Which one of you had "Baltic states and Poland adopt Donald Trump's immigration policy" on your 2022 bingo card?

Whoever you are, congrats!

More than 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell, a new Iron Curtain is descending across Europe.

As Vladimir Putin's bitter assault on Ukraine continues, European countries have begun reinforcing their borders with Russia and its ally Belarus amid fears their territories could be flooded with migrants.

The tactic, which Western officials referred to as 'weaponised migration' and 'hybrid warfare', has been employed by both Russia and Belarus since well before the war in Ukraine began in February.

Fortifying that Russian border like:

This certainly does feel like something of a turning of the tide:

'The ''barbed wire curtain'' is now unfortunately becoming the reality for much of Europe,' said Klaus Dodds, a professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway, University of London.

'The optimism that we had in Europe after 1989 is very much now gone.'

All of Europe right now: