De VS bombardeert landen in het Midden-Oosten >> Europa krijgt de vluchtelingen

Eric
Zuesse heeft een artikel geplaatst op de Strategic Culture Foundation,
waarin hij ten overvloede (maar volkomen terecht) stelt dat de VS, met hulp van
NAVO lidstaten Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk, dood en verderf zaait
in landen waar het niets te zoeken heeft…… (landen in het Midden-Oosten, waar ik in dit geval ook Libië en Afghanistan toe reken) Door deze grootschalige
terreur zijn enorme stromen vluchtelingen op gang gekomen,
vluchtelingen die hun heil zoeken in Europa en dan m.n. in de EU,
niet alleen omdat dit de meest dichtstbijzijnde plek is waar men de
oorlog definitief achter zich kan laten, maar ook omdat de VS botweg
weigert vluchtelingen uit het Midden-Oosten op te nemen….. Dit was overigens in iets mindere mate al zo onder de Obama regering…..


Zuesse
wijst op de leugens die het westerse publiek (inclusief het Nederlandse) dagelijks op haar bord
geserveerd krijgt, zoals de leugens dat landen als Afghanistan, Irak,
Libië en Syrië, een gevaar vormen voor hun veiligheid…… Een
leugen zo doortrapt, dat ze zelfs een volkomen omdraaiing van feiten
is, immers de grootschalige westerse terreur in het Midden-Oosten
zorgt juist voor terreur op de straten van vooral de EU…….

De
hiervoor genoemde landen, vier landen kunnen zelfs amper worden gezien als
een gevaar voor de hen omringende landen, waar alleen Irak
als agressor kan worden aangewezen, dan wijs ik vooral op de oorlog
van Irak tegen Iran in de 80er jaren, waar deze vooral de VS goed
uitkwam, sterker nog: de VS heeft destijds Saddam Hoessein opgejut
Iran aan te vallen….. 


Nederland onderhield ook goede banden met Saddam Hoessein, zo kon VVD plork Bolkestein een exportvergunning afgeven voor de levering van onderdelen tot het bereiden van gifgas, iets waarvoor hij destijds uit en te na werd gewaarschuwd door deskundigen, daarmee is deze Bolkestein een enorme oorlogsmisdadiger!

Lees
dit uitstekende artikel waarin Zuesse gedetailleerd uitlegt hoe VS
bemoeienissen hebben geleid tot de dood van alleen deze eeuw al ruim
meer dan 2 miljoen slachtoffers, die in feite werden vermoord door de
VS, met hulp van een aantal NAVO landen, waaronder Nederland….. (waar niet vergeten dient te
worden dat de NAVO een speeltje is van de VS, zo liet het beest Trump de afgelopen dagen nog eens fijntjes zien tijdens de NAVO

top in Brussel…..)

America
Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil

America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil

ERIC
ZUESSE
 |
09.07.2018 | 
WORLD / EUROPEMIDDLE
EAST

The
US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya,
Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting
refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and 
the
EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s
international corporations
.
America’s corporations remain blithely unscathed by not only 
the
refugees
 that
are breaking up the EU, but also by the EU’s economic sanctions
against Russia, Iran, and other allies of governments that the US
regime is trying to overthrow in its constant invasions and coups.
The US Government makes proclamations such as “Assad must go!” —
but by what right is the US Government involved, at all, in
determining whom the leaders in Syria will be? Syria never invaded
the US In fact, Syria never invaded anywhere (except, maybe, Israel,
in order to respond against Israel’s invasions). Furthermore, 
all
polling, even by Western pollsters, shows that Bashar al-Assad would
easily win any free and fair election in Syria.
 The
US Government claims to support democracy, but it does the exact
opposite whenever they want to get rid of a Government that is
determined to protect that nation’s sovereignty over its own
national territory, instead of to yield it to the US regime, or to
any other foreigners. The US regime has 
virtually
destroyed the United Nations
.

