A new Iron Curtain is going up across Europe, from the Baltic states in the north down the Polish border and along the entire frontier of Ukraine along its borders with both Belarus and Russia. Instead of the impetus for such a wall ostensibly coming from the East, as during the Cold War, it’s now coming from the West. Such a new Iron Curtain is designed to sabotage any potential for East-West cooperation of the sort underway around the Belt and Road Initiative; the pretext being used to justify its construction is to stop the uncontrolled flow of migrants from the very countries in Southwest Asia that NATO has played a role in destroying.
After Polish officials indicated that they would be building a wall, with British help, along their border with Belarus, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy told a committee of the Ukraine’s unicameral Verkhovna Rada, that the Kiev regime is looking to build a 2,500 km fence along its entire border with Russia and Belarus. Monastyrskiy also said Ukraine planned new military exercises in the next two weeks to prepare, in case migrants tried to cross the border illegally. “Our key task is to restrain and stop a possible massive flow of illegal migrants,” Monastyrskiy told the Verkhovna Rada, according to Reuters. “We must understand that the construction of a proper state border by Ukraine along its entire length with the Russian Federation, the aggressor country, and the Republic of Belarus, is a reliable counter to this aggression,” Monastyrskiy said, referring not only to the Poland-Belarus border crisis but also Russia’s alleged troop buildup along the border with Ukraine.
Poland, for its part, is also threatening East-West rail traffic to try to get the authorities in Minsk to remove the migrants from the border area. Poland’s Border Guard Agency warned yesterday that if the migrants are not removed by Nov. 21, Warsaw would suspend all cargo train traffic going through Kuznica, according to a Polish Radio report. The Border Guard’s chief, Tomasz Praga, said that “as long as multiple groups of migrants, who are hostile towards Polish border personnel, remain near the crossing, many unexpected and dangerous situations may develop, including a railway disaster.”
