Refugees Are in the Channel Thanks to the Actions of the West

http://www.unz.com/pcockburn/refugees-are-in-the-channel-thanks-to-the-actions-of-the-west/
Date Written:  2019-01-19
Publisher:  The Unz Review: An Alternative Media Selection
Year Published:  2019
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX23254

The outcome of Western military and economic interventions in the Middle East and North Africa have caused the outflow of refugees from zones of conflict.

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Though the US and its allies are unlikely to win any victories against Iran or Bashar al-Assa, the US can keep a permanent crisis simmering across a swathe of countries between the Pakistan border and the Mediterranean, thereby ensuring in the long term that a portion of the 170 million people living in this vast area will become so desperate that they will take every risk and spend the last of their money to flee to Western Europe. Keep in mind that these crises tend to cross-infect each other, so instability in Syria means instability in Iraq.

Given the seismic impact of migration fuelled by war or sanctions in the Middle East and North Africa on the politics of Europe over the last seven or eight years, it shows a high degree of self-destructive foolishness on the part of European governments not to have done more to restore peace. They have got away with it because voters have failed to see the linkage between foreign intervention and the consequent waves of immigrants from their ruined countries.


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