The
US regime even 
refuses
to provide restitution to Syria for its bombings, and for its arming
and training of the jihadists — the fundamentalist Sunni
mercenaries recruited from around the world — who are the US
regime’s “boots on the ground” trying to overthrow Syria’s
Government
.
Al Qaeda 
has
led
 the
dozens of 
jihadist
groups that have served as the US regime’s “boots on the ground”
to overthrow Assad
,
but Al Qaeda is 
good
enough to serve the purpose
,
in the US regime’s view of things. The US regime says that there
will be 
no
restitution to Syria
 unless
Syria accepts being ruled by 
‘rebels’
whose leadership
 is actually
being chosen by the US regime’s chief ally, the
fundamentalist-Sunni Saud family
,
who already own Saudi Arabia, and who 
(along
with the CIA) have been unsuccessfully trying, ever since 1949, to
take over the committedly secular, non-sectarian, nation of Syria
.
In fact, the CIA perpetrated 
two
of the three Syrian coups
 that
were carried out in 1949. 

The
US regime, and its allies, have used the Muslim Brotherhood, in order
to recruit into Syria the 100,000+ jihadists from around the world to
fight to overthrow Syria’s secular Government. Even the BBC’s 13
December 2013 detailed report, 
“Guide
to the Syrian rebels”
,
made clear that the “Syrian Rebels” were, in fact, overwhelmingly
jihadist and largely recruited from abroad. These were hardly
democrats. Even a Tony-Blair-founded anti-Assad NGO’s study
concluded that 
“Sixty
per cent of major Syrian rebel groups are Islamist 
extremists (not
just “Islamists” but “Islamist extremists”) and yet the
Blair outfit still supported the overthrow of the committed
secularist Assad (just as Blair had earlier participated himself in
the US regime’s 
destruction
of Iraq
). 

The
fundamentalist-Sunni royal Thani family own Qatar and have been the
top international funders of the Muslim Brotherhood, just as the
fundamentalist-Sunni royal Saud family, who 
own
Saudi Arabia
,
have been 
the
top funders of Al Qaeda
.
The main difference between the Sauds and the Thanis has been that
whereas 
the
Sauds hate Shia
 (and
that means 
especially
Iran
),
the Thanis don’t. Thus, for the Sauds, this is a war against the
Shia center, Iran, and not only against Syria. This war
against Syria was a coordinated US-Saud-Thani operation, in which the
fundamentalist-Sunni group, Al Qaeda, provided the leadership but 
the
(pan-Islamic) fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood provided the largest
recruiting website
.
This entire hyper-aggressive operation was internationally
coordinated. 
The
Obama Administration started planning this operation, under Hillary
Clinton, in 2010.
 As
even the neoconservative (i.e., US-empire advocating) 
Washington
Post
 reported,
on 17 April 2011, from Wikileaks, 
“It
is unclear whether the State Department is still funding Syrian
opposition groups, but the cables indicate money was set aside [by
the Obama Administration] at least through September 2010.”
 That
article mentioned only “former members of the Muslim
Brotherhood,” not the Muslim Brotherhood itself; and no mention was
made in it to Al Qaeda, in any form. 

Then,
in 2013, the neoconservative 
Foreign
Policy
 magazine
headlined 
“How
the Muslim Brotherhood Hijacked Syria’s Revolution”
 and
was oblivious regarding the neoconservative Obama Administration’s
having planned that “hijacking,” starting in 2010 (but 
going
back even as far as Obama’s inauguration
;
this operation was a key part of 
his
secret anti-Russia agenda
,
which preceded even his coming into office). But if Obama wasn’t
neocon-enough to suit that magazine’s editors, then Trump certainly
should be, because 
Trump
continues Obama’s foreign policies but with an even more hostile
thrust against the Sauds’
chief
target, which is Iran.
 Above
all, 
the
US alliance’s goal has been for the Saud family’s selected
(rabidly anti-Shiite) people to take over and run the Syrian
Government
.
As Global Security 
has
phrased this matter
,
“The High Negotiations Committee [which is the group who are
negotiating against Assad’s government at the US-sponsored ‘peace’
talks] is a Saudi-backed coalition of Syrian opposition groups. The
High Negotiations Committee (HNC) was created in Saudi Arabia in
December 2015.” 

So,
this war in Syria has actually been the Sauds’ war to take over
Syria. And it actually 
started
in 1949
,
but the 
US-backed
Muslim-Brotherhood-led “Arab Spring” in 2011
 gave
the US and its allies the opportunity to culminate it, finally. 

And
Europe receives the fall-out from it. 
This
fall-out has been hurting European corporations, in international
competition against US corporations.
 It’s not only
political.

