The EU Immigration Crisis: Time for Europe to Accept the Consequences of Their Own Actions

In a previous article, I commented on the racism of Western elites, and how they view non-white immigrants as a weapon. That assessment seems to have been further confirmed by the rising border tensions between Poland and Belarus. European leaders accuse Belarusan President Alexander Lukashenko of “weaponizing” Middle Eastern refugees. Unfortunately, accusing one’s enemy of weaponizing immigrants is an acknowledgment that Europeans themselves see immigrants as weapons, not people. Ultimately, European regimes are suffering blowback from their own failed military expeditions and are desperately trying to find a scapegoat. Apparently, that scapegoat is Belarus.

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Iraqi refugees unable to pass through Turkey continue North into Ukraine and Belarus. Now that the colonial puppet government in Afghanistan has collapsed, a spike in Afghan refugees is also likely. That said, the European powers tolerated or actively participated in every American regime change in the Middle East since 2001. The West has destroyed the lives of millions of people, so has a responsibility to help them. It’s not a question of if refugees should be welcomed, but rather a question of how many. The endless whining about what Belarus has allegedly done or not done is just that, whining. Belarus is not obligated to be Europe’s personal bodyguard against their own incompetence and warmongering.

Accusations that Lukashenko is helping refugees get to the Polish border are probably true, or at least some of them are. However, the fact that Western media outlets usually fail to mention is that refugees from the Middle East and West Asia don’t want to settle in Belarus. They don’t even want to settle in Poland. The majority of these people are headed to Germany, where they can swim in a warm sea of luxury consumer goods and lavish welfare programs. Who can blame them? Germany helped destroy Afghanistan and kill tens of thousands of people, it only makes sense to hold her accountable for these crimes.

Chancellor Angela Merkel complains that Lukashenko isn’t doing enough to stop the flow of refugees, and I find that ironic. Not so long ago, European armies led by Germany raped Belarus, killed 1/4 of her population, and then waged economic warfare on the survivors ever since. After the fall of communism, Germany simply invented new excuses to kill Belarusans. Why should Lukashenko care that Merkel’s feelings are hurt? Maybe instead of complaining, Merkel should try to meet him in the middle. Lifting some of her sanctions would be a good start. But instead, she’s doing the opposite and advocating more sanctions. She even complained to Putin, as if he would care any more than Lukashenko does.

The Polish government has accused Belarus of using refugees in a “hybrid war” against Poland. However corrupt and heavyhanded Belarus might be in handling the refugee dilemma, Poland is hardly in a position to claim they are doing better. At least Belarus has invited foreign journalists to see the situation for themselves, the same cannot be said for Poland. Why has the Polish regime banned journalists from covering the frontlines of the border crisis? Why are they hiding from the limelight? Probably because refugees keep turning up injured or dead. As severe as the border situation is, it is only the most recent case of many Polish crackdowns on the news media and independent journalists.

One likely explanation for the Poles’ brutality against refugees is that Poland itself has a shaky standing in the EU. After the country’s ascension into the EU in 2004, more than two million Poles have left for greener pastures in Western Europe, including the UK. Since then, there has been growing public sentiment against them in those countries. Western Europe is hesitant to accept Afghan migrants largely because they are predominantly poor, face significant language barriers, often have little in the way of in-demand job skills. It seems that the enlightened progressives of Europe feel the same way about Poles. To be fair, Polish leaders often sabotage their own relationship with the West. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently accused his EU neighbors of instigating World War III, all because some suggestions were made that Poland has to abide by EU law if they want to continue receiving €10 billion in annual aid. Poland might be under serious pressure to play border guard, and face serious consequences if they fail.

Meanwhile, at least one far right-wing group in Germany has attempted to “help” with the border situation.

Accepting responsibility for their wars is hard. It is easier to point fingers at Belarus, who hasn’t gone to war with anyone.

UPDATE: Comrade Vlad has weighed in too. According to him, there are military and economic reasons for the current refugee crisis. Military, because EU nations participated in the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Also economic reasons; an unemployed refugee in Germany receives far more money than a person in his own country with a full-time job. Maybe he is being unfair, but I’m not sure what Merkel expected him to say.

Ian Kummer

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