Once the European Union accepted the premise that European states had a moral obligation to the world to take in “refugees,” it set itself up for the weaponization of the “refugee crisis.” Once these military-age young men, who for some reason left their families behind in the war zones they’re supposedly fleeing, do break into Europe, they’ll become loyal, stable, productive, patriotic citizens of their new lands, won’t they? Why, it would be “racist” to suspect any other outcome.
“PICTURES: Greek Border in Flames as Migrants Keep Trying to Break Through,” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, March 7, 2020:
Dramatic pictures and video are emerging of fires raging along the border between Greece and Turkey, as migrants — aided and even armed by the Turks, according to the Greeks — continue their efforts to force their way in.
The European Union, including the United Kingdom, funnelled billions of euros to the Islamist government in Ankara in an effort to persuade it to bring the migrant crisis under a modicum of control after hundreds of thousands of illegal border crossings, often by sea, in 2015-16.
That deal unravelled at the end of February 2020, as Turkish president Reep Tayyip Erdogan announced migrants were free to pass through his country and into Europe, seemingly as punishment for the West’s failure to offer sufficient support to his invasion of Syria, which has become fraught with danger as his forces clash with the Russian-backed Syrian government in Idlib province.
“Right now, let’s be honest, the [EU-Turkey] agreement [on migration] is dead,” said Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in an interview with CNN.
“And it’s dead because Turkey has decided to completely violate the agreement, because of what happened in Syria,” he added.
Prime Minister Mitsotakis accused the Turkish government of having “systematically assisted, both at land and at sea, people in their effort to cross into Greece,” but vowed that “Europe is not going to be blackmailed over this problem by Turkey.”…