The
US regime has 
continued
this thrust, under Obama’s successor
.
US President Donald Trump demands European corporations to end their
business with Shiite Iran (which the Saud family is determined to
take over), and to end their business with Russia, 
which
America’s own billionaires themselves are determined to take over
,
just like the Sauds are determined to take over both Syria and Iran.

And
Europe receives refugees not only from places where the US and some
of its NATO allies have recently been bombing, but even from 
Kosovo,
Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places where NATO has bombed in the
past
,
and even from 
Ukraine,
where the US regime perpetrated a bloody coup in February 2014,
followed there by an ethnic-cleansing campaign to kill the residents
in areas which had voted the heaviest for the overthrown President
.

America
is no actual ally of Europe. The Marshall Plan is 
long-since
finished
,
and America has been taken over by 
psychopaths
who are Europe’s main enemies
,
not Europe’s friends, at all. (They’re friends of some European
aristocracies, but not of 
any European
public, not of even merely one public.)

Iran
and Russia should be Europe’s allies — 
they
didn’t cause any of Europe’s problems
.
America did. America’s intelligence agencies tapped (and 
probably
still tap
)
the phones of Germany’s Chancellor and practically everybody else,
and yet the US regime has the gall to blame Russia for interfering in
the political affairs of European countries. If that isn’t the pot
calling the kettle ‘black’, then what is? If anything, the EU’s
sanctions should be against doing business with American firms
— 
not against
doing business with Russian firms, or with Iranian firms. European
politicians who support the US support Europe’s top enemy.

Russia
is, itself, a European country, which additionally traverses much of
Asia, but America is no European country, 
at
all
,
and yet now is so brazen as to demand that Europe must do America’s
bidding — not only against Russia, but also against the
Sauds’ 
main target,
which is Iran (the same main target as Israel’s).

Why
are Europeans not asking themselves: 
Who is
Europe’s enemy in all of this — what 
causes this
refugee-crisis? The refugees certainly didn’t.

It’s
not Russia, and it’s not Iran, and it’s not China; 
it
is America — which is the true enemy of them all, and of us all —
including even of the American people ourselves
,
because 
the
US Government no longer actually represents the American people
.
These invasions, and military occupations, and coups, do not serve
America’s public; they serve America’s aristocracy. The US is no
longer (
if
it ever was
)
a democracy. The US Government now is the US aristocracy
— 
not the
US public. It’s a 
dictatorship.
And, it has 
the
type of ‘news’media that any dictatorship has
.

On
June 30th, the US aristocracy’s 
New
York Times
 headlined “Bavaria:
Affluent, Picturesque — and Angry”
,
and reported “the new angry center of Europe, the latest
battleground for populists eager to bring down both Chancellor Angela
Merkel of Germany and the idea of a liberal Europe itself.” Their
elitist (pro-US-aristocracy) ‘reporter’ (actually propagandist)
interviewed ‘experts’ who condemn Europe’s politicians that are
trying to assuage their own public’s anger against the EU’s
open-door policy regarding this flood of refugees from 
what
is actually, for the most part, the US regime’s (and its allies’)
bombings — air-support of the boots-on-the-ground jihadist
mercenaries.
 The
combination of this air-support, and of the jihadists, has been the
backbone of the US-Saudi-Israeli effort to overthrow and replace
Syria’s Government.

Libya
was a similar case, but was only friendly toward Russia,
not 
allied with
Russia, as both Syria and Iran are.

The
US aristocracy funds an enormous international PR campaign for all
this.
 These
are 
‘humanitarian’
bombings
 in
order to replace 
a
‘barbaric’ Government
 —
but replace it with what? With one that would be chosen by the Sauds.
And this propaganda-campaign is also funded by the
US-
allied aristocracies. All
of the major ‘news’media, in US and allies, receive their
‘expert’ ‘information’ from these privately-funded and
government-funded propagandists, who are treated by ‘journalists’ as
being objective and experts (which they’re not).

The NYT article
says — and I add here key explanatory links:

This
is not about economics,” said 
Gerald
Knaus
,
the director of the 
European
Stability Initiative
, [and
though unmentioned by the 
Times“The
Open Society Institute was a major core funder”
 of
the ESI, which is] 
a
Berlin-based think tank. “It is about identity and a very
successful populist P.R. machine that is rewriting recent history.”

