Even if none of the above had happened, Europe would have been/will be besieged by migrants from Africa and South West Asia who nowadays know the difference in quality of life between the developed nations and their own countries; and all about Occidental welfare benefits.
Likewise the United States would be/will continue to be swarmed by Latin Americans and other Third World peoples looking to ride on the coat-tails of relative prosperity created by a nation with a far less dysfunctional culture than their own.
The only answer is to have all armed forces in western democracies called home and deployed on FIERCE defense of their borders (most likely with a 'shoot on sight' policy for anyone transgressing same; so as to avoid perpetual paralysis and Open Borders via lawfare).
Until western governments acknowledge these truths and implement this strategy, the swarming will only get worse.

Submitting to ethnic conquest is suicide.

Fast or slow, conquest is conquest.

And conquest is permanent.

In 100 years, China will be Chinese.

Will Europe be European?

The EU should declare war on Israel.

Maybe then they’ll stop funding aid organizations dumping refugees into Europe that they will not themselves take within their borders.

it did not help that the Obama administration, Saudi Arabia, and Israel conspired back during the Benghazi fiasco to topple Libya Egypt and Syria, supported and nurtured Isis, and put most of the Middle East outside Israel on fire and then helped dump 1 million angry homeless migrants in to Europe.

and of course during this time Israel’s buddies Epstein and Maxwell were blackmailing everyone with child sex to continue the wars in the Middle East for the benefit of Israel.

So if you want to know who to blame, blame the people who are in our government that are not loyal to our government that have been making Israel great instead of America great.

Works for me!

They are not migrants. They are illegals.

A flood of single, young, Muslim men coming. Europe is lost without a shot fired.

“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades.”

Muammar Gaddafi Speech (10 April 2006)

Gaddafi was not an Islamist. He was a pragmatist and had to pander to the Muslim element in Libya (as well as surrounding nations). This speech reflects these realities. The overthrow of the Gaddafi regime was a serious error. It will likely be looked upon as the most serious error in American military history, with, of course, the invasion of Iraq following closely.

The (((American elites))) are self-serving in the extreme and none of the publically-declared reasons they give for their military adventurism are the true ones.

Virtually everything the US has done in the Middle East and Africa has been for one or both of two reasons: Oil and/or Israel.

I think your take is pretty much right on. I believe that our Muslim took out Gadaffi precisely to open the door to REAL Islamists, though

You ignore America's post-9/11 focus on stemming terrorism. In this case, the remedy has turned out to be worse than the disease, suggesting there is no solution and we should just play defense as well as possible.

As I indicated, my view is that none of the publicly-declared reasons for American foreign military adventures are truthful.

'Terrorism' is an empty buzzword concocted to create an illusory moral distinction between 'our' way of making war and 'their' way of making war. Woodrow Wilson initiated this kind of lying to get the US into foreign wars in which there was no interest and it's been repeated over and over again.

If there were legitimate dangers from Islamists, then the US would have (a) stopped allowing Islamists to enter the US (which we did not) and (b) deported or interred all Islamists from foreign nations (which we did not). Instead, immediately after 9/11, the only private aircraft allowed to leave the US was carrying rich Islamists.

While we were fighting 'them' over there, we were letting them immigrate and enter our military.

The claim was that Gaddafi was attempting to assassinate President Bush. This was a lie. In return, US military bombed one of Gaddafi's homes, killing members of his family including children. It was like Waco, but for Libyans. Even after all this, Gaddafi tried to make peace with the US is a multitude of ways.

And that insane creature Hillary Rodham Clinton (never trust a married woman who keeps her maiden name) still had him killed.

And then Libya became a failed state.

And then Islamists started fighting for control of Libya.

And then migrants started passing through Libya to Europe.

And the slave markets in Libya were reopened.

USA! USA! USA!

It was Reagan who bombed Khadafi (one of 18 spellings, don't care) after he made some threats. Allegedly it was the OTHER Hussein who threatened the older Bush. Either way, to get rid of him AFTER he has made progress in resisting radical islam (i) was not just a mistake, but a calculated act; the same as the plan is for Assad. This falls in line with your assertion that islamists have NOT, and are not being restricted in infiltrating the US/West and their institutions. They in fact represent legitimate danger, but not more so than their treasonous enablers and collaborators.

