Posted on 03/05/2016 6:19:50 AM PST by Citizen Zed
For a moment, imagine you were one of Vladimir Putin’s advisers, seething with envy and resentment against the Western world, and you were summoned by your master to a meeting in the gilded sanctum of the Kremlin.
Imagine he asked you to devise a scheme that would send shockwaves through the European Union, plunge the Balkans into chaos, push Greece to the brink of anarchy, shove millions of voters into the arms of the xenophobic Far Right and even drive a wedge between Britain and France.
What would you come up with?
Well, here’s a clue: just take a look at the past few days’ headlines.
In Calais, desperate migrants fight pitched battles with armed riot policemen trying to clear the notorious ‘Jungle’ camp. In Macedonia, security forces fire tear gas at thousands of migrants using a home-made battering ram to smash the fences along the Greek border.
In Hungary, the nationalist prime minister announces plans to build a 280-mile razor-wire barrier to seal his country off from its southern neighbours. In Greece, where more than 100,000 refugees have arrived in two months, government ministers thunder against the ‘lies’ and ‘hypocrisy’ of their European partners.
And there is more. Only yesterday, as the president of the European Council pleaded with migrants not to come to Europe, relations between Britain and France sank to a perilous new low.
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Shouldn’t take much.
>>> Russia’s leader is cynically stoking the migrant crisis in a bid to tear Europe apart. <<<
It’s working for Obama and will work for Trump or Hillary too.
"desperate immigrants"??????
Try *occupying army*.
Putin is correct and Russians are dealing with it appropriately.
They beat the crap out of some *desperate immigrants* who molested their women.
The only ones tearing Europe apart are the ones facilitating the takeover of Europe by the muslim hordes.
Dominic Sandbrook is another jurinalist that needs cup of tea.
This General is an idiot.
The entire premise that Putin engineered this "migrant crises" is idiotic too.
Put on your rational mind and look at the facts:
- Russia doesn't use barrel bombs.
- Russia has been in Syria for less than 6 months, the migrants have been on the road for years.
- Somehow Russia was able to get their sworn enemy in Turkey to go along with their evil scheme.
- Of note: Russia did implant Merkel's brain with a new gizzmo so that they could compel her to call for millions of Jihadi's to come to Germany. That was the only involvement we can definitively trace back to Russia.
Western European countries and NATO are SOLELY responsible for what has happened. It's like they're surprised that 1,000mg of Seconal and a 5th of Whiskey killed them.
Well duh. Jimi Hendrix knew that in 1970.
Don’t blame the Russians for your idiocy.
It’s a competitive world - if Europe is so stupid as to weaken itself from the inside, the waiting predators will gladly take advantage of the situation.
Not really believable.
Putin didn’t destroy Libya, or nearly cause a civil war in Egypt, and has no control over the borders there. He doesn’t control immigration and borders in Greece, Macedonia, Croatia.
If anyone is trying to bring down Europe by allowing a flood of immigrants, its Turkey.
I don’t care what Putin is doing in Syria because, as far as I know, he IS NOT responsible for guarding the borders of Europe. It is the Europeans INVITING THEM IN, particularly Merkel, that created and maintains this nightmare.
Putin may be a bad guy (anti-gay, etc.) but it doesn’t do the anti-Putin types to BLAME HIM for Europe’s problems.
The European leaders are doing just fine tearing Europe apart, thank you.
It’s generally known that Merkel was a low-level Stasi operative - “IM Erika” (which loosely translates as ‘Informant Erika’) - and ex-KGB officer (in Germany at that time) Putin has all the details to burn her to the ground. Of course she’s just a puppet in his hands!
That’s the thing about Putin. He does have right on his side for the most part. But I would rather Trump transform Europe than Putin.
Europe is undergoing an unstoppable revolution at this point. But who will lead it and shape it?
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