All across Europe, a silent majority is increasingly vociferous: no more refugees, no more migrants, no more immigrants for that matter. Don't destroy Christian Europe. As for the -- non-European -- lunatic fringe, this example is enough.
As the numbers of what analyst Vijay Prashad called "regime change refugees" keep swelling, so does the reverse jihadi flow.
Turkish intelligence, since early 2015, worried that jihadis were trying to cross into the country from "Syraq" and then reach Western Europe via Bulgaria and Hungary. Non-sectarian intelligence in NATO-destroyed Libya also warned the EU only three months ago about ISIS/ISIL/Daesh goons being smuggled into Europe on migrant boats. That's exactly what the coordinator of the EU's war on terror, Gilles de Kerchove, has been saying for months now.
A few sensationalist reports stated the fake "Caliphate" had announced it had already smuggled over 4,000 jihadis into Europe. The "information" was false. But a trickle of jihadis is indeed using their return ticket. Blowback will be inevitable.
Front National's leader Marine le Pen in France swears that 99% of the "clandestines" who come to Europe are men, and they do it for economic reasons. The FN does not bother to refer to "refugees" or even "migrants"; they are all "clandestines." And the FN, of course, is wrong.
According to Unicef, between September 1 and September 6 for example, out of over 10,000 migrants who crossed the border between Greece and Macedonia, 40% were women and children. And according to the UNHCR, 13% of refugees attempting a Mediterranean boat crossing are women, 15% are children and 66% are men.
For all of UNHCR's purposes, everyone fleeing Syria is not a migrant; they are refugees. The same applies to Iraqis. UNHCR details that 69% of refugees currently arriving in Europe are from Syria, 20% from Afghanistan and 3% from Iraq.
The key to the whole drama remains the relentless destruction of the social fabric of Syria. Here I have outlined that for Washington, the end of the civil war is not a priority -- especially as Russia assumes a more prominent peacemaker role.
What else is new? The Empire of Chaos specializes in breaking, not fixing. Washington has been bombing/harassing/regime changing Muslim nations non-stop since the Clinton years; the list includes Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen. The invasion, occupation and destruction of Iraq generated 4 million refugees.
The Obama administration and dodgy allies such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and in-the-shade Israel have invested heavily in a proxy war in Syria. The proxy war is against Iran and Russia -- but it's Syria that's being destroyed. So it's this "alliance" which the US "leads from behind" that is ultimately responsible for the transformation of large swathes of the Syrian population into refugees. This is a made in USA, made in GCC refugee crisis.
As for the Pentagon/NATO combo, so keen on extolling the rarefied heights of their technological power, they could completely eliminate ISIS/ISIL/Daesh on a weekend binge if they chose to. They won't. So the refugee crisis will become even more acute -- in direct proportion to Europe's ever bitter polarization.
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