Posted on 12/01/2015 3:28:31 AM PST by Mount Athos
The EU has provisionally agreed to provide Turkey with €3 billion+ to supposedly spend on 'stemming the migrant flow' along with an easing of visa restrictions and a promise of accelerating talks about Turkey's accession to the EU.
The EU has now conceded it is powerless to stem the tide of migrants and refugees on its own, and has opted to open Europe's doors to 75 million Turks.
Through its desperate attempts to try and sort out the migrant crisis, the EU has shoved all its cards into the hands of the autocratic President Erdogan.
This deal with Turkey will not solve the migrant crisis - indeed it will merely intensify it. First and foremost it will grant Turkey's 75 million citizens access to the crumbling Schengen zone.
Concerns about the movement of Islamic extremists will also intensify. The large number of ISIS militants crossing the Turkish border in either direction hardly suggests Turkish border forces are superior to their EU counterparts.
Turkey under Erdogan has worryingly been drifting away from its secular traditions in favour of a more Islamic state. Polls suggest sympathy for ISIS amongst sections of the Turkish population. This hardly suggests Turkey's accession will reduce the threat from Islamic extremism. Attempts to curb or vet Turkish migrants, many of whom will not speak any European language, will simply result in Erdogan tearing up any existing deal and resuming his current efforts to hurry migrants across Turkish borders and into Europe.
EU leaders have clearly underestimated the power they have ceded to Erdogan, and the only thing we can be assured of is that he will abuse it.
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Looks like the EU has a serious death wish and I am sure Merkel will finish them off. Looks like the only thing that might save the Western World is the application of some well placed nukes. To hell with their oil, if they cut off our heads we won’t need it.
I thought that the EEC rules have it that expansion has to be unanimous.....Greece would veto it.....but Tripsas has been corrupted since Germany now owns Greece.
This is a decision that will finish off the EU. Any country not in will stay out, any sensible country in will get out. The idiots in Brussels have self destructed.
Seems like the whole world does.
Weird.
Since the EU and North America are dooming their citizens to extinction perhaps bombing their capitols would be a blessing.
Throughout history elites have aggregated power and ultimately pursued policies destructive to the serfs under them. The elites always believe they are safe inside their armed and gated compounds, protected by private armies and security forces. Ultimately the end game is the same. Either an outside army “liberates” the country and kill the nobility or the people rise up in mass to throw off their chains.
Today, if you are a member of the elite class life today is good. Private jets, exclusive hotels and resorts, gated and guarded communities, tony restaurants, restricted educational institutions for your children, and membership limited social clubs insulate you from the masses and their concerns. The consequences of permitting mass migrations of millions of people around the planet don’t even register with people completely insulated from reality.
The few in the elite community who connect the dots and realize the barbarians will someday be storming the gates convince themselves they will be long gone before that happens or their security forces are strong enough to protect the wall. Until one day . . . .
Paying ransom to the Muslims. That’s what it is.
Indeed.
Erdogan will be happy to seed the EU with Muslim operatives, taing advantage of the Schengen agreement.
I am so glad that they have this kind of money to throw away to Turkey. These people are idiots if they think tossing money at the problem will stop the hordes.
I believe this is the first smart thing that the EU did, but of course too late. With the words of Don Corleone - of course Turkey needs to be paid for the service, we are not communists after all.
What did the Eurocrats in Brussels expect? That Turkey will cover the costs of looking after these Muslims themselves from their own money for the benefit of Europe?
The fox is now in charge of the henhouse.
Just call it what it is, “Jizya.”
Dfwgator, are you sure? From what I have heard Turkey has already spent 9 billion on them so they are not even making any profit. For me it always seemed that it is the stupidity of the EU. They wanted Turkey to spend their own money to feed them without pitching in. Of course it was easier for Turkey to look the other way while the burden on their budget followed on to Europe.
Should have made a deal with some country years ago. Send all the illegal immigrants to that country and pay for the service. That country might as well be Turkey.
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