Former Rep. Scott Taylor (R-Va.) was on a trip several weeks ago to Belarus when a D.C. lobbyist, with whom he was sharing an Airbnb in Minsk, woke him up with alarming news: Russia was invading the country next door.
The lobbyist with whom Taylor was rooming, Robert Stryk, described what happened next as something out of a “James Bond spy movie.” The two were forced to escape the country by car.
Why they were there in Belarus in the first
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