Trouble on the Belarus-Poland border: What you need to know about the migrant crisis manufactured by Belarus' leader
- Written by Tatsiana Kulakevich, Assistant Professor of Instruction at SIGS, Research Fellow, Affiliate Faculty at the Institute on Russia, University of South Florida
Hopes for a better future?Maxim Guchek/BELTA/AFP via Getty ImagesUsing migrants as pawns is perhaps nothing new. But rarely do you have a situation in which one country encourages a migrant crisis on its own border for nakedly geopolitical reasons.
That is what appears to be happening at the Poland-Belarus border, where violence has broken out betwe...