So:
the 
Times was
secretly (and they didn’t include any links to help online readers
know who was actually funding their ‘experts’, at all) pumping
NATO propaganda, as if it were authentic and neutral news-reporting,
instead of craven service to the US aristocracy that controls the US
Government and its NATO military alliance. This is the 
New
York Times
, itself,
that is “rewriting recent history.” That’s how they do it —
constantly (as ‘news’).

And
here is some of that “recent history” the Times is
“rewriting” (by simply omitting to so much as even just suggest,
but which is 
essential
backgound
 in
order to understand the 
real history
behind this important matter):

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP01-50/RP01-50.pdf

House
of Commons, Research Paper 01/50, 2 May 2001

European
Security and Defence Policy: Nice and Beyond”

pp.
47-48:

On
7 February 2001 the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, emphasised the
ESDP’s [European Security and Defence Policy’s] tie to NATO
during a press interview, following his meeting in Washington with US
National Security Adviser, Condoleeza Rice. He said:

I
have stressed that the 
European
Security Initiative will strengthen the capacity of Europe to
contribute to crisis management and therefore is welcome to a
Washington that is interested in fairer burden sharing, and
that Washington can be confident that Britain will insist that
the European Security Initiative is firmly anchored on NATO. We are
both determined to see that happen, we are both determined to make
sure that the European Security Initiative carries out its promise to
strengthen the North Atlantic Alliance
.119

——

Though
the Sauds, and also Israel’s aristocracy, are mainly anti-Iran, the
US aristocracy are obsessed with their goal of conquering Russia.
Since Iran, and Syria, are both allied with Russia, the US regime is
trying to overthrow those Russia-allied Governments, before 
going
in for the kill, against Russia itself
.
That’s what all of these economic sanctions, and the bombings and
the backing of Al Qaeda for overthrowing Syria’s Government, are
really all about. 

Is this what
today’s Europeans want their Governments to be doing — and doing
it for 
that reason,
the US aristocracy’s reason? Despite the huge harms it is certainly
causing to Europeans?

Here,
then, is a debate between, on the one hand a retired CIA official who
thinks “Our relationship with Israel causes us war with
Muslims,” versus Representatives in the US Congress who are
actually representatives of Israel’s Government
 and
definitely 
not
representatives
of the American people. Both sides in that debate are acceptable to
the aristocrats who control the US Government, because neither side
argues that the apartheid theocratic Government of Israel is an enemy
of the American people (as is documented actually to be the
case, 
here and here),
nor that 
the
entire problem of Islamic terrorism is fundamentalist-Sunni, and that
only Israel gets hit by terrorism that’s from both Sunnis and
Shiites — that Shiites (the US alliance’s targets) are no terrorist
threat, at all, to Europeans (nor to Americans)
 —
the “Islamist” threat is actually only from fundamentalist
Sunnis, which are the very same groups that are secretly allied with
America’s aristocracy and the Sauds. Neither side of the ‘debate’
acknowledges that both the Sauds and Israel (and 
Israel’s
lobbyists represent internationally also the Sauds’ interests
)
are enemies both of the American people, and of the peoples of
Europe. 

As
the world’s greatest blogger, the former UK Ambassador (but too
honest to stay in that business) Craig Murray, recently said under
the headline, 
“No
Trump, No Clinton, No NATO”
:
“The destruction of Libya’s government and infrastructure
directly caused the Mediterranean boat migrant crisis, which has
poisoned the politics of much of the European Union.” But, of
course, the US regime and its allies have also destroyed other
countries than that — and thus caused refugees to Europe from many
nations. And, finally, 
even
the US Government (though as quietly as possible) acknowledges that
it has destroyed Afghanistan
.
Ironically, that’s the very nation where America and the Sauds, 
in
1979
,
had started their war against all Governments that 
won’t
buckle to them
.

Furthermore,
the US regime intends to keep it up. In case a reader might happen to
think that, surely, the US regime and its allies are going to quit
this rousing of hornets’ nests; Sharmine Narwani, who is one of the
very few non-“embedded” journalists who reports in The West about
— and (which the mainstream ones don’t) 
from 
the war in Syria, headlined, on June 25th, 
“Are
al-Qaeda Affiliates Fighting Alongside US Rebels in Syria’s
South?”
 and
she found that the answer to this question is a resounding yes:

Despite
its US and UN designation as a terrorist organization, Nusra [Al
Qaeda’s main name in Syria] has been openly fighting alongside
the “Southern Front,” a group of 54 opposition militias funded
and commanded by a US-led war room based in Amman, Jordan called the
Military Operations Center (MOC). …

Sources
inside Syria — both opposition fighters and Syrian military brass
(past and present) — suggest the command center consists of the US,
UK, France, Jordan, Israel, and some Persian Gulf states. … In
practice, the US doesn’t appear to mind the Nusra affiliation —
regardless of the fact that the group is a terror organization — as
long as the job gets done.

