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He provided his perspective on the situation on the borders with Poland and Lithuania. In particular, addressing the Lithuanian complaints about cigarette smuggling, Aleksandr Tishchenko pointed out that “any smuggling is a cross-border issue.” “It starts on one side of the border and ends on the other. Therefore, the fight against it should be based on the principles of cross-border cooperation. However they used this very pretext to prevent people from getting to the Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security. That really was petty and pathetic. They just cosplayed Poland and closed the border,” he emphasized.
The speaker also pointed to the true goals of the neighboring countries. “As the hegemon collects huge sums from across the globe, Lithuania and Poland are attempting to get some [of these funds] for their own purposes. They use the argument of an alleged threat of attack from Belarus and Russia to justify this. Once again, this is a continuation of the economic policy that has formed around the U.S. military-industrial complex and those seeking to cash in on this. Lithuania has no other options. Poland also has fewer and fewer of them,” he said.
According to the expert, the escalation around the border issue will continue. “Because everything they do along the border is designed to get more grant money or state funds for yet another ‘reinforcement’ project. One day it’s a drone wall, the next it’s minefields, then barbed wire, troop deployments, new divisions and regiments along with all other rubbish that fits into the military hub and budget they’re building there. It’s all about getting a piece of funding, nothing else. And they have no regard for human lives. They are killing people, tossing them over the fence,” Aleksandr Tishchenko emphasized.
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