@@MA_KA_PA_TIE Putin isn’t a dictator, the far left media just labeled him one cause they don’t like him, same as Trump. I heard a lot of his policies and he sounds like a cool guy.
A very important detail that wasn't mentioned is the Dublin convention, which basically states that deported refugees are to be returned to the first EU country they entered. The reason why Germany has such an open border policy is because they can choose who they accept and then send the rest back to whichever Eu country they first entered from. So the argument that they're simply trying to cross Poland becomes irrelevant. Sure, the migrants are simply trying to get to Germany but Poland knows that Germany is going to pick the "best ones" and then send the rest to Poland, who at that point will be Poland's problem to deal with.
That’s not entirely true though, as Germany has pretty much accepted everyone reaching its territory ever since the refugee crisis in 2015. Sure, theoretically they could send people back to their first country of arrival but they hardly have done so ever since
Thank you for bringing this up. As a Belarusian myself, we are tired and frustrated of everything that's happening here. Basically the country is at war with its abusive government. Hundreds of political prisoners, police brutality, violence and abuse of basic human rights. People there need to be seen and heard and deserve to be free. But the world is silent.
i think the politically minded of the west would literally love to see Belaruse have a revolution (peaceful) and get a democracy but it's the case that it's not so easy... you can't just march in and conquor it risk starting WW3 with Russia ... if we could get away with that, well you better be worried about us worse than the last guy
Very good video and sums everything up relatively quickly. Only a couple of things I noticed that were slightly off was 1. The olympic runner refused to run in an event she hadn't prepared for and was sent home early from the Olympics. At the airport she straight up ran away from her handlers taking her back to Belarus for punishment and begged the Tokyo police to help her and protect her. Luckily, they did. Her freedom was already in danger, and for running away from her handlers.. now her life was in danger. 2. Germany has straight up said, "no more migrants" and now the refugees were sent back home. They paid anywhere from $2.500 to $15,000 to get to Belarus (yes, the money went directly to Lukashenko) and as soon as they got off the plane they were forced to the Polish border. Once Germany said, "no refugees will be accepted" the migrants were now forced home. 3. No one has complained about the drugs flooding Europe lol But the amazing thing is that the migrant crisis is all because he's angry he got in trouble for staging the RyanAir hijacking. He doubled down on a problem he caused. The Belarusian people are beautiful, and amazing. Belarus deserves true independence for once in its history
Note on the 2. point: migrant and refugee are different things. Declining to accept refugees would be a bad thing (although it does happen) but declining a migrant is totally up to the sovereign country to decide on. It would ease the discussions if proper statuses were used. Media mixes these two constantly and therefore makes an assumption that migrant would have some UN guaranteed "refugee status" which they don't.
@@ajs787 There's a demand for drugs in Europe that is and has been always met, mainly cocaine, weed, MDMA and recently ketamine, usual party drugs for a well-off population. If Łukaszenko somehow launched a "smack into every house" program in Europe to Europeans they'll just sell it to the US. He doesn't understand that drugs are a commodity and using it as a "weapon" like he does migrants will probably just stimulate the economies of Europe, or if he gets something that Europeans fancy (which is way too expensive for the regime btw) the worst he'll achieve is putting a few minor local manufacturers out of business. Either way not much to worry about.
Lukashenko's grip on Belarus will keep on going as long as he has Russia as its closest ally. It's known for a while that Russia and the EU aren't best of friends ever since the crisis in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the ongoing conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk. Russian president Vladimir Putin has barred planes bypassing Belarussian airspace and he has even said (which was during the case of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which was revealed to be shot down over Donetsk airspace) that he can close the entire Russian airspace for any nation that closes its airspace for Russian planes and airlines, but the reason why he hadn't done it is that it'll hurt Russia itself as well (it has to do with the transit tarrifs Russia receives for crossing its airspace). Back to Belarus - Putin essentially guarantees Lukashenko's grip, but once even he cuts ties with him, it'll be game over
Lukashenko at the beginning(before the elections) actually try to play Russian and the west. He keep saying Russian may meddle in elections(to get him out), arrest pro russian presidential candidate and oppositions(tho he arrested everyone who try to oppose him in the elections at that points) and even arrest Wagner who transit through Belarus(almost extraditing them to Ukraine). Try negotiate with Russia over its role in exporting goods sanctioned in Russia to Russia etc. Luka even try to lean to the west with its behaviour at that time to gain leverage over Russia. Many people forget his pre-elections moves against Russia and his way of trying to play Russia. Before the elections there were plenty of opinions that Belarus may drift away from Russia and slowing embrace into the west under Luka given Luka political movement at that time. But his arrest of candidates/oppositions, brutal supression of protest and his blatant manipulation of elections, arrest make the west stay away from him(The west didn't really like him to begin with). When the protest start, the west(especially eastern European states) express support of the oppositions, which made Luka hate the West further. After he arrested the major opposition figure svetlana and force exile her, thing got worse for him. Luka therefore wants to do anything to hurt the west to get his petty revenage after he brutally suppress the protest movement. At that points, it also means that Luka can no longer use the west as a leverage to gain leverage over Russia anymore as the west/US want him gone and not a person they want to deal with anymore. As for Russia, they know Luka, unlike back in before elections, has lost all his cards in playing against Russia. Hence, they use this crisis as a way to increase control over Belarus(and Luka). Luka is worth keeping as he still has the power over there and it is someone they know well enough to play with. Also Luka also stills have enough loyal figure on his side. Luka now need to be very close to Russia to get his position secured and his Economics in a good shape. Russia use it as a way to increase its grips over Belarus, which chances are hard to get before Luka fucked up so much in his ways of handling elections, oppositions,protests and lost all his cards that can play against Russia to gain leverage.
Russian/The Soviet Union Airspace was a no go area for airlines for years, and now is extremely expensive ... most airlines really don't care and will happily avoid both Russian and Belorussian airspace
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Any ad that isn't from a widely recognized brand/company is not to be trusted 😂 Not saying i support monopolies, but those companies got big for a reason -trustworthy and reliable products
I read they reduced the flights because Belarus were renting European passenger jets to bring refugees to Belarus. Since the EU didn't like that so much they brought back their jets to the EU. If the EU didn't ask their plans back there would be a lot more refugees near the border. lukashenko is a sick, cruel man
@@el_kasztanejlo8555 To dethrone him is essentially civil war. Lukashenko is deranged lunatic, and will use all means possible to keep himself in power, to dethrone him you need to suppress all his backers... And that's a civil war, not a protest.
Polands anti-immigrant stance is actually somewhat right about this. Belarus caused this on their own, if Poland or EU as a whole breaks and just decides “okay fine, we’ll allow them”, that will get the dictator what he wants.
@@maknavickas also completely ruin. Country's economy by giving out insane amounts of money to people for free and breaking multiple laws in eu and Poland
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@@capncake8837 Brain checked out completely in your case it seems. But the day I see a CIA paid t roll with brains is the day I would see flying pigs too.
Poland took more than 1 milion refuges and migrants from Ukraine, which isn't often considered in EU migration crisis, it helped our economy filling job gap and gave hope to people escaping from war in Ukraine. Polish party doesn't like migrants from muslim countries, because it's very catholic. But thanks for highlighting this problem. I hope that one day Lukashenka will be overthrown and Belarus became true democracy.
yes, poland is a horrifically racist and islamophobic country, they don't mind white Ukrainian 'refugees' but suddenly real refugees - ignored. Makes sense as the population is literally still 99% white, it's like they refuse to enter the 21st century world!
@@southwestsaxon Why would you even consider Poland as an arab?! Poland is even racist towards his own fellow whites! Go where you're wanted! Don't expect free handouts! I have seen many Syrians arrive in Europe without any decent job skills, zero degrees and expect government housing and a stipend for free! No wonder Europe is fed up and more and more are voting far right!
@@southwestsaxon I wouldn't say that Poland as a country is racist, our government is and they statements shows world bad side of my country. In my city, there are foreigners from allover the world, working and living without problems, but i have to admit that it's bigger modernized city.
My geography teacher told my class a story about how a year after Belarus gained independence he was traveling from Russia to Poland. He called the US embassy in Belarus to see if he needed a visa or anything and they just said "if they try to get you, stand your ground". At night Belarussian officials came into the train and said "you, come with us," and he was lucky enough to actually get away with refusing to go. They just left and he made it to Poland
@@ytmm1 you're right, he could be. But context clues make it extremely likely that the teacher is an American. I'm not going to repeat my comment again, so you're on your own now in trying to understand it.
@@fitrianhidayat Yeah, like a non American would call American Embassy and they would kindly advice him to "stand your ground". Maybe in a Hollywood movie ?
Stay strong, brothers! Love from Lithuania, do not ever think that we hate Belarus, we want freedom for you guys. Hoping that one day you will have legitimate government, my hometown is 10 km away from border to Belarus and I hope one day to go there safely. Stay strong, you will have your freedom
As a citizen of Belarus, I do not need a support of citizen of neighbor state which is currently my homeland political adversary. Nor I do need support of a person, which limit of will to "support democracy" is set to write a comment on RUclips. Nor do Belarusians need such at all. If Lithuania and the EU at all would wanted to help Belarusians to aspire to "enlightened democracy and freedom", it could take much more drastic measures, which one - you may only guess.
@@SuurTeoll i respect your opinion, but your people talk and show quite different view than you talk about ;) we also have individuals ,who say that Lukosahenko is right etc. But you know, that's how democracy works, majority decides what is right think to do. Good luck to your country, if Belorus is your country
I did not said that Lukashenko is righteous guy, for Elohim's sake. Such opinions are understandable for me, though, as the ones mentioned. I just sincerely doubt that the right tactics to counter him is mere expressions of "solidarity", that's it.
I am from Ukraine. Imagine situation that is happening here. At East Russia,at North Belarus,at West Transnistria, at south Black sea with Russian battleships near Ukraine. Just imagine that tense situation here. I wish the Best to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia 🇺🇦♥️🇵🇱🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪
@@shreyagaming4876 Some part of Russian troops are situated in Transnistria. In case of war, Ukraine need to put some of its troops near Transnistria, but Transnistria is pretty long wich makes it difficult for Ukraine to protect itself.
Don't know if it matters much but gonna mention it anyhow, Those trying to enter the EU through Balrus are called "Refuge Seekers" instead of "Refugees", especially in local media. Since there is a big distinction between someone forced by war to relocate to a different location (refugee or displaced) and someone wanting to relocate to a different place due to circumstance of their own country (not physically forced) other wise known as Refuge Seeker.
@@Hjovn the term migrant invoke a lot less urgency and a lot more ability than refuge seeker, my friend. Altho, it's not wrong to describe them that way. (hey my dad used to be that! Lol)
@@wothin that's hilariously wrong. The Gulf States and Sudan both are along the Arab family of the tree, But one is of the poorest nations in Africa, the other the nation with highest GDP per capita in the world (Qatar), And a lot of people do in fact work in the gulf states. Most of the those guys on the border with White Russia are Kurdish Iraqis, one of the less fortunate regions in Iraq if that's even possible.
Hijacking a plane is a crime that is outright condemnable by the international community. And that luring thousands of immigrants for vindictive reasons is sooo evil.
@@randy2152 Yep. I don't think we should invade Belarus, for *many* reasons, but Lukashenko deserves to be ousted from power every bit as much as much as Saddam Hussein did, and it's a shame that nobody can force him out.
@@randy2152 yeah US is pretty bad too, but what does that have to do with Belarus situation? There's no doubt that lukashenko is a literal thug. If you live in a proper democracy you can really relate to the absurdness of actions being taken by him, well only if you live in a democracy, otherwise further discussion is meaningless.
It’s pretty funny that all the lukashenko defenders are from foreign countries and not Belarus, in fact if you search up lukashenko on RUclips and check an interview, all the comments by Belarusians are overwhelmingly negative
Anyone that butchers communists is a good guy in my book. Hail Lukaeshenko. If you search up the internationalist commie trash opinion on Lukashenko, they all hate him. A sign he's at least a passable leader.
