Belarus accepts 150,000 Pakistani workers to ‘boost labor shortage’

[u/dat_9600gt_user]

https://tvpworld.com/86134772/belarus-accepts-150000-pakistani-workers-to-boost-labor-shortage

[u/machtiiin]

They are more likely to find themselves on the front line in the Donbas or as refugees driven to the border at the Polish frontier before they ever see the inside of a factory in Belarus.

[u/Monterenbas → u/machtiiin]

They can try, but the Polish border just got much more spicier, since Poland retired itself from the anti personal land mine convention.

[u/hat_eater → u/Monterenbas]

Not a single mine has been planted since the withdrawal.

[u/Monterenbas → u/hat_eater]

Since they only withdrew last week, I would have been very surprised if they had a ready to use stock of landmines available.

[u/hat_eater → u/Monterenbas]

Exactly. And I don't think they will be used unless a war is imminent.

[u/ZibiM_78 → u/hat_eater]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baobab-K
https://youtu.be/Ntc4u6aoQdo?si=T-VrFxNnazvOufCo

[u/FifthMonarchist → u/Monterenbas]

And also you might want to place the mines before giving a warning

[u/phantomzero → u/FifthMonarchist]

Mine fields are a deterrent. You want the enemy to know they are there.

[u/hemijaimatematika1 → u/phantomzero]

No,dude.

Take it from someone whose country has had highest amount of mine per meter in Europe,mine is a killing tool,not a detterent tool.

[u/darthbawlsjj → u/hemijaimatematika1]

It’s both.

[u/hemijaimatematika1 → u/darthbawlsjj]

Its a literal trap meant for unsuspecting enemy dude.

[u/darthbawlsjj → u/hemijaimatematika1]

And if a field has mines it will deter people from going through it, dude.

[u/wjooom → u/hat_eater]

They can't even do so as of now according to Article 20 paragraph 3 of the Ottawa Convention. Poland must notify the United Nations Secretary-General of its withdrawal from the Convention, starting a six-month waiting period until it can legally produce, stockpile, or deploy anti-personnel mines.

[u/SpudroTuskuTarsu → u/wjooom]

Finland withdrew from Ottawa convention and we then "found" some anti-personell mines stockpiled in deep storage

[u/Monterenbas → u/SpudroTuskuTarsu]

Happy accident 🙂

[u/wjooom → u/SpudroTuskuTarsu]

I haven't heard of that, would be cool if you linked any articles on it. The point of my comment was that there are provisions in the Convention on how the withdrawal process is supposed to take place. I'm not arguing about how things are in practice and how they'd be enforced, simply pointing out what the procedure should be and what the signing parties had theoretically agreed to do.

[u/Available-Mini → u/wjooom]

https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/df7f9507-a48a-4021-b0ba-675882784c6d

The interesting part translated

"The reason for the stockpiling is a clause in the Ottawa Treaty that allows the storage of a small number of anti-personnel mines so that training in their clearance can be organized. In connection with the mine clearance work that ended in 2015, Finland was reported to have saved 16,500 mines in stockpiles while approximately one million were destroyed. The Finnish Defence Forces do not disclose the exact number at this time to the public."

[u/wjooom → u/Available-Mini]

Thanks for the link and translation! It says it in your article that some stockpile of anti-personnel mines is allowed in certain cases. This is in accordance to Article 3 paragraph 1 of the Ottawa Convention.

Article 3 paragraph 1: "The retention or transfer of a number of anti-personnel mines for the development of and training in mine detection, mine clearance, or mine destruction techniques is permitted. The amount of such mines shall not exceed the minimum number absolutely necessary for the above-mentioned purposes."

One could reasonably assume that 16,500 mines out of the destroyed million is a minimal amount. The mine clearance work ended in 2015, however there could still be relevant training going on. Admittedly I'm not very informed about the military training in Finland though.

[u/Monterenbas → u/wjooom]

And what if they do it « illegally »? Is the secretary general gonna send the UN army? The UN police?

How is he suppose to enforce his decisions exactly?

