New Center Occasional Paper Documents how the Kremlin Fosters Destabilizing Refugee Flows into Europe
May 29, 2018 Center for Security Policy
Refugees the world over fleeing economic hardship, natural disaster, and warfare have long looked to Europe as a prime destination. The impact of their mass migration there has, predictably, been deeply traumatizing for the host nations and their citizens. That is especially true of the hijra – the Islamic practice of migrating Muslim populations to spread the faith and its supremacist doctrine known as Sharia – that followed the outbreak of the so-called “Arab Spring†across the Middle East in 2011-2012. What ensued in much of the European Union was a tidal wave of predominantly single, military-age young men, in numbers unseen there since the invasions of the Ottoman Empire.
It is an open secret that Vladimir Putin has sought to rebuild and exercise Russia’s influence for the purpose of exacting revenge against those he holds responsible for the “greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century†– i.e., the fall of the Soviet Union. Preeminent among them is Western Europe and the NATO alliance.
Putin’s desire to get even can only have intensified with Europe’s imposition of sanctions against Russia for its seizure of Crimea and ongoing intervention elsewhere in Ukraine.
Read more at: https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/2018/05/29/new-center-occasional-paper-documents-how-the-kremlin-fosters-destabilizing-refugee-flows-into-europe/
Report can be read at website. This theme has been discussed before, Merkel certainly helped it along. Germany does seem to be facing a worker shortage actually, but still.
