THE 100 YEAR WAR: CONTINUING U.S. ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY RUSSIA

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The Beginning.  “I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me as President to declare war. I do not have to fight, and neither do the gentlemen on the Hill who now clamor for it. It is some poor farmer’s boy, or the son of some poor widow – who will have to do the fighting and dying.”  Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1913-1921.

Woodrow Wilson

So much for politicians’ lies.

Here’s the reality.  In July 1918, Peace-Loving Democrat Woodrow Wilson intervened in what was becoming the U.S.S.R.—against the Bolsheviks.  He marched 13,000 U.S. soldiers into the country:  5,000 men to Archangel and 8,000 to Vladivostok.  His intent?  To support the 70,000 fighting men of the Czechoslovak Legion, former war prisoners, who were combating the Communists in Siberia.  He also asserted that the Americans would aid the Russians with their own “self-government or self-defense.”  Wilson-speak for intervention in the on-going civil war on behalf of the White Russians battling the Red Russians.

But the Americans weren’t alone.  The British Empire was there as well:  more than 57,000 Tommies were fighting the Communists alongside nearly 5,000 Canadians. By the end of 1919, most foreign soldiers had left the newly-established Soviet union.

And Then.  At the end of World War II, the U.S. Army’s CounterIntelligence Corps began making contact with dissidents from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, an integral part of the Soviet Union, an area about the size of Texas, roughly 600,000 square kilometers/230,000 square miles.  These were not disgruntled people, dissatisfied with war-time changes.  They were Nazis, Nazi collaborators, as well as murderers, war criminals, and human rights violators.  Their leaders were Stepan Bandera and Mykola Lebed.  The Army later handed these people off to the Central Intelligence Agency (and its predecessors, the Office of Strategic Services, OSS, and the Strategic Services Unit, SSU).

Bandera was an uncompromising leader of the militant, terrorist branch of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), Bandera became a Nazi collaborator who lived with his deputies under German protection after World War II began.  In preparation for the attack on the U.S.S.R., the Nazis recruited Bandera’s followers to act as Ukrainian-speaking policemen and to serve in two Ukrainian volunteer army battalions.  By working with the Nazis, Bandera hoped to free the Ukraine from Soviet rule and establish his own government there.  An independent Ukraine, Bandera promised, would remain friendly to Germany.  Bandera’s people never disagreed with the Nazis’ Jewish policy there, which eventually killed over 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews.

On January 22, 2010 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko honored Stepan Bandera by posthumously bestowing on him the state honor, “Hero of the Ukraine.”

Stepan Bandera

Mykola Lebed was no statesman, either.  He was a close associate of Bandera and was his intelligence chief. Lebed had proposed “cleans[ing] the entire revolutionary territory of the Polish population,” so that a resurgent Polish state would not claim the Ukraine as in 1918. Ukrainians serving as auxiliary policemen for the Germans now joined the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).  “Bandera men [and Lebed’s] … are not discriminating about who they kill; they are gunning down the populations of entire villages.… Since there are hardly any Jews left to kill, the Bandera gangs have turned on the Poles. They are Collaborators literally hacking Poles to pieces. Every day … you can see the bodies of Poles, with wires around their necks, floating down the river Bug.” On a single day, July 11, 1943, the UPA attacked some 80 localities killing perhaps 10,000 Poles.

CIA handlers pointed to Lebed’s “cunning character,” his “relations with the Gestapo and … Gestapo training,” and that he was “a very ruthless operator.”  A CounterIntelligence Corps report from July 1947 cited sources that called Lebed a “well-known sadist and collaborator of the Germans.”

In the mid-1930s, Bandera and Lebed participated in the murder of the Polish Interior Minister Bronislaw Pieracki.  Tried and jailed, they escaped when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

Today, Ukrainian school children get their Nazism in class, where they sing a hymn to “Mother Ukraine and Father Bandera”.

Mykola Lebed

Enter the Lack of Intelligence Agency.  From 1946 to 1953, American intelligence, as part of Operation AERODYNAMIC, threw saboteurs from the ranks of extremists into the territory of the Soviet Ukraine, but, once on Soviet territory, most of the saboteurs disappeared without a trace. It turns out that the KGB knew about the operation and conducted a radio game with the CIA as part of the counter-operation “Link”.

Frank Wisner, who conceived and ran AERODYNAMIC, had been head of the Office of Policy Coordination (covert operations and the Clandestine Service), allegedly used his son’s shotgun to kill himself after many years of instability.  He had had a mental breakdown in 1958, retired in 1962, and died in 1965.  He coined the term Mighty Wurlitzer to describe the CIA’s propaganda machine.  (The Wurlitzer was a powerful organ used in theaters and concert halls to set the mood and influence people’s attitudes)

Fearing the increasing possibility of general war, the CIA decided to refuse armed support for Ukrainian nationalist, phasing out the aggressive actions of AERODYNAMIC.

Beginning in 1953 AERODYNAMIC began to operate through a Ukrainian study group under Lebed’s leadership in New York under CIA auspices, which collected Ukrainian literature and history and produced Ukrainian nationalist newspapers, bulletins, radio programming, and books for distribution in the Ukraine. In 1956 this group was formally incorporated as the non-profit Prolog Research and Publishing Association. It allowed the CIA to funnel funds as ostensible private donations without taxable footprints. To avoid nosey New York State authorities, the CIA turned Prolog into a for-profit enterprise called Prolog Research Corporation, which ostensibly received private contracts.

Prolog recruited and paid Ukrainian émigré writers who were generally unaware that they worked in a CIA-controlled operation.  These activities encouraged Ukrainian nationalism, strengthened Ukrainian resistance, and provided an alternative to Soviet media. In 1957 alone, with CIA support, Prolog broadcast 1,200 radio programs totaling 70 hours per month and distributed 200,000 newspapers and 5,000 pamphlets. In the years following, Prolog distributed books by nationalist Collaborators, Ukrainian writers and poets.

QR/PLUMB grew out of AERODYAMIC & QR/DYNAMIC (which had provided support for Prolog).  During the period of the active dissident movement in the Soviet Union, QRPLUMB conducted one of the most effective covert operations supported by the Agency. It provided material and moral support to active Ukrainian dissidents, established and maintained personal contact with many of their key leaders; exfiltrated numerous dissident samizdat works and published them abroad for publicity and especially for return infiltration into the Soviet Ukraine; publicized dissident causes in the free world (via publications, broadcasting, international conferences/fora); and conducted selected political actions targeted on the Soviet Ukraine.