These
wars, which pour Middle Eastern (and also 
Ukrainian*)
refugees into the EU, are inter-aristocratic conflicts reflecting
inter-aristocratic competitions; and the publics everywhere suffer
enormously from them. The 
gainers
from it
 are
very few but very rich (and they hire very powerful agents in Europe
and elsewhere). Those billionaire gainers, and their agents, should
be Europe’s targets — 
not Russia
and Iran. NATO must end now. Europe needs to be freed, at last, from
America’s permanent-war-for permanent-‘peace’ grip. For
Europeans, who are the indirect victims, to be blaming the refugees,
who are the direct victims, won’t solve anything, but will simply
please the victimizers, as is the public’s ancient habit (to please
the powerful). A break must be made, away from that ugly past.
European publics must lead the way, or no one will.

PS:
Since this article asserts such a large number of things that
contradict what the US Government and its agents assert, I have
sought out and here linked to the highest-quality, least-contested
and most highly authenticated, sources and also to sources that link
to such sources; all of which, taken together, constitute a
book-length proof of the title-case here, that “America Bombs,
Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s Evil.” Furthermore, this online
virtual “book” is tracking back to the most unimpeachable
documents, all of them available merely by means of clicking, and
thus without the reader’s needing to visit a huge scholarly library
(which might be quite distant); so, the reader can here easily branch
out to this entire, and otherwise largely hidden, world of reliable
sources, which the US regime wants the public not to know, and
certainly not to 
understand.
It’s no longer necessary to be an intelligence-professional in
order to come to understand what the regime wants the public 
not to
understand.

Tags: European
Union
  Middle
East
  Migration 

ERIC ZUESSE   Eric ZUESSE


‘American’ writer and investigative historian.

*
Kleine vergissing: de Oekraïners die Oost-Oekraïne ontvluchten
vanwege de bombardementen van het Oekraïense leger (voor het grootste
deel bevolkt met neonazi’s), vluchten niet naar de EU, maar naar
Rusland. (ze zouden al worden vermoord, voordat ze de westgrens van Oekraïne bereikten…..)

Turkey-deal: het opdelen van Syrië t.b.v. gas- en oliepijpleidingen…..

Het volgende artikel vond ik op het blog van Stan van Houcke, het origineel werd geschreven door Eric Zuesse, en is de vertaling van berichten op Deutsche Wirtschaft Nachrichten (DWN, vertaalt door Zuesse als: ‘German Economic News’, de link naar die webpagina, vindt u in het artikel). Deze vertaling werd op 18 maart jl. geplaatst op ‘Washington’s Blog’.

Het bericht gaat in op de EU-Turkse koehandel met vluchtelingen en het aanleggen van pijpleidingen naar de EU door Syrië, waarmee de Russische olie- en gasleveringen aan de EU kunnen worden gestopt. Bovendien, zoals u aan de kop hieronder kunt zien, wordt in dit bericht gewezen op de vergaring van macht over de EU door: de neoliberale grofgraaier Soros, de valse VS slang Obama, de Duitse machtswellusteling Merkel en de kalief van Ankara, Erdogan.

Soros-Obama-Merkel-Erdogan
Win Control of Europe

Posted
on March
18, 2016
 by Eric
Zuesse.

Eric
Zuesse

Soros-Obama-Merkel-Erdogan
Win Control of Europe

Posted
on
 March
18, 2016
 by Eric
Zuesse.

Eric
Zuesse.

On
Friday, March 18th, a combined effort by George Soros, Barack Obama,
Angela Merkel, and Tayyip Erdogan, has arranged to get the EU to
abandon previously sacrosanct fundamental human rights of refugees,
and to transfer $6B+ to Turkey, in return for placing the refugee
burden onto Turkey and getting Turkey to cooperate so as to assist
the breakup of Syria, which will enable a gas-pipeline and an
oil-pipeline to be built through Syria to enable Qatar’s gas and
Saudi Arabia’s oil to be pipelined through Syria into the EU, so as
to replace Russian oil and gas, which now fuel the EU.

