Can the European Union Survive a War in Syria?

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(Newswire.net — August 23, 2015) — An old Chinese military doctrine says that the easiest way to defeat an enemy is to surrender without a single bullet fired.

On the first day, a million Chinese soldiers would simple surrender to the enemy. The next day, a million more. On the third day, the enemy’s economy would collapse because they have to feed 3 million new people.

The amount of people that “surrender” to the EU daily seeking an asylum is already “killing” the economy of some EU countries, while some other EU members play dumb.

Hundreds of thousands of people mainly from Syria, but also from Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, have entered the EU since the rise of ISIS. The moment the refugees set their foot onto EU soil, they seek asylum and the EU country is obligated by law to provide them with food, shelter, medical care and documents for safely traveling through the country.

The final destination of migrants is generally Germany, France or the UK, as the countries that provide the best conditions for those seeking an asylum. In addition, many Syrians have relatives in France or the UK, as Syria once was their colony.

The waves of migrants on a daily basis do not, however, affect all EU countries equally. Although it is only an entering point for migrants who move on to another countries, Greece and Italy with their poor economies can’t cope financially with hundreds of thousands of immigrants, and have urged the EU parliament to protect them by financing migrants camps, and redistribute migrants to other EU member countries.

Accordingly, the EU issued a new immigrant strategy to relocate some 40,000 Syrian and Eritrean nationals who entered Greece or Italy over a two-year period. Poland, who according to the plan has to accept some 2,700 immigrants, however refused to do so.

Hungary also refused to accept immigrants and start building a fence along their border with Serbia, a non EU country that is a transit route for refugees traveling from Greece through Macedonia and Serbia, to Hungary and further to the Germany, the UK and toward some other rich EU countries.

Explaining the disobedience, Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz stated that Poland would accept only Christian families from Syria. “Today Christians are persecuted in a barbaric way in Syria, they deserve that a Christian country such as Poland that responds fairly quickly with an offer for help,” she said, adding that there is already a great Vietnamese and Chinese community in Poland.

Croatia, the youngest EU member, also refused to take care of a mandatory number of refugees and agreed to provide shelter and food for some 550 people.

Surprisingly, with a weaker economy than its neighboring EU countries, non EU member Serbia agreed to build a camp for hosting 3000 refugees, demonstrating solidarity with Greece and Italy, but also with FYR Macedonia that cannot handle immigrants from Syria, despite it being only a transit country. Some Serbian media reported that Serbian government accepted to build a masive EU financed refugee camp for 40,000 people, however it was not officialy confirmed.

Immigrants from Greece on the Macedonian border managed Saturday to fight their way through the police barricade, and enter the state by force. Macedonian Special Forces fired stun grenades and tear gas into the crowd, however stopped after realizing that they were hurting starved women and children. By Sunday, around 3,000 refugees left Macedonia and entered Serbia. 

The German government is using the immigrant crisis to resolve problems with immigration from Balkan countries. Changing it’s rules on refugees in order to “make space for African and Arab immigrants,” the government now says it will ban the entry permits of 94,000 immigrants from the Balkans part of Europe, seeking refugee status in Germany. Of course, that doesn’t mean they actually would allow 94,000 immigrants from Arab countries.

The UK has another problem, fearing that the English would become a minority in their own country.

“We have problems in England simply because there are probably 40 million immigrants in England and the government won’t admit that, but there are 22 British towns now including London where the English are a minority,” political commentator David Noakes told RT.

“London is only 40 percent English, but there are towns like Bradford, that are only 10 percent English. It’s happening in Germany and France but on much less a scale than in England. So yes, they do need the army to build camps, but it’s European policy that’s causing the problem,” Noakes stressed referring to the EU policy on immigrants.

Meanwhile, more and more families, starved and tired, with small children that need not only sympathy but a solution, arrive daily from Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries where the EU has supported military actions, essentially shooting itself in the foot.