And it Gets Better.  The next phase of the covert war against Russia, whether it was the Soviet state or the newer Russian Federation, was moving CIA officials into the Ukraine.  Prior to the 2014 coup, many very experienced ex-CIA officers visited the Ukraine to train local organizations and people as well as setting up special NGOs and funds.  Among them were Franklin D. Lindsay (Frank Wisner’s former deputy); Henry Crumpton (CIA, FBI, State Department Ambassador).  Other participants were the CIA Chief of Station in Kiev, Mark Davidson (now retired) and the MI6 Kiev Head of Station, Ian Lunt, awarded the OBE.  (He was later Head of Station in Moscow.)

As the Canadian newsmagazine Canadian Dimension noted, Ukraine’s political divisions exploded into the limelight with the Orange Revolution. In 2004, Western-backed civil society groups protested a presidential election in which Viktor Yanukovich officially garnered 49.4 percent of the second-round vote while his rival, Viktor Yushchenko, earned 46.7 percent. Two weeks of protests against the results spurred the Supreme Court to call for a rerun of the vote. In an article titled “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev,” The Guardian reported that the Orange Revolution was “an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing,” which included “US consultancies, pollsters, diplomats, the two big American parties and US non-government organisations.”  According to noted film director Oliver Stone, quoted in BuzzFeed, the CIA had laid the groundwork for the 2014 coup.  Stone compared the Maidan protests, which started in late 2013 as part of a backlash to Yanukovych’s pro-Russian, anti-European policies and eventually led to his overthrow, to protest incidents in Venezuela in 2002 and earlier this year. “Create enough chaos, as the CIA did in Iran ’53, Chile ’73, and countless other coups, and the legitimate Government can be toppled,” Stone wrote. “It’s America’s soft power technique called ‘Regime Change 101.'”

In Stone’s telling, the deal that Yanukovych agreed to that would keep him in power was tossed aside “when well-armed, neo-Nazi radicals forced Yanukovych to flee the country with repeated assassination attempts. By the next day, a new pro-Western government was established and immediately recognized by the US (as in the Chavez 2002 coup).”

Following that revolution, Covert Action Magazine stated “Censored reports from the Donbass in Eastern Ukraine, however, make [it] clear that the war was started eight years ago by Ukraine–after its legitimate government was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup (known as the Maidan revolution), and the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces voted to secede.”  Patrick Lancaster, a video journalist, “…posted [a tape] on March 10 [which] shows how people living on the edge of Donetsk, one kilometer from the Ukrainian position in Peski, have been subjected to constant shelling by the Ukrainian military over the last eight years and have had to survive living underground in bomb shelters…”

Continuing, Covert Action noted:

“According to Danya, a young man Lancaster interviewed, the Ukrainian army did not have exact targets but “just shoots and don’t care where it lands.

Another woman said that the targets that were hit “were not new targets. In 2014, they shelled here too. Exactly in this place. The same coordinates. Torturing us all these eight years.”

Fighting back tears, the woman continued: “They shoot and shoot and we still stay in our houses, with our children, with dogs…the children stay at home, in basements, running through broken windows, do not go to school, the whole day they sit at home. And I come from work now, I barely managed to work…how can we live in such conditions? It’s been war here since 2014 and we haven’t left. And there’s no end, and no truth from anybody. They shoot with no break. In the daytime, in the morning, in the night, in the evening with no stop.”

Lancaster was taken into a cellar where families had been living for the last eight years. A woman told him that her daughter had been born on June 26, 2014, and that the war began in her village on July 19. She has “now been sitting here for over 7 years without leaving, a real child of war.”

Prior to Russia’s 2022 de-Nazification efforts, the Ukrainian government had murdered roughly 14,000 ethnic Russians in the Donbass.  Manuel Ochsenreiter, the German journalist, prior to his mysterious death in Moscow, had reported extensively on Ukrainian actions in Lugansk and Donetsk.

The Proxy Wars.

Afghanistan.  In 1979, the Soviets supported the Communist government in Kabul, the capital.  The CIA advocated secret American backing for Afghans resisting this régime.  The boys in Langley sold the idea to President Jimmy Carter (D-Ga.) and his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.  The plan was to send weapons to the opposition through Pakistan using, inter alia, Saudi money.  Carter authorized $500,00 in “non-lethal aid” to the insurgents.  Brzezinski allegedly sent a note to the president asserting that this would provoke direct intervention by the U.S.S.R.  Things went downhill from there, with the Soviets marching into the country on December 24, 1979.  The intent was to replace an unmanageable but pro-U.S.S.R. government with a more flexible one.  Over the next few years, the first tranche of  $500,000 jumped to tens of millions of dollars and then to $3 billion in the 1980s.  Besides money, the U.S. government provided thousands of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.  Carter’s and his successor Ronald Reagan’s government also recruited and financed terrorists to fight the Soviet Union’s forces.  These later became the name-changing Al-Qaeda, rebranded later as ISIL or IS, also directed from Washington.

In 1986, the CIA and Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service began moving these fanatics across the Amu Darya River from Afghanistan into the Muslim Soviet Socialist Republics.  The goal was to sow fear and destruction throughout the U.S.S.R., hopefully splitting the country apart, thus eliminating Reagan’s “Evil Empire”.

But what was the cost?  Besides creating Islamic terrorism, Carter’s and Reagan’s actions, according to the Atlantic, resulted in an estimated one million civilians killed, as well as 90,000 Mujahideen fighters, 18,000 Afghan troops, and 14,500 Soviet soldiers.  Carefully manipulated international opinion condemned not the U.S. but the Soviet Union, leading to a boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics and an embargo on grain and high technology equipment sent to the U.S.S.R.

(For more detail, see Visas for Al Qaeda:  CIA Handouts That Rocked The World.  J. Michael Springmann; Daena Publications LLC; Washington, D.C. 2014.).

The Ukraine.  Again drawing from its successful playbook against the Soviet Union/Russian Federation, Washington, D.C. and its subservient European states, including NATO and European Union members, began supporting, politically and militarily, a series of Ukrainian governments increasingly hostile to Russia.  Ignoring the 14,000 dead Russians murdered in the Donbass, America and its puppet states loudly denounced the Russian Federation as repressive and repulsive, even accusing it of a Ukrainian crime, the shoot-down of a Malaysian airliner flying through hostile airspace.

