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Much like in the last world war, Europe faces a choice of invasions. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has become an ad for NATO membership with Finland and Sweden joining up. Turkey’s dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan however announced that Sweden’s membership in NATO would be conditional on his backward Islamic tyranny joining the European Union.
Europeans face a choice of invaders: on one side there’s Russia and on the other is a hellhole where the government and much of the country support Islamic terrorism. 1 in 10 Turks didn’t believe ISIS was a terrorist organization, over 1 in 20 supported it and 3% knew someone who joined it.
European Union membership would allow free movement across borders from a country that is already overrun with armies of Muslim migrants. Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe by migrants who made their way through Turkey have already claimed lives. A recent poll found that 73% of young respondents in Turkey want to move. And that would put an end to Europe.
Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to unleash a migrant invasion of Europe. “We will open the gates and send 3.6 million refugees your way,” the tyrant had threatened in 2019.
While Erdogan put roadblocks in the way of Sweden’s NATO membership, he met with Zelensky and declared that, “Without a doubt, Ukraine deserves to be in NATO.”
A military conflict between Europe and Russia serves Erdogan’s interests. No single non-NATO nation has done as much to undermine Europe’s security as the Turkish regime. Erdogan believes that the more he causes chaos and undermines Europe, the more it will turn to him.
And so far his strategy has paid off.
Europe bribes Erdogan to keep migrants from overwhelming it. Now it’s bribing a non-European nation to allow European nations like Sweden to join NATO. This farce is playing out even as the majority of Turks have made it clear that they distrust and are hostile to NATO.
Why is Turkey in NATO? It’s the same question as why does NATO still exist. The answer is that despite the failures of the League of Nations and the United Nations, Europeans are still putting their faith in collective security. Rather than affirmatively taking steps to deal with conflicts, they are relying on alliances to do for them what they cannot and will not do for themselves.
Unwilling to seriously think ahead, America and Europe were dragged into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and even with the war underway refused to develop a strategy for what will happen next month so that Putin and Zelensky have set the tune to which everyone else dances. The retreat into the collective alliances of NATO is, like most forms of international bureaucracy, a way for countries to shift responsibility and to avoid making any decisions.
But the inertia of NATO membership comes at a high price. Turkey is willing to sign off on an expanded NATO as long as it also gets inside the EU. That choice of two invasions, Russians in the east and Turks in the west, is a catastrophic disaster that need not be happening. It is happening only because no one in Europe has learned any lessons from the past century.
Western European nations refused to believe that Hitler and Stalin intended to carve up Eastern Europe no matter how obviously they expressed their intent, let alone that war would then come into the civilized heartlands of their own borders. Their infamous appeasement was just a result of letting Germany and the Soviet Union call the shots for what the coming war would look like.
European nations retreated into diplomatic passivity, holding worthless meetings, negotiating nonsense, which reached its nadir in Chamberlain’s famous promise of “peace for our time”, but pervaded the general response to a war that seemingly everyone except the elites saw coming.
World War II was not the result of warmongering, but of the refusal of the winners of the last catastrophic war to come to grips with another war on the horizon. Western Europeans leaders like Chamberlain all too often spoke of peace as a general principle rather than a specific goal. The League of Nations by envisioning peace everywhere ensured that it would exist nowhere.
The United Nations and modern diplomacy have recreated the same feckless folly on a larger scale. Rather than define specific national interests, set firm borders and build up military capabilities to protect them, Europe has outsourced the problem to NATO which has outsourced it to an America that is as tired of wars as the Europeans were in the 30s and whose capabilities, as witnessed by the speed with which Ukraine has emptied our stockpiles, are not up to a major conflict anyway.
European leaders have come to depend for their security on nations like the United States and Turkey that they despise, that they accuse of blackmailing them, and that they need because the alternative would be to realize how bad things have become and to take responsibility for them.
NATO offers only the illusion of collective security. And the illusion will only hold until it is tested. If Ukraine were to join NATO, Russia could end the illusion in a matter of hours. And then European nations would have to decide whether to go to war or let the illusion die. Those are difficult decisions and there is no sign that any adults in the room are ready to address them.
European nations have shrunk, not only in birth rates and capabilities, but in spirit. It’s a shrinkage that has long been underway. That is why the migrant invasions have succeeded so well. It’s why Turkey remains in NATO and Putin and Zelensky are pushing and pulling Europe.
The continent that once gave us Talleyrand, Metternich, and Disraeli, now gives us bureaucrats in grey skirts who skitter about international conferences at which they conclude nothing except their mutual boredom before they convene for an evening of dancing at the local club. Churchill was Europe’s last gasp of strength and indecisiveness has become foreign policy. Asked to assert national interests, they take refuge in international generalities that require them to take in every migrant boat as the highest expression of the principles of universalism.
WWII was a painful lesson in the superiority of particularlism to universalism. No one in WWII fought for the principles of the League of Nations or the future United Nations. They fought to preserve, protect or avenge their own peoples. That included the United States on whom Hitler had declared war in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor. It’s a lesson that has once again gone unlearned as European politicians assert universal principles over the war in Ukraine.
The Ukranians and the Russians aren’t fighting each other over universal principles, but the familiar particular ones of nationalism, ethnic resentments and imperial grandiosity. As much as progressives like to fly the Ukrainian flag under their pronouns and ‘Refugees Welcome’ hashtags, their cause, like the Russian cause, the Polish cause and all the other national causes is a specific expression of the assertion of a people to its identity and independence.
Whether the rest of Europe chooses to participate in this cause or any other is not a universal question, but a particular one of their own national interests. There is a case to be made here both ways. Europe may wish to head off Russian expansionism or it may want to gamble that unlike WWII, Russian expansionism without the ideological fuel of Communism and with only a decrepit nation to work with does not pose a threat to the heartlands of Western Europe.
