“On the topic of Armenian genocide of the massacre of Smyrna, horrific as they were it was not a geopolitical event of the scale that ISIS and the mass migration to Germany and Britain is.”
And yet millions of people were slaughtered. ISIS’ toll is weak beer compared to what happened 100 years ago. As for migration, hundreds of thousands of Greeks, Pontian Greeks and Armenians fled to Greece, America, Russia and ... SYRIA, where they were welcomed and taken care of.
Like I said, complex.
Yes. I did not mean to sound like nothing else was a civilizational conflict and only this is.
The new aspects are
- ISIS thriving and taking territory despite the air war. That was not supposed to happen: we were supposed to shock and awe everyone.
- Migration is not in the Middle East and south east Europe, where the culture of accommodation existed thanks, probably to the Ottoman Turks, — it is in West Europe
- The collapse of nationalism makes elementary measures like border control politically impalatable
- Strong Western economies dictate terms of radical liberalism to weaker central European powers.