Using NATO, the United States openly threatened Russia.  Despite a 1989 President George H.W. Bush pledge to Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist party, not to expand the Alliance “…one inch to the east”, nevertheless, the organization steadily advanced to the Russian frontier.  Now, in 2022, NATO stretches from the Baltic to the Balkans.  Member countries host many U.S. bases.  Additionally, Russia is ringed with many more American military centers.  U.S. warships routinely sail into or near Russian territorial waters while Yankee warplanes (and those of NATO countries, especially Britain) fly into Russian airspace.

NATO MEMBER FLAGS

Following NATO’s expansion and provocative air and naval incursions, along with years of Western training Ukrainian forces in service to a government that reveres Nazis and includes Nazi elements among its army, such as the Azov Battalion, Russia decided to cancel the threat.  In February 2022, it moved its air force and army into the Ukraine.

Predictably, the U.S., which had been opposing Russian-built gas pipelines into Europe, slapped economic, trade, and financial sanctions on the country.  America then pressured its European puppet states to do the same.  Unfortunately, they complied, triggering energy shortages and exploding inflation in countries already hard hit by the Yankee Covid-19 bioweapon.

Unfortunately for the master planners in the Biden Administration, this had no effect on the Russian economy.

However, it’s having an effect on the U.S. economy.  With rising unemployment, no national healthcare, falling housing starts, and galloping inflation, Biden’s $9 billion in military aid and another $50 billion in financial support are going down the drain to a lost cause.  The Europeans have ploughed nearly €16 billion into a failing state.

Worse, in an effort to shore up the Ukraine’s collapsing military, America and Europe are shipping heavy weapons from their own stocks to President Zelensky’s Nazified government.  This nonsense has reached the point where European and American armed forces are beginning to complain that their own military preparedness is being harmed. Still worse, are the fears that the armaments will not stay in the Ukraine but end up elsewhere, doing still more harm to peaceful states.  There are already press reports that these weapons are being sold on the black market.

Then there is the al-Qaeda precedent.  Zelensky has created an International Legion of Territorial Defense, supposedly recruiting 20,000 fighters from 52 countries, including from Israel’s IDF. Many of these have been illegally enlisted in the United States through its embassy on M Street N.W. in Washington, D.C.  Having sought out men with military experience or simply those with a will to fight, will Zelensky keep them in the Ukraine with offers of land and funds?  Or will these mercenaries move on to the next conflict?  Or will they, having been combat-hardened, be used by the Americans to ignite a war somewhere else?

Finally, what of the gentlemen of the press?  They have been cheerleading the war against the Russian federation, just as they did in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, and Libya.  Newspapers, magazines, radio, and television shamefully and shamelessly promote the absolutely insane concept that the Ukraine is winning the war against Russia which the U.S. had provoked.  In Europe, the Russian news network RT is banned in Britain and Germany.  Facebook and Twitter keep up the charade, with Twitter banning Russian comments questioning the origin of the Covid bioweapon.

Does this prove that Operation Mockingbird, the CIA’s 1950s-era program to manipulate the American news media and its reporters with planted stories and pressure to print them, is still running?

And none of the presstitutes question the concept that a deliberate, coordinated attack on Russia might well result in nuclear war, annihilating the planet.  Already, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has placed the hands of the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to Midnight.  They were never that close, even in the first Cold War.

But, in the end, it is the Ukraine which will pay the heaviest price.  While American soldiers are operating there and British special forces are protecting the irrational Zelensky, the country is being destroyed.  Its cities and infrastructure are in ruins, all because the Yankees want to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.

 

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the American-created alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab and Russian news programs.

He is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, the country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that it’s government is Nazified.

 

 

 

 

 

MILLIONS OF MARCHING MIGRANTS–A VIEW OF THEIR GREEK BEGINNINGS (AND UNSAVORY CONNECTIONS)

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As told to us by a Reliable Source
J. Michael Springmann

The Beginning.

As the author noted in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, Greece “has been the main focus for migrants. Swarming out of Turkey, thousands of settlers made for the Hellene islands. In January and February of 2016 alone, more than 120,000 alleged asylum seekers poured into the Peloponnese and nearby isles…”
As soon as the tsunami started in 2015, mirabile dictu, newly-invented NGOs “suddenly” appeared on Lesvos, Chios, Kos, and other Greek islands. These mysterious organizations then did something entirely inexplicable: they immediately dismissed all the aid workers who had been helping the genuine refugees. Moreover, almost NONE of these NGOs had Arabic or French speakers on staff. (N.B., French is a tongue widely used in the Middle East.) Yet, all spoke English, a language which only educated people in Southwest Asia understand.
Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? frequently alludes to questionable outside forces helping to promote the migrant wave. The book discusses involvement of the European Union (EU), Germany, and Israel, among others. Our interlocutor added some more pieces to the jigsaw puzzle, helping add some clarity to the picture.

Outside Influence.

In Greece, the start of the migrant flood coincided with the election of Alexis Tsipras as Greek prime minister in January 2015. A man who had campaigned on Greek sovereignty and resistance to outside pressure, Tsipras acceded to the harsh economic austerity measures which the EU, Germany, and the International Monetary Fund laid down in July 2015. This was followed by, our interlocutor said, a U.S.-imposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Israel. According to the Jerusalem Post, the SOFA ” offers legal defense to both militaries while training in the other’s country.” Voltaire.net noted that Greece has a similar arrangement with only one other country, the United States. As the author was told, this threw 70 years of Greek support for Palestinians and that country’s status as a trusted 3rd party in the Middle East-North Africa region (MENA) out the window. Israel has been training in Cyprus, most likely the part which Greek Cypriots control. Additionally, our contact said the Israeli air force immediately took over the Kasteli air force base in Crete. The Jerusalem Post wrote that Israeli warplanes, in a test, staged mock attacks against the Russian S-300 anti-missile system installed on the Greek island of Crete. Moreover, the author was told, Greek navy ships are now under German control and mostly lie idle in harbor, while NATO and Frontex vessels (European border and coast guard agency) cruise Hellenic waters. Deutsche Welle, the German international broadcaster, reports that German “humanitarian” vessels help bring more migrants into Europe. Isn’t there a link?

