The outright failure of German chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy is now obvious to the entire world. Last week Austria and Nine Balkan Countries Effectively Told Merkel Go to Hell.
The chancellor is now desperately backing off her previous positions, slowly but surely, with an emphasis on slowly. She simply cannot admit failure. Ultimately, inability to admit mistakes dooms every politician.
In 2008, then senator Hillary Clinton lost the nomination to Barrack Obama for the simple reason she would not admit her vote for Bush’s absurd war in Iraq was an error.
Let’s fast forward to today and ponder the Spiegel article Opinion: Merkel’s Humane Refugee Policies Have Failed.
Last September, Angela Merkel opened Germany’s borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees, mostly from Syria. Her calculation that the rest of Europe would support her backfired. She now finds herself isolated at home and abroad as conditions worsen for asylum-seekers.
From today’s perspective, Sept. 5, 2015, feels like an eternity ago. That was the day when the chancellor made the decision to allow refugees who had been detained in Hungary to come to Germany. It was the day when she decided to adopt a humanitarian refugee policy — and the beginning of the erosion of Angela Merkel’s power.
Relent or Relinquish
When a politician experiences a policy failure, their power is jeopardized. They must decide whether to jettison those policies or relinquish power. Merkel appeared ready to put her power at stake with her open arms approach to the refugee policy in much the same way her predecessor Gerhard Schröder did with his Agenda 2010 structural reforms and Helmut Schmidt did with his NATO Double-Track Decision, which allowed the deployment of American nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
But that no longer appears to be the case. The chancellor will relent; in fact, she has already begun. Her policy shift is by no means radical — it is taking place in many smaller steps, making it more difficult to discern. But in the end, little will be left of the friendly face with which Merkel wanted to welcome migrants when they arrived.
Conditions for refugees are already rapidly deteriorating. Social benefits are being reduced, limits are being placed on family reunification in a way that will lead even more women and children to make the dangerous journey by boat to Europe. The number of countries designated as safe will be increased, allowing for the easier rejection and deportation of asylum applicants. And there will be a forced repatriation of Afghan nationals — to the very country that Western troops were unable to pacify and is now sinking into civil war.
Currently, significantly fewer refugees are arriving in Germany. This, however, is not the product of Merkel’s policies — it is the result of her failure. Fewer people are coming because Merkel’s opponents have closed the borders along the Balkan Route. Even back in the autumn when Hungary erected a border fence, the protest from Berlin was at best cautious. And when Turkey began erecting a wall along the Syrian border, officials expressed understanding behind the scenes.
Now that that Balkan Route is being sealed off, Berlin is declaring it to be the second-best solution. In a government declaration delivered in mid-February, Merkel soberly asked if it was worth while continuing “with our European-Turkish approach” or whether it might be better to just close the Greek-Macedonian border? What we are witnessing today no longer has anything to do with conviction — it is the return of the ultra-pragmatic Chancellor Merkel, who is paving an escape route from her previous policies.
Amazingly Accurate Graffiti
Peak Merkel
The sign, painted along a wall on a road on Rügen Island in northeastern Germany, reads “We’ll Never Manage It, Ms. Merkel“.
Indeed.
I called for this well in advance, on October 18, 2015 to be precise: Swamped By Stupidity; Peak Merkel.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Islam is absolutely NOT compatible with the secular democracies that now exist in the USA and the EU.
For example, as their numbers grow, devout Muslims living in the USA or in the EU, will demand SHARIA LAW. Sharia Law CONTROLS every aspect of CIVIL LAW and CRIMINAL LAW. Worst of all, Sharia Law treats women as the property/slaves of men.
Islam is incompatible with western values.
This video is years old, the percentages have since increased everywhere, can you recognize the trend happening in the USA?
WHAT ISLAM IS NOT
http://youtu.be/VEXWjlgJ83E
What is also happening is an infiltration and seizure with authority at all US federal agencies. Most Americans are totally oblivious to our new unfolding reality that is quietly, steadily, purposely and with increased momentum, taking control over all aspects of our country.
When Obama said we are no longer a Christian nation, his intention is to insure it and enforce Sharia compliance and it is happening in a gradual but sustained manner (purposely without fanfare).
Closed Macedonia border:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35687257
If migrants want in, they will enter. There has to be a policy of return, no country can guarantee a policy of return by itself, the most it can do is return migrants to its border, to a no man’s land between borders.
The borders to EU will remain porous. There are enough of every nation in EU to justify visit visas for the rest as family, who may then refuse to return, just dissapear into EU. No country wants to round up the ‘paperless’, it is too much hassle and cost. Likely the creation of a centralized biometric database will ‘ have to be ‘ imposed to keep track.
