{"id":366643,"date":"2018-06-25T00:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T23:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=366643"},"modified":"2018-06-25T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T19:01:50","slug":"how-the-u-s-under-obama-created-europes-refugee-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/how-the-u-s-under-obama-created-europes-refugee-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S., Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse, originally posted at strategic-culture.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The current U.S. President, Donald Trump, claimed on June 18th<\/span><\/a>, that Germany\u2019s leadership, and the leadership in other EU nations, caused the refugee-crisis that Europe is facing:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in Germany is way up. Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The U.S. Government is clearly lying about this. The U.S. Government itself caused this crisis that Europeans are struggling to deal with. Would the crisis even exist, at all, if the U.S. had not invaded and tried to overthrow (and in some instances actually overthrown) the governments in Libya, Syria, and elsewhere \u2014 the places from which these refugees are escaping? The U.S. Government, and a few of its allies in Europe (the ones who actually therefore really do<\/i> share in some of the authentic blame for this crisis) caused this war and government-overthrow, etc., but Germany\u2019s Government wasn\u2019t among them, nor were many of the others in Europe. If the U.S. Government had not led these invasions, probably not even France would have participated in any of them. The U.S. Government, alone, is responsible for having caused these refugees. The U.S. Government itself created this enormous burden to Europe, and yet refuses to accept these refugees that it itself had produced, by its having invaded and bombed to overthrow (among others) Libya\u2019s Government, and then Syria\u2019s Government, and by its aiding Al Qaeda in organizing and leading and arming, jihadists from all over the world to come to Syria to overthrow Syria\u2019s Government and to replace it with one that would be selected by the U.S. regime\u2019s key Middle Eastern ally, the Saud family, who own Saudi Arabia, including its Government, and who are determined to take over Syria<\/span><\/a>. Trump blames Angela Merkel for \u2014 in essence \u2014 having been an ally of the U.S. regime, a regime of aggression which goes back decades, and which Trump himself now is leading,<\/i> instead of his ending, and of his restoring democracy to the United States, and, finally, thus, his restoring freedom (from America), and peace, to other nations, in Europe, and elsewhere (such as in Syria, Yemen, etc.). He blames Merkel, not himself and his predecessor \u2014 not the people who actually caused these refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hypocrisy purer than that which Trump there expressed, cannot be imagined, and this hypocrisy comes from Trump now, no longer<\/i> from Obama, who, in fact, caused the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the 2016 study, “An Overview of the Middle East Immigrants in the EU:<\/span><\/a> Origin, Status Quo and Challenges\u201d states in its Abstract:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEU has the most inhabited immigrant population; it has up to a population of 56 million foreign-born people. And due to the perennial war and chaos in the Middle East, the amount of relocated population in the region, especially the number of refugees, ranks the No.1 all over the world. \u2026 There are a large number of refugees and asylum seekers heading to EU countries; it can be divided into four stages. Since the Arab Spring, especially after the outbreak of the civil war in Syria in 2011, and the rise of the \u201cIslamic State\u201d in 2013, the whole EU area have experienced the biggest wave of refugees since World War II.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

