inline-color>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told the BBC that it is \u201cabsolutely possible\u201d that his forces are helping Middle Eastern migrants break through the eastern borders of the EU and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}