> Poland Begins Building Wall to Prevent Russia From Pushing Migrants Into
> Europe
> By Karolina Jeznach and Drew Hinshaw, Nov. 2, 2022, WSJ
>
> WARSAW-Polish army engineers began building a razor-wire fence across the
> country's 130-mile border with Russia, the latest country in Europe's east
> to construct such a barrier, in what Poland's government described as a bid
> to prevent Moscow from encouraging asylum seekers to cross overland into the
> European Union.

> The exclave's international airport will soon be accepting regular
> commercial flights from the Middle East, Mr. Blaszczak said.

There is / was nothing in the Russia's policies that might suggest
that Moscow might "encourage asylum seekers to cross into" Poland,
and the adventurous folks in the Middle East know well that Russia
is not a comfortable route for those who would seek to enter Europe
through Russia.

So on the Polish part it's a manifestive gesture. Such manifestive
gestures / claims, with an excessive dramatism and proudly emotional
exaggeration, is a known Polish style. Some times it looks comic.

The Polish politicians also often make dramatic and dubious claims
on Germany and other neighbors (eg. <https://archive.is/k6tJ0>), but
the mainstream Atlanticist outlets like WSJ love to rebroadcast the
Polish hysteroidity towards Russia selectively, they do not promote
similar Polish hysteroidity towards someone else, because the latter
wouldn't serve the common Atlanticist agenda, so the ignorant WSJ's
audience gets a one-sided impression.

It all smells bit like a banana-republicness, of course, which would
be true also for the Baltic states as well as for some other post-
communist east-European "tigers".

In the recent incident with the Kiev's stray missile that killed two
local Polish peasants, the Polish banana politicians were initially
enthusiastic to support "Russian attack" hoax (although it must have
been known from the very start whose the missile actually is), and
they had to pull back only after sobering shout from the US.

> Georgia, which has about a fifth of its territory under Russian occupation,
> has also been under domestic pressure to tighten restrictions at its border,
> after hundreds of thousands of Russian draft-age men fled Putin's
> mobilization orders.

"Hundreds of thousands" is an exaggerated figure, and, in general,
the picture is distorted by this WSJ's disinformation article. The
Georgians en masse are quite friendly toward the draft dodgers from
Russia, only some marginal domestic extremist groups there demand
"restrictions". Moreover, these Russians are bringing more economic
prosperity into Georgia. Recently, Georgia's central bank forecasted
<https://archive.is/nVem1> that their national economy will grow by
10% over the year, which is much higher than expected before. Because
of "migration flows", they say, and the only remarkable migration
flows there are the draft dodgers from Russia. Armenia's central bank
recently predicted <https://archive.is/QC8pO> their national annual
growth up to 13% as well, and they say directly it's because of the
immigrants from Russia.

> Poland's moves to seal off that border using water cannons, tear gas
> and a wall drew criticism from human-rights groups such as Amnesty
> International.

> At least 23 people have died trying to enter the EU from Belarus
> since the start of 2021, according to the United Nations International
> Organization for Migration.

Yes it's known that Poland doesn't want "people of color" within the
country, and the Polish police treat them badly, which became a known
intra-EU issue in the recent years (eg. <https://archive.is/DMDX8>).