Posted on 03/03/2020 12:32:15 AM PST by RomanSoldier19
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned on Monday that "millions" of migrants would soon head for Europe, drawing accusations from EU leaders that he is trying to pressure them into backing his incursions into Syria.
Turkey gave the green light to refugees and migrants on Friday to leave for the European Union and thousands have since massed at the Greek border, triggering fears of an influx like that which poisoned European politics in 2015.
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If you look at the cards dealt....Turkey wants the EU/NATO to sign onto some massive military operation to push out Assad, and put in some pro-Turkey ‘dictator’ without any attachment to Russia.
Message to the EU, “Build the wall”.
With friends like Turkey the EU doesn’t need enemies.
Sometimes an invasion does not need military equipment to conquer an enemy.
Neither do we.
They were very nice to our friends ISIS, buying lots of oil and giving them free passage.
Perfect timing with the corona outbreak
You beat me to it. How many of the migrants will actually be from Iran trying to escape?
Migrant camps will be petri dishes for coronavirus.
Over to you, open borders folks.
“Turkey wants the EU/NATO to sign onto some massive military operation to push out Assad,”
I think you’re correct. Perhaps if this was ten years ago the EU would have Merkeled it’s way out of this by paying huge sums and giving military aid, but no troops. I don’t see them, even then, getting into a land war. At the present time, however, the EU has, quite literally, run out of other people’s money. The stress of Brexit, Covid-19, bad demographics, an ongoing and never ending PIGS financial crisis and a myriad of other problems means they are impotent.
Yesterday, I saw a news bite that the Greeks had towed a raft out to the international limit and left it there. The solution to this crisis will be supplied by the weakness of the countries on the front line. Bullets and barbed wire are cheap. I can, for the first time, imagine “refugees” being rounded up and unceremoniously dumped back in Turkey.
If this crisis continues for very long it may be the straw that break’s the EU’s back.
I find it strange, looking at the virus map, that every country surrounding Turkey has cases, but Turkey does not!
The EU ought to threaten to kick them out if they send more migrants over the border.
They have seen the Huns and Genghis Khan with his Mongolian horde, Soviets and Nazis, and stopped the Ottomans cold in Vienna under Jan Sobieski and his Polish, German, Hungarian, etc. army. I think the Greeks alone could handle this with the will to stop them. And Italy should try to remember when the Romans stopped Hannibal and his elephants and Phoenician invaders.
Yes, but that was then, and this is now.
Turkey isn’t part of the EU. You’re probably thinking of NATO.
Millions of Turks live in Europe.
OK, Erdo, for every “refugee” you send, we send two Turks back home. Your call.
For the past seven days, German public news has ‘blasted’ away on the refugee crisis (even dominating over the Coronavirus at times). Green Party ‘offer’ over the weekend to take 5,000 from Greek isles just sharpen the political rhetoric by opposition groups in Berlin.
Last night, EU said they’d ship 700 million Euro to Greece for asylum camp costs. Will probably cover a couple months of costs.
This military chatter is going nowhere. Trump won’t sign up to it. Neither will the UK. So it’s mostly a EU thing.
The sad thing here...by 2015, it was obvious that something serious needed to be done over stability in Syria, there should have been massive pressure put on Assad at that point. They’ve wasted five years, and the Russians have played this skillfully. Turkey has no reason to be across the border or manipulating this....nothing to be gained except it’s bold headline hype in Ankara.
If you go and look at the Greek isles...this is a uniting thing for local Greeks....all against more foreigners on their soil.
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