From the Guardian:
Martin Woollacott assesses the effects of immigration
Immigration on the scale that Europe has experienced constitutes a risky experiment to which we need not have submitted ourselves, and of which the final result is not yet clear. He is right that we frequently talk about it in stupid and dishonest ways. If his book sharpens a so far sluggish debate, it will have served an important purpose.
Cranmer in the comments succinctly summarises the BBC’s approach to ‘reporting’ the migrant ‘crisis’…
It’s just the same old cliches rolled out with little or no attempt to provide any insight into what is actually happening. Tabloid TV at its finest. I’m old enough to remember the days when foreign correspondents on television were restricted to a verbal report over a crackly telephone line, accompanied by a still photo of them holding a phone! This was much better because they couldn’t lard on the sentiment or play with our emotions so easily. They were restricted to who, what, why, where, when. This is what the BBC should stick to instead of trying to remake ‘Ghandi’ every bloody night!
Naturally it is not a ‘migrant crisis’ for the BBC, more an opportunity to further the liberal elite’s naive and childish, and very dangerous, social, cultural and political experiment that attempts to force multiculturalism upon societies that don’t want it and won’t accept it without force being applied in some shape or form. The BBC’s deliberate attempt to hide the consequences for Europe of mass immigration of people who hold views and beliefs that are so at odd with our own is not just a betrayal of its legal obligations to inform and educate but a betrayal of 2,000 years of European history that has resulted in societies that, after much hard fighting and bloodshed, are reaching a level of sophistication, stability, prosperity and peace that is unparalled in history. All that could be at risk as many predict that we are heading back to the vicious and terrible religious wars that we thought were buried in history.
Here Ed West in the Telegraph reminds us of what is being forced upon us without any debate or consent from the people of Europe…
Muslim immigration: the most radical change in European history
Christopher Caldwell is a mild-mannered Financial Times journalist who over the past decade has covered continental Europe (France especially) and its relationship with Islam in particular.
That Caldwell is so mainstream, well-respected and analytical makes his conclusion all the more devastating – that the mass migration of Africans and Asians into Europe since the Second World War was an unprecedented, economically unnecessary and ill-thought-out plan that has had a profoundly negative impact on our way of life.
Furthermore, he says, the mass importation of Muslims at a time when Europe has lost its own faith and Islam has developed a dangerous and powerful radicalism threatens the very freedom of Europe.
The collapse of Christianity, and the introduction of novel morals such as the belief in sexual freedom and gay equality, totally at odds with both contemporary Muslim culture and European culture of only half a century ago, has made conflict between Europe and the new Europeans even more unavoidable. That is why surveys consistently show Muslims and non-Muslims thinking the other side are “disrespectful” to women, or why a large minority of young British Muslims advocate the death penalty for apostasy or homosexuality.
Can Europe be the same? Clearly not. Can we reach some happy compromise that peacefully integrates such large communities and avoids the conflicts that have plagued such multi-cultural countries in the past? Probably not.
This is a fascinating, earth-shattering account of the most radical change in European history.
NCBBC in the comments highlighted this video which demonstrates the dishonesty, the foolishness, the complete failure of politicians to grasp what is going on in Europe and what the future holds. Merkel completely dismisses any idea that people should think there is a threat to European identity and culture, and in fact suggests that Europe is to blame as many of the Muslim ISIL members have come from Europe…we have apparently bred them so we are at fault. The reality is that Merkel and her ilk have totally failed to recognise the threat such radical people posed and allowed them to not only keep coming to Germany but to freely practise their fundamentalist beliefs….in other words what she is doing now is merely repeating the errors of the past…brushing the problem under the carpet and hoping for the best….
Merkel and her foolish invitation to migrants to flood into Germany in unlimited numbers is at the heart of this migrant crisis, numbers wise….a problem of Germany’s making….however it is one that Germany is forcing upon other countries and then blaming those other countries for not doing the same…it seems Germany does think of itself as the ruler of Europe…
Germany’s foreign minister says it may consider use of “a qualified majority” to force Eastern European countries to accept quotas for migrants
But there is another factor here….Turkey is helping to flood Europe with migrants…
Rapid expansion of Turkish national carrier is in part behind surge in African migrants through the Western Balkans, EU agency says
We know that Gaddafi threatened to swamp Europe with migrants, that mass immigration is a weapon that the Islamic State is using to attack Europe, it is hardly beyond the realms of possibility that the Islamist Erdogan is not happy to flood Europe with migrants who will break down a cohesive and structured EU making it easier for Turkey to influence events and force an entry into the EU as a member state thus opening the door to even more immigration.