@@thisisaname5589 is this a joke? Lukashenko is the communist here lmao, he literally changed the countries flag and coat of arms back to the Soviet version, get educated you Baffoon, Poland isn’t communist 😂😂😂😂
@@thisisaname5589 He is the one that ride Soviet nostalgia wave in the 90s to get elected . He run countries like it communist with state run enterprise and a tiny private sector . Centrally planned economy and shared farm like Mao Zedong . Despite his claim otherwise , if it walk like a duck , quack like a duck then it is a duck.
Most of the support for him (as well as Putin and Xi) come from people who hate America more. I've seen much fearmongering propaganda from Russophiles about NATO using Ukraine as a launchpad to attack Russia when Ukrainians themselves feel like they're surrounded from all sides and rely on Poland's mercy.
@@maktoobyt2009 Last I checked, Poland hasnt been destabilizing the Middle East. Neither has Latvia or Lithuania. So, no matter how you might try to spin this, none of this is their fault nor their problem. They are victims of outside aggressors that weaponized migrants.
A video suggestion I have is how Belarus and Ukraine, two of the most powerful Soviet Republics back in the day, have now completely diverged in their foreign policies. One is increasingly drawn into the transatlantic alliance while the other is almost overtly a lackey for Moscow.
It is easier for Ukraine to break out of the Russian sphere, because Ukraine is not landlocked. Belarus is landlocked so they are more tightly in Russia’s orbit.
If every country west of Belarus is pretty much ignoring it's existence because it's ruled by a dictator they don't have much choice but to turn to Russia instead.
I was watching a maths video and just couldn't help myself. That's how interesting geopolitics and your videos are. You can't really be that good of a content creator lol good job B)
This is the most messed up story I’ve ever heard. It disgusts me that real flesh and blood people are being used as pawns in one mans sick game driven by an obsessive thirst for power (is this the definition of psychopathy?). Even more unsettling is the feeling that no one, least of all me, can do much about it.
You know the use of immigrants as weapon is happening the last 7years by Turkey in the tens of thousands but I don't see anything has changed except when the EU gives him money to "stop" even though it continues
@@dnkal2875 I didn’t know that, but I can believe it. International relations are so fucked up. It’s like, one country is doing something awful and we condemn then, but another country that we’re ‘friends’ with (meaning we profit from them) can get away with anything they like.
To visit Belarus in the 90s my Scouts leader had to go to Sweden, then to Latvia and then on a plane to Belarus, this was because their planes were so pollutant that they were only allowed to travel small distances.
I was born ir Latvia, but my dad was in Belarus, so huge love to my brothers in Belarus and strongness to Poland and Lithuania let’s be strong together!🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱 ⚪️🔴⚪️
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa961 a lot of belarusians didn't accept red-green flag, white-red-white flag was official for belarus before lukeshenko run for a president, and now opposition use that flag.
I don't think atacking is the right word to use, its more akin to lukachenko going goblin mode and doing some weird scheme to the west that ends up backfiring, the man is pretty much a cartoon villain
I feel bad for you being manipulated. America and NATO make war in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afganistan... Lukashenko is to blame for refugee crisis. Lukashenko is to blame for Belorussian 5000 covid deaths while Sweden has 15000 and Belgium 27000 covid deaths
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Ok people supporting the government because the west is just as bad need to stfu. Thats like me saying "well he is a serial killer, but its fine because there are more serial killers elsewhere" it is still bad.
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Not „between Poland and Belarus”, they’re in Belarus. There is no such thing as no man’s land between those countries. I’m talking about those migrants from middle east you mentioned in the very beggining.
They are caught on the border between Poland and Belarus. The land between the border fences/stations/patrols are usually called no mans land as it is several meters wide.
@@Jokerlevin Have you seen this border? I did. There is no such thing there, just thin chainlink fence. And they are on belarussian side of this fence, therefore they're in Belarus, not in imaginary no man's land.
The proverbial "he made his bed and now he has to lie in it" He wanted to send an unlimited number of people across the border and is now stuck with that number in his own country.
It's no man's land because Belarus made it no man's land. Playing denial is only going to help Poland's enemies. Poland should create a steady stream of Refugee transports to their desired country, Germany in cooperation with Germany. Help some people out while also defanging Belarus' strategy.
It’s incredibly sad that Lukashenko has used these peoples lives as a means of attacking Europe politically. But as long as he’s the closest ally of Russia literally nothing will change.
The EU should make an elaborate plan to kill Lukashenko and then put someone else in power. Step 1: Invite Lukashenko to a meeting relating to current issues Step 2: Create the most toxic beverage known to mankind Step 3: Have him die by drinking the beverage Step 4: Surprise-invade Belarus’s capital and put a new, fair leader in power
Ya he is not a good person, nor is Putin. He loves being in Putins limelight and getting everything from Putin as long as he's Putins muppet in all wars. Right Now he offered Putin belarus as a attacking ground against Ukraine. Even tho its hard towards the civilian in belarus, but I think this country also needs to be punished in some way, especially those who hit the rich, selfish people like Lukashenko and other Oligarchs who offer Putin their country as attacking ground against the Ukraine.
I'm Polish and tbh i dont have really grounded opinion about this situation. It's of course a great tragedy for people at the border but solving this crisis is not that easy... Lukashenka openly talked about passing drugs by a border, and while he talked about drugs, there may be other threats. Like imagine you are dictator which wants to make a damage for the EU in financial way and political way, you just want to make a mess and make EU accept that you are president of Belarus and accept that voting fraud wasn't fraud, and in action show EU that gas pipes which are going through Belarus are going through dangerous terretoriy and Belarus might just cut Russian gas deliveres, which is essencial for EU energetic system, and it will be even more essencial since Germany plans to shift it's energy sources to gas (I tbh hate idea of gas power stations, i'm nuke&renewable team). You might ask why gas pipes are such important right now, it's great question, but highly propablable is that they want to force EU to use North Stream 2, this pipe isnt going through Ukraine or other countries, it will be going straight to Germany, and i cant tell why (at least previous government) Germany is pushing this pipe so much, i simply dont understand how in other than finacial way its good idea. It not only will be a great tool for forcing EU to anything by treating that they will cut gas deliveries, but it's also not going through ukraine or belarus which means that Russia will be able to cut gas deliveries to Ukraine, but still sell gas to EU. Not even mentioning that Lukashenko surely knows ways to transfer terrorists to EU. Passing migrants also would mean that we as a EU accept this act of creating humanitarian and political crisis as insignificant. In short, if terrorist(in this case Lukashenko) threatens you to pay, you just have to say no.
I'm pretty sure if they cut off gas supplies that would be considered an act of war and they'd be obliterated. No one wants that. It's just political sabre rattling. I hope.
@@cho4d Cutting gas has been previously by different countries and have yet to result in any wars. Reason is that we know the economic and social price that comes with war, cutting gas is always lower than that. So cutting gas is rather convinient way of extorting neighbours, at worst you'll get hit with another wave of sanctions...
Like imagine you are a leader of a country sanctioned by some big political union. Would you spend money of your own country to protect the borders of said poltical union? I will make it even easier. Imagine if Russia suddenly becomes dirty rich. All Africa suddenly decides to move to Russia. And Africans move through Poland towards Russia. Will Poland spend its money to protect Russia from all these waves of African migrants? Or will you let them pass? Or maybe you will ask Russia to pay you for protecting Russian border.
As i see it, for the last decades Lukashenko got used to play on both sides with Russia and EU, and so being friends with them, assumed that no one wold criticize him for his methods. When after elections he was publicly denounced by the west, he took it as a personal insult and all these happenings are elaborate schemes of revenge. In aspect of deteriorating relationships of Russia and EU, it was only logical for them to support this events as a card in the political game.
Pretty much, though a lot of people seem to forget this. Europe is a continent, the EU is an organisation, that's a big difference. The EU prefers to try and make it seem like they themselves are Europe
@@adiirfan01 EU *can* be a short name for Europe, but it all depends on the context. If you say EU, NA, SA, etc. then you’re talking about the continents, but if you say the UK left the EU, then is means European Union. It would be smarter to use EU for Europe and E.U. for European Union, but people are lazy.
The problem with Belarus is the moment there's a revolution to overthrow Lukashenko then Russia will inevitably intervene. They will absolutely not let a democratic EU member form so close to Moscow. Ukraine is now invaded and it's one of the main reasons why. Very tough for Belarus people because it's the last ally of Russia to the west protecting them from direct conflict with nato and eu
Replying to Prog47 It is so sad that so many people have to suffer because some foul president wants power I can name 2 of them I in countries that have such nice people
Hi It is about time the world decides to settle down Putin must accept hos losses and move on It was not the fault of the world That he could not look after his wife but his own So pay the price You want a nuclear war bring but understand we don't go alone as Russia will go with us so Putin nice knowing you and goodbye humanity Putin either that or shut the f***k up and go home as we will not leave this planet alone You will go with us GOODBYE
Thank you for this video. As a Latvian, who literally borders the Belarus, this situation is concerning, but I have missed the parts where low-price tickets were introduced and Belarus media lied about easy entrance into EU. So it made no sense for me why aLkash was guilty of it. Now it makes perfect sense, thanks again
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@@GL-iv4rw I honestly think most Russians would question the descendence from West. That would come as surprise for them. Certainly is for me, reading your comment, but I didn't and don't really care about it, but Russians can care.. I mean many of imperialist fanatics are still out there. They just want to be enemies with the West, they will never accept Western ideology, things like "dont be racist" or "don't be a homophobe". Let's just hope those fanatics die out soon
@Estonian Nationalist I'm surprised an Estonian nationalist would support Russia considering how many Baltic nationalists support the Forest Brothers and SS marches. But I agree with the notion that going against "Western values" is just being normal. The only civilization to be able to fight against it on equal terms is the Russian civilization (which is too weak to do so right now, and Putin wants us to be weak because he himself is a Westerner which will come as a shock to all the stupid liberals on this trash propaganda channel) but unfortunately for the Baltics, russophobia is rampant. Just look what your people did to the Bronze soldier.
@@timsonins ah yes, being forced to accept degenerate Western values is the pinnacle of Western tolerance. Короче, спорить с тобой дегенератом не буду, лишь скажу "либераху поравло"))
Poland is under no obligation to take refugees after refugees. They recently took close to a hundred thousand refugees. BTW, one main reason many states don't want to take refugees especially from MEA is because of their rigid mindset.
@@anne.andromeda 1. Europe is not good at integrating people from the middle east. Call it racism or misunderstanding or whatever you want, that is a fact. 2. A majority of them would not want to give up their identities to join Europe - that counts as a rigid mindset. You might see that statement as racist, but it's the truth and unless you face that truth from the pragmatic perspective of how to actually deal with that dilemma, nobody is going to listen to you.
It's funny that Belarus in the past 3 months has become more notable for *not* attacking its neighbouring country. Not because of Lukashenko, but because of it's heroic railway workers, and probably a few generals saying 'No'.
As a Lithuania's citizen, that have Belarusian roots and had been in multiple cities of Belarus (I was there 7 times before Lithuania closed it's borders and have seen shit), you do have to know that the opposition only hold their positions in major cities such as Minsk, Gomel, Mogilev etc. In other small towns and villages there are majority of Lukashenko supporters. Not going deep in this situation, they really do hate all of the opposition's ideas and do hate Tihonovskis. What you see in the news, doesn't really show all the tragedy of this situation, because Belarus right now is basically devided in half and is close to a civil war, to something like Ukrainian Maidan. It can even occur to a global conflict, which would include Russia and western world and will probably destroy Belarus. Right now all of Eastern Europe is struggling and in fear.
@@AveryMarrow I'm not from Belarus, but i guess OP meant that protesters were beaten to submission in 2020 but they are still against Lukashenko and if in case of another "black swan" event occurs the protests would erupt once again.
There will be no civil war since Lukashenka's supporters are in majority 65+ years old and are not ready for any kind of conflict. This said, I (a Belarusian who lives in Belarus) don't know a single person below 30 who supports the regime. It's just the soviet era people (not even all of them) and, well, the government forces.
@Serg M Putin is somewhat different in that regard. He is nowhere near as brutal as Lukashenko, at least in the eyes of the majority of population. And he still has some genuine support in every strata though their percentage is diminishing every year since his third therm in 2012.
@@neyte7313 Westners will humiliate you like hell after the dictatorship will fall. You think the western world is all milk and honey? Prepare for the worst.
