How
the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Eric
Zuesse
25
June, 2018
The
current US President, Donald
Trump, claimed
on June 18th,
that Germany’s leadership, and the leadership in other EU nations,
caused the refugee-crisis that Europe is facing:
“The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”
The
US Government is clearly lying about this. The US Government itself
caused this crisis that Europeans are struggling to deal with. Would
the crisis even exist, at all, if the US had not invaded and tried to
overthrow (and in some instances actually overthrown) the governments
in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere — the places from which these
refugees are escaping?
The
US Government, and a few of its allies in Europe (the ones who
actually therefore really do share in some of the authentic
blame for this crisis) caused this war and government-overthrow,
etc., but Germany’s Government wasn’t among them, nor were many
of the others in Europe.
If
the US Government had not led these invasions, probably not even
France would have participated in any of them. The US Government,
alone, is responsible for having caused these refugees. The US
Government itself created this enormous burden to Europe, and yet
refuses to accept these refugees that it itself had produced, by its
having invaded and bombed to overthrow (among others) Libya’s
Government, and then Syria’s Government, and by its
aiding Al Qaeda in organizing and leading and arming, jihadists from
all over the world to
come to Syria to overthrow Syria’s Government and to replace it
with one that would be selected by the US regime’s key Middle
Eastern ally, the Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia, including its
Government, and who are determined to take over Syria.
Trump
blames Angela Merkel for — in essence — having been an ally of
the US regime,
a regime of aggression which goes back decades, and
which Trump himself now is leading, instead
of his ending, and of his restoring democracy to the United States,
and, finally, thus, his restoring freedom (from America), and peace,
to other nations, in Europe, and elsewhere (such as in Syria, Yemen,
etc.). He blames Merkel, not himself and his predecessor — not the
people who actually caused these refugees.
Hypocrisy
purer than that which Trump there expressed, cannot be imagined, and
this hypocrisy comes from Trump now, no
longer from
Obama, who, in fact, caused the problem.
As
the 2016 study, “An
Overview of the Middle East Immigrants in the EU: Origin,
Status Quo and Challenges” states in its Abstract:
“EU has the most inhabited immigrant population; it has up to a population of 56 million foreign-born people. And due to the perennial war and chaos in the Middle East, the amount of relocated population in the region, especially the number of refugees, ranks the No.1 all over the world. … There are a large number of refugees and asylum seekers heading to EU countries; it can be divided into four stages. Since the Arab Spring, especially after the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011, and the rise of the “Islamic State” in 2013, the whole EU area have experienced the biggest wave of refugees since World War II.”
All
of these invasions have been, and are, invasions of countries where
the US regime demands regime-change.
In
order to understand the deeper source of this problem, one must
understand, first, the US regime’s continuing
obsession to conquer Russia after its communism and Warsaw Pact
military alliance, had ended (click
onto that link to see the documentation); and, second, one needs to
understand the US regime’s consequent
and consistent aim after the supposed end of the Cold War, to take
over control of Russia’s allied countries, including
not only those within the Soviet Union and its military Warsaw Pact,
but also within the Middle East, especially Syria and Iran, and even
countries such as Libya, where the leader was nominally Sunni but
nonetheless friendly toward Russia
.
(The
link there provides documentation not only of what’s said here, but
it also documents that the alliance between the two aristocracies, of
the US and of Saudi Arabia, is essential to the US aristocracy’s
Middle-Eastern objective; and Israel’s
aristocracy serves as an essential agent of the Sauds in this crucial
regard, because the Sauds rely heavily upon the Israeli regime to do
its lobbying in Washington.
In
other words: America’s
consistent objective is to isolate Russia so
as for the US regime to emerge ultimately in a position to take over
Russia itself. That’s the deeper source of Europe’s
refugee-crisis.)
Back
at the start of the promised post-Cold-War period, in 1990, the US
regime, under its then-President, George Herbert Walker
Bush, privately
and repeatedly agreed with
the USSR regime, under its then-President Mikhail Gorbachev, to end
the Cold War — agreed
that NATO would not expand “one inch to the east” —
that there would be no expansion of the US military alliance against
the USSR (soon to become against Russia alone).
Currently,
the membership
of NATO includes
all of the former Warsaw Pact nations, and
now the US regime aims to bring in also to “NATO
membership: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia¹ and Ukraine.” Georgia
and Ukraine are the first parts of the former USSR republics — not
merely parts of the Warsaw Pact but parts now of the USSR itself —
to join the anti-Russian military alliance, if either of them gets
allowed in. The very possibility of this happening, goes beyond
anything that the naive, trusting, Mikhail Gorbachev, would ever have
imagined. He hadn’t the slightest idea of how evil was (and still
is) America’s Deep State (that which controls
America).
But now we all know. History is clear and unambiguous on the matter.
The
NATO mouthpiece, Brookings Institution, headlined on 15 November
2001, “NATO
Enlargement: Moving Forward; Expanding the Alliance and Completing
Europe’s Integration” and
pretended that this expansion is being done in order to help
Europeans, instead of to conquer Russia.