Is migration being used as a weapon of war against Europe? Discuss.
These are momentous times in Europe’s history that presage a future that is increasingly looking to be uncertain and full of conflict. However such important events and consequences seem to have passed the BBC by, or rather, the BBC chooses to downplay or ignore the growing dangers. The BBC prefers more to ’emote’ about immigrants apparently than to report the issues surrounding them…H/T Craig at Is the BBC biased?…
Empathy
Many have asked me how they can help these people. The majority, I would say.
But there has also been a sizeable minority of people who are concerned about this great migration. Some have questioned my objectivity.
But I do not think you lose balance just because you care about another human being. Surely, we can empathise with someone while still acknowledging there are difficult questions that need to be answered about how Europe and the rest of the world should deal with this.
‘Difficult questions that need to be answered’? Don’t make me laugh…the whole thrust of the BBC narrative has been to bury such questions under a torrent of emotive words and pictures intended to induce sympathy and guilt that over-rides commonsense and reality. The BBC wants to create an atmosphere where any people, especially politicians and media, who are critical of immigration have to think twice about doing so publicly for fear of being labelled at best inhumane and incompassionate and at worse a xenophobic racist or Islamophobe.
You can see an example of the BBC attempts to manipulate opinion in this article which has this eye-catching headline..‘Migrant clashes leave Hungary bitterly divided.’ Curiously if you read the piece you won’t find much evidence of a ‘Hungary bitterly divided’…..just the usual BBC attacks on anyone who has the guts to speak out about the real problem that is part of the immigration crisis...’Csaba Lukacs, the paper’s leader writer, depicts a Hungary under attack from young, stone-throwing Muslim men: “Hungary’s border was besieged by those who think they have the basic human right to march across Europe without documents.’ Can’t say he is wrong when you see the videos from the border….these are people intent on getting into Europe by whatever means possible and if violence is the answer they’ll use that….invasion or migration?
Obviously you’re meant to be shocked by such sentiments but you know that Hungary is the black sheep of the European family….as Hungary’s actions lead to its ‘deepening diplomatic isolation. ‘
The article ends with this…‘The dispute has further polarised an already deeply-divided society.’ Well not really….those who oppose the migrant policy are on the left and in a minority in Hungary.
The BBC is once again trying to confuse the issue and present it as if there is a vast number of people who support uncontrolled immigration when that is palpably untrue. The very fact that the Hungarian PM is apparently, according to the BBC, trying to out-Jobbik Jobbik says it all….the national consensus must be anti-immigrant….as in the Uk where 77% want controls and reduced immigration.
A view not reflected by BBC reporting….nor are they reporting this from the Mail…
Imam tells Muslim migrants to ‘breed children’ with Europeans to ‘conquer their countries’ and vows: ‘We will trample them underfoot, Allah willing’
“Europe has become old and decrepit and needs human reinforcement….they are not motivated by compassion for the Levant, its people and its refugees,” said Ayed, adding, “Soon, we will trample them underfoot, Allah willing.”
“Throughout Europe, all the hearts are enthused with hatred toward Muslims. They wish that we were dead, but they have lost their fertility, so they look for fertility in our midst,” he added.
“We will give them fertility! We will breed children with them, because we shall conquer their countries!”
Ayed stated that “whether you like it or not,” Americans, Italians, Germans and the French will be forced to take the “refugees”.
“We shall soon collect them in the name of the coming Caliphate. We will say to you: these are our sons. Send them, or we will send our armies to you,” concluded Ayed.
In 1066 a couple of thousand Normans came over and that was called an invasion. Millions of Africans and Arabs are coming in and that isn’t called that by the media !! they may not be in uniforms or carrying guns but it’s still an invasion.
A masterly analysis of an, increasingly depressing, situation, Alan. Thank You.
The EU truth, is that the EU, and its predecessors who were not called the EU, have kept the peace. More that only the EU could have kept the peace.
The EU truth is a lie.
Why were its predecessors not called the EU? Because those espousing it were liars; liars who concealed both their
policies and their motives. A concealment due to fear; fear that if the truth were told those in the Common Market would have left.
The EU has not kept the peace. The EU has betrayed the people of Europe in so many ways, so frequently, so arrogantly, so consistently that only its multi-billion Euro annual propaganda budget has kept a part of the populace from open violent rebellion.
