Europe Is Not Prepared for the Looming Lebanese Refugee Crisis | naked capitalism
Europe Is Not Prepared for the Looming Lebanese Refugee Crisis | naked capitalism
Maybe European politicians who oppose refugees should stop supporting wars that create refugees.
Conor here: I don’t understand why this is so hard. If Europe doesn’t want or is unprepared for so many refugees, it should stop with the destruction of societies in the vicinity of the “garden” walls. The media always seems to ignore Europe’s role in creating these crises. The way the EU and/or some of its member countries keeps launching or supporting these bloody messes (Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon) is enough to make one wonder if it’s actually a conscious policy in order to bring in more exploitable refugee labor. But to believe that, you’d have to believe the current crop of European officials and their benefactors have the ability of such foresight.
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Europe hasn't politically recovered from the last few refugee crises, nor have national collectives been able to properly integrate or adjust to the fact they're there, it's been ran as a pressure point, and adding even more pressure will certainly enable those politicians to hit this button with greater effect.
I don't fucking understand why no European leader is looking at what Israel is doing with realpolitik and go "why the fuck are you creating another migrant crisis", unless that is exactly what they want, to get power for themselves. Urgh.
Yes, as you implied, some have in their mind as realpolitik that refugee crises create opportunities for fascism, and that's cool. It's just practical politics to fuel climate change and war.
Collective guilt combined with massive Israeli political pressure.