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#UKRAINE: Poland deploys on the Belarus border. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol

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🗓️ 10 August 2023

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#UKRAINE: Poland deploys on the Belarus border. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/poland-send-2000-troops-reinforce-belarus-border-2023-08-09/



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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelors. You're Crane Conflict. I welcome Colonel

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Jeff McCawson, the United States Army, retired. CBS News visiting Professor Dickinson

0:15.5

and College CEO of Diamond Six Leadership and Strategy to comment on the variety of information

0:21.6

fog of war that we're getting not only from the battlefront, but from the region, the

0:26.8

European frontier with the Russian Federation. I begin with a report that is odd in the

0:32.4

extreme. Poland will send 2,000 troops to its frontier with Belarus, according to the

0:37.9

Deputy Interior Minister. Twice the number requested by the Border Guard to stem legal crossings

0:45.1

and maintain stability. Poland is worried increasingly about the border area since hundreds

0:50.6

of Wagner mercenaries arrived in Belarus last month at the invitation of President

0:57.5

Lukashenko. Belarus started military exercises near the border this week, and Lukashenko

1:02.8

said several times that he is restraining Wagner fighters who want to attack Poland. I

1:10.3

emphasize this because Wagner fighters is an exaggeration and flattery. These are killers.

1:17.3

They're cutthroats. They're monsters. What they do in Africa is crime after crime. They're

1:23.5

not combatants as we understand them. They're dressed like it. But some of them are genuine

1:29.5

critical criminals out of the jail. The fact that they've been deployed to Belarus near

1:34.9

the border suggests anything is possible. There is no wall here. Poland and Belarus have

1:41.5

not built a wall. There's no checkpoint as we understand it. Jeff, a very good evening

1:45.7

to you. The migration story from Belarus to Poland has been standing for a couple of

1:51.2

years deliberately so. Belarus using migrants as a weapon, forcing people that are flown

1:58.9

in to Minsk from the Middle East, from Iraq, from Kurdistan, showing them the border and

2:04.6

pushing them into the EU, burdening the Latvians, the Lithuanians next door and worrying the

2:11.2

Poles. Now there are thousands. We're told 8,000. Who knows? You know, the deception is

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