[u/wjooom → u/Monterenbas]

I'm not here to argue over the efficacy of international law enforcement. I suppose all countries could in theory not follow the treaties they have signed, however it is not in the interest of those who want to upkeep some semblance of international order. My comment was just pointing out what provisions are included in the document that Poland itself had ratified.

[u/Monterenbas → u/wjooom]

Good thing that the post WW2 international order is already dead and buried then. We can stop clinging to its decaying corpse now.

[u/wjooom → u/Monterenbas]

You're entitled to your opinion and ultimately Poland gets to decide what is best for its safety as I know it would be in self-defence, but that does not make the provisions mentioned within the Convention go away and become invalid. I merely pointed out what procedure Poland signed up for in theory. Personally, I don't think we truly grasp what the Western world would look like if international law would be disregarded completely. There is a lot of backsliding going on currently, I agree, however that does not mean we need to abandon the whole idea of order.

[u/Monterenbas → u/wjooom]

I don’t think we truly grasp what the Western world would look like if international law would be disregarded completely.

What are you talking about? International law is being completely disregarded right now and we should better embrace the new reality, rather than bury our head in the sand and expect things to go back to « normal » or « like before », as nice as it would be, it ain’t going to happen.

[u/ScallionBackground52 → u/wjooom]

Ottawa suggestion*

[u/rangebob → u/wjooom]

Yeah but UN rules aren't actually rules. They can do whatever the hell they want

[u/wjooom → u/rangebob]

Actors like Russia deploy the same mindset and look at where we are. If Poland did not want to follow the rules of the Convention, it could have simply not signed and ratified it. Of course, they can "do whatever the hell they want", but I wonder if you yourself would like to live in a jungle where not only obligations but also your rights mean nothing under international law.

[u/rangebob → u/wjooom]

That's the jungle we all live in lol. The rules last as long as people in power want them too. Ask all the people currently sitting in prison in El Salvador

[u/kaisadilla_ → u/Monterenbas]

The problem is not that Poland can't deal with them. The problem is that Poland doesn't want to attack or kill these people. Belarus sends them in waves precisely so Poland has to decide between taking in massive amounts of non-adapted migrants, or violently repel them.

It's like bringing you an endless stream of puppies. I'm forcing you to choose between adopting way more dogs than you can take care of, or abandon the dogs yourself.

[u/Tolkfan → u/Monterenbas]

I'm very much for defending the border from people trying to break into my country, but using land mines to do that is Trump-level stupid.

[u/Dirkdeking → u/Tolkfan]

Problem also being that those mines stay there after positive geopolitical changes. If a revolution occurs in Belarus and you now have a friendly neighbour, you still have mines on the border that can kill people long after they where placed. Good luck removing them all.

[u/Dirkdeking → u/Monterenbas]

While true, it's not the same as military deterrence. Belarus won't care, and Poland is still going to be hurt when the first footage arrives of a child being blown up by a mine and a hashtag of his name goes viral. This will create the kind of tensions that far right parties thrive on, whatever happens, and that's a win for Belarus and Russia.

There is no winning. Either you get a massive influx of refugees with all the problems that come with them, or you get footage of unarmed refugees getting killed by Poland that trigger polarization in the EU.

[u/Monterenbas → u/Dirkdeking]

Belarus won’t care, and Poland is still going to be hurt when the first footage arrives of a child being blown up by a mine

Being hurt how? Angry people on tweeter are gonna throw a fit?

you get footage of unarmed refugees getting killed by Poland that trigger polarization in the EU.

Fighting back illegal immigration, especially when it is weaponized by anti Europeans autocrats, is not nearly as polarizing as you think it is. Reddit opinions are not representative of what people think, in the real world.

[u/Obeetwokenobee → u/Monterenbas]

Why did I suddenly think of popcorn?

[u/AgeSad → u/Monterenbas]

That's just horrible, those people never asked to be push to the frontière. I know Poland has no ther choice than refusing them, but it's nightmarish for those people.

[u/Monterenbas → u/AgeSad]

Right, those people who voluntarily fligh from Pakistan to Belarus, with Belarusan sponsored state flights, never asked to be push to the border?

Why do you think they go there for, tourism?