The moment civil war happens in Belarus Putin will get involved Russia can't have the opposition winning and have another EU friendly nation in there borders.
I feel bad for that Belarussian and Russian passenger on Ryanair-4978, there was no bomb on the aeroplane, and they went to prison! i am Greek so I feel very sympathetic for those two.
@@arcsephiroth No, coward means something different. He is a Belarussian, he criticized his own country's regime, not others. It would not make difference if he would not even left Belarus, he would been captured anyway. Also, what about his Russian girlfriend? Lukashenko is the real coward if he is afraid of a blogger's GIRLFRIEND.
@@otapi nah coward is the reporter that hide and be keyboard warrior. Alaxander Lukenwateva is not a coward. He's a dictator and criminal probably. But not coward like this reporter and his gf
These migrants have passed many safe countries. Anyone who believes they are ‘seeking asylum’ instead of what they really are, economic migrants, are lost.
Not to mention, many of these people are from Bangladesh, and Pakistan and other countries that are not actively falling apart. They weren't even refugees when they left their home country, leaving aside the trips through multiple safe countries.
Why insist on going to Europe when they can enter nearer rich oil countries with similar cultures and religion where they don't have to constantly complain about the climate being too cold?
Job market. Most of the local oil rich states have high unemployment and few open jobs, sending wages down. Europe has a larger base of minimum low wage working and social programs to help families get a footing.
@@oilersridersbluejays Arab middle eastern countries don’t like to let in immigrants because they don’t like poor people or maybe they don’t want them to bring liberal ideas so there people won’t rise up against them because you know they are monarchies, basically if your rich welcome if your poor get out Just sayin
This is why I feel RLL should reserve sponsors for videos that don't talk about such controversial tragic things. But RLL is just a smaller infographic show, an easy cash grab with these annoying sponsors because they can't for the life of them manage finances anyway, so...
Ah yes my mother is from Mongolia and you know at first she thought Stalin was ok but now that I telled her what Stalin really is and what he has done to the people of Mongolia she hates him now yes she grew up in communist Mongolia so they say Stalin is glorious leader but ln reality he's bad
Because the truth is hard to bear when there is nothing that one can do about it, and double so when the person hearing it might have originally voted for the guy to begin with. It's easier to believe it is all exaggerated than feel everything is hopeless.
Maybe Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine will have to get an Israeli-style border fence to keep unwanted people out? (No border fence will stop an army)
@@loonie137 I agree, it would be better for the rest of Europe to be on good terms with Russia and Belarus --- But being part of a larger Europe is not something that Putin (or Lukashenko) want -- At least if it is not on their terms.
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
I love how incompetent the country is at invasion, as they showed the world their invasion plan after Ukraine. As PKA said "He's surrounded by too many Yes Men"
As a European, this is one of the most measured and informed videos about European politics from an American that I've seen. Well done! (Now you just need to learn how to pronounce Bela-ROOSE properly 😉)
This was a great summary of what is going on in Belarus. It would be interesting if you did a video about the psychology/ideology of the people of Belarus. I have a personal theory that WWII was so traumatic in Eastern Europe that many Eastern Europeans value strict order over personal freedoms.
@@sk-sm9sh Sure, but that applies to Russia. In Bulgaria the Tsars enjoyed popularity and rarely oppressed anyone with the exception of foreign organized communist terrorist groups.
Sorry if I'm mistaken but I understood from this video that Poland is unwelcoming to other nations and we are closed for imigrantns when it's not true. The imigrant crisis from 2015 that the autor mentioned was a lot harder to understand, lets just say that UE parliament sayed that they were mostly women and children refugees and in reality it was 70-80% young men looking for oportunity for easier lives. And even if Poland accepted them then they would just travel to germany or somewhere where thay would get more social money as unemployed. It was around 1,2m people and west europe didn't handle it too well bc they had different culture and didn't want to assimilate. But when real crisis appears Polish people are always open to help bc we know from our history what it's like to be in that sitation... For example I had 3 Chechnya refugees in my high school class (after Russia invaded them) and between 2014-2021 we welcomed more than 1m people from Ukraine without problems like they had in west europe with middle east imigrants (refugee camps, terrorist atacks etc). And I'm not even gonna talk about last month since Russia invaded Ukraine because i guess that everyone should know that we are doing what we can to help Ukraine.
My favorite part about this crisis not mentioned in the video: - EU: Take migrant back home or we will impose more sanctions on you Lukashenko thinking Putin is his bestie: If you do that I will stop the gas supply going through Belarus from Russia to Europe Putin: Lol no EU: Imposes more sanctions Lukashenko: :c
Finally, a video on current political affairs and Belarus crysis! Like an icing on a cake for me as a Latvian! Thank you very much sir Real Life Lore! 👍💯❤️
@Matthew Feldvari Seriously, are you from Canada? I didn't know we ship them so far. 😄 Can you get them in a regular grocery store or some specialized place? And can you get different brands or there's just one?
One reminder for anyone from middle-east who would try to seek asylum in European countries. Try to do it in embassy or at least with a help of proper humanitarian organization. None EU government would allow you to enter one or another country without passport/visa. Not to mention that throwing stones or tree branches at border patrol guards won't help your case at all...
@@danmcalester1716 Maybe they did mean it a negative way but they could have just as easily been complimenting their persistence. Nobody here said anything was bad
You forgot the add that Kryscina Cimanouska was almost forcefully taken out of Japan. She had to ask Japanese police for intervention and protection. In Poland she leaves the house with bodyguards. Orlen added her to their sponsored group...so she will be able to continue her career under Polish banner
Hopefully Lukashenko's involvement with the invasion of Ukraine, and the likelihood of Belarus joining in with their own military, will give the EU and US enough grounds to sanction Belarus into oblivion, making it impossible for Lukashenko to hold onto power. Although, given how he has already welcomed the Russian military within his own borders, this could have the unintended consequence of just handing the country over to Russia. If Putin uh... expires within the next couple of years, the West could take the opportunity to topple Belarus' corrupt dictatorship with Russia distracted. Although, Lukashenko is old. It could be best to go easy on Belarus after the war in Ukraine, and place financial backing behind a potential democratic candidate to replace him when he passes away.
I kinda doubt that he'll go down before Putin, with Russia's support, even if there was a full scale revolution (as in French vs Monarchy style, with the vast majority of the population behind it), he'd almost certainly invade to prevent it from allying with NATO and the EU, and I doubt that the Belarusian population is large or well armed enough to take on the Russian military plus much of the Belarusian military and police (since dictators generally are pretty good at ensuring their army is loyal, and the police generally side with authoritarian regimes just about anywhere, see Hong Kong)
Horrible situation. Most caused by nassessity to keep NATO and the EU from creating a stronghold. The EU and NATO may not outright abuse their ppl but they are not exactly heroes either most of the conflicts in the Mideast and eastern Europe are a result of them wanting to corps to rule the world. The fight wars to ensure there Corp. backers get what they want and financially ruin anyone that don't take up there ways and the big one there corp. Banking system. Once they have no opposition they will have no problems with ruining the way of life of there own ppl to feed there greed. The USA has been seeing this over the last few decades as corporations dictate laws and policies across our nation. When your financial institutions become for profit corporations every will eventually become slaves to the corporations.
While Germany may have one of the easiest asylum laws (which were A LOT less restrictive up to the 90s), you cannot say this about public opinion. While in 2015, many citizens were pro refugees, this is no longer the case. There are ofc many reasons for this, but imo one of the main reasons is the feeling that many of those refugees mentioned are just wanting to go to Germany to get money and do nothing. And it certainly won't help that the ppl here just took a flight with their own money to Belarus to cross through Poland to Germany. And 2015 has left (deep) scars across the political landscape that won't heal soon.
But that isn't the case tho, assuming refugees are over 1 million, majority will be sent back, Germany only aims to keep the best, giving them an opportunity to acquire or finish their education and participate in the German economy The German government is efficient and they know which refugees are only there for money and which aren't, most of the homeless or unemployed people I see are still Germans btw, these refugees have more reasons to do well and get an income than German citizens
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 It's because the "rich Muslim countries" are hostile or forbid the other side of their religion ie Sunni or Shia and the journey to these "rich Muslim countries" are as hard as the journey to Europe. Refugees come to Europe for better carriers and better stability for their family to live so that they don't have to fear that their family will fall into danger.
@@ihazplawe2503 We don't need them and we are not obliged to accept them. My country is not accepting anyone of that ideology, and all countries around mine also don't accept them. They should go from whenever they came.
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 It's simple. The entire Arab world is a powder keg, where politicians use everything to destablize their neighbours and gain political influence. A powder keg both in terms of distinct cultures, languages and ethnicities, but also politics. In other words: they fight for more dominance. Since they mostly control wealth, they keep it for themselves. Secondly, migrating over there is too difficult as a complete outsider meaning refugees are less likely to get passports. Thirdly, many of those countries never signed treaties to take in refugees. They only give dictators or corrupt politicians refuge, like that Ben Ali guy from Tunisia who fled to Saudi. And lastly, unstable borders. Many governments in the Arab world care for their own safety meaning they know exactly there are deranged islamists who could hide in the other countries. The other corrupt countries could also recruit very insane individuals and send them over the border for proxy attacks, which is what Algeria does with it's neighbours. This happened alot in Morocco or Kuwait, which is why they mostly dont want nor trust those refugees (and why they also do a crack down on those). They literally have diplomatic tensions. You see, there is a big cultural difference between all themselves. Tunisians and Moroccans are more liberal than their conservative counterparts in the Middle East, which is also why Turkey doesnt want to take them in. Of course, they don't want to generalize. But they dont want to destablize their own population by letting in doctrinated people with so much right-wing islaminism. Morocco already deals with criminal lunatics ready to kill innocent people who also hide in homes of others. They would rather take Sub-Saharan refugees, who want to settle down and accept help from authorities and they do support those people. I mean, if you are from the Arab speaking world, you are vastly culturally different with more liberal perspectives than the others and you know there are doctrinated lunatics on the other side, would you trust them? Me, as a Moroccan, I dont, which is why we avoid those toxic people. And Tunisians would say the same. I have nothing against refugees. However, they only need to intergrate. But we dont want crazy, hypocritical islamists. We already arrest many of them.
Just a tiny thing on words that kinda hurts my ears sometimes - not every migrant is a refugee. Quite often those terms are used interchangeably, but they are not the same. Just in terms of proportions, there's huge amount of migrants, and in comparison, just a tiny amount of true refugees.
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
@@Writeous0ne Yeah , you should probably look up the word "dictator" in a dictionary before stating dumb shit. A dictator isn't someone who starts wars precisely. It's how he leads his people.
Can we also talk about Turkey, who has also been employing the same techniques against EU with blackmailing and the same type of massive migrant invasions on the border with Greece? Can we hold Turkey at the same level of accountability as Russia and Belarus?
You're not allowed to criticize Muslim people, only bash Christians please, including those "refugees", which basically means "I want free stuff people", but you're not allowed to say that about Muslim people.
@@noirekuroraigami2270 Bro you know that NATO only bombed yugoslavia in order to avoid an "ethnic cleansing" against the Albanian population of Kosovo. Maybe we should talk about how russia destroyed chechenya, transnitria - moldova, georgia, etc?
Belarus is using tactics just like in world War II Germany would send civilians cross the borders to slow down the enemy but in this case Belarus is using that to their advantage
@@anibuffo it was an integral aspect of blitzkrieg and was prominently seen in Belgium. Refugees fleeing the Germans clogged the roads and railways, leaving the French and British troops with no effective way to get to the front
@@catthecat2623 On the contrary it was not an integral aspect of blitzkrieg, it was a side effect. The Germans weren't arming the refugees and saying "go over to the western frontlines and slow down their advance enmasse" but they rather exploited the panic that caused that advance to slow down enmasse.
5:54 As far as I remember, Tsikhanouskaya didn't flee the country she was physically kicked out by the FSB/KGB agents. They tried to do the same to Maria Kalesnikava (you can see her at 3:19), but she managed to tear her passport into pieces before the agents could push her cross the border.
