Belarus

Belarus President Alex Lukashenko is working closely with Putin to make sure NATO does not expand into the Ukraine. Thousands of refugees from Africa and the Middle East are currently living in Belarus and Lukashenko is sending them across the border into Poland and Poland is not happy about this. When Poland complained Lukashendo threatened to cut off the natural gas supply to Europe. This is what many said would happen and that is the reason why the new Nord Stream pipeline from Russia should not have been sanctioned by the US.