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Confrontation in Eastern Europe

As Alyaksandr Lukashenka engineers a refugee crisis along the Belarus-Poland border and Russia builds up its military presence near Ukraine, the region is emerging as an acute flashpoint in a broader clash between the United States, the European Union, Russia, and Vladimir Putin’s allies.

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Belarus border crisis marks dangerous escalation in Putin’s hybrid war

by Oleksiy Goncharenko

As tensions on the EU border with Belarus escalate, Europe is waking up to the fact that the man responsible for the crisis is not Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka but his patron Vladimir Putin.

New Atlanticist

What if Russia invades Ukraine (again)? Consider these options for sanctions escalation.

by Brian O’Toole, Daniel Fried

Whatever Putin’s intentions, the Kremlin’s anti-Ukrainian propaganda has not been so loud since 2014. The United States and its allies need to respond in order to prevent a major military escalation at worst and at least blunt Putin’s effort to gain political advantage through intimidation.
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