@@wardskidoedels512 No, the idea was to prevent KGB from forcing her to cross the border, as the other country wouldn't accept her. Which worked, KGB took her to a prison instead... She's been in prison for about 2 years now. To clarify: there's a way to cross the border without passport, the person would have to request political asylum, the other country might agree to help. I heard some people managed to escape Belarus this way.
Good video, but your political bias is showing badly. Despite Poland's "bad policy",their actions on the borders were supported by the EU. And even if that wasn't the case, it's not simply a bad policy. Oversimplifying a nuanced topic for the sake of ideological convenience is a bad look
great video. another thing of note is that the intercepted flight going thorough Belarus was carrying a Lithuanian diplomat. so not only did they kidnap two citizens, but also did so to a government official of Lithuania
As a person from Białystok (a Polish city next Belorussian border) it's truly sad. Area and population of today's Belarus was once the core of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, some even argue that Belarus should be considered the successor of the Great Duchy along with Lithuania. Now it's (along with Russia) Poland's most hostile neighbor. The mustachio dictator even made remarks about Białystok and Wilno (Vilnius) being quintessentially Belorussian cities, but gracefully he won't wage war over them. I've met a few people from Belarus, and all of them have a nickname for him: karaluch - cockroach. It's sad, because Belorussians are the only people who were always kind to Poles, and were for the most part sympathetic towards Poland. But decades of soviet rule and 30 years of Lukashenko's reign have been devastating for Belarus. He should have been kicked out in 1994.
@@rhrynq today a lot of things in our world are descendants of injustice just as assimilation of the belarusians there. Any state-ruled assimilation is evil. So that shall be fixed
We may be kind to you, even Batska is kind to people of Poland, and lets them enter Belarus VISA FREE. But as for you - you weren’t at all. Fascist Pilsudsky regime genocided Belarusians under the pretext that they were all “communists” and burned down their villages and seized livestock from the peasants. It’s all well documented. Next, Hanged-Polak Kalinovsky and his gang of rioters killed Belarusian Orthodox priests and peasants, torturing them brutally. That’s also documented, and his sayings about our native orthodox faith is also well documented (his quote about orthodoxy being “faith of the dogs”) Third, after WW2, in 1946 fascist criminal Romuald Rais and his gang genocided people and burned down Belarusian villages in Podlasie region while saying “Belarusians, your land is here, it’s just 2 meters deeper”. Today, the surviving Belarusians and Ukrainians identify as “Orthodox Poles” there, in fear of being oppressed or outright murdered again. Don’t pretend you’re our friends. You’re our oppressors, and you should be greatful that we aren’t outright murdering your compatriots in Grodno region like you murdered ours in Belastok. (yes, it’s Belastok, not Białystok)
thanks for covering the current situation in Belarus. hopefully, the more people learn about it, the faster we can get rid of that insane murderer. Жыве Беларусь!
Poland doesn't have an anti-immigration stance, nor do we refuse any refugees. We have an anti-illegal activity stance. There is a difference. Current events prove this quite definitively...
You forgot to mention about 2 million Ukrainians Poland took since 2014 when Russia attacked them and lots of Chechen refugees some years earlier. You might have an issue with current Polish government, but don't paint Poles as bad people simply because they believe that proper way to enter the country is by using border crossing/port of entry, in other words, legally.
Time to revive the concept of Intermarium. Neither Putin nor the bureaucrats at Brussels and Washington have your country's interests at heart. I don't care about Russophiles insisting about Ukraine being conquered by Russia simply because of similarities in faith and language (I'm speaking this as an Orthodox Christian myself)
Lukashenko referred to himself as _"Europe's last dictator"._ So full of himself, its like a title, a good brand for him.
I guess Europe doesn't know Putin exists.
As if Putin is not a dictator
I mean atleast hes keeping it real. He isnt wrong😂
@@MA_KA_PA_TIE Putin isn’t a dictator, the far left media just labeled him one cause they don’t like him, same as Trump. I heard a lot of his policies and he sounds like a cool guy.
"Better to be a dictator than gay" - Lukashenko 2012
A very important detail that wasn't mentioned is the Dublin convention, which basically states that deported refugees are to be returned to the first EU country they entered. The reason why Germany has such an open border policy is because they can choose who they accept and then send the rest back to whichever Eu country they first entered from. So the argument that they're simply trying to cross Poland becomes irrelevant. Sure, the migrants are simply trying to get to Germany but Poland knows that Germany is going to pick the "best ones" and then send the rest to Poland, who at that point will be Poland's problem to deal with.
It is crucial to state, that these people aren't refugees. They are migrants.
That’s not entirely true though, as Germany has pretty much accepted everyone reaching its territory ever since the refugee crisis in 2015. Sure, theoretically they could send people back to their first country of arrival but they hardly have done so ever since
Best ones according to what criteria?
What does "best one" means?
@@caseybanana8114 Cleanest criminal record.
Thank you for bringing this up. As a Belarusian myself, we are tired and frustrated of everything that's happening here. Basically the country is at war with its abusive government. Hundreds of political prisoners, police brutality, violence and abuse of basic human rights. People there need to be seen and heard and deserve to be free. But the world is silent.
Arm and fight
You should be proud of your president. He's protecting you against Polish imperialistic ambitions
@@reek4062 no.
@@reek4062 Found the Bot.
i think the politically minded of the west would literally love to see Belaruse have a revolution (peaceful) and get a democracy
but it's the case that it's not so easy... you can't just march in and conquor it risk starting WW3 with Russia ... if we could get away with that, well you better be worried about us worse than the last guy
the way he smoothly transitions from the humanitarian crisis to the sponsor is killing me
rest in peace
@@wildwestzombie
A little too literal lol
Condolences to your family and friends
@@sirensynapse5603 yes
R u still dying?
Very good video and sums everything up relatively quickly. Only a couple of things I noticed that were slightly off was
1. The olympic runner refused to run in an event she hadn't prepared for and was sent home early from the Olympics. At the airport she straight up ran away from her handlers taking her back to Belarus for punishment and begged the Tokyo police to help her and protect her. Luckily, they did. Her freedom was already in danger, and for running away from her handlers.. now her life was in danger.
2. Germany has straight up said, "no more migrants" and now the refugees were sent back home. They paid anywhere from $2.500 to $15,000 to get to Belarus (yes, the money went directly to Lukashenko) and as soon as they got off the plane they were forced to the Polish border. Once Germany said, "no refugees will be accepted" the migrants were now forced home.
3. No one has complained about the drugs flooding Europe lol
But the amazing thing is that the migrant crisis is all because he's angry he got in trouble for staging the RyanAir hijacking. He doubled down on a problem he caused.
The Belarusian people are beautiful, and amazing. Belarus deserves true independence for once in its history
Note on the 2. point: migrant and refugee are different things. Declining to accept refugees would be a bad thing (although it does happen) but declining a migrant is totally up to the sovereign country to decide on.
It would ease the discussions if proper statuses were used. Media mixes these two constantly and therefore makes an assumption that migrant would have some UN guaranteed "refugee status" which they don't.
@Alaric Balthi And on point 3: wasn't that just a threat from Lukashenko? Or was there an increase in drug traffic beyond what's already known?
@@ajs787 There's a demand for drugs in Europe that is and has been always met, mainly cocaine, weed, MDMA and recently ketamine, usual party drugs for a well-off population. If Łukaszenko somehow launched a "smack into every house" program in Europe to Europeans they'll just sell it to the US. He doesn't understand that drugs are a commodity and using it as a "weapon" like he does migrants will probably just stimulate the economies of Europe, or if he gets something that Europeans fancy (which is way too expensive for the regime btw) the worst he'll achieve is putting a few minor local manufacturers out of business. Either way not much to worry about.
@@jonesaffrou6014 I'm grateful that cocaine and heroin can't be grown in Belarus
@@christianweibrecht6555 The main issue with those is that they're smuggled in through Galicia in Spain, AFAIK. But Belarus is landlocked, so...
Lukashenko's grip on Belarus will keep on going as long as he has Russia as its closest ally. It's known for a while that Russia and the EU aren't best of friends ever since the crisis in Ukraine, the annexation of Crimea by Russia and the ongoing conflict in Donetsk and Luhansk. Russian president Vladimir Putin has barred planes bypassing Belarussian airspace and he has even said (which was during the case of the Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, which was revealed to be shot down over Donetsk airspace) that he can close the entire Russian airspace for any nation that closes its airspace for Russian planes and airlines, but the reason why he hadn't done it is that it'll hurt Russia itself as well (it has to do with the transit tarrifs Russia receives for crossing its airspace). Back to Belarus - Putin essentially guarantees Lukashenko's grip, but once even he cuts ties with him, it'll be game over
Lukashenko at the beginning(before the elections) actually try to play Russian and the west. He keep saying Russian may meddle in elections(to get him out), arrest pro russian presidential candidate and oppositions(tho he arrested everyone who try to oppose him in the elections at that points) and even arrest Wagner who transit through Belarus(almost extraditing them to Ukraine). Try negotiate with Russia over its role in exporting goods sanctioned in Russia to Russia etc. Luka even try to lean to the west with its behaviour at that time to gain leverage over Russia. Many people forget his pre-elections moves against Russia and his way of trying to play Russia. Before the elections there were plenty of opinions that Belarus may drift away from Russia and slowing embrace into the west under Luka given Luka political movement at that time.
But his arrest of candidates/oppositions, brutal supression of protest and his blatant manipulation of elections, arrest make the west stay away from him(The west didn't really like him to begin with). When the protest start, the west(especially eastern European states) express support of the oppositions, which made Luka hate the West further. After he arrested the major opposition figure svetlana and force exile her, thing got worse for him. Luka therefore wants to do anything to hurt the west to get his petty revenage after he brutally suppress the protest movement. At that points, it also means that Luka can no longer use the west as a leverage to gain leverage over Russia anymore as the west/US want him gone and not a person they want to deal with anymore.
As for Russia, they know Luka, unlike back in before elections, has lost all his cards in playing against Russia. Hence, they use this crisis as a way to increase control over Belarus(and Luka). Luka is worth keeping as he still has the power over there and it is someone they know well enough to play with. Also Luka also stills have enough loyal figure on his side. Luka now need to be very close to Russia to get his position secured and his Economics in a good shape. Russia use it as a way to increase its grips over Belarus, which chances are hard to get before Luka fucked up so much in his ways of handling elections, oppositions,protests and lost all his cards that can play against Russia to gain leverage.
Don't call Ukraine "the Ukraine".
Russian/The Soviet Union Airspace was a no go area for airlines for years, and now is extremely expensive ... most airlines really don't care and will happily avoid both Russian and Belorussian airspace
@@SicMvndvsCreatvsEst8 :: WHY?
They made Belarus to be a buffer state. This is literally what it was created 4.
I went to the Ting web page by using the link in the description. After reading the terms I decided that the company wasn't one that I was willing to deal with. The description of the offer you give in the video is missing a lot of information. The conditions in their plans, makes their plans not as great as they seemed to be. In fact, I felt that they were a bit shady with their plans. I'm not going to purchase a phone in order to have them as my cell phone service provider. Also the discount is only for the unlimited plans and will be given over a 5 month period. I don't care for the provider that I currently have but I'm not going to jump into a plan that is worse than what I have now.
How bad are the terms?
A little advice: every youtube add is shit. The company who need to do that are in most cases crap companies trying to sell bad products
I honestly think RLL is smart enough to not spend almost $200 a month on his phone bill. So I believe that to be made up.
^
Any ad that isn't from a widely recognized brand/company is not to be trusted 😂 Not saying i support monopolies, but those companies got big for a reason -trustworthy and reliable products
"Being a dictator is better than being Gay"
Alexander Lukashenko, 2012
I agree
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That transition from "the crisis has no end in sight" to "how you can save money" had me laughing so fucking hard
@qopoy dnon little to do with my comment but k
same
@qopoy dnon They didn't
I know. I was a bit confused by that transition
pretty rough cut from content to ad, it had me laugh out loud as well :D
Huge respect to Belarusian people (not government) ✊⚪️🔴⚪️
LOL
Agree
Agree
Belarusian people - 😊
Belarusian government - 🖕🏾
Respect Poland for protecting us!
I read they reduced the flights because Belarus were renting European passenger jets to bring refugees to Belarus.
