In this special podcast Two Steps East detective P. "Konrad" Smith interviews Dutch-American AFP photojournalist (and eye witness) Jaap Arriens about the current Belarussian-Polish border crisis, which has resulted in a tense standoff between border guards with refugees caught in no-man's land in-between. No less than 32 refugees and one cat have been stranded for 11 days as result of a Belarussian strategy to weaponize refugees and funnel them into the EU, but now the various letters of the law have created a diplomatic flap for all sides and a micro case study of the real suffering of very real people.
(Intro and outro music copyright Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff/all rights reserved).
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By Preston In this special podcast Two Steps East detective P. "Konrad" Smith interviews Dutch-American AFP photojournalist (and eye witness) Jaap Arriens about the current Belarussian-Polish border crisis, which has resulted in a tense standoff between border guards with refugees caught in no-man's land in-between. No less than 32 refugees and one cat have been stranded for 11 days as result of a Belarussian strategy to weaponize refugees and funnel them into the EU, but now the various letters of the law have created a diplomatic flap for all sides and a micro case study of the real suffering of very real people.
(Intro and outro music copyright Preston Smith and Marek Tymkoff/all rights reserved).