That violent rebellion is coming and will presage a European War larger than any before.
The authors, perpetrators and supporters of the EU project must all perish in this war.
And must be as eternally damned as Satan in the histories of this period.
The BBC is one of the great Satanic organisations.
We must leave the EU, we must make preparations for the future.
I will now go for a walk in a local churchyard, a churchyard which contains several CWGC pattern war graves. And thank again the men, and in this case one woman also, for their self-sacrifice.
I no doubt like many others cannot but agree with your statements-the EU is ravaged by duplicity and as was told-The global financiers’ hidden hand is now exposed for all to see! David Cameron, George Osborne and the Tories would appear to have won the election outright and are now starting on a five year programme to make their austerity based manifesto a reality. As we know the Tories are the mouth piece of and ally for the City of London, the financial markets and the global banking cartel, are now ready to ‘tackle the deficit’ by calling for ‘au The greed-based corporate and financial mindset, with its ruthless and profit-driven ability to inflict pain, division and fear, not to mention war and widespread ecological destruction, is making a final push from its power base in the City of London to manoeuvre and force humanity into accepting a form of corporate global governance that is both Orwellian in nature and fascist to the core. The Global financial elite cartels are the real controllers of the EU, their goal is for a World Government, and that is where they are marching towards-flooding Europe with a few million immigrants, which suits their policy, never mind the destruction of the West-but what they have not accounted for in their evil intent for the reaction that will ensue from the indig-white Europeans inc UK. Beware the dogs of war.
You are right to question the role of Turkey in all this. Under Erdogan, Turkey is moving towards being an Islamic police state. The idea that a hundred thousand or more registered refugees could just up sticks from their UN funded refugee camps and travel across Turkey, without any action by the police and army, and then get on boats in Bodrum, and travel to Greece, again with no action by the Turkish authorities, is simply not credible.
Erdogun hates the west, and allowing it to be Islamised in this way suits him perfectly. He has facilitated ISIS, and has launched air attacks against the Kurds, whom he hates, and who are the only effective force against ISIS. So Turkey is ruled by a pro-ISIS, anti-Kurd, Islamist who has allowed a human wave of Muslims to invade Europe. And apparently, if you believe the Foreign Office sissies, he is our friend, and a much valued NATO ally. In a pig’s arse.
When the U.S. diplomatic cables were leaked, one of the first things I did was search for entries on Turkey to see how the U.S. internally briefed on Turkey.
Here’s what I found:
http://i-squared.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/wikileaks-cablegate-end-of-turkish-eu.html
If Turkey ever becomes an EU member, I will bet that all Muslims in the world will magically acquire Turkish passports or IDs. Goodbye Europe.
What astonishes is that our politicians cannot see the obvious that has been staring us in the face for the last 30 years. Is it cupidity or they actually want Europe to become Islamic? That was the wish of Herr Hitler.
If the EU employs a qualified majority vote to force Eastern EU members to accept Muslim illegals, the EU will collapse. Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Czeck and Slovakia will simply leave the EU. The nightmare scenario for the US would be that this will open a chance for Russia to come into play.
With this in mind, I don’t think a QMV will be used. Some other tactic maybe?
Bear in mind that the situation in Ukraine, just over the borders of Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary is not exactly stable. Ukes are not exactly Islam friendly. Russia is already involved. So it is in Syria as well.
This is a ghastly bag of choices, and has come about by the statements of a remarkably stupid woman, or one who is no longer in control of her senses. Her manner in the interview seems to indicate the latter.
I agree-If Turkey ever became a member of the EU! Simply incomprehensible on the surface-however whether they do or not, the White indig people, be they Cristian or otherwise are being attacked and for the moment one could be forgiven, thanks to the evil intent of the controllers of the EU, that their /our backs are up against the wall-let us all hope that the the spirit of what made Britain & so many countries in Europe FREE, won so hard for by so many in the past, will rise up against such tyranny as is now being thrown against us. Should we be concerned about our secret services? What action are they taking in respect to this unprecedented immigrant invasion, to protect us, not those arriving in Europe, expecting as it seems to be given cart blanche of all benefits, homes, access to all services, that have taken yrs to bring about, paid for heavily by the tax payers-the new arrivals have obviously made no contribution to anything but it appears want everything irrespective-such as one women shown on the BBC news last night, so grateful to be in Britain, where she calaimed, speaking in her own language, her daughter would have a safe secure future and access to tbe education facilities etc. And who, one might ask is going to pay for all these facilities-she should have been asked-but no of course not, the Beautiful Bountiful Cream Puffs, made no mention of such. Agree any forcing by the EU on this issue of accepting illegals as most are, by virtue of the UN agreement on refugees, where by having paid smugglers/traffikers makes their claim illegal in any event would bring about a nightnare scenario as you say.