Since the EU didn't like that so much they brought back their jets to the EU. If the EU didn't ask their plans back there would be a lot more refugees near the border.
lukashenko is a sick, cruel man
He's progressive 😍 he helps the refugees 😊❤
@יעקב ייגר not the same thing at all holy shit.
Maybe citizens should grow some balls and dethrone the guy?
@@el_kasztanejlo8555 To dethrone him is essentially civil war. Lukashenko is deranged lunatic, and will use all means possible to keep himself in power, to dethrone him you need to suppress all his backers... And that's a civil war, not a protest.
@@Sarunastm then so be it if they want freedom they are gonna have to fight for it
Polands anti-immigrant stance is actually somewhat right about this. Belarus caused this on their own, if Poland or EU as a whole breaks and just decides “okay fine, we’ll allow them”, that will get the dictator what he wants.
You may be right about that. But the Polish government/the PiS party is still completely dishonest.
What the West cooked, the Slavs will eat!
😂😂😂😂😂
@@MrVasja46 with the help of NATO yh
@@ehmjay97promise no immigrants and delivered no immigrants, sounds pretty good to me.
@@maknavickas also completely ruin. Country's economy by giving out insane amounts of money to people for free and breaking multiple laws in eu and Poland
Fish are cool.
Your NATO patrons are more dangerous and threat for the Europe, than so called "dictator" Lukashenko.
@@davor7999 ok communist
@@davor7999 I offer you a free heli ride.
The irony is that the EU hates Poland's current government but that government is the one most willing to defend them.
Hahahaha Lukashenko is a "dictator", and Milo Djukanovic from Montenegro or some others are not "dictators" because they are you'r NATO friends
One thing I appreciate about this channel are the very informative and easy to follow graphics and maps! Great job!
CIA money well spent
@@thirdvect0r Name checks out.
@@thirdvect0r Ok commie
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
@@capncake8837 Brain checked out completely in your case it seems. But the day I see a CIA paid t roll with brains is the day I would see flying pigs too.
Poland took more than 1 milion refuges and migrants from Ukraine, which isn't often considered in EU migration crisis, it helped our economy filling job gap and gave hope to people escaping from war in Ukraine. Polish party doesn't like migrants from muslim countries, because it's very catholic. But thanks for highlighting this problem. I hope that one day Lukashenka will be overthrown and Belarus became true democracy.
^can confirm
don’t blame them at all tbh
yes, poland is a horrifically racist and islamophobic country, they don't mind white Ukrainian 'refugees' but suddenly real refugees - ignored. Makes sense as the population is literally still 99% white, it's like they refuse to enter the 21st century world!
@@southwestsaxon Why would you even consider Poland as an arab?! Poland is even racist towards his own fellow whites!
Go where you're wanted! Don't expect free handouts! I have seen many Syrians arrive in Europe without any decent job skills, zero degrees and expect government housing and a stipend for free! No wonder Europe is fed up and more and more are voting far right!
@@southwestsaxon I wouldn't say that Poland as a country is racist, our government is and they statements shows world bad side of my country. In my city, there are foreigners from allover the world, working and living without problems, but i have to admit that it's bigger modernized city.
Stay strong people in Belarus your freedom to vote speech and act will soon get there be brave to stand up to your current leadership
>Some random pindostan bydlo writing this
opinion rejected. Hands off Belarus!
Poland's stance seems pretty logical to me. Belarus is a mess.
@nehem Russia
Innocent
Lmao
@nehem INNOCENT RUSSIA ?xd
@nehem >Russia
>Innocent
Pick one
@nehem innocent russia
@nehem Well if I lived in Ukraine I might be a little affected.
My geography teacher told my class a story about how a year after Belarus gained independence he was traveling from Russia to Poland. He called the US embassy in Belarus to see if he needed a visa or anything and they just said "if they try to get you, stand your ground". At night Belarussian officials came into the train and said "you, come with us," and he was lucky enough to actually get away with refusing to go. They just left and he made it to Poland
your story lack context bruh, like who's your teacher? an American? a Polish? we have no f*cking idea...
@@fitrianhidayat context clues would tell you it's extremely likely the teacher was an American
@@johnr797 he could be brazilian and just calling his friend at the us embassy for advice
@@ytmm1 you're right, he could be. But context clues make it extremely likely that the teacher is an American. I'm not going to repeat my comment again, so you're on your own now in trying to understand it.
@@fitrianhidayat Yeah, like a non American would call American Embassy and they would kindly advice him to "stand your ground". Maybe in a Hollywood movie ?
Stay strong, brothers! Love from Lithuania, do not ever think that we hate Belarus, we want freedom for you guys. Hoping that one day you will have legitimate government, my hometown is 10 km away from border to Belarus and I hope one day to go there safely. Stay strong, you will have your freedom
As a citizen of Belarus, I do not need a support of citizen of neighbor state which is currently my homeland political adversary. Nor I do need support of a person, which limit of will to "support democracy" is set to write a comment on RUclips. Nor do Belarusians need such at all. If Lithuania and the EU at all would wanted to help Belarusians to aspire to "enlightened democracy and freedom", it could take much more drastic measures, which one - you may only guess.
@@SuurTeoll BOT
@@SuurTeoll i respect your opinion, but your people talk and show quite different view than you talk about ;) we also have individuals ,who say that Lukosahenko is right etc. But you know, that's how democracy works, majority decides what is right think to do. Good luck to your country, if Belorus is your country
I did not said that Lukashenko is righteous guy, for Elohim's sake. Such opinions are understandable for me, though, as the ones mentioned. I just sincerely doubt that the right tactics to counter him is mere expressions of "solidarity", that's it.
@@SuurTeoll so what should we do :D send assassins after him? If Belorusians won't overthrow him, no one will
I had NO idea! Thankyou for getting this info out there!
I am from Ukraine. Imagine situation that is happening here. At East Russia,at North Belarus,at West Transnistria, at south Black sea with Russian battleships near Ukraine. Just imagine that tense situation here.
I wish the Best to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia 🇺🇦♥️🇵🇱🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪
Yes , but what will Transnistria do??
Yes , i understand it
Best wishes for Ukraine
@@shreyagaming4876 Some part of Russian troops are situated in Transnistria. In case of war, Ukraine need to put some of its troops near Transnistria, but Transnistria is pretty long wich makes it difficult for Ukraine to protect itself.
@@pontius_official oh
Don't know if it matters much but gonna mention it anyhow,
Those trying to enter the EU through Balrus are called "Refuge Seekers" instead of "Refugees", especially in local media.
Since there is a big distinction between someone forced by war to relocate to a different location (refugee or displaced) and someone wanting to relocate to a different place due to circumstance of their own country (not physically forced) other wise known as Refuge Seeker.
Economic Migrants is also a term
@@Hjovn the term migrant invoke a lot less urgency and a lot more ability than refuge seeker, my friend.
Altho, it's not wrong to describe them that way.
(hey my dad used to be that! Lol)
Why tho? Aren't the countries mostly the same where they come from?
@@wothin that's hilariously wrong.
The Gulf States and Sudan both are along the Arab family of the tree,
But one is of the poorest nations in Africa, the other the nation with highest GDP per capita in the world (Qatar),
And a lot of people do in fact work in the gulf states.
Most of the those guys on the border with White Russia are Kurdish Iraqis, one of the less fortunate regions in Iraq if that's even possible.
@@ahmedmuawia2447 Iraqi Kurdistan is doing really well though
Hijacking a plane is a crime that is outright condemnable by the international community. And that luring thousands of immigrants for vindictive reasons is sooo evil.
USA has declared war and killed leaders for less
@@randy2152 Yep. I don't think we should invade Belarus, for *many* reasons, but Lukashenko deserves to be ousted from power every bit as much as much as Saddam Hussein did, and it's a shame that nobody can force him out.
@@randy2152 yeah US is pretty bad too, but what does that have to do with Belarus situation? There's no doubt that lukashenko is a literal thug. If you live in a proper democracy you can really relate to the absurdness of actions being taken by him, well only if you live in a democracy, otherwise further discussion is meaningless.
@@JackHankeAnd DO NOT, LET THE US INVADE BELARUS. WE SAW WHAT HAPPEND TO AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ.
@@list9016 Okay. I won’t let the US invade Belarus.
nice change of topic to the ad, that was really smooth
It’s pretty funny that all the lukashenko defenders are from foreign countries and not Belarus, in fact if you search up lukashenko on RUclips and check an interview, all the comments by Belarusians are overwhelmingly negative
Anyone that butchers communists is a good guy in my book. Hail Lukaeshenko. If you search up the internationalist commie trash opinion on Lukashenko, they all hate him. A sign he's at least a passable leader.
@@thisisaname5589 is this a joke? Lukashenko is the communist here lmao, he literally changed the countries flag and coat of arms back to the Soviet version, get educated you Baffoon, Poland isn’t communist 😂😂😂😂
@@thisisaname5589 He is the one that ride Soviet nostalgia wave in the 90s to get elected . He run countries like it communist with state run enterprise and a tiny private sector . Centrally planned economy and shared farm like Mao Zedong . Despite his claim otherwise , if it walk like a duck , quack like a duck then it is a duck.
@@thisisaname5589 obvious troll
Most of the support for him (as well as Putin and Xi) come from people who hate America more. I've seen much fearmongering propaganda from Russophiles about NATO using Ukraine as a launchpad to attack Russia when Ukrainians themselves feel like they're surrounded from all sides and rely on Poland's mercy.
Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia have every right to refuse entry to the migrants. It is Belarus’ problem. Period.
Why?
1-You refused them to live in peace at home.
2-you refuse them to migrate for peace.
Where do they go?
@@maktoobyt2009 Home, they are not Poland's problem.
@@maktoobyt2009 Last I checked, Poland hasnt been destabilizing the Middle East. Neither has Latvia or Lithuania. So, no matter how you might try to spin this, none of this is their fault nor their problem. They are victims of outside aggressors that weaponized migrants.
@@SerenGetter go and buy some brain.
is Poland not NATO?
@@imapopo2924 refer to my upper comment.
A video suggestion I have is how Belarus and Ukraine, two of the most powerful Soviet Republics back in the day, have now completely diverged in their foreign policies. One is increasingly drawn into the transatlantic alliance while the other is almost overtly a lackey for Moscow.
the one is conservative, the other is nazi. What a lovely brotherhood.
@@mapoch9000 To say that Ukraine and rest of the region is very conservativ is a fair opinion but to call them nazi is a nonsence
It is easier for Ukraine to break out of the Russian sphere, because Ukraine is not landlocked.
Belarus is landlocked so they are more tightly in Russia’s orbit.
If every country west of Belarus is pretty much ignoring it's existence because it's ruled by a dictator they don't have much choice but to turn to Russia instead.
@@jakdasjefferson3894 yeah you have never visited Ukraine.
I was watching a maths video and just couldn't help myself. That's how interesting geopolitics and your videos are.
You can't really be that good of a content creator lol good job B)
This is the most messed up story I’ve ever heard. It disgusts me that real flesh and blood people are being used as pawns in one mans sick game driven by an obsessive thirst for power (is this the definition of psychopathy?). Even more unsettling is the feeling that no one, least of all me, can do much about it.
Here's hoping Belarus finally overthrows their human shaped bacterium of a leader.
Listening to the entirety of that video was really horrifying.
@@docbaker3333 I’m also an Iraqi and honestly I’m just lucky I never went there
You know the use of immigrants as weapon is happening the last 7years by Turkey in the tens of thousands but I don't see anything has changed except when the EU gives him money to "stop" even though it continues
@@dnkal2875 I didn’t know that, but I can believe it. International relations are so fucked up. It’s like, one country is doing something awful and we condemn then, but another country that we’re ‘friends’ with (meaning we profit from them) can get away with anything they like.
To visit Belarus in the 90s my Scouts leader had to go to Sweden, then to Latvia and then on a plane to Belarus, this was because their planes were so pollutant that they were only allowed to travel small distances.
What's your country?
@@johan.ohgren England I should’ve said
Who tf would want to visit Belarus?
not pollutant but did not meet EU noise standards
You mustn't go to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine etc. in 90s
I was born ir Latvia, but my dad was in Belarus, so huge love to my brothers in Belarus and strongness to Poland and Lithuania let’s be strong together!🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱 ⚪️🔴⚪️
Why do you guys use ⚪️🔴⚪️ instead of 🇧🇾?