We'll see. Nationalist-populist anti-immigrant parties have been winning across the world and particularly in Europe. The response from European leaders to Erdogan's immigrant gambit has been very different from 2015. I think many Europeans have realized that the pathological altruism of Merkel (and the political and cultural attitudes that foster it) are a bad idea. The people of Europe are sick of mass immigration and the excuses for it. Things have changed.

It is either ignored or forgotten that Merkel was an East German.

Raised by a Lutheran father pastor in East Germany...don't forget that...

Not sure what you point is, but her Lutheran father had less say in her upbringing than the commie state, willingly or otherwise.

That is why she was a Stasi.

Still is, apparently!

If the US was seriously concerned with the fate of the all the "poor Syrian refugees fleeing a warzone", they would have switched sides and helped Assad finish off his opponents to stop prolonging the war, or at least stopped actively inciting and propping up his enemies and hindering his attempts to win. Assad might be a tyrant (I'm not really convinced he's much worse than many others), but most Syrians would be happy to stay under his government if it meant the killing and war would be over. By propping up the doomed "rebels" we are just sustaining the suffering and killing, which we largely caused ourselves by inciting the war. Most places in the world don't WANT our democracy, and we were stupid to try and tear down all these stable governments thinking that they'd become stable democracies instead....if we ever REALLY thought that and it wasn't intentional to drive waves of migrants West to do their thing.

And people keep talking about Turkey as if it was a solution; why did they allow the migrants to pass, etc? Why do people think the Turkish people are any more thrilled about allowing millions of aliens into THEIR country to change THEIR culture? It's like Westerners think "Syrians, Turks, what's the difference? As long as they aren't in a REAL country, like the US or a European nation, who cares?" But Turks don't want to be replaced with Syrians any more than Americans do. They've allowed it so far because they've been bribed with huge amounts of money to take the fall for Europe (which has failed anyway), but the Turkish citizens won't be satisfied forever. Would YOU think it was cool to allow tens of millions of migrants in to change your state forever just because someone was paying you hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate, so THEY didn't have to worry about them? Eventually these people need to go HOME, and they can't go home as long as we keep propping up a half-dead war against the one guy who kept all the factions in check for decades. There is only one possible solution, in my mind: Assad much be allowed to win. Anything else is guaranteed to sustain the conflict for decades. Russia knows this. If you want to see the one sane country i the first world that knows what they are doing, is behaving responsibly and in their own interests, not being governed by idiotic fanaticisms, it's Russia. They have their shit together. No wonder the Leftists want to keep us as distant from them as possible. Russia is the only place in Europe that ISN'T being swamped with aliens. You think Putin is going to allow waves of Islamists into Russia to compete with Russians and destablize things? Hell no.

In the 60s anti-Whites made ALL White countries and ONLY White countries import millions of immigrants from the third world.
Then anti-Whites compelled White people to "integrate" with those non-Whites or face huge penalties.
Now anti-Whites are gloating and counting down the days until White children are a minority and eventually extinct everywhere!
They say they're "anti-racist." What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a codeword for anti-White.

Hey parasite refugees, take the Corona virus with you as a present for your hosts.

In other words, there is a silver lining in those dark multicultural clouds. The blowback has begun. The guillotine awaits...

We hope. I think for much of Europe, it's too late.

Demographics are destiny. Western Europe is most likely tipped. We are tipping, due to complying with unConstitutional court orders that are nothing more than Angela Merkel sitting on a bench in a US courtroom.

Do the arithmetic, it is clear where this is going.

Conquest by stealth invasion caused by political corruption and aided and abetted by judicial tyranny is still conquest.

Our great savior in his all-knowing arrogance went and invited too many of these Invaders to our shores as well. His fondness for Islam and hatred for America, caused him blindness to the reality of their existence. We should abandon any incursions into the Arab world. They are incapable of dealing with democracy, that should be apparent to even the most casual observer!. Also, Turkey is no ally of ours, despite NATO membership. They are a theocratically oriented Muslim nation. Not as hopeless as Iran, but nonetheless NOT our friends!

Bravo!

Thanks to everyone who has shared their thoughts on my piece, I appreciate it.

Does Europe have a vision for the Middle East?

The latest conflict began more than 10 years ago, so far has cost the lives of 500,000 Syrians, millions of refugees who've fled the country, and millions more displaced people within Syria.

Europe has abandoned its international security responsibilities to the United States, Turkey, Iran, and Russia. Why should the United States carry such an uneven level of the burden while Europe sits back and does virtual nothing to help?

