Poland’s border is “sacred” and “not just a line on the map,” wrote Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Facebook recently. The Polish leader was responding to the attempted invasion — by thousands of Muslim migrants — across his nation’s border with Belarus. The incursion attempt was facilitated by the Belarusian government and was thwarted via the deployment of 12,000 Polish troops.
Shots were also fired at the border, and “Polish authorities have warned that ‘a major shooting incident’ could possibly occur because of rising tensions between them and Belarus,” wrote Gateway Pundit Monday.
This “sentiment was mirrored by Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister — Peter Wawrzyk — who also said earlier today that he believes ‘Belarus wants to cause a major incident, preferably with shots fired and casualties,’ in a statement to local Polish radio stations,” Gateway continued.
The Associated Press reported on the story as well, writing that the
migrants sought to storm the border from Belarus into Poland on Monday, cutting razor wire fences and using branches to try and climb over them. The siege escalated a crisis along the European Union’s eastern border that has been simmering for months.
Poland’s interior ministry said it had rebuffed the illegal invasion and claimed the situation was under control. The Defense Ministry posted a video showing an armed Polish officer using a chemical spray through a fence at men who were trying to cut the razor wire. Some migrants threw objects at police. Video footage from Belarusian media showed people using long wooden poles or branches to try to get past a border fence as police helicopters circled overhead.
Defense Ministry video taken later Monday showed the migrants settling in for the night by the border, having put up scores of tents and cooking meals.
The tweet below is, reportedly, video of the migrant wave.
A spokesman for Poland’s security forces, Stanislaw Zaryn, noted that the area in question is NATO’s eastern border and “stressed that the ‘large groups of migrants … are fully controlled by the Belarusian security services and army,’” the AP further relates, providing some more background. “He accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of acting to destabilize Poland and other EU countries to pressure the bloc into dropping its sanctions on Minsk (the Belarusian capital). Those sanctions were put into place after Belarus cracked down brutally on democracy protests.”
The aforementioned gunfire heard at the border apparently was the “warning fire of Belarusian forces” (presumably directed at the migrants), the Independent tells us. The paper additionally relates that Polish government
spokesman Piotr Muller said that as many as 4,000 migrants were now estimated to have gathered at the eastern border in camps near Kuznica. The European Union said about 2,000 migrants were trying to enter Poland from Belarus.
Warsaw expected an “escalation… of an armed nature,” Muller said.
Poland’s army is on high alert, with 12,000 troops and anti-terror squads mobilised in border areas.
To the north, fellow EU member Lithuania on Tuesday also announced an incoming state of emergency. It explained the move as a protection against what it described as an act of hybrid warfare from Belarus.
Whatever the details, this event reflects realities common to modern migration scenarios. First, as the above tweet-embedded video and the one below evidence, the migrants are apparently well-fed and -clothed and are healthy; these aren’t downtrodden, hapless, skin-and-bone souls.
(It’s a tribute to modernity and its market economies that today’s “refugees” have better food, clothes, and health than most people living during virtually all of history. So let’s hope we don’t kill this golden goose with socialist/greentopian madness.)
The second lesson is that, contrary to immigrationist claims that securing a border is a feat on par with creating a perpetual-motion machine, the Poles again demonstrate that regarding illegal migration’s elimination, “Can’t lives on Won’t Street.”
Just consider that aside from the quickly erected razor-wire fence, border-bound “migrants were immediately met by hundreds of Polish Soldiers who refused to allow a single one of them to enter,” writes Gateway Pundit.
“Now THAT’S [sic] how you protect a border — take notes, Joe.”
(Biden’s handlers will take notes — and then do precisely the opposite.)
“As migrants attempted to go around the Polish blockade and look for an area to pass through undetected, they were followed by soldiers who walked with them to prevent anyone from making it across” (video below), the site continued.
Of course, such actions in the United States would be met with media propaganda demonizing the border guards, lawsuits, and perhaps court orders halting the policy.
But Poland is different. In 2018, when a politically correct British television host interviewed Polish lawmaker Dominik Tarczyński and demanded to know how many refugees his nation had taken, Tarczyński unabashedly replied “zero.” Upon being asked if he was “proud” of that, the lawmaker doubled down, saying, “If you are asking me about Muslim illegal immigrants, none, not even one, will come to Poland.”
So Poland is literally one of the world’s most ethnically/racially homogenous nations and, apparently, is content to stay that way (though things could change if their ruling Law and Justice Party is ousted by their liberals).
My, oh my, it appears that Poland just hasn’t gotten the memo, “Our strength lies in our diversity.”