Here,
in my rush translations from the original German-language reports at
German Economic News (
Deutsche
Wirtschafts Nachrichten
)
are the key reports and headlines:

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2016/03/18/tuerkei-deal-deutschland-koennte-grossteil-der-fluechtlinge-aufnehmen/



Turkey
deal: Germany could take majority of refugees


[Translated
by Eric Zuesse from] 
German
Economic News
  |  Published:18:03:16
02:56 Clock

The
most important consequence of the EU summit is not in the official
statement. A plan long discussed, now finalizing: Germany
takes the majority of refugees from Turkey, and oil and gas pipelines
will replace Russian oil and gas to Europe by Saudi oil and Qatari
gas.

Europe’s
energy supply should result in future Syria. (Graphic: 
oilprice.net)

According
to Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, the leaders of the
European Union 
mutually
agreed with Turkey
 to
cut Russia out of the EU gas market, cut Qatar [a U.S. ally] in. 
They
agreed in the early hours of Friday on a refugee-&-gas-pipeline
package to be approved by the Turkish government.

This
agreement will substantially correspond to the Pact of Angela Merkel
with Turkish President Erdogan. But it apparently comprises
only a small portion of the prepared between Germany, Turkey and the
USA.


Gerald
Knaus, director of the Soros-funded think tank “European Stability
Initiative” (ESI), for many months now has been advising Chancellor
Angela Merkel on the refugee crisis. His ESI submitted the plan
in October.

The original
plan
 consists
of two parts: 
On
the one hand, Germany should, during the coming year, “grant
500,000 Syrian refugees asylum, who are now in Turkey
.” Other
European countries may participate, but on a voluntary basis. At
the same time Turkey will take from Greece “all new migrants.”

Knaus,
himself Austrian, told the Viennese daily 
the
press
, that
“in the background, a 
more
radical idea has already been largely negotiated” which will
“probably very soon be announced
“:
Knaus said that a “coalition of the willing” will take 900
Syrians per day — “no matter how many Syrians come to
Greece.” This would be about 300,000 people per year —
slightly less than in the original Soros plan.

The
reason for Europe’s acquisition of hundreds of thousands of
refugees is obvious:
 The
proposed EU summit one-to-one solution would not be enough to relieve
Turkey significantly. Moreover, it’s not lawful from the
perspective of the Geneva Convention, as 
human
rights organizations have complained since the start of the Soros
proposal
. The
coalition of the willing currently consists of Germany, Portugal and
Sweden. Austria has not yet agreed. Presumably Merkel will move
some other countries also to participate. Thus, the plan could
be presented as a European solution.

From
an organizational standpoint, Knaus thinks that consideration in
Turkey of the plan will succeed in an agreement being reached
. Knaus
holds this to be essential. He told the newspaper 
Die
Welt
:
“The acceptance, by the public, of receiving the refugees is
essential. Had we in Europe started earlier with a quota
solution, we’d be farther along today. I think that also
Sweden and Austria would have been on our side. Unfortunately,
the process in the past year fell out of control. We had no idea
who is coming into our country. This fueled fears. “

The
Soros plan is apparently agreed with the US government.
 Angela
Merkel supported in this way the geopolitical plans of the Americans,
who have a special interest in developing their energy policies in
the region. They are planning the Trans Adriatic Pipeline
(TAP). 
Construction
of TAP is pushed by the United States.
 This
will run from the Turkish border via Greece, Albania and the Strait
of Otranto to Italy. Thus, one of the main refugee routes
to Europe, which is particularly overloaded after the closure of the
Balkan route, will be cleared for pipelining gas into Europe.

Further
destabilization of the TAP region is therefore not in the interests
of the United States.
 They
also want to ensure that Europe is supplied via a pipeline that’s
under US control, not under Russian control. 
The
US and Russia are fighting for the European energy market
.

It
is interesting in this context that 
a
competing Russian pipeline through Syrian territory could also
result.
 The
surprising retreat of the Russians from Syria might suggest that
there could be an agreement between Russia and the US: In this way,
the geopolitical interests of both Great Powers could be
safeguarded. The relationship between the pipeline projects and
the war in Syria has the raw material site 
Oilprice.net
analyzed in order
 that
all parties want to solve the dependence of Saudi oil.

