A Few Words About the Europe Migrant Catastrophe
PHIL BUTLER
Europe has had enough. Critical mass over the refugee crisis has been reached. Any sane person could have predicted what the influx of millions of asylum seekers and economic migrants would do to a cohesive European Union. And today, European citizens are astonished at how their trust in leadership has led to a growing catastrophe. It’s time for Europe to reassess the EU and the course for the future.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was at the head of a cadre of European leaders that rammed ultra-liberalism down the throats of European Union citizens when the migrant crisis began. She was the poster girl for the liberal world order back in 2014 when the continent started being overrun with refugees. Today, Europe’s most popular leader looks like the sacrificial lamb the globalists will offer up to serve their destructive needs. The madness of importing millions of refugees from Africa and the Middle East will end up being all about Merkel and German idealism. But, her folly is only a bit part in the greater drama enacted by her colleagues in Brussels. Still, Merkel’s Bavarian CSU allies have given her until the end of the EU summit to reduce the burden of immigration on Germany. If she does not soften the impact of having taken in 1.6 million migrants since 2014, she will certainly lose her job and reputation.
For those people who are astonished at the current situation, the logical question to EU leaders has risen: “What were they thinking?” And this is the right question for people of every 
country in the world. In Italy, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has taken a stand. The Italians don’t want another boat from Libya to land ferrying African migrants. In Malta, the government has taken legal action against the German NGO Mission Lifeline responsible for delivering 234 migrants from Libya to its shores. The boat is at the center of a growing concern over human trafficking from those who say these German NGO efforts are not “rescue missions,” but virtual slavery endeavors instead. Where once Angela Merkel’s rare form of liberalism impressed average Germans, today there’s savage dissent.
The political crisis for the EU is most fittingly illustrated in statements from French President Emmanuel Macron, who said Mission Lifeline defied “all the rules and the Libyan coast guard” and “played into the hands of smugglers” when it picked up these migrants off Libya. From Warsaw and Budapest to London and Madrid, the migrant disaster has sunk into the extent that world order media in Europe reports the citizen ire. Meanwhile, in New York and Washington, the press stands up for the Soros doctrine – destroy and conquer by any means. The New York Times leads in chanting “Malta Cracks Down on a Humanitarian Ship That Carried Migrants.” This stands in sharp contrast to Deutsche Welle’s “Germany and Austria vow to close immigration route.” For those who recall, these media outlets stood in stoic homogeneousness the day Russia’s Vladimir Putin asked, “Do you even realize what you have done?” Now it’s clear that the globalists have weaponized desperate human beings. But to what end? Were the Hungarians right in defying the EU to create a package of bills that criminalized some help given to illegal immigrants, the laws also known as the “Stop Soros Package?” Before the migrant issue is decided, we may see even stricter regulations.
Look at Spain, Italy, and Greece, the hardest hit EU countries since the economic crisis. These three countries are the main entry ports for refugees from wars, famine, and economic disadvantage – and the fact the trio are hammered the hardest by the central Europeans. When Angela Merkel opened the door to Germany for these people, she drove a stake through the heart of EU member states already staggered by World Bank, IMF, and European Commission austerity and economic demands. The whole affair looks like a manual deconstruct. If a Soros-like crash of civilization was the goal, the meltdown occurring in European cities is a big win for the elites who dream up such things. And the western leadership points the finger at Putin and Russia as the dastardly enemy. What Merkel did to Germany and Europe rivals Hitler’s Third Reich in her macabre stupidity – or her willing salute to the new order. The migrant crisis is either the result of a merciless act of warped hegemony or the most blatantly stupid policy goof in history. All we can do is hope that more sane or intelligent minds will eventually prevail.
What a disaster.
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Phil Butler, is a policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the recent bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books. He writes exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook.”
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