How Do The Migrants Make It?

On Lesvos, one of the two or three beaches they regularly land on, is close to our contact’s house. Nearly every night (it was most often night) boats full of aliens would arrive, everyone would disembark, and then destroy the boats, rendering them “shipwrecked” under the law of the sea. After changing clothes, the migrants would follow their mobile phone instructions and march into Mytilini port. No one had to give directions, they knew the way. Despite the tragic photos circulated by the media at the time, most of these “refugees”/migrants looked healthy, were fit, and were even well-dressed. (Meanwhile, enterprising old men waited on the beach to collect the abandoned engines and, in some cases, the inflatables, for re-sale. Greece is now flooded with powerful outboard engines.)

Here’s A Few Questions

WHO provided this endless supply of engines? This endless supply of inflatables? (now in six figures). NOT “smugglers” because smugglers return WITH their boats.
Moreover, why is Greece regularly castigated for keeping the migrants in tents at “hot spots”. (These are, according to Human Rights Watch, violence-prone “centers…[originally] established for the reception, identification, and processing of asylum seekers and migrants.”) The Greek government, our interlocutor commented, makes no protest and takes the abuse like a “good bunny”. In fact, the hot spots are closed NGO-territory-only and the Greek government, including police and firemen, cannot enter unless invited. It is the wealthy, fake NGOs that keep migrants in worthless tents, eating disgusting meals at €7 (about US$8.50) a meal, while Greek street charities (particularly the Orthodox church) dish out healthy, fresh meals with a liter of water per person at €0.35 cents (US$0.40) a serving. (It was clear from the start that a lot of EU people and businesses – not necessarily Greek – have made a fortune from this, at the expense of EU taxpayers.)

And does child and organ trafficking take place at these camps? So many children are unaccounted for, and there is no way for anyone to monitor boats going in and out of the camps.
Another question: would a parent, surviving in a Turkish refugee camp, send an 8-year old child off to Europe ALONE “in hope of a better life”? (This is the shopworn story told in Europe and the U.S.) Well, as our contact said, “I am a parent. My answer to that is ‘Never! We stick together! Ok…some parents may have sold these children at their point of origin, but….. Greeks and MENA people are fanatically family-minded.'”

Politics and Money. Increasing Questions.

Continuing, our interlocutor analyzed Germany’s internal politics and delved into the vast sums of money going to the migrants, raising more questions.
Thoroughly drubbed in last year’s elections, to save themselves politically, German chancellor Merkel’s CDU and the Socialist Party of Germany (SPD), headed by Martin Shulz, have announced that Germany’s rejected migrants will be sent back to their point-of-origin, such as Greece and Italy, thus reviving the Dublin Treaty. (Under the Dublin accords, asylum-seekers must apply for that status in the first EU country reached.) Our source noted that, despite EU claims, until last year Greece received no money for the migrants. (After these are released from the “hot spots”, they go to Greek army barracks where they are housed in [personally-observed]spare but humane and well organized conditions.). Now, our contact asserts that Greece has received several million Euros to house migrants rent-free in fully equipped and furnished apartments in Athens, Thessaloniki, and elsewhere around the country.
One of these apartments is in our interlocutor’s building, in a “good” part of central Athens, next to the Hilton. The flat is larger than our contact’s and has everything: a washing machine, air conditioning, etc. Utilities are paid for. Medical care is free. Food is delivered twice weekly from UNRWA, plus a small sum of spending money (which UNRWA always tries to make smaller). Supposedly these are temporary accommodations, just for three months, but the last group spent 10 months there before decamping for Thessaloniki where they found jobs. (WHAT jobs? At what pay?) And an additional question, how is the UN Relief and Works Agency, tied to Palestinian aid, involved in this?
This is at a time when half of Greek families are surviving on one grandparent’s pension, more than half have no access to medical care, when many Greeks have no electricity, and too many are homeless. Half have no jobs (with 67% of the youth being unemployed). The old economy overwhelmingly consisted of tiny private sector family businesses).
And, Finally, One More Question
The rape reports which started coming out of Germany and Sweden during the past years puzzled most Greeks because – except for a very few incidents – NOTHING like that happened there. So it was only now, this past Christmas, that in Lesvos these things began taking place.
As the author commented in Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?, migrant attacks on women appeared carefully coordinated, likely using their ubiquitous and expensive cell phones. Will that be repeated now in Greece?
Look at this.
Things seem to be replicating themselves. Here’s some news from Lesvos, our source said, from friends returning to Athens after Christmas holidays:
Around 100 migrants were arriving every day by boat, and sometimes several boats a day. Instead of landing on the usual beaches, they were arriving directly at the port of Mytilini because of the weather. Supposedly, smugglers brought them BUT, no “smugglers” were arrested, and the boats would return to Turkey right away.
All of the migrants were men: no women, no grannies, no children. They were all about 35-40 and spoke English. As they were led through the town, they would pop into cafes and bars and talk to the girls: “‘Hey beautiful, shall we drink something together?” without their minders stopping them. Three girls living in the city center said that every time they went out, they were being hit on.
Is this really post-traumatic stress disorder? Is it really a culture clash? Or is it an effort to change Europe’s way of life? Is this happening because journalists are not doing their job?
Our contact asked how NOT ONE journalist worldwide made even one tiny day trip to the Turkish side of the sea from mid-2015 onward….not one person in the whole world, it seemed, had even one drop of curiosity about the “smugglers”. It wasn’t as if the two-hour commuter ferry Ayvalik-Mytilini had stopped running. And, speaking of that ferry, that is how the real migrants before 2015 used to arrive, WITH their passports.

And Finally…

According to the U.S. Department of State, “Geoffrey R. Pyatt, a career member of the Foreign Service, class of Career Minister, was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic in September 2016.
`He served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine from 2013-2016, receiving the State Department’s Robert Frasure Memorial Award in recognition of his commitment to peace and alleviation of human suffering in eastern Ukraine.”
The lack of peace and appearance of human suffering in the Ukraine came from the Obama Administration’s policies, formulated and implemented both by Pyatt and Victoria Nuland, former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs.
Is there a U.S. plan for Greece to match that for the Ukraine?