Either one would involve defining national interests and asserting them. And such an exercise would also boot Turkey from any relationship with Europe while closing the borders to the mobs of invading migrants that have devastated, robbed, raped and terrorized Europeans.
Europe does not have to choose between invaders. What it has to choose is whether to set a positive course or to let its national defense be someone else’s problem. NATO is an outdated relic being used by an enemy nation to blackmail its way into Europe. No concept of national defense can ever be used to justify allowing Europe to be invaded by millions of migrants.
A NATO that has Turkey in it is not defending Europe, it’s threatening the destruction of Europe.
It would be a biggest mistake of the 21st century, if Turkey is allowed to join the European Union. The fact that Sweden and Finland want to join NATO is a big mistake on their part. What is wrong with the European people? Are they so unaware or don’t care what they are doing to their own countries? How can they allow their elected leaders do so much damage to their countries?
If it continues, the culture, the languages, European values, family values, traditions, and a way of life in Europe will fade away. In its place will be countries unfit to have and raise a family. There will be constant turmoil and the riots in France proves it. Go back to its original goal and that was just being a Common Market when it first started many years ago . Each country needs to take back control of their foreign and domestic policies and not be dictated to by the EU commissions.
Traditional values are already gone in Europe-and it has nothing to do with the Muslims.
Fred,
Apt points. Separation and balance of sovereign “powers”. The good people of this world are always scratching their heads at what they are witnessing (Hmm. Where did this idea of right and wrong come from?) Let’s start with the premise that what we think of as “sovereignty” is no longer. And, maybe these daily witnessed machinations will begin to make sense, and solutions can be derived from a correct foundation of understanding. It’s a beginning.
“Turkey’s dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan however announced that Sweden’s membership in NATO would be conditional on his backward Islamic tyranny joining the European Union”
The EU have been wanting Turkey to join them for years, this statement by Erdogan is nothing but pure propaganda and lies.
I spent a lot of time in Turkey, some family lived in southern Turkey in Yalikavak, it was a great place to visit, however, every single Kurdish Turk I met wanted to move to the UK or the EU, every single one. Since the islamist dictators forced their way into power through a military coup (which nobody complained about outside Turkey) millions of Kurds have upped and left.
Nobody protected northern Cyprus from Turkish invasion whilst Turkey was a member of NATO either.
M.d.P.,
Smyrna, 1922.
Return Constantinople and we’ll think about it.
Maybe we should raise the stakes: Return all of Anatolia and then we’ll think about it.
Return Kurdistan to Kurds. Abd return the land to Armenians. Plus reparations for all the Genocides.
Adolph Hitler
NATO. What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, say it again!
So, it appears that Putin and Zelenskyy are somehow equally responsible for the war. and Zelenskyy threatens Europe? And the war is about nationalism? I think it is better for you to stick to the Islamic extremism and the perfidies of the Left.
You? There seems there are a bunch of “yous”.
Whom in particular?
You are aware that Karnac died with Johnny Carson, just like Allah disappeared with Muhammad?
“No single non-NATO nation has done as much to undermine Europe’s security as the Turkish regime. Erdogan believes that the more he causes chaos and undermines Europe, the more it will turn to him.”
This is nonsense based on nothing. You just decide to spout whatever pops into your head and assume your readers will take it at face value. You don’t think Russia has done more to undermine Europe’s security than Turkey? Do you read the news? What is your agenda? (that’s rhetorical, you racist bigot)
Pejoratives are inadequate substitutes for arguments.
But for one lacking argument, naming calling will have to do.
Totally. Good thing nobody around here uses pejoratives.
What do you expect? You come across as a dishonest, rude snot.
If I’m wrong, I apologize. Prove I’m wrong.
I think you will find plenty of evidence that Turkey’s dictatorship is a lying Islamic regime.
++1 Bingo! Spot-on!!
The LAST thing that the EU needs is Turkey inside its membership (the EU is dottery enough without having to deal with a regime that would like to drive a saber thru the Europe’s heart!).
It’s bad enough that Turkey is a member of NATO, where national security types have been trying to figure-out for years how to eject it on the grounds that Turkey is more like a frenemy than an ally.
Turkey in the EU? No thanks!
The Ukraine war is to conceal and delay the incoming clash of civilizations.. Sooner rather than later Muslim population in Europe will reach critical mass. When it does all hell will break lose.. If you think the holocaust was horrific the next genocide will 100 times worst.
Turkiye is Islam’s Trojan Horse.Keep Turkiye out of EU.
Turkey is not in Europe and nowhere near the North Atlantic so why is that an islamic Nation is demanding to be in the European Union and even trying to stop Sweden and Finland from joining NATO when they are both actual European Nations on the Atlantic Ocean.
NATO should have gone down alongside The Berlin Wall as the USSR was no longer any kind of threat.
So if a country that still has the Death Penalty allowed into Europe despise the fact that the country is not in Europe then perhaps Israel should apply for Membership of the EU as they are not in Europe either however have much closer connections to Europe via History and Cultural facts.
If Turkey was allowed into the EU then half of Turkey would move to Europe and Europe already has enough of such backward thinking morons and have no need for more, but that is going to happen soon or later as Europe, just like the USA are all in serious decline by their own hand.
Thankfully I do not live in Europe or North America.
All,
De Gaulle, 1965, and the Arab alliance…
“Churchill was Europe’s last gasp of strength.” What about Margaret Thatcher?
Ask the Argentines. Drivers in the Falklands still drive on the left.