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Europe has taken in a lot of refugees from Syria, especially for a conflict much much further away than Ukraine. This conflict is also in Europe's backyard stem
by zmk5 5y ago
Europe has taken in a lot of refugees from Syria, especially for a conflict much much further away than Ukraine. This conflict is also in Europe's backyard stemming from a power they have been diametrically opposed to since WW2. Of course European's are going to care about that more than a civil war in the Middle East. What do they expect?
What makes this even more infuriating is that this is published by a Gulf publication whose countries have done 0 to help Syrian refugees during the civil war. We and Lebanon have taken the most refugees throughout the conflict while we are poor and, in the case of Lebanon, financially and politically unstable. At least the Europeans are helping each other, we got none of that from the despotic and corrupt rulers in the region.
- estaseuropano 5y agoI assume you're from Turkey? I keep wondering how much the welcome for Syrian refugees was just due to the proximity, or more due to the geopolitics that Erdogan continues to play with them. Basically he holds the "I will release hordes of refugees" as a threat to the EU to extract billions in assistance payments and many other concessions from the EU. And it is a lot of cheap labour that can be exploited, and many women that can be married off to Turkish men. Sorry to be so cynical but this is what it looks like from the outside.
- zmk5 5y agoSorry, but I'm not from Turkey. Many of the refugees went to next door countries. I see what you are saying but I don't think he planned on using the refugees that way originally. It just became a useful tool for him when the anti-refugee sentiment started to rise.