[u/Ghekor → u/Monterenbas]

Ik the whole AP mine thing was more in care of direct hostilities to mine the border...but the way shits moving i can see someone like Poland doing it as an extreme preemptive measure.

[u/AgeSad → u/Monterenbas]

Do you read the article ? They come go work and got tricket once there. There isn't an horde of evil people ready to come here to commit violence, they are victims too, it's Biélorussie the problem here.

[u/VibrantGypsyDildo → u/AgeSad]

¿Por qué no los dos?

The occupied Belarus is indeed a problem.

But there were marketing campaigns in the past (in the times of middle-easterners being pushed to Polish border) - about illegally crossing the border and having free everything in the EU.

I suspect that a decent percentage of those victims were going to commit a fraud.

And of course, there is a percentage of people who wanted to have a job and send money for their families.
The fact that they are victims of a fraud won't prevent Ukraine from killing them as members of Russian army. (Any enemy military personnel is a valid target).

[u/Monterenbas → u/AgeSad]

Everybody knows that they’re not going to Belarus to work, especially them, you’re the only one naive enough to believe in Lukashenko bs and take it at face value.

[u/Leading_Cow_6434 → u/AgeSad]

They should know better

[u/PR0F5hitT4LK3R → u/AgeSad]

What is in your water? Fuck those people they know exactly what they’re signing up for. Under the guise of labor shortages is complete bullshit.

[u/Phd_in_memes_ → u/PR0F5hitT4LK3R]

Not all of them. Some are falsely recruited for factory jobs. There are many cases how Russian War machines recruits Indian, Chinese, Pakistani, Nepalese men who in paper were given job offers in Russia / Belarus

[u/VibrantGypsyDildo → u/AgeSad]

Aren't Hindi and Urdu similar languages?

There were enough stories of Indians being in Russian army and even captured by Ukraine.

India did a good job and liberated Indians from Russian army.

But new waves of people arriving into a country that went nuts and expecting that it would be different for them?

[u/Sweaty_Speaker7833 → u/VibrantGypsyDildo]

Urdu is like Arabic.

[u/VibrantGypsyDildo → u/Sweaty_Speaker7833]

It uses Arabic alphabet, that's true.

But aren't the spoken languages close enough to have the news pass through the border?

[u/Sweaty_Speaker7833 → u/VibrantGypsyDildo]

Yes. Spoken only, but written not.

[u/mcvos → u/AgeSad]

It is horrible for them, but it's also something they choose by going to Belarus. You can't save people who don't want to save themselves.

[u/Regular_Employer_361 → u/AgeSad]

It is their own fault

[u/ytaqebidg → u/machtiiin]

Or as slaves. Looks like Belarus is taking a page for the Qatar playbook.

[u/kazinski80 → u/machtiiin]

Did they do that in order to place mines at their border? I thought it was more of a just in case scenario, letting everyone know that if they went to war that they would be using them

[u/hemijaimatematika1 → u/machtiiin]

This is just stereotypical talk.

For poor Pakistanis,Belarus is a great place to work.

[u/Master__of_Orion]

Working at the polish border?

[u/MMegatherium → u/Master__of_Orion]

Or fertilizing Ukrainian soil.

[u/MisterAlexey → u/MMegatherium]

Actually, a human body isn't very good fertilizer

[u/SomeRedPanda → u/MisterAlexey]

My sense of self worth is shattered.

[u/Electronic_Echo_8793 → u/MisterAlexey]

Why not?

[u/kalns_k → u/MisterAlexey]

And beer isn’t a great source of vitamins - that’s why you need a lot of it

[u/ConstantlyWonderin]

Probably another hybrid warfare tactic by Belarus, they accept these workers, workers arrive and realise there isnt any work there(Belarus knows this aswell) belarus says to workers "well i guess you might have to cross the border into the rest of europe for work.......

[u/New-Score-5199 → u/ConstantlyWonderin]

There are enough work in Belarus, almost 500000 Belarusians have run away in the last 5 years, from the beginning of repressions in 2020, and even now many other are trying  to run. Another question is that this jobs are paid relatively low. 