All of these invasions have been, and are, invasions of countries where the U.S. regime demands regime-change.<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to understand the deeper source of this problem, one must understand, first, the U.S. regime\u2019s continuing obsession to conquer Russia after its communism and Warsaw Pact military alliance, had ended<\/span><\/a> (click onto that link to see the documentation); and, second, one needs to understand the U.S. regime\u2019s consequent and consistent aim after the supposed end of the Cold War, to take over control of Russia\u2019s allied countries, including not only those within the Soviet Union and its military Warsaw Pact, but also within the Middle East, especially Syria and Iran, and even countries such as Libya, where the leader was nominally Sunni but nonetheless friendly toward Russia<\/span><\/a>. (The link there provides documentation not only of what\u2019s said here, but it also documents that the alliance between the two aristocracies, of the U.S. and of Saudi Arabia, is essential to the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s Middle-Eastern objective; and Israel\u2019s aristocracy serves as an essential agent of the Sauds in this crucial regard, because the Sauds rely heavily upon the Israeli regime to do its lobbying in Washington<\/span><\/a>. In other words: America\u2019s consistent objective is to isolate Russia so as for the U.S. regime to emerge ultimately in a position to take over Russia itself. That\u2019s the deeper source of Europe\u2019s refugee-crisis.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Back at the start of the promised post-Cold-War period, in 1990, the U.S. regime, under its then-President, George Herbert Walker Bush, privately and repeatedly agreed<\/b> with the U.S.S.R. regime, under its then-President Mikhail Gorbachev, to end the Cold War \u2014 agreed that NATO would not expand \u201cone inch to the east\u201d<\/span><\/a> \u2014 that there would be no expansion of the U.S. military alliance against the U.S.S.R. (soon to become against Russia alone). The U.S. regime\u2019s promise was that NATO would not take in and add to NATO\u2019s membership, any of the countries that then were either in the U.S.S.R\u2019s military alliance the Warsaw Pact<\/b><\/span><\/a> (Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania) or in U.S.S.R. itself other than Russia<\/b><\/span><\/a> (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Estonia, Georgie, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia, Tajikistan, Turkmenia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), except for the eastern part of Germany. The U.S. regime simply lied. But the Russian Government followed through on all of its commitments. Russia was now trapped, by Gorbachev\u2019s having trusted liars, whose actual goal turned out to be world-conquest \u2014 not<\/i> peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, the membership of NATO<\/span><\/a> includes all of the former Warsaw Pact nations, and now the U.S. regime aims to bring in also to “NATO membership: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\u00b9 and Ukraine.\u201d<\/span><\/a> Georgia and Ukraine are the first parts of the former U.S.S.R. republics \u2014 not merely parts of the Warsaw Pact but parts now of the U.S.S.R. itself<\/i> \u2014 to join the anti-Russian military alliance, if either of them gets allowed in. The very possibility of this happening, goes beyond anything that the naive, trusting, Mikhail Gorbachev, would ever have imagined. He hadn\u2019t the slightest idea of how evil was (and still is) America\u2019s Deep State (that which controls America<\/span><\/a>). But now we all know. History is clear and unambiguous on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NATO mouthpiece, Brookings Institution, headlined on 15 November 2001, “NATO Enlargement: Moving Forward; Expanding the Alliance and Completing Europe\u2019s Integration\u201d<\/span><\/a> and pretended that this expansion is being done in order to help Europeans, instead of to conquer Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ukraine has the longest of all European borders with Russia and so has been America\u2019s top target to seize. But before seizing it, the U.S. had tried in 2008 to turn Georgia against Russia, and the Georgian Mikheil Saakashvili was a key U.S. agent in that effort. Saakashvili subsequently became involved in the violent coup that overthrew Ukraine\u2019s Government in February 2014. Saakashvili organized the Georgian contingent of the snipers that were sent to Ukraine to shoot into the crowds on the Maidan Square and kill both police and demonstrators there, in such a way so that the bullets would seem<\/i> to have come from the police (Berkut) and\/or other forces of Ukraine\u2019s democratically elected Government. (Click on this link<\/span><\/a> to see two of the Georgian snipers casually describing their participation in the coup, and referring tangentially to former Georgian President Saakashvili\u2019s role in it. Here is a more comprehensive video compilation<\/span><\/a> describing and showing the coup itself. As I have pointed out<\/span><\/a>, the testimony of these two Georgian snipers is entirely consistent with what the investigation by the EU\u2019s Foreign Ministry had found out on 26 February 2014 about the snipers, that \u201cthey were the same snipers, killing people from both sides\u201d and that these snipers were \u201cfrom the new coalition government\u201d<\/span><\/a> instead of from the government that was being overthrown \u2014 that it was a coup, no \u2018revolution\u2019 such as Obama\u2019s people claimed, and Trump\u2019s people now assert.) The U.S. regime has agents in all regions of the former Russia-affiliated bloc \u2014 not only<\/i> in Western Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s coup to grab Ukraine away from its previous neutrality<\/span><\/a> and to make it immediately a neo-Nazi rabidly anti-Russian country<\/span><\/a>, has destroyed Ukraine \u2014 not only from the standpoint of the EU, but (and click on the link if you don\u2019t already know this) from the standpoint of the Ukrainian people themselves<\/span><\/a>. Who wouldn\u2019t<\/i> want to leave there?<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe has refugees from the Ukrainian operation too, not only<\/i> (though mainly) from the Middle Eastern ones.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s enemy isn\u2019t Russia\u2019s aristocracy, but America\u2019s aristocracy. It\u2019s the billionaires who control America\u2019s international corporations \u2014 not the billionaires who control Russia\u2019s international corporations \u2014 it is specifically<\/i> America\u2019s billionaires; it is the people who control the U.S. Government<\/span><\/a>; these, and no Russians at all, are the actual decision-makers, who are behind bringing down Europe. In order for Europe to win, Europeans must know whom their real enemies are. The root of the problem is in the U.S., Europe\u2019s now fake<\/i> \u2018ally\u2019. Today\u2019s America isn\u2019t the America of the Marshall Plan. The U.S. Government has since been taken over by gangsters. And they want to take over the world. Europe\u2019s refugee-crisis is simply one of the consequences.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, Obama had started, by no later than 2011, to plan these regime-change operations, in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine<\/span><\/a>. But, in any case, none of the regime-change operations that caused the current unprecedented flood of refugees into Europe started because of what Europe\u2019s leaders did (other than their cooperating with the U.S. regime). Today\u2019s American Government is Europe\u2019s enemy, no friend at all, to the peoples of Europe. Trump\u2019s blaming this crisis on Europe\u2019s leaders isn\u2019t just a lie; it is a slanderous one.<\/span><\/p>\n