Macedonian official should just use more force to maintain order.
That all ‘helps’, but reality is that no country is allowed to use force until a migrant is on their soil. Once on their soil the law of western countries is that they must be allowed to present their ‘case’, must be allowed to defend themselves, and in most countries application for asylum is a mandatory provision. Even Austria admits with its asylum quota that it will turn away possible assylants, but that does not mean it is able to disrespect the persona of anyone who enters their country – the only ‘humane’ approach is defensive, and then deportation. Deportation requires the consent of the home, or a hosting country – this is not always available, but is the point that should be worked through.
If you look at somewhere like Ceuta, they erected double rows of sensored and patrolled razor fence, and still migrants passed. They would storm the fence in mass, caught and bleeding in the razor wire, build ramps, swim around and drown after being physically obstructed by security personel. Very bad, and yet they would continue trying, waiting in camps in the forests in the worst of conditions. This all changed once Morocco agreed to hot returns, to patrol its side of the border, to clear camps.
That is the only real way.
Where there is a sea border there is NO WAY to control immigration without the cooperation of the neighbouring state.
It seems that the refugees has stormed the fence to Macedonia and managed to breakthrough.
As I understand it: the Middle East and North Africa are collapsing due to over-population and that perhaps some 35 million refugees are heading towards Europe in the coming years. There is simply no way that liberal democracies will be able to address this situation with their moral base of human rights to each and every human seeking asylum. I believe that this will lead to a collapse of the European Union.
Yoshua – if you were to consider that the west is aiming to ‘civilize’ and control the near east and north Africa then the moral base is already very questionable . If that is the project , and it backfires (as it would seem to be doing) , then various individual countries will reject EU legislation (as they are doing) .
EU is nowhere , individual countries are somewhere , and migrants always move to somewhere .
European Union is a Supra-national entity, created with the aim to destroy the concept of nations. EU is nowhere and cannot be destroyed. The migrants will just destroy individual countries. Then perhaps this is by design by our political elites ? Today there seems to be a conflict between the EU and its member states in many areas… and so far the EU has always won the battles.
The effort to overthrow Assad hasn’t worked out very well. Nor did the effort to overthrow Khadaffi.
Macedonian border towards Greece must be SHUT completely so the pull factor from Greece disappears. Other neighbors of Greece must also keep their borders closed.
Greece offers NO free apartments, NO free money, NO family re-unification straight to welfare so the ONLY reason asylum seekers flock to Greece in large numbers is that Greece has been allowing people to continue their travel to western european welfare states which offer FREE everything and where even afghans have been previously accepted in 50%-70% of applications as refugees despite Kabul and surrounding areas being safe so therefore EVERY afghan asylum application should have been denied based on the possibility of internal flight which is a valid reason to reject an asylum application according to international treaties.
When the way to western Europe through Greece is blocked nobody will come and therefore nobody will drown anymore.
EU insanity of planning burden sharing aka spreading asylum seekers from Greece all around europe by EU must be stopped and also EU-hotspots in Greece where EU plans to give out refugee-statuses and then spread accepted asylum applicants around EU must be stopped because these will just keep everybody trying to reach greece.
Also EU’s newest bad idea of transferring 450 000 refugees from Turkey around european welfare states must be stopped because this will just pull millions more to come to Turkey to try their luck in getting FREE everything for the rest of their lives in european welfare states..
Every “solution” EU-bureaucrats and Merkel have so far offered have made the situation worse and encouraged even more people to come and there fore even more people have drowned because of EU-bureaucrats incompetence and Merkels obsession to be a good person and help no matter what the costs and consequences.
I hope Merkel steps down and the new chancellor of Germany will be Seehofer who has been against Merkel every step of the way and called her insanity repeatedly as what it was as bad choices and then even worse choices creating chaos in Europe and making even more people try their luck to get everything Germany and sweden and other western european countries have offered.
The previous policies in EU have just been too lax and bureaucrats have been showing their incompetence because it’s insane that simply telling a story in one intwerview by a bureaucrat got you FREE everything for life if you were from Afghanistan, Iraq or Somalia which all have peaceful areas and it was total insanity that EU countries rewarded eritrean military deserters with FREE everything for the rest of their life causing tens of thousands of eritreans to desert their army service..
Also the only people who are genuinely escaping a bad situation, namely syrians were all already SAFE when they reached Turkey so the situation should have been that EU supports these people in Turkey and does not create additional pull factor to Turkey by giving 450 000 people free everything for the rest of their life in EU welfare countries.
