Takeover
by Published on 25th January 2018 08:36 AM
FYI a thought provoking article by Daniel Greenfield who is a New York
writer focusing on radical Islap. He is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Centre.
Forget the Syrian Civil War for a moment. Even without the Sunnis and
Shiites competing to give each other machete haircuts every sunny morning,
there would still be a permanent Moothin refugee crisis.
The vast majority of civil wars over the last ten years have taken place in
Moothin countries. Moothin countries are also some of the poorest in the
world. And Moothin countries also have high birth rates.
Combine violence and poverty with a population boom and you get a permanent
migration crisis.
No matter what happens in Syria or Libya next year, that permanent migration
crisis isn't going away.
The Moothin world is expanding unsustainably. In the Middle East and Asia,
Moothins tend to underperform their non-Moothin neighbors both educationally
and economically. Oil is the only asset that gave Moothins any advantage and
in the age of fracking, its value is a lot shakier than it used to be.
The Moothin world had lost its old role as the intermediary between Asia and
the West. And it has no economic function in the new world except to
blackmail it by spreading violence and instability.
Moothin countries with lower literacy rates, especially for women, are never
going to be economic winners at any trade that doesn't come gushing out of
the ground. Nor will unstable dictatorships ever be able to provide social
mobility or access to the good life. At best they'll hand out subsidies for
bread.
The Moothin world has no prospects for getting any better. The Arab Spring
was a Western delusion.
Growing populations divided along tribal and religious lines are competing
for a limited amount of land, power and wealth. Countries without a future
are set to double in size.
There are only two solutions; war or migration.
Either you fight and take what you want at home. Or you go abroad and take
what you want there.
Let's assume that the Iraq War had never happened. How would a religiously
and ethnically divided Iraq have managed its growth from 13 million in the
eighties to 30 million around the Iraq War to 76 million in 2050?
The answer is a bloody civil war followed by genocide, ethnic cleansing and
migration.
What's happening now would have happened anyway. It was already happening
under Saddam Hussein.
Baghdad has one of the highest population densities in the world. And it has
no future. The same is true across the region. The only real economic plan
anyone here has is to get money from the West.
Plan A for getting money out of the West is creating a crisis that will
force it to intervene. That can mean anything from starting a war to aiding
terrorists that threaten the West. Moothin countries keep shooting themselves
in the foot so that Westerners will rush over to kiss the booboo and make it
better.
Plan B is to move to Europe.
What's This?
And Plan B is a great plan. It's the only real economic plan that works. At
least until the West runs out of native and naïve Westerners who foot the
bill for all the migrants, refugees and outright settlers.
For thousands of dollars, a Middle Eastern Moothin can pay to be smuggled
into Europe. It's a small investment with a big payoff. Even the lowest tier
welfare benefits in Sweden are higher than the average salary in a typical
Moothin migrant nation. And Moothin migrants are extremely attuned to the
payoffs. It's why they clamor to go to Germany or Sweden, not Greece or
Slovakia. And it's why they insist on big cities with an existing Moothin
social welfare infrastructure, not some rural village.
A Moothin migrant is an investment for an entire extended family. Once the
young men get their papers, family reunification begins. That doesn't just
mean every extended family member showing up and demanding their benefits.
It also means that the family members will be selling access to Europe to
anyone who can afford it. Don't hike or raft your way to Europe. Mohammed or
Ahmed will claim that you're a family member. Or temporarily marry you so
you can bring your whole extended family along.
Mohammed gets paid. So does Mo's extended family which brokers these
transactions. Human trafficking doesn't just involve rafts. It's about
having the right family connections.
And all that is just the tip of a very big business iceberg.
Where do Moothin migrants come up with a smuggling fee that amounts to
several years of salary for an average worker? Some come from wealthy
families. Others are sponsored by crime networks and family groups that are
out to move everything from drugs to weapons to large numbers of people into
Europe.
Large loans will be repaid as the new migrants begin sending their new
welfare benefits back home. Many will be officially unemployed even while
unofficially making money through everything from slave labor to organized
crime. European authorities will blame their failure to participate in the
job market on racism rather than acknowledging that they exist within the
confines of an alternate economy.
It's not only individuals or families who can pursue Plan B. Turkey wants to
join the European Union. It's one solution for an Islapist populist economy
built on piles of debt. The EU has a choice between dealing with the stream
of migrants from Turkey moving to Europe. Or all of Turkey moving into
Europe.
The West didn't create this problem. Its interventions, however misguided,
attempted to manage it.
Islapic violence is not a response to Western colonialism. Not only does it
predate it, but as many foreign policy experts are so fond of pointing out,
its greatest number of casualties are Moothins. The West did not create
Moothin dysfunction. And it is not responsible for it. Instead the
dysfunction of the Moothin world keeps dragging the West in. Every Western
attempt to ameliorate it, from humanitarian aid to peacekeeping operations,
only opens up the West to take the blame for Islapic dysfunction.
The permanent refugee crisis is a structural problem caused by the
conditions of the Moothin world.
The West can't solve the crisis at its source. Only Moothins can do that. And
there are no easy answers. But the West can and should avoid being dragged
down into the black hole of Moothin dysfunction.
Even Germany's Merkel learned that the number of refugees is not a finite
quantity that can be relieved with a charitable gesture. It's the same
escalating number of people that will show up if you start throwing bags of
money out of an open window. And it's a number that no country can absorb.
Moothin civil wars will continue even if the West never intervenes in them
because their part of the world is fundamentally unstable. These conflicts
will lead to the displacement of millions of people. But even without
violence, economic opportunism alone will drive millions to the West. And
those millions carry with them the dysfunction of their culture that will
make them a burden and a threat.
If Moothins can't reconcile their conflicts at home, what makes us think that
they will reconcile them in Europe? Instead of resolving their problems
through migration, they only export them to new shores. The same outbursts
of Islapic violence, xenophobia, economic malaise and unsustainable growth
follow them across seas and oceans, across continents and countries.
Distance is no answer. Travel is no cure.
Solving Syria will solve nothing. The Moothin world is full of fault lines.
It's growing and it's running out of room to grow. We can't save Moothins
from themselves. We can only save ourselves from their violence.
The permanent Moothin refugee crisis will never stop being our crisis unless
we close the door.
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