Posted on 11/29/2015 9:41:47 AM PST by amorphous
In the aftermath of last week's dramatic events which have seen Turkey make a unilateral breach of NATO's unwritten rules of engagement by taking down a Russian jet, coupled with an assault on civil right and expression of speech when two journalists were arrested for exposing Turkish arms smuggling to Syria, culminating with the assassination of a prominent enemy of the state on live TV, one would expect that the "democratic, humanistic" western countries would at least issue a harsh condemnation of Erdogan's behavior.
That won't happen: instead, the European Union will pay Turkey $3.2 billion to help it stop the flow of refugees to Europe from the conflict in Syria, 2.2 million of whom are currently in Turkey and to prevent Europe's worst refugee crisis from getting even worse.
In addition, the banana republic that is Turkey will be one step closer to joining the European Union as EU accession talks are restarted. As AFP reminds us, Turkey is the main gateway for migrants and refugees to reach Europe and Brussels has been wooing Ankara for months to secure its cooperation, but relations remain difficult and the devil will be in the details of the deal they will reach on Sunday.
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Sounds like a protection racket.
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.â€
Kind of like paying tribute to the Barbary pirates.
Now we are at the nub of this.
I think at least $5 billion will be needed
per year!
With Open Gates: The forced collective suicide of European nations
Exactly
Jizya tax?
“Sounds like a protection racket.”
Extortion usually lasts a long time and almost always ends badly.
Note to EU: you can’t fix stupid, can you? RIP Europe.
Like paying the mob “protection” not to burn down your shop.
When Leftists run the programs dumb moves are made. I swear as the death spiral of the west increases its velocity I simply shake my head. By God we know who won the last three seasons of Survivor but we as a culture don’t do diddley squat to survive the Islamic onslaught.
Freegards
LEX
Indeed it only took 100 years to truly find that the “sick man of Europe” turned out to be the rest of Europe just projecting.
Well said.
Might as well be.
In three generations Europe will be no different than the hellholes these people escaped from...
Culture creates societies... not the reverse. It's never been about 'stuff'. Europe either stems the tide, or they cease to exists as distinct cultures. Money to corrupt Islamic leaders is a joke.
Turkey then becomes a new Palestinian Authority.
“Give us money or something bad happens.”
Something bad happens.
“Give us MORE money or we can’t stop it.”
Then they let a few leaks of violence/immigration runs happen, to justify continued financial inflows.
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