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Caught Between Iraq and a Hard Place

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“Uncle Joe” Stalin once said that “one death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.”  At a conservative estimate, Iraqis form 1 million statistics as the result of the most recent U.S. war of aggression, begun in March 2003.  This number excludes the 500,000 children buried because of American restrictions on Iraqi imports of medicine and food between 1991 and 2003, a number former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright deemed “worth it”.  It also excludes the nearly 2 million adults who also did not survive those draconian “sanctions” during that same period.

But what of those who survived the sanctions, the bombed-out housing, the devastated water-treatment facilities, the wrecked power plants, the collapsed bridges, and the wiped-out roads? The people who survived the “rules of engagement” devised by the War Department in peaceful Washington, D.C.? You know, the families whose front doors were kicked in by the new Crusaders, ready, willing, and able to shoot anyone whose looks they did not like?

Well, there are roughly 2 million of these who fled such situations, who have been forced out of their homes (or what’s left of their homes), to seek shelter and sustenance, where and when and however they might find them.  And those are the ones still in Iraq.

There are also an estimated 2 million more who navigated the radioactive, poisonous, depleted uranium dust from expended U.S. munitions and found refuge in neighboring countries, lands such as Syria, denounced by the United States and Israel as supporting terrorism, and Lebanon, a country devastated and destabilized by American and Israeli pressures and policies.  Unlike Israel and America, Syria, bleeding Lebanon, and nearby Jordan are poor countries, short of water, food, and resources, barely able to feed and shelter their own people.

Iraq once numbered about 25 million inhabitants.  The approximately 4 million “internally displaced” and “refugees” together comprise about 15% of the population.  The ones abroad are mostly members of what was once the Arab world’s most educated and populous middle class, the very people needed in any country for stability and growth, the very people that a devastated Iraq cannot afford to lose.

American policy towards Iraq has been equal-opportunity terrorism: the 2 million Chaldean Catholics, Muslim Shii, Muslim Sunni, and others, all left because of fear: fear of death from above, fear of death threats, fear of murder, fear of kidnappings.   They also feared religious violence engendered by U.S.-sponsored militias, U.S.-backed sects of one kind or another–or of American-sponsored death squads designed to trigger Hatfield/McCoy-style internecine violence.

This is an unfortunately familiar pattern. The American South saw it during the War Between the States.  Germany and Japan saw it during the 1939 war.  It is a pattern designed to dehouse, deculturalize, destabillize, and destroy a country and its people.  In this case, it is a country and a people who invented the wheel, who invented writing, who invented accountable government.  Iraq is a country and a people with 5,000 years of recorded history behind them, a history reduced to dust and ashes, like the Mesopotamian treasures of the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.

That’s the general.  Here’s the specific.

One Story

Our interlocutor is an Iraqi refugee who knows first hand how badly things have gone wrong.  To save herself, she managed to make it out of the Black Land, first to Jordan, then the United States.  For our contact’s safety and the safety of her family, still at the mercy of unknown and unknowable death squads, she will remain nameless. She can tell you, though, that she is educated with a university degree in linguistics and a certificate as an English translator.  She is Arab, she is Muslim, she is the daughter of a Sunni and a Shii.

After the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, in violation of the federal Constitution and the Law of Nations, our contact told us that it was a common practice for mysterious people to turn up at the doors of Iraqi houses and “ask” the inhabitants to leave. Then, typically, a strange family would move in, taking ownership and control of the original owner’s effects. No one knew who these people were, no one knew who had done the asking. In fact, no one wanted to know, it was far too dangerous to ask awkward questions.  The police or what was left of the authorities, once the Americans and their Coalition Provisional Government had dissolved the civil power, simply stood by and did nothing to help those forced out of their homes.

These involuntary “donors” became the Displaced.  They had to stay in Iraq because they had no money to leave the country, they had no funds to bribe local officials in nearby Jordan to permit their entry if they did. They were not allowed to work in Jordan because they could not get permanent residence, although, if you had the equivalent of US$150,000 to put at the disposal of the Jordanian government, you could stay in the Hashemite Kingdom.

If, somehow, you got to Jordan, you couldn’t afford a place to live because you were not allowed to work.  And you also couldn’t afford medicine or a doctor.  Our interlocutor, reliant on saved funds, was sick for two months because she didn’t have the equivalent of US$40 for antibiotic injections.  She recovered only when an Iraqi doctor in Jordan managed to get some medicine from the local hospital for her.

If you, like our translator, made it to the Hashemite Kingdom, created as the result of British policy towards its League of Nations mandate in the 1920s, you had to leave every three months to renew your temporary residence.  This exposed you to murder, rape, and other violence along the road during the 10-hour trip to Iraq.   Unlike I-95 in the United States, this thoroughfare was laid out in the middle of nowhere.  The return was equally bad, with the traveler still a moving target. And, at the Jordanian frontier, there was an added “fillip”: the border guards demanded a US$500 bribe to admit you.

If you were fortunate and had the money, all you usually had to contend with was harsh looks by the men with the keys to the Kingdom.  If, like our interlocutor, you were unfortunate, you could be sent back with no explanation to try again, making a fruitless 20-hour round-trip.  She endured this three times.  On some occasions, if Fortuna smiled, you could pay the bribe in US$100 installments–on top of what you shelled out for food and rent.  Then, there was the “required” US$50 blood test also demanded for admittance (something the U.S. Department of Homeland Insecurity has not yet discovered.)

Our contact did this for two and a half years.

And what did she trade for her life? It wasn’t a mess of pottage.

In a peaceful Middle East, there is less stress and a lower cost of living, along with familial and community support for individuals.  Here, in the World’s Only Remaining Superpower, there are shoddily-built houses, high taxes, complicated licensing laws, and a lawsuit to remedy every imagined slight. There is also out-of-control Capitalism, with banksters firmly in control of society, turning the American dream into the American nightmare–for profit.

If you’re an Iraqi refugee and get to the United States, we were told that the federal government provides you with four months of support.  During that time, you must become fluent in the King’s English, find a job, obtain a place to live, get a driver’s license, buy a car, and…and…and…  Some people, caught between a rock and hard place, have gone back to Iraq, to the war without end, and, with the unknown and unknowable killers, to a life that is nasty, brutish, and short.  If you’re an American citizen and lose your job, as far too many have recently done, it’s hard enough to find a new position.  What’s it like for the Iraqi who no speaka da English and who hasn’t a clue as to how to start electricity service in his apartment?  If the refugee does get a job, he’s the last hired and the first fired.  And he still must pay the rent and the electric bill and the gas bill, and the water bill–if he’s fortunate and someone or some organization helps him navigate the unfamiliar bureaucracy, by no means a certainty.

