"What I was commenting on was Beagles' embrace of the policy of a dictator who was not even following his own country's rule."
Uncle Ken seems to be confusing, or possibly conflating, Poland with Belarus. My research suggests that they are not the same thing:
Poland is a representative democracy, with a president as the head of state.[258][259] The government structure centers on the Council of Ministers, led by a prime minister. The president appoints the cabinet according to the proposals of the prime minister, typically from the majority coalition in the Sejm. The president is elected by popular vote every five years. The current president is Andrzej Duda and the prime minister is Mateusz Morawiecki.[260]
In a formal sense Belarus is a presidential republic enjoying a separation of powers, governed by a president and the National Assembly. In reality Belarus is an autocracy where power is concentrated in the hands of the president, elections are not free and judicial independence is weak.[117]
I think that Poland is reacting to an immigration crisis not unlike our own. While the refugees from Belarus might have good reason to seek asylum in Poland, their sheer numbers are overwhelming Poland's system and the Poles are trying to bring the situation under control. There has been some talk of Poland withdrawing from the EU if it insists on opposing this effort. If that happens, Poland will not be the first EU member to bail out over this issue, and probably not the last.
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