Angela Merkel says Germany wants extra people as workers
The Poles and other Eastern Bloc people here are , we are told , good workers
We don’t really want them here
So they could go to Germany , and that’s three sides of the triangle happy ,
Why does Germany not have the resolve to defend itself?
What has been evident for some time now, is that Germany’s immune system has been completely destroyed.
The main reason for this is that since WWII, Germany has been vilified for its Nazi past, like no other country before or after. The main actors in this vilification has been the English speaking world (via Hollywood and BBC documentaries). Its as if the only great crime of all time has been Nazi war crimes. We see many programs on TV about the crimes of the Nazis, but hardly ever of the far greater crime of the socialist/communist countries. In numbers alone, Stalin/Mao murdered ten times more people then the Nazis, and in far worse conditions. The English speaking world is not exactly innocent of major crimes. Yet it is Germany that is the great Devil of all time. Enough. Germany is a modern decent and civilised nation.
Then we have the insane situation of Greece and other European countries begging Germany for large amounts of money to eat & stay afloat, while their newspapers dress Merkel (Germany) in Gestapo gear. The tragedy is that they expect Germany to take this insult lying down, while handing over the money for free. Germany obliges, thus confirming that it has no immune system. Enough.
Its the same now. Pegida doesn’t want an Islamic Germany – and the media is immediately screams “NAZIS”.
The result of this 60 year continuous vilification of Germany, has led to the neutralisation of Germany’s self-defence immune system. Germany, unable to resist the Islamic invasion, without it being accused of being Nazi, has agreed to take millions of what are in reality Muslim invaders.
The problem is that even if one hates modern Germany for whatever reason ( Germany is a genuinely decent nation), and wishes it the worst with its Muslims , we in Britain and America, in fact the English speaking world need to act quickly. Acknowledge Germany as a decent Western nation, that has the right to defend itself from uncontrolled migrant Muslim invasion that will change it forever. Merkel has already stated this. We should see this statement as a cry for help. Germany cannot do it for herself, as it will be accused of Nazism.
Unless we do something to help Germany now, it will change for the far worse, and we will all have to bear the consequences.
”Why does Germany not have the resolve to defend itself? ” 70 years of television brainwashing guilt.
” Today across the West, anyone defending ethnic European interests or even the ethno-national principle in general is liable to slandered as a Nazi. But what is striking is that, even after 1945, German leaders like Schmidt and Kohl retained ethno-national reflexes. This is somewhat remarkable. Hitler’s defeat was accompanied by terror bombing, ethnic cleansing, mass rape, the indefinite partition of Germany, and abolition of German sovereignty. French historian Dominique Venner has argued that the atrocities against German civilians were “of an ideological nature. It was not simply a matter of demoralizing the German people, it was also a matter of punishing it and preparing through terror the re-education of the survivors.”
This effort was successful. In the face of the enormity of the disaster befalling their nation, postwar German leaders, precariously living under Soviet-American military occupation, understandably inverted their political culture towards an anti-Nazi national consensus, so that foreign powers would never again have reason to so destroy their country. In West Germany, once all National Socialists had been purged or “de-Nazified,” the occupied German leaders drafted a Basic Law (Grundgesetz) which simultaneously proclaimed the sanctity of freedom of conscience and of political opinion, and allowed for the systematic persecution of sincere National Socialists and indeed all those who express nationalist or revisionist thoughts.
Thus is the paradox of the Federal Republic: A remarkably democratic and lawful state in many respects (Rechtsstaat), as only the famously-rigorous Germans can build, and yet one where nationalist speech and activism, more than anywhere else in the West, is systematically persecuted. Indeed, German journalists officially believe (as I have heard their trade union boss say publicly) that their role is to suppress and propagandize against nationalist and right-wing ideas. So much for “liberal” Germany’s vaunted freedom of thought.