Our contact told us that she wanted to tell part of her story because she’s tired:

of linking herself to the Americans
of the repercussions of that relationship
of being alone
of not having her own space
of not having any connection to other people, even if it’s only sharing meals
of being separated from her family
of not having her own family
of leaving Iraq and never being able to go back.
Working for the United States in Iraq, 12 to 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for $450 a month helped keep food on the table but also left her and her family open to death threats and ruined her reputation. After all, no good Arab girl spends such an amount of time with strange men, particularly soldiers.  Even in the U.S., the Iraqi community looks askance at such a history and at a woman living alone–so she stays away from her fellow countrymen and their gossip, intensifying her anomie.

A Second, Related Story

Another Iraqi refugee, a man, told an all-too similar tale.  He didn’t favor Saddam Hussein and wanted to work with the American government to help rebuild Iraq, making it a better country.  Did he succeed?  As the Arabs say, “La, mu mumkin”.  (“No, not possible”.)

Working with civil affairs units, the field commander’s link to the civil authorities in his area of action, our contact told us that he had liked working with them to reconstruct Iraq.  He felt that these soldiers, unlike combat troops, were motivated by their compassion and desire to restore Iraq to what it had been before the attack and invasion.   Our refugee contact noted that he worked with the men who sought to restore services such as water and electricity.  Translating and helping oversee projects, he gradually learned that the U.S. did not do as much as he had hoped for.  The lengthy “to do” lists never got funded and he began to develop the feeling that his job was beginning to endanger not only himself but his family, a cornerstone of life in the Arab world.  He then swung 180 degrees from his initial support for and enthusiasm about the American invasion, not unlike many Iraqis who became frustrated by the Americans and who later turned their anger on those associated with the U.S. occupation.  He and other unfortunates became the direct targets of gangs, i.e., those, such as former Ba’ath ruling party members or those, who, for whatever reason, hated the United States and anyone associated with its representatives in Iraq.

Exposed and chased by outlaws on two occasions (once escaping only through a deliberate car crash), he quit his job while in his last year of college.  Thinking that cutting his ties to the Americans would damp down the furor, he found that his associates were still in danger because of their connections to him.  One of his best friends, with whom he had started the last two semesters, had been murdered. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, underlined by 9 mm bullets, he and some friends fled to nearby Syria,. After four months there, his family advised him not to return.  Buoyed by savings from his job with the U.S. government, he navigated Syrian society without incident.  Even in Syria, he tried, he said, to avoid his friends for fear that their ties to the United States might subject them to unwanted interest by the intelligence services.

After some time, our interlocutor returned to Iraq to finish his schooling but could not discuss his flight because it would hamper taking final exams.  After another friend had been ambushed and murdered, he rode cabs and public transportation, using circuitous routes.  With American help, he armed himself and acquired a license to carry a pistol, itself a danger because the authorization was written in Arabic and English, tipping off anyone who stopped him that he was linked to the occupation authorities.

Speaking Out is Hard to Do

Like our first interviewee, this gentlemen decided to speak out because, as he put it, “Enough Is Enough!”  People outside Iraq need to learn about the consequences of the war of aggression and people outside Iraq must begin to realize the depths of Iraqi suffering.  He told us that his risk has ended but the agony of his family and of others still continues, with everyone still in jeopardy.  He said that he can’t go home to visit his people and that Iraqis are still dying in unconscionable numbers.

But What About the Others?  Syria, Jordan, Israel, and the United States

In an effort to be fair and balanced, we called the Embassies of Syria, Jordan, Israel, as well as the U.S. Department of State for their comments on the refugee crisis. As might be expected, the Syrian Embassy’s spokesman, reflecting the Ambassador’s straightforward approach to the refugee crisis, was most open, approachable, and informative.  The Jordanian Embassy demanded written questions and, to date, has not responded to the ones we e-mailed.  The Israeli Embassy’s Political Section sent us to a non-working number in their Public Affairs Office.  And an official at the U.S. Department of State, speaking on background, told us how the refugees in Syria and Jordan were far fewer than we believed and that the United States had greatly increased the number it was willing to take, from 1,500 in Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 to 13,000 in FY 08 with plans to up that to 17,000 in FY 09.

Syria

Ahmed Salkini, the Syrian Embassy press spokesman, told us that the humanitarian crisis (and the American response to it) is staggering and nearly incomprehensible.  There are roughly 1.5 million Iraqi refugees in Syria (8% of the Syrian population, clustered in and around Damascus) with about 500,000 more in Jordan.  He said that the Bush Administration had demonstrated apathy towards the problem (equal to an influx of 24 million people into the U.S., just short of all the people living in Canada).  Under Bush, the U.S. government simply sat on its hands or tried to ignore the tragedy.  He hoped President Obama would take a second look at the issue.  Mr. Salkini noted that, in dealing with the matter, there were long and short-term goals, first to eventually return the refugees to their homeland and, most pressingly, to deal with the immediate distress of the Iraqis at home and abroad: providing medical care, jobs, housing, etc. through use of governmental and international resources.

The Embassy spokesman noted that the Syrian government heavily subsidized the refugees, paying for health care, education, and security, adding that no refugee in his country had been killed by sectarian violence.  Mr. Salkini did observe that Syria, regrettably, was beginning to impose a quota on Iraqi refugees, changing its once open visa policy.  In the past, he said, no visas for Arabs had been required.  But now, Iraqi visas are issued on a case by case basis, with criteria favoring the most vulnerable, including those listed as such by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), and people whose admission would help both Syria and Iraqi, such as businessmen and merchants who can establish their own firms. With unemployment measured by Damascus at 10-12%, our contact noted that an open-ended policy of admitting Iraqi refugees would add more strains to an already-imperiled economy.

When asked if the U.S. policy on refugees was intended to weaken Syria, the Embassy spokesman stated that the Bush Administration was well aware of the burden on his country, and, instead of appointing competent individuals to deal with the issue, the White House fielded a team of amateurs (author’s words) such as former Maryland politician, Ellen Sauerbrey, who was chosen as  Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration . (In this capacity, Sauerbrey had primary responsibility for mis-handling the Iraqi refugee crisis, doing little of substance for the victims of America’s war.)  Neither Bush nor Sauerbrey publicly recognized all that Syria had done for the exiles, Mr. Salkini said.