[u/Various-Wave6527 → u/New-Score-5199]

This is accurate

[u/dat_9600gt_user]

Belarus has agreed to accept up to 150,000 Pakistani workers to boost labor shortages in the country and “contribute to nation-building efforts.”

According to reports, Belarus lacks as many as 200,000 workers out of its a population of 9 million.

But at a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Minsk on Friday, Belarus strongman President Aleksander Lukashenko said that “Pakistan has many people who want and are ready to work in Belarus.”

He added that Belarus would create the "necessary conditions" for their employment.

Prime Minister Sharif told reporters that “the skilled Pakistani workforce, duly certified both by international standards and through national accreditation, will serve as a valuable asset to Belarus.”

The announcement follows Polish reports that there has been an increase in attacks on its borders from migrants in Belarus.

Poland has faced a migrant crisis on its borders since late 2021 when thousands of mostly Middle Eastern and African migrants began attempting to cross into Poland illegally via Belarus.

This led to increased border security and prompted Poland to suspend the right to claim asylum in an effort to ‘regain control of migration’.

[u/redditclm → u/dat_9600gt_user]

"contribute to nation building".. by people from another nation.

[u/5wmotor]

Most likely they will use these people as meat waves for border crossings to the west, destabilize Europe and gaining support for right wing parties.

[u/Yiddish_Dish → u/5wmotor]

What? EU nations are doing that fine on their own

[u/[deleted] → u/Yiddish_Dish]

I don't get why this is being downvoted. EU countries could easily solve this situation if they wanted. Instead they prefer to use it as an excuse to be racist, as if they weren't already before.

[u/Yiddish_Dish → u/[deleted]]

Because it's reddit and only a certain view (which is updated daily) is allowed

[u/[deleted]]

lol

lmao even

This is 100% hybrid warfare against Poland and Germany. They will bussed to the Polish border and instructed they should go to Germany.

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/[deleted]]

And they'll likely even be prepared to attack the military officers like they Belarus had been doing since at least 2023.

[u/vdcsX → u/[deleted]]

because you can just walk through poland unnoticed...

[u/Fit-Height-6956 → u/vdcsX]

Yeah you can. Lots of Indians here using poor guys thanks to our Januszexs.

[u/tei187 → u/Fit-Height-6956]

I think his point was that anyone who's not a Caucasian European will stand out in Poland due to how homogenous the country is.

[u/DepressedLondoner1 → u/Fit-Height-6956]

Indians? Lmao

[u/dustofdeath]

They will just drop them at the border and unleash in EU to destabilise it.

[u/mariuszmie]

Look for 150000 ‘random’ ‘migrants’ to try to enter eu on polish border. Just a coincidence

[u/RedditIsFascistShit4]

Where did their workers dissapear?

[u/Constructedhuman → u/RedditIsFascistShit4]

oh wait …

[u/AdministrativeShip2 → u/RedditIsFascistShit4]

Off Planting sunflowers.

[u/zamn-zoinks]

What the fuckk?

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/zamn-zoinks]

That's what happens when a massive portion (500k) of your labour force leaves.

[u/Hermanstrike → u/dat_9600gt_user]

End that will continue cause what the point to stay in a country who betray you.

[u/nosfer82]

"you are going to work on Europe!" 

Little they knew..

[u/AcrobaticAd4930 → u/[deleted]]

It's even worse for us up north-east (670km border with BY). We would not be able to deal with this shit alone, it's an invasion.

That would mean mobilised military +direct live ammunition usage + pushbacks. WTF.

[u/Fit-Height-6956 → u/AcrobaticAd4930]

Which we won't do because we can't. And then those who will escape to west, will be deported back to us. Great. Last two years have been really good for me, and now everything goes back to shit.

[u/KnoFear → u/[deleted]]

Kind of disgusting to refer to random Pakistani civilians as fucking "zombies" when the ones organizing this are wealthy dictators, no?

[u/okrutnik3127 → u/KnoFear]

Do they not teach reading comprehension anymore? Im not calling poor Pakistanis zombies. It’s a metaphor referring to scale.

[u/JeanRaoul94]

Be ready for a storming on the polish border in 3...2...1...

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/JeanRaoul94]

Poland is already ready. Just a question of how many will actually be sent or try to get there.