And this fact is separate from Trump\u2019s similar slanderous lie against the refugees themselves. On May 8th, Germany\u2019s Die Welt<\/i> newspaper had headlined \u201cNumber of crimes falls to lowest level since 1992\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that Germany\u2019s Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, announced the 2017 national crime statistics<\/span><\/a>, and he said, \u201cGermany has become safer,\u201d the safest in the last 30 years. Seehofer happens to be a member of Chancellor Merkel\u2019s Administration who is angling to replace her as Chancellor by appealing to the strong anti-immigrant portion of their own conservative party, but even he had to admit, essentially, that the anti-immigrant slur that Trump subsequently made on June 18th is a bald lie; it\u2019s even the exact opposite of the truth. Trump\u2019s tweeted comment then was a lying slander not only against Merkel and other European leaders, but also against the refugees that the U.S. regime itself had produced. How depraved is that? How depraved is Trump?<\/span><\/p>\n

The refugee crisis isn\u2019t due to the refugees themselves; and it\u2019s not due to Europe\u2019s leaders; it is due to the almost constantly lying U.S. regime \u2014 the people who actually control America\u2019s Government and America\u2019s international corporations.<\/span><\/p>\n

On June 21st, Manlio Dinucci at Global Research headlined \u201cThe Circuit of Death in the \u2018Enlarged Mediterranean\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/a> and he opened by saying, \u201cThe politico-media projectors, focussed as they are on the migratory flow from South to North across the Mediterranean, are leaving other Mediterranean flows in the dark \u2013 those moving from North to South, comprised of military forces and weapons.\u201d But the world\u2019s biggest international seller of weapons is the U.S., not the EU<\/span><\/a>; so, his placing the main focus on European billionaires was wrong. The main culprits are on Trump\u2019s own side of the Atlantic, and this is what is being ignored, on both sides of the Atlantic. The real problem isn\u2019t across the Mediterranean; it is across the Atlantic. That\u2019s where Europe\u2019s enemy is.<\/span><\/p>\n

On 7 August 2015, I headlined \u201cThe U.S. Is Destroying Europe\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Libya, Syria, Ukraine, and other countries at the periphery or edges of Europe, U.S. President Barack Obama has been pursuing a policy of destabilization, and even of bombings and other military assistance, that drives millions of refugees out of those peripheral areas and into Europe, thereby adding fuel to the far-rightwing fires of anti-immigrant rejectionism, and of resultant political destabilization, throughout Europe, not only on its peripheries, but even as far away as in northern Europe.\u201d<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s continuing under Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who wants to track the source of these problems farther back, to the U.S. CIA in 1948, should check out the links in this interview<\/span><\/a>. Apparently, the U.S. Deep State\u2019s war to conquer the world (and not actually against communism, which was just the cover-story) began the moment that FDR died, and President Truman wasn\u2019t bright enough to understand that the U.S. Government was being taken right out from under him; he was fooled by the people whom Wall Street served; he became their sucker; unlike FDR, he didn\u2019t understand them, and so they got their way.<\/span><\/p>\n

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PS:<\/b> The following exchange occurred in the reader-comments section of this article at one of the places where the article was republished:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-06-24\/how-us-under-obama-created-europes-refugee-crisis?page=1#comment-11897282<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

E. Grogan Mon, 06\/25\/2018 – 11:56 Permalink<\/span><\/p>\n

The author of this article is an idiot and a liar. I remember very well when, a few years ago, Merkel was calling for Europe to let in immigrants. Some countries in EU resisted but there was a lot of pressure put on them by Merkel, including economic threats. It was nothing more than extortion. Obama was also on board with this policy of letting in just anyone with no vetting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why in hell is Tyler Durden running this article? It isn’t journalism, it’s lies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Knave Dave Mon, 06\/25\/2018 – 10:53 Permalink<\/span><\/p>\n

The US government HELPED cause the refugee crisis with its participation in a war in Syria that was happening with or without the US. Likewise in Libya. In each case, the US has made the situation much worse; but a situation was already developing of internal civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US, HOWEVER, DID NOT CAUSE GERMANY TO BECOME STUPID by insisting that millions of refugees be allowed into Europe. Even if you want to blame the US for the creation of all refugees (a stupid position, but for the sake of argument …), the US did not create Merkel’s stupidity in doggedly insisting that Europe absorb them.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eric Zuesse\u00a0 <\/span>Knave Dave Mon, 06\/25\/2018 – 13:40 Permalink<\/span><\/p>\n

How is it “stupid” to attribute the problem to its creation, its cause? Furthermore: The uprising against Assad was engineered in Washington<\/span><\/a>, and the U.S. hired Al Qaeda for its dirty-work there<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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