And yet, it is striking that despite the Federal Republic’s ostensibly anti-Nazi and anti-racist constitution,
Germany’s shift towards a rootless, cultureless conception of nationality is no doubt generational. Those raised by the “anti-Nazis” — those taught to believe that their grandfathers were uniquely evil and that all the Allies’ crimes (including the burning alive of German civilians and the rape of German women) were fundamentally excusable — have gradually come of age. The apparent peace and prosperity of the Federal Republic makes the nationalism and racism of their grandfathers appear all the more incomprehensible.
There has also been, and I do not think this point can be overemphasized, a general Americanization of European and German elite and popular culture. As the German rock band Rammstein has pointed out: “We’re all living in Amerika.” To a very significant extent, elite culture throughout the West is international. For example, in the academic world: ”
”After World War II, President Charles de Gaulle told the youth of Germany they were “Kinder eines großen Volkes” (“children of a great people”). We can scarcely imagine Western civilization at all without the Germans, without the Franks saving Europe from the Moors, without Luther and Beethoven, Hegel and Nietzsche. Today still, Germany is the heart of Europe. In saving each nation, we save us all.” http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2015/09/merkels-betrayal-from-the-ethno-national-principle-to-an-afro-islamic-germany-part-2/
Yes.
For years I didn’t go to Germany because of the effect of incessant anti-German films and documentaries on TV. Even now we have Battle of Britain, World at War etc, reminding us of the evil of Germany. Travelling from the channel ports France, and onward to Italy, I would deliberately avoid Germany.
A few years ago my wife and I decided to see Germany. I was shocked. Shocked I tell you. Germany turned out to be a decent, liberal and civilised nation. People were kind and helpful to a fault. So my apologies to any German reading this.
But this propaganda of the evil German, has now become a threat not just to Germany, but to the whole of Europe. The idea that Germany could be controlled by Imams is a prospect that is a nightmare beyond consideration.
”As the title “The Myth of German Villainy” indicates, this book is about the mischaracterization of Germany as history’s ultimate “villain.” The “official” story of Western Civilization in the twentieth century casts Germany as the disturber of the peace in Europe, and the cause of both World War I and World War II, though the facts don’t bear that out.The instability wrought by World War I made the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia possible, which brought world Communism into existence. Hitler and Germany recognized world Communism, with its base in the Soviet Union, as an existential threat to Western, Christian Civilization, and he dedicated himself and Germany to a death struggle against it. Far from being the disturber of European peace, Germany served as a bulwark which prevented Communist revolution from sweeping over Europe. The pity was that the United States and Britain did not see Communist Russia in the same light, ultimately with disastrous consequences for Western Civilization. The author believes that Britain and the United States joined the wrong side in the war.” http://www.amazon.co.uk/Myth-German-Villainy-Benton-Bradberry/dp/1477231838/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442764229&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=the+myth+of+german+vilainy
More people got killed in the Soviet Union and Mao’s China, 60 to 100 million Christians murdered, never seen a documentary on it on television, it’s just Adolf, Adolf, Adolf, The History Chanel is called the Hitler Chanel. http://www.amazon.co.uk/372/dp/0674076087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442765682&sr=8-1&keywords=the+black+book+of+communism
True, we don’t hear much about the nameless millions who perished under communism; no apology or reparations have ever been made; no perpetrators bought to justice years later, nor are they ever likely to be now.
The fact that the Second World War was in part a victory of communism over fascism is, to my mind, the reason why that war has never really been ‘demythologised’ or had its motives questioned in the way the First World War was; too many academics see communism as unassailable.
David
Thanks for the series of informative posts.
Germans were forced to undergo de-Nazification programs, but I’ve never heard of de-Marxism programs for socialists , even though Marxism is a far more toxic brew then Nazism. Thus the evil of Marxism continues to wreak havoc.
It’s a brilliant book, David. Too much of European ‘history’ over the last 100-150 years, as spoon-fed to the general public, makes no sense and the last few years demonstrate all too plainly how politicians, academics, media (BBC) and press distort and twist events for public consumption. Revisionist histories, such as ‘The Myth of German Villainy’ and Cafferkey’s ‘Lord Milner’s Second War’ (another excellent book outlining the causes of WW1) restore a much needed balance to European history and give clarity to very muddy waters. Nothing rational should be beyond debate.
