Lukashenko’s migrant war on Europe

But its newest “crisis” is being felt on a different front: European Union member state Lithuania, where in late July the government said more than 2,400 people had crossed illegally in the two months prior.

This latest migration spike has apparently been abetted by the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko — an authoritarian known as Europe’s last dictator who is in the midst of a crackdown on dissidents in his own country after a disputed election last August. As the West issues sanctions and criticism in response to Belarus’s authoritarian crackdown and widespread arrests, it seems Lukashenko is seeking to undermine Europe by using migration as a political weapon.

This is a hard lesson for other democracies that might face the same struggle in the future.

Lithuania’s population of less than 3 million is roughly the same size as the US state of Kansas. It is among the smaller member states of the EU, yet it is…