Ukraine
has the longest of all European borders with Russia and so has been
America’s top target to seize. But before seizing it, the US had
tried in 2008 to turn Georgia against Russia, and the Georgian
Mikheil Saakashvili was a key US agent in that effort. Saakashvili
subsequently became involved in the violent coup that overthrew
Ukraine’s Government in February 2014.
Saakashvili
organized the Georgian contingent of the snipers that were sent to
Ukraine to shoot into the crowds on the Maidan Square and kill both
police and demonstrators there, in such a way so that the bullets
would seem to
have come from the police (Berkut) and/or other forces of Ukraine’s
democratically elected Government. (Click on this
link to
see two of the Georgian snipers casually describing their
participation in the coup, and referring tangentially to former
Georgian President Saakashvili’s role in it. Here
is a more comprehensive video compilation describing
and showing the coup itself. As I
have pointed out,
the testimony of these two Georgian snipers is entirely consistent
with what the investigation by the EU’s Foreign Ministry had found
out on 26 February 2014 about the snipers, that “they
were the same snipers, killing people from both sides” and that
these snipers were “from the new coalition government” instead
of from the government that was being overthrown — that it was a
coup, no ‘revolution’ such as Obama’s people claimed, and
Trump’s people now assert.) The US regime has agents in all regions
of the former Russia-affiliated bloc — not only in
Western Europe.
Obama’s
coup to grab Ukraine away from its previous
neutrality and
to make it immediately a
neo-Nazi rabidly anti-Russian country,
has destroyed Ukraine — not only from the standpoint of the EU, but
(and click on the link if you don’t already know this) from
the standpoint of the Ukrainian people themselves.
Who wouldn’t want
to leave there?
Europe
has refugees from the Ukrainian operation too, not only (though
mainly) from the Middle Eastern ones.
Europe’s
enemy isn’t Russia’s aristocracy, but America’s aristocracy.
It’s the billionaires who control America’s international
corporations — not the billionaires who control Russia’s
international corporations — it is specifically America’s
billionaires; it is the
people who control the US Government;
these, and no Russians at all, are the actual decision-makers, who
are behind bringing down Europe. In order for Europe to win,
Europeans must know whom their real enemies are. The root of the
problem is in the US, Europe’s now fake ‘ally’.
Today’s America isn’t the America of the Marshall Plan. The US
Government has since been taken over by gangsters. And they want to
take over the world. Europe’s refugee-crisis is simply one of the
consequences.
In
fact, Obama
had started, by no later than 2011, to plan these regime-change
operations, in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine.
But, in any case, none of the regime-change operations that caused
the current unprecedented flood of refugees into Europe started
because of what Europe’s leaders did (other than their cooperating
with the US regime). Today’s American Government is Europe’s
enemy, no friend at all, to the peoples of Europe. Trump’s blaming
this crisis on Europe’s leaders isn’t just a lie; it is a
slanderous one.
And
this fact is separate from Trump’s similar slanderous lie against
the refugees themselves. On May 8th, Germany’s Die
Welt newspaper
had headlined “Number
of crimes falls to lowest level since 1992” and
reported that Germany’s Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer,
announced the 2017 national crime statistics, and he said, “Germany
has become safer,” the safest in the last 30 years. Seehofer
happens to be a member of Chancellor Merkel’s Administration who is
angling to replace her as Chancellor by appealing to the strong
anti-immigrant portion of their own conservative party, but even he
had to admit, essentially, that the anti-immigrant slur that Trump
subsequently made on June 18th is a bald lie; it’s even the
exact opposite of the truth. Trump’s tweeted comment then was a
lying slander not only against Merkel and other European leaders, but
also against the refugees that the US regime itself had produced. How
depraved is that? How depraved is Trump?
The
refugee crisis isn’t due to the refugees themselves; and it’s not
due to Europe’s leaders; it is due to the almost constantly lying
US regime — the people who actually control America’s Government
and America’s international corporations.
On
June 21st, Manlio
Dinucci at
Global Research headlined “The
Circuit of Death in the ‘Enlarged Mediterranean’” and
he opened by saying,
“The politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark – those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons.”
But
the world’s biggest international seller of weapons is the
US, not the EU;
so, his placing the main focus on European billionaires was wrong.
The main culprits are on Trump’s own side of the Atlantic, and this
is what is being ignored, on both sides of the Atlantic. The real
problem isn’t across the Mediterranean; it is across the Atlantic.
That’s where Europe’s enemy is.
“In Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries at the periphery or edges of Europe, US President Barack Obama has been pursuing a policy of destabilization, and even of bombings and other military assistance, that drives millions of refugees out of those peripheral areas and into Europe, thereby adding fuel to the far-rightwing fires of anti-immigrant rejectionism, and of resultant political destabilization, throughout Europe, not only on its peripheries, but even as far away as in northern Europe.
It’s
continuing under Trump.
Investigative
historian Eric
Zuesse is
the author, most recently, of They’re
Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records,
1910-2010,
and of CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
He is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
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