Ooohhhh xenophobes and the collapse of 'centrist' and 'mainstream' parties.....bwaaahhaahhaa... Here's a clue: when you no longer represent the majority of your citizens then you are neither centrist nor mainstream.

You can still be centrist. All that requires is that your position is politically between the more extreme positions of others. Doesn't have anything to do with how popular the idea is. It could be you and 2 guys with everyone else being a raging fanatic on the left or right, and you'd still be the "centerist" group. Biut not "mainstream". However, "mainstream" tends to be whatever the media SAYS is mainstream, so you need more than a simple majority to overcome the perception that the media brings. Because most people will stay with whatever the media tells them most other people feel. When the media starts making it clear that "most' people want Socialism, we will in fact find more and more people thinking Socialism is pretty cool.

Hence, the dims in KC (at the Biden rally) saying how "Joe" is "decent," "caring," and "one of us."

I was following (with some wobble, but still, following) you all the way till I got to "xenophobia enmeshed in Europe" or somesuch, at which point, I thought "Whoa -- wanting your nation protected is 'xenophobia'??"

First, it'd be "extortion by Turkey" not "from Turkey". The person being extorted from is the person paying.
And it's not "extortion". That's stupid. People think Turkey should just keep all the tens of millions of migrants in THEIR country, free of charge, just so EUROPE doesn't have to deal with them? One country should take them ALL and be happy, so a dozen countries don't have to worry about the expense and trouble? I mean, if they want to arrange to have them all stay in Turkey, fine, but don't act like it's unreasonable for Turkey to want some compensation for taking on Europe's problem for them. The cheapest and easiest thing for Turkey to do (after building a big wall and manning it with machine gun nests and minefields) is to ignore the millions of migrants as they move towards the Promised Land of Europe, where they really WANT to be. They aren't going to save Europe from the hassle for nothing. And if Turkey were to build said wall, European countries would be the first to denounce them, to say how awful and evil they aere to deny migrants the right to flee the warzone, etc. Because it's Turkey's DUTY to take them in. But not Europe's, apparently, Turkey has a history, has their own natives who aren't keen on being replaced by Syrians and Lebanese. This is one of the rare cases in this day and age where a claim of "racism" actually means something. It's like all these people are like "OMG, we can't have all these migrants in Europe! Europe is white, and they'll ruin the culture and displace the natives! Make them stay in Turkey; just as long as they don't come to any REAL countries! They're all brown-skinned and Muslim, right? So clearly they won't mind". What we need to do is end the war so they don't have any excuse to stay away and then send them all home and tell them to build their own nations up.

It's not color; it's culture. Islam, to be exact, which we all know.

I don't blame Turkey so much. Why should Turkey be okay with millions of aliens in THEIR country? We fear they will take us ocver and change us, is Turkey supposed to not care because they are "just Turkey"? To a Turkish citizen, their own history and culture means something just as much as ours does to us. They don't think "oh, Syrian, Turkish, Lebanese, all Islamists, so basically the same; who'd even know the difference". To a Turk there is a HUGE difference. So far they've been willing to take the hordes on because we bribe them with massive cash sums so WE don't have to deal with them. But that doesn't mean it'll work forever.

Whether the ongoing war in Afghanistan, as so often claimed, is the Longest American war in our history is questionable. The American Indians War on the Great Plains is most often dated from the mid-1850s to the late 1880s.

I think they often say "in modern history". Anyway it's debatable if that was really one war or a series of small wars, or if it was even a "war" officially.

Central and western Europe is completely opposed to borders and border guards in their own ranks. That is why they offloaded this work onto Turkey and were willing to pay handsomely for it. Now that Turkey has ceased to perform this function it will not be performed. Merkel’s CDU is bleeding votes to the right, it’s true, but not enough in the end to matter. The resistance to European elites and their policies is of the ankle biting magnitude. European NGOs continue to assist migrants headed north and the governments (in reality the EU which in reality is Germany) will not stop it.

Borders are necessary.

Self-defense is good.

Self-preservation is good.

Submitting to ethnic conquest is suicide.

I think in many cases there are parallels between European countries and ours. Their globalist elites advance policies which benefit them, but screw the average citizen, much as ours have been, particularly under the Obama administration. The people realize that they're getting hosed and there's a backlash- in our case, the election if Trump. In most of Europe, I fear it's too late, they're going to be taken over by the Muslim hoardes and will soon turn to theocratic rule. Obama was trying to force the same onto the US.