Posted on 11/22/2021 7:10:19 PM PST by Cronos
Their return felt humiliating. As men, women and children trudged exhausted through the arrivals hall of Irbil airport, camera crews mobbed them and yelled questions about why they had left Iraq in the first place.
Most of the families just kept their heads down. On the outbound journey they had been hopeful, ready for the new life in Europe that travel agents had promised. But it turned out they were unwitting pawns in Europe’s latest migration battle. The repatriation flight brought them back to the place they had spent life savings trying to leave.
.... Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has facilitated the passage of thousands of mostly Middle Eastern migrants through Belarus and across the border into Poland, where most are now stranded and near-freezing. ...
On Thursday night, many among the returning Iraqis looked dazed beneath the airport’s glaring lights. Most were from the country’s Kurdish region. In the days that followed, they recounted their ordeals at the hands of European border guards and eyed the future with despair.
Migrants said they were fleeing hopelessness. “There’s no life for us here,” said Mohamed Rasheed, 23, back home and facing the task of rebuilding his savings from scratch. “There are no jobs, there is no future.”
Iraq’s coffers are lined with oil wealth, but little trickles down to citizens who aren’t politically connected. More than a quarter of Iraq’s young people are unemployed. Decades of corruption and mismanagement have hollowed out the country’s health and education systems. In the Kurdish region, the U.S.-backed ruling parties are increasingly repressive. Security forces have beaten and arbitrarily detained protesters. Human rights groups say authorities are using vaguely worded laws to bring criminal charges against critics.
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Well played Lukashenko.
He used EU destructive globalism against the EU itself
He helped rouse Polish, Hungarian and Lithuanian nationalist spirit.
All you have to do is look at Iraqs airport with them standing in lines being “paid” to travel “TO’ Western nations ....or get close enough to invade.
Good. "Economic refugees" are not real refugees. You don't get to force your way into a country just because you think your country sucks for jobs.
It is interesting how Putin held back, after initially massing troops inside Belarus. He was clearly testing the resolve of
Poland and the E.U., which surprisingly held.
Russia showed its ugly face, as did its millions of Russkie trolls online calling Poland a “Nazi state” and pretending to weep for Muslims. When Putin starts his fake “I’m the defender of western civilization” spiel, even as he continues to aid and support every Communist country/insurgent across the world, even the dullest now know that Putin and the “former” Soviet States are just as malevolent towards the West as they’ve always been.
Well, Angela has gone. That makes it easier
It’s a toss up between Jerry Seinfeld’s “that’s a shame” and the tiny violin.
I do feel sorry for the Kurds who are in despair. But if Poland allows 100 in, that will burst to millions. And it will affirm Lukashenko
There ARE Iraqis who migrate successfully and legally.
But they are highly skilled and nearly all unbelievers in Islam.
What troops did Putin amass? Last time I’ve check it was Poland that posted 23,000 troops to confront 700 Kurds.
As for the Kurds, the cold shoulder from the Polish will teach them to pick allies more wisely. They helped NATO against their neighbors, now NATO paid them back in full.
Old news. Why Putin should care about ‘Western civilization’ at this point?
Well, he was never really a part of it, being a Communist at heart.
Says a person allowed Xiden to steal elections. That Xiden, putting communists in charge of treasury. ROLFMAO!
Why don’t you learn to speak English before stinking up the forum? I don’t even know what you’re trying to say, and the only thing you’re accomplishing is making me think of you as a drunk Russian with a black eye and carrying a vodka bottle with your free hand.
I loved your arguments. It was very convincing :)
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