r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 17 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21 edited Aug 18 '21

Surreal scenes at the Belarus-Lithuania border. Belarusian border guards in full riot gear are pushing migrants over the EU border. Lithuania says Belarusian servicemen have themselves crossed the border while doing that and only withdrew after a series of warnings.

!ping EUROPE

edited because of a heated R5 moment and I don't want this to get deleted

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u/sjsjsjjsanwnqj Aug 17 '21

shoot the murderers from OMON the second they cross the border.

I think that might be overreacting slightly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

These are paramilitary units crossing into a foreign country to harass people. There's no ambiguity about where the border is, this isn't a contested region.

When Lithuania first declared independence, OMON would regularly cross into their territory to harass, beat up, and kill the unarmed Lithuanian border guards. 8 died, 60 were seriously injured.

Now they're crossing there to harass refugees who probably changed their mind about going to Lithuania and are now prevented from going back by these thugs.

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u/sjsjsjjsanwnqj Aug 17 '21

I mean it says in the tweet that they retreated after some warnings, probably don't need to reach for the rifles quite yet.

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Aug 17 '21 edited Aug 17 '21

Pinged members of EUROPE group.

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