Time will come, brother.
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa961 Because the flag in your respond is a Lukashenko's one.
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@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa961 a lot of belarusians didn't accept red-green flag, white-red-white flag was official for belarus before lukeshenko run for a president, and now opposition use that flag.
@@redcanistra oh okay then ⚪️🔴⚪️ !! Love from france to Belarusian people !
I don't think atacking is the right word to use, its more akin to lukachenko going goblin mode and doing some weird scheme to the west that ends up backfiring, the man is pretty much a cartoon villain
I feel bad for the Belarus people for being manipulated so much. I hope this hole situacion will finally end
I think its called belorussian people
*whole
@@dac232009 you dont think. Stop lying
I feel bad for you being manipulated. America and NATO make war in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Afganistan... Lukashenko is to blame for refugee crisis.
Lukashenko is to blame for Belorussian 5000 covid deaths while Sweden has 15000 and Belgium 27000 covid deaths
@@IvanSam1 North Korea has 0
Much love to Poland. Stay strong, brothers.
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Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
@@GL-iv4rw the 2 bold brothers of the Slavic family
Hang tough Poland!
Belarus will invade Poland if they try to
as a belarusia myself l feel huge gratitude to you for making this video and spreading the awareness of what is happening here!
Yeah what a great leader torturing their own citizen
I wish you all good luck in your fight for democracy and freedom!
@@alfaseeds13 Dont act like the west has great leaders, the west is a mess themself, and still focusing on shit country Belarus.
@Russian USA not everyone do it in 21st century
Ok people supporting the government because the west is just as bad need to stfu. Thats like me saying "well he is a serial killer, but its fine because there are more serial killers elsewhere" it is still bad.
I'm not kidding but seriously i have been following and watching your videos for only the past few weeks and feel amazing about your geopolitical topics and contents !!
Full support from my side and love from INDIA 🇮🇳🇮🇳🤞
Not „between Poland and Belarus”, they’re in Belarus. There is no such thing as no man’s land between those countries. I’m talking about those migrants from middle east you mentioned in the very beggining.
They are caught on the border between Poland and Belarus. The land between the border fences/stations/patrols are usually called no mans land as it is several meters wide.
@@Jokerlevin Have you seen this border? I did. There is no such thing there, just thin chainlink fence. And they are on belarussian side of this fence, therefore they're in Belarus, not in imaginary no man's land.
The proverbial "he made his bed and now he has to lie in it"
He wanted to send an unlimited number of people across the border and is now stuck with that number in his own country.
It's no man's land because Belarus made it no man's land. Playing denial is only going to help Poland's enemies. Poland should create a steady stream of Refugee transports to their desired country, Germany in cooperation with Germany. Help some people out while also defanging Belarus' strategy.
@@reaverfang377 but Germany don't want to take them
I stand with Poland. They are doing the right thing by not giving in to the extortion.
Much love,
your neighbor from the West
No.
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You mean Germany?😁
It’s incredibly sad that Lukashenko has used these peoples lives as a means of attacking Europe politically. But as long as he’s the closest ally of Russia literally nothing will change.
@@bjf9304 Not exactly, they’re a bit lax in stopping them trying to cross the channel but they didn’t exactly offer them Visas like Belarus did.
The EU should make an elaborate plan to kill Lukashenko and then put someone else in power.
Step 1: Invite Lukashenko to a meeting relating to current issues
Step 2: Create the most toxic beverage known to mankind
Step 3: Have him die by drinking the beverage
Step 4: Surprise-invade Belarus’s capital and put a new, fair leader in power
@@PikKraken8 wow. What a good person you are. If you think that killing a dictator is any better then being one, then you’re completely wrong.
Ya he is not a good person, nor is Putin. He loves being in Putins limelight and getting everything from Putin as long as he's Putins muppet in all wars. Right Now he offered Putin belarus as a attacking ground against Ukraine. Even tho its hard towards the civilian in belarus, but I think this country also needs to be punished in some way, especially those who hit the rich, selfish people like Lukashenko and other Oligarchs who offer Putin their country as attacking ground against the Ukraine.
@@PikKraken8 that you CIA?
thank you for educating us on this, very informative
I'm Polish and tbh i dont have really grounded opinion about this situation. It's of course a great tragedy for people at the border but solving this crisis is not that easy... Lukashenka openly talked about passing drugs by a border, and while he talked about drugs, there may be other threats. Like imagine you are dictator which wants to make a damage for the EU in financial way and political way, you just want to make a mess and make EU accept that you are president of Belarus and accept that voting fraud wasn't fraud, and in action show EU that gas pipes which are going through Belarus are going through dangerous terretoriy and Belarus might just cut Russian gas deliveres, which is essencial for EU energetic system, and it will be even more essencial since Germany plans to shift it's energy sources to gas (I tbh hate idea of gas power stations, i'm nuke&renewable team). You might ask why gas pipes are such important right now, it's great question, but highly propablable is that they want to force EU to use North Stream 2, this pipe isnt going through Ukraine or other countries, it will be going straight to Germany, and i cant tell why (at least previous government) Germany is pushing this pipe so much, i simply dont understand how in other than finacial way its good idea. It not only will be a great tool for forcing EU to anything by treating that they will cut gas deliveries, but it's also not going through ukraine or belarus which means that Russia will be able to cut gas deliveries to Ukraine, but still sell gas to EU. Not even mentioning that Lukashenko surely knows ways to transfer terrorists to EU. Passing migrants also would mean that we as a EU accept this act of creating humanitarian and political crisis as insignificant. In short, if terrorist(in this case Lukashenko) threatens you to pay, you just have to say no.
I'm pretty sure if they cut off gas supplies that would be considered an act of war and they'd be obliterated. No one wants that. It's just political sabre rattling. I hope.
@@cho4d Cutting gas has been previously by different countries and have yet to result in any wars. Reason is that we know the economic and social price that comes with war, cutting gas is always lower than that. So cutting gas is rather convinient way of extorting neighbours, at worst you'll get hit with another wave of sanctions...
Like imagine you are a leader of a country sanctioned by some big political union. Would you spend money of your own country to protect the borders of said poltical union? I will make it even easier. Imagine if Russia suddenly becomes dirty rich. All Africa suddenly decides to move to Russia. And Africans move through Poland towards Russia. Will Poland spend its money to protect Russia from all these waves of African migrants? Or will you let them pass? Or maybe you will ask Russia to pay you for protecting Russian border.
As i see it, for the last decades Lukashenko got used to play on both sides with Russia and EU, and so being friends with them, assumed that no one wold criticize him for his methods. When after elections he was publicly denounced by the west, he took it as a personal insult and all these happenings are elaborate schemes of revenge. In aspect of deteriorating relationships of Russia and EU, it was only logical for them to support this events as a card in the political game.
Gas pipe belongs to big brother, they won't dare to touch that.
"EU" does not equal "Europe". A country can leave the EU. It can't leave Europe.
Pretty much, though a lot of people seem to forget this. Europe is a continent, the EU is an organisation, that's a big difference. The EU prefers to try and make it seem like they themselves are Europe
The UK floated to North America.
well, tbf, some people thought that EU is just short name of EUrope
EU translates to EUrope the same as US to America...
@@adiirfan01 EU *can* be a short name for Europe, but it all depends on the context.
If you say EU, NA, SA, etc. then you’re talking about the continents, but if you say the UK left the EU, then is means European Union.
It would be smarter to use EU for Europe and E.U. for European Union, but people are lazy.
The problem with Belarus is the moment there's a revolution to overthrow Lukashenko then Russia will inevitably intervene. They will absolutely not let a democratic EU member form so close to Moscow. Ukraine is now invaded and it's one of the main reasons why. Very tough for Belarus people because it's the last ally of Russia to the west protecting them from direct conflict with nato and eu
Estonia and Lithuania and Latvia and even Poland are in Nato and have borders with Russia. So why belarus cant?
@@Pachupp85 Thise three aren’t as big of a threat because of the Kaliningrad Oblast.
Replying to Prog47 It is so sad that so many people have to suffer because some foul president wants power I can name 2 of them I in countries that have such nice people
There's no way they're pushing Luka out of power.
Hi It is about time the world decides to settle down Putin must accept hos losses and move on It was not the fault of the world That he could not look after his wife but his own So pay the price You want a nuclear war bring but understand we don't go alone as Russia will go with us so Putin nice knowing you and goodbye humanity Putin either that or shut the f***k up and go home as we will not leave this planet alone You will go with us GOODBYE
fascinating! nice segway at the end, although i do still seem to be accessing more of your videos on youtube rather than nebula..force if habit maybe?
Thank you for this video. As a Latvian, who literally borders the Belarus, this situation is concerning, but I have missed the parts where low-price tickets were introduced and Belarus media lied about easy entrance into EU. So it made no sense for me why aLkash was guilty of it. Now it makes perfect sense, thanks again
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
Lmao 69 likes xd
@@GL-iv4rw I honestly think most Russians would question the descendence from West. That would come as surprise for them. Certainly is for me, reading your comment, but I didn't and don't really care about it, but Russians can care.. I mean many of imperialist fanatics are still out there. They just want to be enemies with the West, they will never accept Western ideology, things like "dont be racist" or "don't be a homophobe". Let's just hope those fanatics die out soon
@Estonian Nationalist I'm surprised an Estonian nationalist would support Russia considering how many Baltic nationalists support the Forest Brothers and SS marches. But I agree with the notion that going against "Western values" is just being normal. The only civilization to be able to fight against it on equal terms is the Russian civilization (which is too weak to do so right now, and Putin wants us to be weak because he himself is a Westerner which will come as a shock to all the stupid liberals on this trash propaganda channel) but unfortunately for the Baltics, russophobia is rampant. Just look what your people did to the Bronze soldier.
@@timsonins ah yes, being forced to accept degenerate Western values is the pinnacle of Western tolerance.
Короче, спорить с тобой дегенератом не буду, лишь скажу "либераху поравло"))
Poland is under no obligation to take refugees after refugees. They recently took close to a hundred thousand refugees. BTW, one main reason many states don't want to take refugees especially from MEA is because of their rigid mindset.
They are not refugees they are economic migrants because they have the Belarusian visa I think
@@Steve-xy1il the Ukrainian ones
That's extremely racist to say that someone has a "rigid mind" jusr becase they aren't from the same region or religion as you are
I bit hypocritical to talk about somebody else being rigid minded with the statement that you made
@@anne.andromeda
1. Europe is not good at integrating people from the middle east. Call it racism or misunderstanding or whatever you want, that is a fact.
2. A majority of them would not want to give up their identities to join Europe - that counts as a rigid mindset. You might see that statement as racist, but it's the truth and unless you face that truth from the pragmatic perspective of how to actually deal with that dilemma, nobody is going to listen to you.
falsely promising desperate people is extremely cruel and immoral. thank you for shining light upon this cruelty and abuse of Belarusian government.
🇬🇧🇺🇸 will invade Belarus and destroy them
It's funny that Belarus in the past 3 months has become more notable for *not* attacking its neighbouring country. Not because of Lukashenko, but because of it's heroic railway workers, and probably a few generals saying 'No'.
As a Lithuania's citizen, that have Belarusian roots and had been in multiple cities of Belarus (I was there 7 times before Lithuania closed it's borders and have seen shit), you do have to know that the opposition only hold their positions in major cities such as Minsk, Gomel, Mogilev etc. In other small towns and villages there are majority of Lukashenko supporters. Not going deep in this situation, they really do hate all of the opposition's ideas and do hate Tihonovskis. What you see in the news, doesn't really show all the tragedy of this situation, because Belarus right now is basically devided in half and is close to a civil war, to something like Ukrainian Maidan. It can even occur to a global conflict, which would include Russia and western world and will probably destroy Belarus. Right now all of Eastern Europe is struggling and in fear.
@@AveryMarrow I'm not from Belarus, but i guess OP meant that protesters were beaten to submission in 2020 but they are still against Lukashenko and if in case of another "black swan" event occurs the protests would erupt once again.
There will be no civil war since Lukashenka's supporters are in majority 65+ years old and are not ready for any kind of conflict.
