From: newobserveronline.com
The military intervention in Iraq, Libya, and Syria by the United States and the NATO Western military alliance is responsible for triggering the invasion crisis in Europe, Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ), Freedom Party of Austria leader HC Strache has said.
“The USA and NATO have destroyed Iraq and Libya with their military intervention, bombs, and missiles; provided financial, logistical, and military support to the opposition against President Assad in Syria, and thus made possible the destruction, chaos, suffering, and radical Islamism (IS) in the region,” Strache said on his Facebook page.
The FPÖ currently leads opinion polls ahead of the far left Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs (SPÖ, Social Democratic Party of Austria) and their traditional coalition partners, the conservative Österreichische Volkspartei (ÖVP, Austrian People’s Party).
Strache, who is standing as the FPÖ’s candidate for mayor of Vienna in the October elections, also dismissed US President Barack Obama’s comment that Europe is primarily responsible for handling the wave of invaders flooding the continent from the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
“The USA for decades has started fires in the Middle East and then has the chutzpah to claim that responsibility for the unleashed flood of refugees lies with Europe. That’s geostrategic detribalization at its finest,” he wrote.
In a separate interview with Austrian broadcaster ORF, Strache called for erecting an army-patrolled fence along neutral Austria’s eastern border with Hungary, saying that he was opposed to an “Islamization of Europe. We don’t want our Western culture to perish,” he said.
Strache’s campaign in Vienna–traditionally a far left stronghold–has been boosted by the invasion crisis.
For example, Vienna’s current mayor, the SPÖ’s Michael Häupl, recently appointed a new “refugee coordinator” Christian Konrad, who went on TV (Mittagsjournal, Ö1,…