The reason Turkey has had to start building a fence on their border with Syria is that the amounts of people trying to reach Turkey have been increasing because EU plans are already being spread in Syrians facebook groups “go to turkey, Europe will give 450 000 syrians in turkish refugee camps a free apartment in western europe, free money and then a family re-unification to europe for their families. Go to Turkey now to get to europe”
This also creates huge bitterness among the rest who would stay in Turkey still and would not be chosen for the dream life.
EU bureaucrats and most western european politicians are completely out of touch and I only hope they wakeup before this catastrophe Merkel/Germany, Lofven/Sweden and Tsipras/Greece and EU-bureaucrats have created gets worse.
And this is why it won’t be stopped by our government in the USA:
What do we know at this point:
-The Islamization of American schools, Google it (too much to list here)
-The FBI dropping Islam from it’s list of terrorists while expanding ‘domestic’ definitions. Your probably on the list.
-NASA tax funded Muslim outreach mandate.
-US taxes rebuilding and renovating mosques AROUND THE WORLD (much of that money has been re-routed back to America? (mosque building in the USA has gone up surpassing 70% since Obama took office, wow – coincidence?
-International effort to make criticism of Islam illegal in the USA, supported by Obama and, yep – Hillary Clinton. Google it.
-CIA Director John Brennan alleged to have converted to Islam
-Ex Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel alleged to have converted to Islam. What’s his replacements belief? And not a WORD about those 11 (that’s ELEVEN!) ‘missing’ jumbo jets?
-7 BILLION US tax dollar project to build a NEW power grid for (Muslim) Africa while the US power grid deteriorates and is vulnerable to EMP attacks.
-6 Muslim Brotherhood ‘advisers’ in Obama Administration.
-Muslim Brotherhood infiltrates top Gov. positions, yep, Google it
-Muslim Brotherhood agent Andre Carson appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and now can deem his activities and information as ‘classified’.
-Muslim Brotherhood MPAC Trains TSA to give Muslims VIP pass, Google it.
-New York Police Department Ramps Up Recruitment Of Muslim …
pamelageller.com/2015/06/new-york-police-department-ramps-up…
-Release from Gitmo of 5 of the most dangerous Taliban commanders.
-Botched US attempt to trade kidnapped Benghazi ambassador Stevens for the Blind Sheikh. The same operation was also used to ship US “heavy” weapons to al Qaeda, ISIS or as the name keeps changing ‘Da’ish’ . Google it.
-Still Report #281 – Is Obama a Sunni?
https://youtu.be/JdtD7qf5btQ
-Still Report #367 – More on Obama & the Muslim Brotherhood
https://youtu.be/YnQonCwvbBc
-Still Report #427 – Is Obama a Muslim?
https://youtu.be/M75qSoTS-M8
… get it yet?
What is happening in the USA is an Islamic infiltration and seizure of authority at all US federal agencies. Most Americans are totally oblivious to our new unfolding reality that is quietly, steadily, purposely and with increased momentum, taking control over all aspects of our country.
When Obama said we are no longer a Christian nation, his intention is to insure it and enforce Sharia compliance and it is happening in a gradual but sustained manner (purposely without fanfare).
The US federal government has been usurped by globalists and manufactured the chaos that is now in Europe.
They are successfully importing it into the USA to destroy it from within.
American citizens, along with the Russians and Chinese, are now the enemy of our own federal government.
Refugees Being Snuck Into US On UPS Flights Under Cover of Darkness?
https://youtu.be/QBo8hXuj-eM
Still Report #476 – Snopes Covers For UPS
https://youtu.be/k_U-72o4j0Y
UN slams airstrike on water treatment facility in Syria’s Aleppo
https://youtu.be/s9EEYtfCPpk
Will that create more refugees? … yep, that’s the plan. Then Putin will be blamed for the consequences
The US is an old hand at bombing civilian water supply — did it in Iraq, and Libya, and now Syria. It takes out electricity, schools, and medical facilities too — all sorts of civilian stuff. All war crimes, of course, but what does the US care about that as long as it destroys countries and throw them into chaos? That’s the purpose. ‘Empire of Chaos’ as Pepe Escobar terms it. Naomi Klein wrote a book on it: ~Shock Doctrine~. – From: •Blue Pilgrim Kjell Hasthi •
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14.02.2016
Evidence Shows US Helping ISIL to Survive in Iraq
by Mario Andrijasevic exclusively for SouthFront
“Under the pretext of fighting the Takfiri terrorist group the US and its allies airdrop weapons and food for the ISIL terrorists”