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Irrelevant Europe - Europe is the ‘jungle’ now. No garden left to speak of.
American Thinker ^ | 20 May, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 05/20/2026 7:10:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Josep Borrell is a Spanish socialist who held several high-ranking positions in the European Union. Until 2024, he was a vice-president of the European Commission and the high representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy. In that capacity, he ran Europe’s External Action Service, which is the diplomatic body that executes Europe’s foreign policy decisions around the world. He remains a man with a great deal of influence over European perspectives.

In 2022, Borrell created a bit of an international incident when he described Europe as a “garden” and the rest of the world as a “jungle.” “We have built a garden,” he told aspiring European diplomats in Bruges, Belgium. “Most of the rest of the world is a jungle. The jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it.”

As the head of the European Defense Agency, Borrell’s comments made strategic sense. As he said in that same speech, “The jungle has a strong growth capacity…Walls will never be high enough to protect the garden. The gardeners have to go to the jungle, Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.”

Borrell’s speech came seven years after German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open her country’s borders to millions of Islamic immigrants. Originally touted as a humanitarian policy designed to temporarily shelter refugees from war-torn Syria, Germany’s generous welfare programs quickly became a magnet for young men across the Middle East and North Africa. When Merkel declared on August 31, 2015, “We can do this,” she initiated an all-of-society “welcome culture” that quickly produced a full-blown migrant crisis for the whole continent. Over ten years later, the influx of millions of Muslims

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KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; eurabia; islamolization; leftism

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1 posted on 05/20/2026 7:10:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Merkel let the muslims in to dilute the conservative vote so their candidates could not win. She is happy if the left rules over the rubble. Some garden you have got over there.


2 posted on 05/20/2026 7:11:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Islam is like a cancer. It will grow and take over whatever land it can, and oust whatever was there originally. It’s not a religion, it’s a disease.


3 posted on 05/20/2026 7:17:03 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: MtnClimber
Walls will never be high enough to protect the garden.

High walls do not a garden make, but they sure do help a lot!

(paraphrase, Bugs Bunny)
4 posted on 05/20/2026 7:23:42 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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As he said in that same speech, "The jungle has a strong growth capacity…Walls will never be high enough to protect the garden. The gardeners have to go to the jungle [...]"

Spraying megatons of Agent Orange from the air would probably be more effective!

Regards,

5 posted on 05/20/2026 7:35:33 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek

Spraying megatons of Agent Orange from the air would probably be more effective!


I’ve got my spine, I’ve got my Orange Crush.


6 posted on 05/20/2026 7:36:43 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

Agreed. Merkel did more to destroy Europe than her predecessor, Hitler, ever dreamed.


7 posted on 05/20/2026 7:45:01 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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Over eighty years since the end of WW II, The Soviet Union no longer exists and Russia has shown its a paper tiger. Does America really need to be involved with NATO? It would seem that the United States has hit the legal limit when it comes to foreign entanglements.Put another way. If Russia has another border dispute with Lithuania or Poland should young men from Kansas die trying to settle the issue?


8 posted on 05/20/2026 7:48:10 AM PDT by allendale
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The garden has become a museum overrun by the jungle— like those abandoned ancient Asian temples overrun by tribes of monkeys.


9 posted on 05/20/2026 7:51:15 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: allendale

As far as I am concerned, the answer is no. As long as they let in the rest of the world, I don’t see any reason to defend their borders when they refuse to do the same on a DAILY basis.


10 posted on 05/20/2026 7:57:16 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: MtnClimber

Mooselimbs, naughtzees.......meh!


11 posted on 05/20/2026 8:01:01 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Omnivore-Dan

Kudzu from the koran?


12 posted on 05/20/2026 8:01:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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Why aren’t we asking the Arabs to defend themselves the way we are asking that of Europe now? They got all their money by nationalizing our oil wells in the first place.


13 posted on 05/20/2026 8:10:54 AM PDT by Golden Eagle (Principles, not partisanship)
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“Walls will never be high enough to protect the garden. “

They tore down whatever walls they had and laid down the red carpet for the invaders.


14 posted on 05/20/2026 8:51:10 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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And it was founded by a child molester.


15 posted on 05/20/2026 9:02:45 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: allendale
Does America really need to be involved with NATO?...If Russia has another border dispute with Lithuania or Poland should young men from Kansas die trying to settle the issue?

Its a united NATO that stops future Russian aggression in Europe.


16 posted on 05/20/2026 9:46:13 AM PDT by tlozo (“We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 05/20/2026 9:48:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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It looks like the prophesy of the World being ruled from Rome will have to wait awhile. EU looks pathetically weak now, not world owning, but evil they are.


18 posted on 05/20/2026 10:18:56 AM PDT by IDFbunny (Crimea was never Ukraine.)
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I was living in Germany at the time of Merkel’s invented invasion. She put the world’s filth in every little village. And when the filth didn’t get what they wanted they would burn their shelters down so Merkel put them in the fancy hotels. And the hotels became disgusting trash heap because the filth culture that came likes living in filth. The west Germans liked the punishment and hate German culture. The East Germans hated it but Merkel had them arrested if they dared complain about their new turd overlords.


19 posted on 05/20/2026 10:39:33 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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“Welcome to the Jungle”
by Guns N’ Roses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaX9DqE-G1A

Cover by Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine
From the 2005 album “Aperitif for Destruction”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW1HRMHySQk


20 posted on 05/20/2026 12:01:43 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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