What do you propose we should do? No one wants thousands of people, whose culture and religious ideology is so alien to the white westener-quite certain that with already 50 millon+ Muslims residing in Europe and with Germany estimated at present rate to have over 6million by end 2015-inconceivable-it now requires a massive concerted effort to deport without recourse to any judiciary, all those Muslims who are shown NOT to be refugees, which will be the majority. Such an undertaking may have much of the world procrastinating and wailing against such action, but we must pay no attention. Where do these people go back to? Back to their countries where there is no war, and others to be shifted amongst countries of the same culture & religious ideology. Otherwise as so many have already stated Europe will sink into an Islamic Europe with Sharia Law uppermost. We need millions of voices to shout out against-but have most in the comfort of their homes the will?
A correct reply, apart from the loans to Greece. Prior to 2002, I think, Greek debt was low as a percentage of GDP. Joining the Euro in 2001 allowed it to borrow and spend with no fears. The bankers, in effect German/French banks, lent irresponsibly. THAT is the Greek problem. If Greece’s current current tax-collecting measures had been adopted at the beginning, she would not be in her current position, debt wise. Her main problem now is the immigrants – and that IS Merkel’s “we’ll take all….” fault. And Erdogan’s hatred of Greece?
It’s becoming very frightening. Nigel Farage, writing in Breitbart yesterday said that the EU commissioners had put a motion before the EU parliament to force EU countries to take quotas of migrants or risk a fine. I was revolted to read that the EU parliament passed this resolution with an overwhelming majority. It reminds me of Tudor England where laws were conceived by the Privy Council in collusion with the monarch & then simply rubber stamped by parliament. A hundred years later we fought a civil war to bring this authoritarian form of government to an end, now we are back with it.
I have also read that the Anglican communion is likely to break up as they cannot agree on gay ‘marriage’. It is simply another manifestation of the degeneration of Europe’s native religion & the weakness of European culture. How can Christianity be expected to withstand Islam in the state it is in?
” I was revolted to read that the EU parliament passed this resolution with an overwhelming majority.”
– I’m doubly revolted because no mainstream media outlet in the UK I can find with a quick bit of googling deigned to tell us this.
K
You may be doubly revolted.
You neglected to mention your astonishment, or maybe you didn’t.
Agree-No notice should be taken of such groos behaviour and certainly no country should lower themselves to pay any fine to these duplicitous, treacherous dogs. All borders in all countries should be closed and action by all to deport all non refugees, which will quite obviously be the majority. Cannot this so far Free generous Europe, follow and understand the real danerous consequences of what is happening. A deliberate policy drawn up by the rich rulling Arab nations, with the aid of the evil Banking/Elite cartels, with stealth aid given to such brigands as ISIL to pay the smugglers/traffikers (let alone what they get directly ) to ensure that as many infiltrators as is possible make it into Europe-for one purpose only of destroying Europe and so far they appear to be well on thier way. This can no longer be considered as those fleeing war.
Merkel is being deliberately stupid saying we are at fault because a lot of these terrorists were born in our country. Yes, they were born in our country but not in our culture. It is their culture that causes them to become terrorists, not their country of birth nor their passport!
I’d give a hundred likes or upticks for that .
Yes, what you say is very true, and it is extremely worrying that the head of MI5 in his much vaunted interview on Today last week does not grasp this. He seemed puzzled by “home”-grown terrorism. The perpertrators were born in Britain, are British citizens, have been educated in our schools, etc. All he could offer was some waffle about. “society-wide solutions”. Presumably, this means that conflict will be avoided by everyone embracing Islam. As the indigenous population is barely replacing itself and the average Muslim family replaces thd parents and adds two, it looks like the mandrins have bowed to the mathematical inevitability.
Worth repeating
A couple of years into this viscous war, note that minorities in Syria – the Druze, Alawites, and Christians of various denominations, have not abandoned Assad. The minorities know very clearly that if Assad falls, al Nusra and ISIS will behead them, rape all women above the age of 6, and rape young boys as well. John Kerry now realises that he cannot get rid of Assad by using freedom fighters ( aka al Nusra/ ISIS) and replace him with a Saudi Wahabbi regime. So he now wants a negotiated settlement to get rid of Assad. But why would Russia agree?
Assad is winning not just because of Iran and Russia, but also because the moderate Syrian population supports him, while ISIS, al Nusra and others such, are losing. It is then NOT a surprise, that the Syrian refugees swarming to Europe, are fighting fit young Sunni Muslims , Muslim Brotherhood supporters, trying to escape the coming nemesis.
Seems the Telegraph has found an actual doctor. Though the allure of the NHS has not tempted him to flee for his life to get through several countries to ply his original trade.
Money’s good, though.
Can’t wait to see which BBC reporter flies out to shadow him and tell his story.