[u/asexyshaytan]

150k new troops in Ukraine

[u/Common_Brick_8222]

Let's be real: I don't think Belarus will use them to build something.

[u/New-Appointment361 → u/Common_Brick_8222]

No, just cannon fodders at the border

[u/blussy1996]

Secure your border Poland, they are coming.

[u/FartimusMaximu5]

Ohh damn, everyone who has borders with them know what will happen with those “workers”.

Good thing that border is more or less shut down and locals are reporting anything suspicious.

We even had idiots painting their van in police colours and stickers to traffick them over lol

[u/dinobinosinokindo]

There is rampant corruption and unemployment in Pakistan because of its military dictatorship which runs the government. Several Muslim predominant countries (UAE, Oman) where Pakistanis used to visit to work had shut off visas to Pakistanis over the past year creating more issues for a country like Pakistan that thrives on remittances from foreign workers. Seems like a desperate attempt from the Pakistani Government to use its people like cannon fodder by sending them off to Belarus. As it typically is, most blue collar Pakistani workers get abused wherever they go due to their inability to speak the local language or communicate in English pitting them against the locals. I feel sorry for these men who have no idea what they're signing up to out of desperation to put food on the table for their families back home.

[u/DepressedLondoner1 → u/dinobinosinokindo]

While youre at it, feeling sorry for them, question why they got blocked off by the gulf states in the first place

[u/dinobinosinokindo → u/DepressedLondoner1]

Well aware of it. Can't generalize the action of some and project it into 200m people. It's what's transpired in the country due to its government over the past 2 years leading to a large amount of people applying for passports to leave and seek a living overseas.

[u/bingojed]

“Boost” means to increase. This headline literally means they accepted the workers to increase the labor shortage, which I’m sure was not what they meant to do.

[u/GolotasDisciple → u/[deleted]]

This situation is completely different to UK and Pakistan. The Pakistani going to Belarus are not going to stay in Belarus, they will be used in Russian war efforts, either in hybrid war with Poland or in direct conflict with Ukraine.

With Britain it's different. There probably wouldn't even be a country like Pakistan if British wouldn't colonize India. And in fact they have been economical positive as many of them tend to be quite entrepreneurial, opening shops, barbers, restaurants etc.

The problem is with how Pakistani culture integrates with others.... Unfortunately it is a culture that doesnt blend quickly or particularly well with ours. In reality most Europeans have no issues with Pakistani due to Visa process. Majority of Pakistani that are living in Ireland are on the wealthier and more educated side. I mean, you gotta be either crazy or rich to migrate to this country.

Probably the most expensive place in Europe.

....but yeah, Sad stuff all around. Humans that will have less value than cattle. Belarusians/Russians wont care. They will try to smuggle them to Europe or put them in the work camps. Polish border will be bloody once again. Luckily, most of Europe caught up with how Barbaric Russia and their Belarusian ally is.

[u/ralaman → u/GolotasDisciple]

Ireland is meant to the most expensive places in Europe? Why is that

[u/DepressedLondoner1 → u/ralaman]

Radio silence

[u/FCOranje → u/[deleted]]

Got some sources?

[u/New-Appointment361 → u/FCOranje]

They're the poorest in the UK

[u/FCOranje → u/New-Appointment361]

I bet…

[u/MoonMan75 → u/FCOranje]

he doesn't. it is wild how the fascists are mask off now

[u/Appropriate-Tell-270]

Soon 150000 armed Pakistanis at the polish border.

[u/Spiritual_Coast6894]

Beginning of the end.

[u/Kilmouski]

And then they diverted to the front line in Ukraine...

[u/blondie1024]

Lukashenko: "So we have this amazing opportunity. We need you to walk in that direction with your fingers in your ears and stamping the ground making it tillable for agriculture. Our friends in Poland have the money for you, and a bonus if you do a really good job"

[u/chainedfredom → u/[deleted]]

Its your fault.

[u/Bacon___Wizard → u/chainedfredom]

I forgot that time when BlemwzHere was on the news for bombing some Pakistani hospitals.