This said, I (a Belarusian who lives in Belarus) don't know a single person below 30 who supports the regime. It's just the soviet era people (not even all of them) and, well, the government forces.
@Serg M Putin is somewhat different in that regard. He is nowhere near as brutal as Lukashenko, at least in the eyes of the majority of population. And he still has some genuine support in every strata though their percentage is diminishing every year since his third therm in 2012.
@@neyte7313 Westners will humiliate you like hell after the dictatorship will fall. You think the western world is all milk and honey? Prepare for the worst.
The moment civil war happens in Belarus Putin will get involved Russia can't have the opposition winning and have another EU friendly nation in there borders.
I feel bad for that Belarussian and Russian passenger on Ryanair-4978, there was no bomb on the aeroplane, and they went to prison! i am Greek so I feel very sympathetic for those two.
You are Greek and that is the reason you feel sympathetic for them? Why does that matter that you are Greek?
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 because the flight started from Athens.
That's how cowards who hide in foreign lands and criticize other regimes should be captured.
@@arcsephiroth No, coward means something different. He is a Belarussian, he criticized his own country's regime, not others. It would not make difference if he would not even left Belarus, he would been captured anyway. Also, what about his Russian girlfriend? Lukashenko is the real coward if he is afraid of a blogger's GIRLFRIEND.
@@otapi nah coward is the reporter that hide and be keyboard warrior. Alaxander Lukenwateva is not a coward. He's a dictator and criminal probably. But not coward like this reporter and his gf
These migrants have passed many safe countries. Anyone who believes they are ‘seeking asylum’ instead of what they really are, economic migrants, are lost.
Not to mention, many of these people are from Bangladesh, and Pakistan and other countries that are not actively falling apart. They weren't even refugees when they left their home country, leaving aside the trips through multiple safe countries.
@@12SPASTIC12 Good point.
It doesn’t matter, what the government of Belarus is doing to these people is horrific.
I thought the video said most of them flew direct from the Middle East to Minsk, Belarus
@@xylyan well they should've quantified the risks before doing something so idiotic, serves these opportunists well.
Your a legend for putting the advertisement near the end
Why insist on going to Europe when they can enter nearer rich oil countries with similar cultures and religion where they don't have to constantly complain about the climate being too cold?
Job market. Most of the local oil rich states have high unemployment and few open jobs, sending wages down. Europe has a larger base of minimum low wage working and social programs to help families get a footing.
Agreed. Muslim culture is incompatible with Western culture. Go to a more prosperous Muslim country where you can practice your religion with others.
Free money and welfare benefits
@@oilersridersbluejays Arab middle eastern countries don’t like to let in immigrants because they don’t like poor people or maybe they don’t want them to bring liberal ideas so there people won’t rise up against them because you know they are monarchies, basically if your rich welcome if your poor get out
Just sayin
You should take them anyways, because most Europeans and North Americans don’t want them.
We have enough troubles with poverty here.
The transition from abused immigrants to cheap cell phone plans was ice cold. Now when I hear Ting mobile I think human rights abuse.
There's a time and place to segue and that was definitely not it.
Why do you Ting like that?
This is why I feel RLL should reserve sponsors for videos that don't talk about such controversial tragic things. But RLL is just a smaller infographic show, an easy cash grab with these annoying sponsors because they can't for the life of them manage finances anyway, so...
As ice cold as the impending winter where the refugees would spend nights outside?
lol
My grandpa is from Belarus , but he lives in Lithuania. Everytime I say bad things about Lukashenko, he doesn't want to believe, it's weird.
Ah yes my mother is from Mongolia and you know at first she thought Stalin was ok but now that I telled her what Stalin really is and what he has done to the people of Mongolia she hates him now yes she grew up in communist Mongolia so they say Stalin is glorious leader but ln reality he's bad
@@KristofKarwinskithegreat-se5pu Reality is whatever ppl want it to be unfortunately.
Because the truth is hard to bear when there is nothing that one can do about it, and double so when the person hearing it might have originally voted for the guy to begin with.
It's easier to believe it is all exaggerated than feel everything is hopeless.
@@aaronvarela89 goes both ways tho. Always keep it in mind
@@aaronvarela89 You confuse reality with perception of reality. Huge difference.
Great work Thank you
as a Latvian, i really wish i could help the situation. i hope everything gets better:(
Maybe Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Poland and
Ukraine will have to get
an Israeli-style border
fence to keep unwanted
people out? (No border
fence will stop an army)
@@here_we_go_again2571 not sure, but I hope not! this whole situation is just stupid :/
@@loonie137
I agree, it would be better for the rest of
Europe to be on good terms with Russia
and Belarus --- But being part of a larger
Europe is not something that Putin (or
Lukashenko) want -- At least if it is not
on their terms.
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
Why you didn't help in Balkan then?
I love how incompetent the country is at invasion, as they showed the world their invasion plan after Ukraine. As PKA said "He's surrounded by too many Yes Men"
Lmao least they are not rice farmers in a tree 🌴
@@drogonkarma yeah sure but I dont remember the rice farmers losing
I’m pretty sure Belarus never invaded Ukraine
@@luminousshard7875 Belarus is the real "little russia."
@@drogonkarma those rice farmers defeated the Mongols the Chinese the French and the Chinese...
Thank you Poland! Love from Norway 🇳🇴❤️🇵🇱
Poland have the correct immigration policies.
As a European, this is one of the most measured and informed videos about European politics from an American that I've seen. Well done! (Now you just need to learn how to pronounce Bela-ROOSE properly 😉)
It's a topic really more suited for foreign social media.
let him pronounce it how he wants
Was just thinking how to explain him the right pronunciation.
@@bjf9304 as a belarusian, i don't see this as propaganda
@@bjf9304 alr
Me: "Alright, gang. Let's see who this Lukashenko really is."
(Takes off costume)
Me: "Kim Jong-un?"
This was a great summary of what is going on in Belarus. It would be interesting if you did a video about the psychology/ideology of the people of Belarus. I have a personal theory that WWII was so traumatic in Eastern Europe that many Eastern Europeans value strict order over personal freedoms.
Communism was the biggest trauma especially if you are educated. I can guarantee you that.
@@БоянБогданов-ю6о prior to communism there already was strict Russian Tsars in no way better than communists.
Yet WWII was started by folks who fetishized strict order over personal freedoms.
@@sk-sm9sh Sure, but that applies to Russia. In Bulgaria the Tsars enjoyed popularity and rarely oppressed anyone with the exception of foreign organized communist terrorist groups.
I wonder how would you feel after end of WW II - betrayed and sold to the soviets
:)
Sorry if I'm mistaken but I understood from this video that Poland is unwelcoming to other nations and we are closed for imigrantns when it's not true. The imigrant crisis from 2015 that the autor mentioned was a lot harder to understand, lets just say that UE parliament sayed that they were mostly women and children refugees and in reality it was 70-80% young men looking for oportunity for easier lives. And even if Poland accepted them then they would just travel to germany or somewhere where thay would get more social money as unemployed. It was around 1,2m people and west europe didn't handle it too well bc they had different culture and didn't want to assimilate. But when real crisis appears Polish people are always open to help bc we know from our history what it's like to be in that sitation... For example I had 3 Chechnya refugees in my high school class (after Russia invaded them) and between 2014-2021 we welcomed more than 1m people from Ukraine without problems like they had in west europe with middle east imigrants (refugee camps, terrorist atacks etc).
And I'm not even gonna talk about last month since Russia invaded Ukraine because i guess that everyone should know that we are doing what we can to help Ukraine.
My favorite part about this crisis not mentioned in the video:
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EU: Take migrant back home or we will impose more sanctions on you
Lukashenko thinking Putin is his bestie: If you do that I will stop the gas supply going through Belarus from Russia to Europe
Putin: Lol no
EU: Imposes more sanctions
Lukashenko: :c
the short answer: poor dictatorship
But russia is actively reducing gas supply and electricity/gas prices are skyrocketing?
@@KushKushBlaze420 no EU is actively using more since the pandemic hit
@@Hhhh22222-w using more? No, but there is less supply, so the price is higher. My bill hasn't increased by more than 100% because I'm using more...
How to make accelerated decay of your country 104
Advanced 4-Dimensional Chess with your own country's reputability, economy, and face because yes.
Finally, a video on current political affairs and Belarus crysis! Like an icing on a cake for me as a Latvian! Thank you very much sir Real Life Lore! 👍💯❤️
*crisis
@Matthew Feldvari Yes, absolutely! 👍💯
@@Jonathon05 Thank you for correction, that's true.
@Matthew Feldvari Seriously, are you from Canada? I didn't know we ship them so far. 😄 Can you get them in a regular grocery store or some specialized place? And can you get different brands or there's just one?
Oh Poland, you just can’t catch a break
Yes Poland always get bullied
They get bullied because people think just because WW1 and WW2 happen. That they can do whatever they want to them.
@@aeroluckyagent3833 ye
Lukashenko: I’m about to do what’s called a “Pro gamer move”
Thank you for making a video which helps to understand the current situation better :)
😂🤣😅
Some dude in Belarus: Ah man I’ve got the Covid
The president: Drink vodka, slavs stronk, don’t die
One reminder for anyone from middle-east who would try to seek asylum in European countries.
Try to do it in embassy or at least with a help of proper humanitarian organization.
None EU government would allow you to enter one or another country without passport/visa. Not to mention that throwing stones or tree branches at border patrol guards won't help your case at all...
na stay in your own country
Don’t listen to him. Feel free to come.
Do you think all people who go through "refugee boats" to Greece or Italy have visa?
As if they'd read this
Or stay the f away and build up your own country. And if you do come maybe try to adapt to OUR culture and values unlike your fellow countrymen do
That was a pretty rough ad transition.
Let’s take the moment to appreciate how much effort RealLifeLore puts into his content for us. Great job
Lets take a moment to acknowledge how you have been putting this comment for many of rrl’s videos.
@@diamondwinner7504 why is that a bad thing? He's praising a channel he likes. He's a good penguin. 👍
@@danmcalester1716 Maybe they did mean it a negative way but they could have just as easily been complimenting their persistence.
Nobody here said anything was bad
maybe so but penguin has copy and pasted this comment on RLL’s videos 25 times. You sure this is just praise or a machine for likes?
@Praise Jesus, Repent or Likewise Perish 🔪✝️
Quality of your videos is so good :). Great work
Our governments don't support Poland, but our people do. Much support from Spain
Agreed, the same holds true for America!
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There was Corona? What was that again, can you make a Video about this Corona thing?
The transitions into advertisements at the end of each video on this channel are almost more impressive than the videos themselves.
You forgot the add that Kryscina Cimanouska was almost forcefully taken out of Japan. She had to ask Japanese police for intervention and protection. In Poland she leaves the house with bodyguards.
Orlen added her to their sponsored group...so she will be able to continue her career under Polish banner
I don't get why she chose to stay in a country so close to Belarus, she would have been better off in Germany where it's safer
@@-SP. Poland is safer than Germany at this point...
Hopefully Lukashenko's involvement with the invasion of Ukraine, and the likelihood of Belarus joining in with their own military, will give the EU and US enough grounds to sanction Belarus into oblivion, making it impossible for Lukashenko to hold onto power. Although, given how he has already welcomed the Russian military within his own borders, this could have the unintended consequence of just handing the country over to Russia. If Putin uh... expires within the next couple of years, the West could take the opportunity to topple Belarus' corrupt dictatorship with Russia distracted. Although, Lukashenko is old. It could be best to go easy on Belarus after the war in Ukraine, and place financial backing behind a potential democratic candidate to replace him when he passes away.
I kinda doubt that he'll go down before Putin, with Russia's support, even if there was a full scale revolution (as in French vs Monarchy style, with the vast majority of the population behind it), he'd almost certainly invade to prevent it from allying with NATO and the EU, and I doubt that the Belarusian population is large or well armed enough to take on the Russian military plus much of the Belarusian military and police (since dictators generally are pretty good at ensuring their army is loyal, and the police generally side with authoritarian regimes just about anywhere, see Hong Kong)
Horrible situation. Most caused by nassessity to keep NATO and the EU from creating a stronghold. The EU and NATO may not outright abuse their ppl but they are not exactly heroes either most of the conflicts in the Mideast and eastern Europe are a result of them wanting to corps to rule the world. The fight wars to ensure there Corp. backers get what they want and financially ruin anyone that don't take up there ways and the big one there corp. Banking system. Once they have no opposition they will have no problems with ruining the way of life of there own ppl to feed there greed. The USA has been seeing this over the last few decades as corporations dictate laws and policies across our nation. When your financial institutions become for profit corporations every will eventually become slaves to the corporations.