Mr. Salkini wanted to look forward, rather than backward, hoping that President Obama would realize that part of the issue is Iraq’s and the rest is the U.S.’s responsibility.

The State Department

As noted, a State Department official commented that there are fewer refugees in Syria and Jordan than were stated by the Syrian Embassy or the Villanova Law School’s April 2008 forum at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., “The Iraqi Refugee Crisis”.  The U.S. Department of State is assiduously working, he said, with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), UNHCR, and the Red Cross, to alleviate  refugees’ problems in Syria and Jordan.  The U.S. preferred to work with international agencies rather than governments because they were generally well-run and organized, we were told. He added that refugees returning to Iraq are easy to measure but that it is hard to number those internally displaced by war in Mesopotamia.  He added that non-refoulement (no return to a place where lives or freedom are threatened) is United States policy and that the Iraqi government is trying to persuade its people to return, proving small benefits such as jobs, housing, and money to those who do.

Our contact touched on U.S. visas for Iraqis who had worked for the American military, State Department, and contractors in the Black Land.  The only requirement was that they had to have worked at least a year in order to be eligible.  Unfortunately, with the visa in hand (obtained through the Embassy’s Consular Section), help in the United States didn’t extend very far, as our Iraqi interlocutor noted.  They would be met at the airport here, given $400, and provided some basic counseling.  In Sweden, by contrast, he said, Iraqi refugees get 2 years of networking assistance and support. U.S. State Department help lasts only for 60 days, then social services take over.

When asked if it were Israeli policy to destabilize Syria by influencing the U.S. government’s withholding of aid to refugees, the State Department official denied that idea, adding that America wanted to help the people who had worked with its government as  translators as well as those in special categories such as Chaldean Catholics.  The Department of State provided $150 million per annum for Iraqi refugee aid (with USAID handling the internally displaced).  The U.S. government’s worldwide refugee budget, he said, totaled only $1 billion.  Heretofore, the U.S. had been concerned with resettling Somalis and Burmese. Now, Iraqis have come to the fore. American policy for Iraqis, he commented, is to concentrate on helping the least likely to return home as well as the most vulnerable.  But, the spokesman continued, the number of newly-required identity and security checks, along with the number of U.S. bureaucracies involved, tended to slow things down, especially in the “post 9/11 world”

The State Department’s spokesman denied that the Iraqi refugee crisis could be likened to the Palestinian “problem” because it wasn’t a struggle for land.  He compared it to Vietnam where Malaysia, Singapore, and other Southeast Asian nations allowed a flood of refugees into their territory because the U.S. had promised to eventually take them in.

Noting that Syrian has proven generous to the Iraqi refugee population, State’s spokesman said that, despite past icy relations, it is getting easier to get into the country and talk to the refugees.

Finally, the State Department official told us that he expected little improvement in the number of Iraqi refugees admitted to the U.S.  There is a worldwide cap of 70,000 refugee visas and to give more help to Iraqis would take refugee visas away from other nationalities.  He said the burden of helping the Iraqis lies with Syria and Jordan.

In contrast, Michele Pistone, Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law and Director of its Clinic for Asylum, Refugees, and Emigrant Services, hopes President Obama will change this situation.  She said he is not lumbered by past U.S. policy mistakes, adding that refugee issues are too often tied to politics, such as in the aftermath of Vietnam, where resettling hundreds of thousands of refugees was made part of America’s withdrawal from that nation, devastated by the U.S. armed forces.

Conclusion

America is a failed state.  After 5 years of war that failed to benefit either the capitalists or Israel, the United States is still unable or unwilling to acknowledge defeat and withdraw its storm troopers from the Black Land within 30 days.  (It took only 19 days for them to march into Baghdad.) Worse, the United States is still unable or unwilling to recognize the damage it has done to Iraq, its infrastructure, and its people.  Fifteen per cent of Iraq’s population are refugees and permanently displaced people.  To put this in context, 15% of the American population is 45 million citizens–imagine if a group of people greater than the population of Canada, more than half the population of Germany, or two-thirds the population of France, or two-thirds the population of the United Kingdom was left homeless by war.

The State Department spokesman is entirely correct.  Nothing will be done about the Iraqi refugees and internally displaced citizens (or the flood of Afghan refugees from Barack Obama’s scheduled escalation of the conflict there).  If only Iraqis (and not Afghanis) were given all the 70,000 U.S. refugees visas available annually, it would take 57 years to bring them to America, almost as long as the Palestinians have been held in Israeli concentration camps.

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s final lines from Ozymandias are most apt:
Nothing beside remains.  Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Author’s Note: Other stories will follow. The pain and suffering of the Iraqi people continue and so will our efforts to chronicle them.

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney based in Washington, D.C. He previously spent 20 years in the federal government, most recently as chief of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

FEAR FURCHT VREES PEUR

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What do Americans fear?  What do Northern Europeans fear?

It’s obvious:  imaginary terrorists.  Americans, once hard-headed realists, now seem to be the driving force behind bogeymen under every bed.  And, it appears, they have sold this climate of fear to the once very rational, very hard-headed Europeans.

On December 31, 2015, RT, the international news channel, reported that the French and the Belgians had canceled New Year’s celebrations in Paris and Brussels—because of supposed threats of terrorist attacks.  RT added that Munich had closed two railroad stations since there were also reports of possible extremist incidents.  (Munich’s response, according to the Washington Post of January 1, 20016, came after being “tipped off by a[n unidentified] foreign intelligence service”—Israel’s?). The Post added that authorities closed Moscow’s Red Square on New Year’s Eve.  The paper implied terrorist threats caused this, a statement disputed by a former Russian government official.  A Belgian contact noted that the streets of Brussels are still full of soldiers, the police are searching houses in Molenbeek, an Arab and Muslim area of the city, the restaurants are only half full, and the transport system in the capital shut down at 10 p.m. on December 31.  She said the entire populace is now afraid.

