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Russia's leader is cynically stoking the migrant crisis in a bid to tear Europe apart.
Daily Mail ^ | 3-4-2016 | DOMINIC SANDBROOK

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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Next we'll hear Obama ask various European leaders to step down. It'll be the European Spring.
1 posted on 03/05/2016 6:19:50 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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The Imposter from Mombasa has but ten months left to destroy America. He is getting impatient...


2 posted on 03/05/2016 6:21:59 AM PST by donozark (Vote Bernie Sanders: Because 100 million dead just isn't enough...)
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Is Angela Merkel cynically stoking the migrant crisis in a bid to tear Europe apart?


3 posted on 03/05/2016 6:21:59 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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Soros funded the invasion from Islamic sewers, but now the globalist oligarchy wants to slander Vlad Putin so the whoredom of media is ordered to shift the ‘reality over from Georgie Soros ... and he continues to draw air!


4 posted on 03/05/2016 6:28:37 AM PST by MHGinTN (Democrats bait then switch; their fishy voters buy it every time.)
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To: Citizen Zed

WTF!


5 posted on 03/05/2016 6:29:24 AM PST by dasboot
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So, now the useful idiot Euro liberals are blaming the Russians for exploiting their stupidity. Way to go losers, you really are good at screwing your citizenry and destroying your countries. Now, whine, whine, whine, as if that is going to save you.


6 posted on 03/05/2016 6:30:26 AM PST by iontheball
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Merkel is caught up in reaction-politics. But Putin is stoking anti-muslim and anti-homosexual fervor. If the European Ruling Class isn’t careful, he will fund all of the anti-refugee candidates and form a Post-Soviet Bloc. It would start off as a hegemony, but then he would seek to consolidate power.


7 posted on 03/05/2016 6:30:49 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (Dire Threat to Internet Free Speech? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3394704/posts)
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To: Citizen Zed

Merkel is to blame for all of this crap, no one else


8 posted on 03/05/2016 6:31:47 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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Not more anti-Putin sh**. Blame the boogie man when you want to hide your own complicity in this scheme, and I’m talking about the elites who want open borders.


9 posted on 03/05/2016 6:32:32 AM PST by Ciexyz (Vote Trump)
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Eastern Europe and Russia should build a Trump style wall between Germany and the east. For self protection and symbolism.


10 posted on 03/05/2016 6:32:37 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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Utter nonsense. The EU has submitted to islam and let this filth into their cozy nations. At least Putin is bombing the islam scum into oblivion.

But I’m sure some cold war relics here will put it all on Russia.


11 posted on 03/05/2016 6:35:24 AM PST by soycd
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he[Putin] will fund all of the anti-refugee candidates and form a Post-Soviet Bloc. It would start off as a hegemony, but then he would seek to consolidate power.

I would applaud such a move.

12 posted on 03/05/2016 6:35:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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as the president of the European Council pleaded with migrants not to come to Europe,

"PLEASE stop invading us and raping our teen girls without conequence!!"

Yeah, that'll work.

13 posted on 03/05/2016 6:38:12 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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The EU’s grand “open borders” concept was idiotic from the start, because it put the continent’s security in the hands of the weakest link, and Europe has a lot of do-nothing politically-correct wimps.

So as soon as anybody tried to exploit it - and Europe also has lots of poor African and Asian countries at their doorstep - it was inevitable that disaster would ensue.

The EU, a poor and jealous attempt to copy the United States, is flawed structurally.


14 posted on 03/05/2016 6:39:13 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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agree with every word


15 posted on 03/05/2016 6:39:53 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Citizen Zed

Putin seems to be the scapegoat for a lot of mistake by the globalist leaders of late.


16 posted on 03/05/2016 6:40:54 AM PST by Brilliant
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Why is it cynical? If the EU would work Russia to stop the Muslim invasion it just might happen. If Merkel and the gang what those darn invaders, why not help them self-destruct?


17 posted on 03/05/2016 6:42:13 AM PST by grania
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I don't think so.

Putin has a Muslim problem of his own. It's to his advantage to keep Muslims contained within the Muslim world. He has nothing to gain from the Islamification of Europe--and much to lose.

He needs a reasonably healthy European economy to sell his oil and other goods.

As Europe continues its descent into decadence and weakness, it will naturally become a Russian satellite, if Putin can keep the Muslims out.

18 posted on 03/05/2016 6:42:29 AM PST by Savage Beast (We see an ocean of crashing waves, as black holes create a violent storm in the fabric of space-time)
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Excellent. GO VLAD!


19 posted on 03/05/2016 6:51:41 AM PST by Viennacon
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This nonsense about Putin being to blame for Europe’s open borders is nothing but propaganda. Who controls Europe’s borders? Not Russia.

If they followed the example of Hungary or Croatia, and used live ammunition, they’d have less “migrants.”

It’s that simple. Invading a country and raping their women is not a human right.


20 posted on 03/05/2016 6:52:07 AM PST by Randall_S (Let's sink some ships.)
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