In
this connection the role of the Americans is also in the
media 
largely
ignored regarding the visiting US diplomat Victoria Nuland in
Idomeni.
 Nuland’s pithy
sayings (such as “fuck the EU”) and her role in Ukraine, made her
try to become known as a Goodwill Ambassador for Europe; she Thursday
visited the refugee camps in the northern Greek Idomeni,
reports 
Kathimerini .

The
Turkish news portal 
Haberler reports
what Nuland said in Idomeni: “It needs to be done for these people
more. Athens has made a direct request to Washington. In
this difficult situation, I’m here, for American-Greek
solidarity. 
We
will work together to solve the problem of distribution of refugees
within the EU. 
In
addition, we want to help ensure that the deal between the EU and
Turkey is fair and transparent. It’s time to better
accommodate the migrants. “

On
11 March, Nuland met with representatives of the Greek government in
Athens to discuss the full range of bilateral and regional issues,
including the request for assistance of Greece to the United States,
in solving the migration problem, 
reported
the US State Department
 .

This
context could explain also why Angela Merkel has waited so
long to go to the German public with a real plan for the refugee
crisis 
— even though they have long been familiar with the
Soros plan and he apparently also laid the basis with the Chancellor
for Turkey jointly to launch the proposal at the EU summit: this was
to help Merkel not to inflame sentiment in Germany before the
state elections. Because the message that Germany could possibly
be the only country to take a large number of refugees, would have a
serious impact that has led even without this perspective to tectonic
shifts in favor of the AFD [anti-immigrant party].

Knaus
sees the axis Ankara-Berlin as crucial for geopolitical
orientation against Russia.
 He said in an international
interview that Germany made the mistake not to place undue reliance
on the EU Commission: “Germany has early understood much. But
it made the mistake of relying too much on the implementation by the
Commission. Germany would have taken matters into its own hands
earlier.”

Knaus
sees the role of Germany as partners with Turkey and the USA.
 Here
lies the common interest to host the refugees: “Germany does not
expire like other states in an anti-Islam rhetoric. At the same
time it sees Ankara, in a delicate geostrategic position between
anti-Muslim governments in Europe and a strong Putin. A
successful and connected in partnership by Berlin may be worth a lot
for Turkey and its approach to Europe.”

This
closes the circle for the TAP pipeline: The Americans want to
snatch the European energy market away from Russia.
 In the
absence of our own energy policy, Europeans are currently completely
dependent on Russia. If both pipelines – quasi in a duopoly of
the Americans and the Russians – are built, the energy policy space
for the EU would increase significantly.

That led
to the present situation, a murderous war that’s driven hundreds of
thousands from Syria and Iraq.
 It had to be, from a
geopolitical point of view of the parties — Russia, the US and the
EU — regarded as collateral damage.


After
all, the Soros plan would in fact lead to the result that the right
of asylum would be respected so that immigration to Europe is
not completely disordered
. What guarantees that the EU gets
Turkey to treat the refugees humanely, is completely unclear. It
also is unclear whether the acceptance of refugees in Germany can be
satisfactorily prepared. It also remains open whether the EU
will have, as a result of the apparent cleavage of the project,
neither the power to play as a political union, nor a role that goes
beyond that of simply a large, attractive market.

——

EU
and Turkey Reach Agreement
 on
Refugees

The
EU and Turkey have agreed on a deal. The deal enters into force
on March 20. From then on, refugees who arrive irregularly in
Greece will be returned to Turkey.

German
Economic News
  | March
18, 2016, 19:08 Clock

——

Shabby
EU-Turkey deal is a day of mourning for asylum”

The
human rights organization Pro Asyl has sharply condemned the deal
with Turkey. Today is a day of mourning for the right of
asylum. The organization announces that it will file lawsuits.

German
Economic News
  | March
18, 2016, 19:00 Clock

——

EU
deal: Turkey does not agree to respect human rights
 Angela
Merkel and Dutch Mark Rutte at the summit in Brussels. (Ph

The
deal with Turkey stipulates that Turkey serves as large refugee camps
for the EU. Turkey seems to have succeeded to determine the
standards for the treatment of refugees and migrants. A
commitment to respect for human rights was deleted from the final
document.

German
Economic News
  | March
18, 2016, 18:13 Clock

Investigative
historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of  
They’re
Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records,
1910-2010
, and
of
  CHRIST’S
VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity
.

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