Suspicious people might wonder at this.  Following the August 21, 2015 incident aboard the Thalys express train, RT announced September 18, 2015, an unarmed, unidentified man had locked himself in a toilet aboard the Thalys, claiming he had a bomb.  Police evacuated the train along with seven platforms in Rotterdam.  What’s so interesting about the first event was that it was providently foiled by two American soldiers (one just back from Afghanistan) and a Briton, alleged to have a military contractor background. (His partner, we’re told, runs EU train security.)  They just happened to be traveling on a luxury train running through Germany, Belgium, Holland, and France when a Moroccan came out of the toilet carrying an AK-47.

Were the Thalys incidents a test-drive for the politics of fear?

The attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 sure helped.  They followed the January 15, 2015 gunfire at the alleged satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, in reality, an anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic rag.  But, the shoot-out helped build a worldwide climate of hatred and fear of Muslims.

What appears to be the basis for a rising tide of hatred and fear is the rising tide of migrants from Arab and Muslim countries.  According to a German contact, they’ve even reached Süßen, a small town of some 10,000 people 45 km. (ca. 27 miles) east of Stuttgart.  The municipality is housing them in a sports-hall, she said.

According to Deutsche Welle (Germany’s international broadcaster), Czech President Miloš Zeman has compared the refugees arriving in Europe to a Trojan horse.  He called the influx an “organized invasion.”  The news service continued, quoting from Zeman’s December 24 Christmas message, that [he] “warned against welcoming asylum seekers and described the European culture of hospitality as naïve.”  The Czech President added “I am profoundly convinced that we are [not] facing…a spontaneous movement of refugees.”  Zeman, elected head of state in early 2013, further noted “A large majority of the illegal migrants are young men in good health, and single. I wonder why these men are not taking up arms to go fight for the freedom of their countries against the Islamic State”.

Zeman was not alone in castigating this Migration of Peoples, die Vőlkerwanderung. 

Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, described the refugees entering Europe as “looking like an army”.  Quoted in the Guardian, as speaking at a gathering of conservative parties from across the Continent, Orbán said: “What we have been facing is not a refugee crisis. This is a migratory movement composed of economic migrants, refugees and also foreign fighters. This is an uncontrolled and unregulated process.”  Continuing, he added, “[The] Right to human dignity and security are basic rights. But neither the German nor the Hungarian way of life is a basic right of all people on the Earth.”

According to EurActiv.com, a summit of the “Visegrad Four” countries – the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland– held in Prague on September 4, 2015, rejected mandatory quotas for taking refugees, but said the group wanted to contribute to tackling the crisis and protect the Schengen border-free zone.  (The 1985 Schengen, Luxemburg agreement guaranteed free movement of people within most of the EU.)  Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz claimed refugee quotas would attract further migrants to the EU.  Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, who chaired the meeting, asserted discussions about refugee quotas did not go to the point. The core of the problem is the EU incapability to regulate migration and the situation in the countries like Syria and Libya, he argued.  “We agreed that the debate on quotas has only one purpose. It diverts attention from the real core of the problem. Europe [has] lost [the] capability to regulate migration,” Sobotka said.

And it’s not just the smaller states of Europe who speak out against this Vőlkerwanderung.  

FEARAccording to CNN, Russian President Vladimir Putin “…point[s] the finger at Europe and the United States for what has now become one of the biggest mass migrations of people in modern times.”  Putin further noted “…[in] talking to reporters Friday [September 4, 2015], it’s the West’s wrong-headed foreign policy in the Middle East and Northern Africa that’s at the root of the crisis.”

CNN added, “Putin, speaking to the Russian news agency TASS, said he warned the West about the possible consequences of its Mideast and Africa policy several years ago.  ‘What is this policy about? This is imposing its standards without taking into consideration historic, religious, national and cultural specifics of these regions,’ Putin told…TASS at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. ‘This is first of all, the policy of our American partners.  I am looking with surprise at certain American mass media now criticizing Europe for an excessively tough, as they believe, treatment of migrants,’ Putin added.”  Europe is “blindly following U.S. instructions” and suffering greatly, he said.

Well, just how did this supposed spontaneous migration come to Europe?  We could suggest that this is similar to the mujahideen migrating to Afghanistan to change the attitude of the Soviet Union.  Besides recruiting terrorists and “migrants” in Saudi Arabia, using American consular offices in Dhahran, Jeddah, and Riyadh, there were 52 hiring offices in the United States, including one in Washington, D.C.  Overseen by the al-Farukh mosque in Brooklyn (with the aid of the Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a CIA recruit), the various bureaus transferred money as well as recruits abroad.  Who’s to say these organizations were never shut down?  Who’s to say these organizations were never expanded?  Who’s to say these organizations don’t operate in the Middle East and South Asia?

Sheikh Abdullah Anas, son-in-law of Abdullah Azzam, the tutor to Osama bin Laden, might be able to tell us.  But, he doesn’t talk, perhaps for fear of jeopardizing his asylee status in Great Britain—and possibly harming his opportunity for emigrating to the United States.

But, what’s going to become of all this? As one astute analyst of the European scene noted:

Immigration and integration politics, and confrontations with Muslim conservatives over education, women’s rights, and the relationship between the state and religion are likely to strengthen right-of-center political organizations and splinter the left-of-center political coalitions that were instrumental in building it.

And what will this lead to?  As that observer sagely added:

Germany’s national security is on the verge of collapse… [Expect] militarization of Germany in domestic and international domains as a result of this crisis and respective changes in German and anticipated EU changes in laws… [Look for] restriction of freedom of speech and hate speech laws, No-Go Zones, strictly enforced protest zones…. Europe moves to the political right in fear and attempted public self-defense, uncomfortably far to the right……[As the result of] the groups, individuals and motives behind the entire manufactured mass migration crisis…

In other words, fear.

COMMENT:  Instead of investigating this man-made crisis, instead of holding people to account for their actions, governments and news media, even long-established ones with capable journalists, parrot phrases about the need to help the unfortunates.  The unfortunates are certainly not going to help the peoples and their governments.  And it’s likely too late for any effective action.  Look at the United States and its 20 million (if not more) illegal aliens.  Every time a politician complains about what they’ve done to the country’s culture, the Left shouts him down as a racist who wants to send productive people back to failed states with repressive governments.  The same situation obtains in Europe:  the Good Man, the Gutmensch, welcomes the illegals fleeing war and devastation.  (But neglect to say that the United States and its repressive allies in the region have created this chaos.)

Old Europe is no more.