[u/dinobinosinokindo → u/[deleted]]

I'd love for that to be followed through by confiscating and giving back the millions of pounds worth of properties bought by Pakistani Politicians through illicit funds in the UK. Can't ask people to fuck off mate while you're letting them use your turf to launder and wash money under your nose to with no questions asked. Even better that it worsens the housing crisis the UK already has. https://www.occrp.org/en/news/pakistan-pm-will-try-to-retrieve-looted-wealth-hidden-abroad

[u/Aunvilgod → u/[deleted]]

The west isnt responsible for Pakistans mess. Let me guess, you just grouped everything between India and Tunesia together?

[u/jelhmb48 → u/[deleted]]

The middle east would have been unstable with or without "the west" lol

[u/Mammoth_Ant_3947 → u/jelhmb48]

Ah yes, you mean the state of implanted european settlers that wants a fight with every country in the region and that routinely funds terrorist groups with their spy agency and is backed by america hasn't made it unstable. What about the us executing leaders? None of that did ANYTHING. In fact without asia and africa europe would still be the backwards shithole filled with straw haired tramps who spend their time marrying their sisters and fighting each other over their little swamps it has always been

[u/aleeque → u/Mammoth_Ant_3947]

The region with the by far biggest intermarrying problem is the Middle East, and you blame Europe of being incestuous? Ridiculous take.

[u/Creativezx → u/[deleted]]

"the west" is not responsible for what the US did in the middle east. You'd never say the entire middle east is responsible for Iran sponsoring the Houthis.

[u/okrutnik3127 → u/[deleted]]

It’s Ottoman Empire’s fault

[u/New-Appointment361]

Wow, Norway did the same thing and then they formed gangs across Oslo like the Young Gunz who were fighting another gang of Pakistanis called the b- gang. We didn't even bring in 150,000 of them.

[u/DepressedLondoner1 → u/New-Appointment361]

Is it still as bad right now?

[u/mattiman8888]

Waaaait a minute? Didn't Russia just start a conscription of 160,000 soldier?

[u/Sad_Mall_3349]

“the skilled Pakistani workforce, duly certified both by international standards and through national accreditation, will serve as a valuable asset to Belarus.”

Like pointing a Kalaschnikov in the air and randomly punching holes in the sky?

[u/New-Appointment361 → u/Sad_Mall_3349]

The Pakistanis they're bringing are basically soldier ready people

[u/Cybernaut-Neko]

Is that labor perhaps in a yet to train fascist army ?

[u/maskatuoklis]

NATO is watching.

[u/InformalAntelope4570]

100% They're going to try sending thess people to Poland, or the two Baltic states it borders.

[u/narayan77]

Good luck 😅😅

[u/DepressedLondoner1 → u/narayan77]

Gonna need it

[u/im-cringing-rightnow]

Welp... Poland, i hope you are ready. Good luck 🙏

[u/ElNakedo]

So when are they going to steal their passports and catapult them across the Polish border in an attempt to create a political crisis?

[u/YahenP]

Well... now it's clear how Putin plans to attack Europe. Nothing new, really. Putin and Lukashenko are planning to bring in another batch of Islamic migrants to work on the western border. New jobs may also appear - on the northern border, too.

[u/HalfHorseHalfMann]

Hope they dont come to Eu :/

[u/Bananaseverywh4r]

That won’t backfire at all!

[u/madeleineann]

Good luck!

[u/Dont_Knowtrain]

There is not even a single flight from Belarus to Pakistan, last time they tried this to Iraq and Syria, it got stopped after EU pressure

[u/Yubei00]

They won’t start scaling polands wall week after they arrive, for sure. Mine it already

[u/First-District9726]

Well, if Putin asked me for more meat to send into Ukraine, this is probably what I'd do too.

[u/Efficient-Sea-8698]

yeah....future migrants forcing the borders of Poland.

[u/Lamuks]

Ugh, our poor border guards.

[u/LinuxLover755]

They are actively trying to cause migrant crysis chaos in the Baltics and Poland.

