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#Bestof2021: It is not only the Americas: Michael Yon, international reporter @Michael_Yon #GreatMigration: Vilnius overrun with weaponized migrants

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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#Bestof2021: It is not only the Americas: Michael Yon, international reporter @Michael_Yon #GreatMigration: Vilnius overrun with weaponized migrants

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0:00.0

This is CBS I On The World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.5

This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Michael Jan.

0:17.4

Locals.com's backslash Michael Jan to watch his reporting. He is invilnious, the capital

0:22.2

of Lithuania, and the Baltic states along the Russian Federation Frontier. Not far from

0:30.1

Michael is the Belarus Frontier, Belarus led by the dictator Lukashenko, who has brutalized

0:36.9

his own people and treated the virus as something that you can answer with Asana and Vodka.

0:43.1

This man is not rational to our understanding. However, over these last weeks Michael has

0:48.8

discovered that Lukashenko and Belarus are weaponizing migrants, weaponizing migrants. We

0:56.3

have two headlines in these last days to illustrate. In the Washington Post, the AP report

1:01.4

from Vilnius by Ludas Dupkas, illegal border crossings in the Lithuania past 3000. Lithuania's

1:09.0

border guard service said it detained 171 people, called illegally, crossing from Belarus into

1:14.6

Lithuania on these last days, the largest number in any single day, 2021, and bringing

1:21.0

the total number of migrants to past 3000. In addition, a fresh headline that points to

1:29.0

the dangers implicit in this border crossing. This is the radio free Europe, radio free

1:36.2

liberty. Lukashenko orders probe after claiming Iraqi migrant died near Lithuanian

1:44.5

border. Alexander Lukashenko, the dictator, has ordered an investigation into the alleged

1:50.0

death of an Iraqi man near Belarus's increasingly tense border with Lithuania. The latest move

1:56.4

in a brewing crisis at the EU's previously poorest border with the increasingly isolated

2:03.2

post-Soviet state. Michael, you began with an investigation of the border between Belarus

2:09.7

and Lithuania, and you learned from authorities in Vilnius that the problem was growing

2:15.1

weeks ago, well, it's now reached international proportions. And this Iraqi man, in other

2:21.3

headlines, has said to have been murdered. I'm looking at the Moscow Times saying, murdered

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