JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: THE EU SIGNS A DEAL ON REFUGEES WITH TURKEY – THIS MARKS THE SUPREME LOW POINT FOR THE EU UNDER MERKEL’S INFLUENCE

John Chuckman

COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN IN THE GUARDIAN

 

This is the supreme low point for the EU under Merkel’s influence.

A deal forged with one of the most evil and ruthless leaders on the planet, and it involves giving him lots of money and encouragement to become a future part of the EU.

We’ve had a lot of garbage propaganda about Russians doing this or that, including an idiotic claim that Russia has weaponized migration.

But here is a pay-off deal with the very man who really has weaponized migration, Erdogan.

Paying a mass murderer – Syria and his own Kurds – to help alleviate the very problem he created.

Oh, I am sick at the thought of the EU today, where once, in de Gaulle’s day, I much admire

How does any Western politician ever again open his or her mouth to speak of ethics or morality or rights?

Of course, I am sure that the murderous empire of the United States has been pushing hard for this.

None of this would have happened had Europe stood up to the United States – and its evil proxies – Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Israel – five years or so ago.

They are the ones who caused all of this.

Yet our governments and press cannot stop calling Putin – who has done nothing but defend Russia’s interests in the face of another American aggression – names.

Then they sign a deal with a mass murderer, thief, and tyrant against free speech.

A monumental disgrace.

I suspect strongly that intense American pressure is at work to achieve just that, Turkey always been having been viewed as a key geo-political spot in the endless hostility towards Russia.