@@pulser08 wow, i completely misunderstood your comment... i thought you were talking in the dictators point of view
@@auroraourania7161 Putin isnt "going down". Hes going to win the war with Ukraine and they will make concessions and promise not to join NATO.
"Old"? He's 67.
i just wanting to know BUT HECK ITS SO DETAILED IT GAVE ME MORE THEN HISTORY CLASS WOW
While Germany may have one of the easiest asylum laws (which were A LOT less restrictive up to the 90s), you cannot say this about public opinion.
While in 2015, many citizens were pro refugees, this is no longer the case. There are ofc many reasons for this, but imo one of the main reasons is the feeling that many of those refugees mentioned are just wanting to go to Germany to get money and do nothing. And it certainly won't help that the ppl here just took a flight with their own money to Belarus to cross through Poland to Germany.
And 2015 has left (deep) scars across the political landscape that won't heal soon.
But that isn't the case tho, assuming refugees are over 1 million, majority will be sent back, Germany only aims to keep the best, giving them an opportunity to acquire or finish their education and participate in the German economy
The German government is efficient and they know which refugees are only there for money and which aren't, most of the homeless or unemployed people I see are still Germans btw, these refugees have more reasons to do well and get an income than German citizens
All of those so-called ref...... should be sent back to the middle east. Let them go to some rich Muslim countries, why are they coming to Europe?
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 It's because the "rich Muslim countries" are hostile or forbid the other side of their religion ie Sunni or Shia and the journey to these "rich Muslim countries" are as hard as the journey to Europe.
Refugees come to Europe for better carriers and better stability for their family to live so that they don't have to fear that their family will fall into danger.
@@ihazplawe2503 We don't need them and we are not obliged to accept them. My country is not accepting anyone of that ideology, and all countries around mine also don't accept them. They should go from whenever they came.
@@ozymandiasnullifidian5590 It's simple. The entire Arab world is a powder keg, where politicians use everything to destablize their neighbours and gain political influence. A powder keg both in terms of distinct cultures, languages and ethnicities, but also politics. In other words: they fight for more dominance. Since they mostly control wealth, they keep it for themselves. Secondly, migrating over there is too difficult as a complete outsider meaning refugees are less likely to get passports. Thirdly, many of those countries never signed treaties to take in refugees. They only give dictators or corrupt politicians refuge, like that Ben Ali guy from Tunisia who fled to Saudi. And lastly, unstable borders. Many governments in the Arab world care for their own safety meaning they know exactly there are deranged islamists who could hide in the other countries. The other corrupt countries could also recruit very insane individuals and send them over the border for proxy attacks, which is what Algeria does with it's neighbours. This happened alot in Morocco or Kuwait, which is why they mostly dont want nor trust those refugees (and why they also do a crack down on those). They literally have diplomatic tensions. You see, there is a big cultural difference between all themselves. Tunisians and Moroccans are more liberal than their conservative counterparts in the Middle East, which is also why Turkey doesnt want to take them in. Of course, they don't want to generalize. But they dont want to destablize their own population by letting in doctrinated people with so much right-wing islaminism. Morocco already deals with criminal lunatics ready to kill innocent people who also hide in homes of others. They would rather take Sub-Saharan refugees, who want to settle down and accept help from authorities and they do support those people.
I mean, if you are from the Arab speaking world, you are vastly culturally different with more liberal perspectives than the others and you know there are doctrinated lunatics on the other side, would you trust them? Me, as a Moroccan, I dont, which is why we avoid those toxic people. And Tunisians would say the same. I have nothing against refugees. However, they only need to intergrate. But we dont want crazy, hypocritical islamists. We already arrest many of them.
Great video! Only one quibble: the final "u" in Belarus is a long u; like "BelarOOs."
He also actually says Belaroosian as well. Wtf
Just a tiny thing on words that kinda hurts my ears sometimes - not every migrant is a refugee. Quite often those terms are used interchangeably, but they are not the same.
Just in terms of proportions, there's huge amount of migrants, and in comparison, just a tiny amount of true refugees.
exactly. when you are picking and choosing where you want to go you aren't a refugee. you are an economic migrant
Russia🇷🇺 and Belarus🇧🇾: 2 eggs/2 odd delinquents of the Slavic family (and the rest of the Indo-European macro-race) being traitors to their Western roots and siding with the Eastern world
Good job Poland, let's hope rest of the europe does the same
weird that this is what you took from this vid
@@lewis0705 what is wrong with stopping an invasion?
Respect from Ireland to Poland and its people.
they didnt handle it as well las lithuania and latvia but i guess we’re doing something ??
I bet the English hated it when the Irish leprechauns invaded after the potato famine
Only some little groups went to lit and lat. Poland is the epicenter
"He's often been described as Europe's final great dictator"
I don't know why, Putin is exactly the same as him...
But Putin has internet meme points and the right wing loves his homophobia and conservative views
Putin should just invade lmao
Putin is cool and epic
because russia is often not considered part of europe
Because Russia is both apart of Europe and Asia so we that’s why they say Belarus is the only dictator in Europe.
"europes last great dictator" putin would like a word...
He doesn't consider himself as Russian or European. I believe. Lol. Otherwise, 100% agree
@@anonymoususer9079 If putin is a dictator then so are western leaders. They've start more wars than Putin has.
@@Writeous0ne Yeah , you should probably look up the word "dictator" in a dictionary before stating dumb shit. A dictator isn't someone who starts wars precisely. It's how he leads his people.
“Europe’s final dictator”
Putin: “Am I a joke to you?”
Can we also talk about Turkey, who has also been employing the same techniques against EU with blackmailing and the same type of massive migrant invasions on the border with Greece? Can we hold Turkey at the same level of accountability as Russia and Belarus?
Well NATO destroyed their homes, so NATO countries should host them
@@noirekuroraigami2270 ummm, what homes did Nato destroyed, could you give a single example?....
You're not allowed to criticize Muslim people, only bash Christians please, including those "refugees", which basically means "I want free stuff people", but you're not allowed to say that about Muslim people.
@@noirekuroraigami2270 Bro you know that NATO only bombed yugoslavia in order to avoid an "ethnic cleansing" against the Albanian population of Kosovo. Maybe we should talk about how russia destroyed chechenya, transnitria - moldova, georgia, etc?
turkey is trying to join the eu...
Belarus is using tactics just like in world War II Germany would send civilians cross the borders to slow down the enemy but in this case Belarus is using that to their advantage
What event are you referring to in World War II? I never heard about that before.
@@anibuffo it was an integral aspect of blitzkrieg and was prominently seen in Belgium. Refugees fleeing the Germans clogged the roads and railways, leaving the French and British troops with no effective way to get to the front
@@catthecat2623 On the contrary it was not an integral aspect of blitzkrieg, it was a side effect. The Germans weren't arming the refugees and saying "go over to the western frontlines and slow down their advance enmasse" but they rather exploited the panic that caused that advance to slow down enmasse.
Stop lying to yourself belarus is surrounded by the nato American empire
Lukashenko is quite literally hitler lol, anti semittic remarks, forced rule and blitzkrieg
5:54 As far as I remember, Tsikhanouskaya didn't flee the country she was physically kicked out by the FSB/KGB agents. They tried to do the same to Maria Kalesnikava (you can see her at 3:19), but she managed to tear her passport into pieces before the agents could push her cross the border.
Uh what’s tearing her passport gonna do, she’s still recorded in the system
@@wardskidoedels512 Border guards won't let her pass without passport.
@@etodemerzel2627 So she’ll be stuck in between two countries who both don’t want her?
@@wardskidoedels512 No, the idea was to prevent KGB from forcing her to cross the border, as the other country wouldn't accept her. Which worked, KGB took her to a prison instead... She's been in prison for about 2 years now.
To clarify: there's a way to cross the border without passport, the person would have to request political asylum, the other country might agree to help. I heard some people managed to escape Belarus this way.
Good video, but your political bias is showing badly. Despite Poland's "bad policy",their actions on the borders were supported by the EU. And even if that wasn't the case, it's not simply a bad policy. Oversimplifying a nuanced topic for the sake of ideological convenience is a bad look
great video. another thing of note is that the intercepted flight going thorough Belarus was carrying a Lithuanian diplomat. so not only did they kidnap two citizens, but also did so to a government official of Lithuania
As a person from Białystok (a Polish city next Belorussian border) it's truly sad. Area and population of today's Belarus was once the core of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, some even argue that Belarus should be considered the successor of the Great Duchy along with Lithuania. Now it's (along with Russia) Poland's most hostile neighbor. The mustachio dictator even made remarks about Białystok and Wilno (Vilnius) being quintessentially Belorussian cities, but gracefully he won't wage war over them. I've met a few people from Belarus, and all of them have a nickname for him: karaluch - cockroach. It's sad, because Belorussians are the only people who were always kind to Poles, and were for the most part sympathetic towards Poland. But decades of soviet rule and 30 years of Lukashenko's reign have been devastating for Belarus. He should have been kicked out in 1994.
But Belostok is really belarusian. Check out linguistic map of belarusians by Jefim Karski
@@purpleelemental3955 by what possibile measure is Białystok "really belarusian" today?
@@rhrynq today a lot of things in our world are descendants of injustice just as assimilation of the belarusians there. Any state-ruled assimilation is evil. So that shall be fixed
We may be kind to you, even Batska is kind to people of Poland, and lets them enter Belarus VISA FREE. But as for you - you weren’t at all. Fascist Pilsudsky regime genocided Belarusians under the pretext that they were all “communists” and burned down their villages and seized livestock from the peasants. It’s all well documented. Next, Hanged-Polak Kalinovsky and his gang of rioters killed Belarusian Orthodox priests and peasants, torturing them brutally. That’s also documented, and his sayings about our native orthodox faith is also well documented (his quote about orthodoxy being “faith of the dogs”) Third, after WW2, in 1946 fascist criminal Romuald Rais and his gang genocided people and burned down Belarusian villages in Podlasie region while saying “Belarusians, your land is here, it’s just 2 meters deeper”. Today, the surviving Belarusians and Ukrainians identify as “Orthodox Poles” there, in fear of being oppressed or outright murdered again.
Don’t pretend you’re our friends. You’re our oppressors, and you should be greatful that we aren’t outright murdering your compatriots in Grodno region like you murdered ours in Belastok. (yes, it’s Belastok, not Białystok)
thanks for covering the current situation in Belarus. hopefully, the more people learn about it, the faster we can get rid of that insane murderer. Жыве Беларусь!
Poland doesn't have an anti-immigration stance, nor do we refuse any refugees.
We have an anti-illegal activity stance. There is a difference.
Current events prove this quite definitively...
You forgot to mention about 2 million Ukrainians Poland took since 2014 when Russia attacked them and lots of Chechen refugees some years earlier. You might have an issue with current Polish government, but don't paint Poles as bad people simply because they believe that proper way to enter the country is by using border crossing/port of entry, in other words, legally.
Anyone who isn't a western nation is painted bad by western media, Turkey took in about 4 million refugees, 4x that of Germany
The proper pass is being white?
@@guojunma9802*civilised
Thanks to the Polish heroes protecting the EU when no-one else would. ❤️
Yeah, and we will probably end up in the worst situation for this. We always do
Time to revive the concept of Intermarium. Neither Putin nor the bureaucrats at Brussels and Washington have your country's interests at heart. I don't care about Russophiles insisting about Ukraine being conquered by Russia simply because of similarities in faith and language (I'm speaking this as an Orthodox Christian myself)
Greetings from Poland to everyone, but especially to our Belarusian brothers and sisters, may you be free of the tyrant and leech on your people!
Czesć Polska. Its Belarusian with one s.
@@Name-t9fbd corrected.
That was a pretty weird transition to the ad. Seemed a bit heartless.