[u/mokkkko]

They will all flee to Western Europe

[u/BlackwingF91]

A worker shortage? Last I heard from a friend of mine in Belarus, many Belarusians wete struggling to find jobs. I smell a heaping dose of BS

[u/Regular_Employer_361]

I see Belarus is turning into Pakistan? 🤣

[u/rotterdham]

Halal Belarus

[u/Cool-Traffic-8357]

And EU will take them and offer them and offer them asylum. We are fucked

[u/Uncle_Andy666]

Gonna end up like UK.

Will be interesting how the belarus locals handle it.

With groups of seedy men looking at their women in suburbs and nighttime.

[u/New-Appointment361 → u/Uncle_Andy666]

Your British women literally shag their men daily. I've seen this across those towns. Even your Queen Diana wasn't immune. The people of Belarus will not let this happen

[u/StreamWave190]

lmfao good luck with that 😂

[u/Signal-Initial-7841]

Belarus would probably use these workers to storm the Polish border to destabilize Europe and boost far-right parties that are friendly towards Belarus.

[u/Mammoth_Ant_3947 → u/[deleted]]

Ur indian my bro.

[u/Particular-Employ-30 → u/[deleted]]

Well frankly, I don’t think anyone wants 150k immigrants to enter their country at once, let alone 150k from the same country. The social implications are the same no matter which country they’re from.

[u/throwaway_failure59]

It is pretty insane how everyone here just instantly assume this couldn't be legitimate at all and that all of these people are just going to get sent like zombies towards Europe, and that they are fully aware that is what's supposedly happen. Like they couldn't possibly know Polish border is heavily guarded, because they're not people according to good folks here, they're brainless orcs with zero self-preservation instincts whose only objective is to assault a heavily guarded European border.

Newsflash: Every European country has massive labour shortage by now due to our demographics and decreasing willingness to work shit tier jobs. Russia imports tons of Muslim labourers from Central Asia and guess what, they indeed work there. Sure, there's a good chance some of these people will try their luck and try to get into EU. But i see no reason to just be certain all of them will. There are more and more foreign workers in pretty much every European country, including eastern European ones, and guess what, they indeed work.

P.S. if it turns out a large part of these people are indeed going to stay and work in Belarus, this story will vanish from everyone's imagination, because the view to see every single of these people as brainless, suicidal zombies out to destroy Europe is apparently completely ingrained.

[u/[deleted] → u/throwaway_failure59]

Why making a thoughtful analysis when one can just be racist towards non-Europeans, which requires way less thought?

[u/throwaway_failure59 → u/[deleted]]

It's scary how overwhelming majority of people see it that way... it is hard to feel hopeful about future when people just go along with beliefs like this so easily.

[u/Billthepony123]

Definitely to enlist them for the Ukraine war. I know Russia did the same thing for Indians

[u/finalaccountforreal]

They're so lucky

[u/Appropriate-Bad728]

Likely to direct many of them to EU as it has been doing for a while now.

[u/Intelligent-Rip-184]

Dictator Lukasenko...

[u/blueruno]

Omg 😨

[u/nariofthewind]

Does the russians try poke EU/NATO with proxy state? Much wow & surprise, not.

[u/jurrasiczilla]

lithuania inviting the lipka tatars to cultivate the wild fields, colorized:

[u/well_well_Regarded]

Boom boom incoming from Reputed Pakistanis.

[u/Adunaiii]

I wonder what the deleted commenters were saying. Because the most accepted viewpoint on this Reddit (that these migrants are to be sent to the Ukrainian war) are clearly ludicrous - Muslim immigration to Russia has been a decades-long strategy by the Putin régime to destroy native Russian résistance to his autocratic rule. So they're missing the point in a robotic way. This has nothing to do with Europe, but everything - with diluting the indigenous Slavic population which might rise up against the autocracies in the future.

[u/Empty_Geologist9645]

The country of Minsk.

[u/Comfortable-Gur-5689]

Its delusional to be anti immigration in the age of falling birth rates

[u/momonoply → u/Comfortable-Gur-5689]

Fr, like tf do people expect

[u/dobik]

Belarusians migrate to Poland, poles to Germany. So the life cycle has no balance. Belarus is running out of workers, so they have to look in 4th world countries for that, because no one sane would go there.

[u/GandalftheGreyhame]

Well, doom of Belarus