Germany’s long-time ambassador to Russia, Rüdiger von Fritsch, accuses Moscow of using the global supply crisis caused by the Ukraine war and the resulting threat of refugees as a means of waging war. “Vladimir Putin is deliberately trying to create hunger crises in the Middle East and North Africa,” von Fritsch said of the Russian leader in the Berliner Tagesspiegel (Sunday edition). That is why Russia is preventing Ukraine from exporting grain and is even bombing grain silos.
“Putin’s calculation is that after the collapse of grain supplies, starving people will flee from these regions and try to get to Europe – like the millions of Syrians who fled the horrors of war back then,” von Fritsch, who had met Putin in person several times in the past, said. “With new refugee flows, he wants to destabilize Europe and build up political pressure for Western states to abandon their tough stance against Russia.”
This is “a new hybrid warfare,” criticized the diplomat, who will soon publish the book “Zeitenwende: Putin’s War and the Consequences.” Von Fritsch does not believe that the war will end quickly. Putin had “overturned the chessboard” with the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and “abruptly ended the successful attempt to create joint security in Europe”.
For Putin, defeat in Ukraine was out of the question, as he was meanwhile fighting for his own power in Russia there, the ex-ambassador said. Therefore, there is a high probability “that he will try to continue and escalate this war”.
According to von Fritsch, he does not believe that the Russian head of state could also use nuclear weapons in the process: “Vladimir Putin is neither crazy nor irrational. He obeys a different logic.” The Russian leadership’s statements on the deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine by Western countries make it clear “that so far it has been very careful to avoid getting into a military confrontation with Nato”.
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He wouldn’t be able to do this is the EU had a much more robust border and immigration policy.
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After further destabilization in the Middle East and Africa, the refugees and displaced persons will probably not flee to warmonger Russia.
Many will try to get into the EU. But here, too, the resources are not infinite. State finances, social programs, housing are already pretty much at the limit of their possibilities. Food prices and energy costs limit opportunities for humanitarian aid. Rather, the resources for aid in Ukraine and for Ukrainian refugees are prioritized.
After the crises in recent years and the current influx of war refugees from Ukraine, I don’t think that many more people from the MENA region will be admitted.
I think we will see ugly scenes at the EU’s southern external borders and in the Mediterranean in 2023.
Solution: Male Refugees from MENA must serve a mandatory military service in Ukraine. Just a joke of course. Hope Putin dies soon
At this point we have to simply accept that the illegal immigration is wanted. They are aware of the negative ramifications but they are still incentivizing it. They want it.
Mass immigration creates problems those parties are happy to provide a false solution for. They can’t wait to prove themselves the caring people for the ever growing perceived “racism” problem in the country. They also might think it enlarges their voter base in the future and as a bonus it divides the country even more which makes the population easier to control.
Just stop incentivizing illegal immigration and it will fizzle out. Empower people to be able to help themselves in their home countries instead. Every ~10 days, 1 million new Africans are born. We won’t solve any underlying problems by taking in another million illegal immigrants.
He’d be doing a favor, instead of having this exploding on the long term, it’s going to be short term. This was going to happen with climate change. Europe must toughen itself because the human right first approach isn’t going to work if we got increasing waves of migrants.
At some point we’ll have to make a choice, our societies, our lives, our security vs sleeping well until everything blows to nightmare.
but since the African countries that would suffer have a boner for the USSR or Russia, they can fuck off
Maybe my government should be a bit cool down in restructuring Frontex…
As long tradition if you attack a country you are responsible for its refugees we should be forcing Putin to take in Ukrainians
Weaponizing refugee flows worked for the likes of Turkey and Hungary, so why not for Russia?
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Germany’s long-time ambassador to Russia, Rüdiger von Fritsch, accuses Moscow of using the global supply crisis caused by the Ukraine war and the resulting threat of refugees as a means of waging war. “Vladimir Putin is deliberately trying to create hunger crises in the Middle East and North Africa,” von Fritsch said of the Russian leader in the Berliner Tagesspiegel (Sunday edition). That is why Russia is preventing Ukraine from exporting grain and is even bombing grain silos.
“Putin’s calculation is that after the collapse of grain supplies, starving people will flee from these regions and try to get to Europe – like the millions of Syrians who fled the horrors of war back then,” von Fritsch, who had met Putin in person several times in the past, said. “With new refugee flows, he wants to destabilize Europe and build up political pressure for Western states to abandon their tough stance against Russia.”
This is “a new hybrid warfare,” criticized the diplomat, who will soon publish the book “Zeitenwende: Putin’s War and the Consequences.” Von Fritsch does not believe that the war will end quickly. Putin had “overturned the chessboard” with the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and “abruptly ended the successful attempt to create joint security in Europe”.
For Putin, defeat in Ukraine was out of the question, as he was meanwhile fighting for his own power in Russia there, the ex-ambassador said. Therefore, there is a high probability “that he will try to continue and escalate this war”.
According to von Fritsch, he does not believe that the Russian head of state could also use nuclear weapons in the process: “Vladimir Putin is neither crazy nor irrational. He obeys a different logic.” The Russian leadership’s statements on the deliveries of heavy weapons to Ukraine by Western countries make it clear “that so far it has been very careful to avoid getting into a military confrontation with Nato”.
surprised_pikachu.png
He wouldn’t be able to do this is the EU had a much more robust border and immigration policy.
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After further destabilization in the Middle East and Africa, the refugees and displaced persons will probably not flee to warmonger Russia.
Many will try to get into the EU. But here, too, the resources are not infinite. State finances, social programs, housing are already pretty much at the limit of their possibilities. Food prices and energy costs limit opportunities for humanitarian aid. Rather, the resources for aid in Ukraine and for Ukrainian refugees are prioritized.
After the crises in recent years and the current influx of war refugees from Ukraine, I don’t think that many more people from the MENA region will be admitted.
I think we will see ugly scenes at the EU’s southern external borders and in the Mediterranean in 2023.
Solution: Male Refugees from MENA must serve a mandatory military service in Ukraine. Just a joke of course. Hope Putin dies soon
At this point we have to simply accept that the illegal immigration is wanted. They are aware of the negative ramifications but they are still incentivizing it. They want it.
Mass immigration creates problems those parties are happy to provide a false solution for. They can’t wait to prove themselves the caring people for the ever growing perceived “racism” problem in the country. They also might think it enlarges their voter base in the future and as a bonus it divides the country even more which makes the population easier to control.
Just stop incentivizing illegal immigration and it will fizzle out. Empower people to be able to help themselves in their home countries instead. Every ~10 days, 1 million new Africans are born. We won’t solve any underlying problems by taking in another million illegal immigrants.
He’d be doing a favor, instead of having this exploding on the long term, it’s going to be short term. This was going to happen with climate change. Europe must toughen itself because the human right first approach isn’t going to work if we got increasing waves of migrants.
At some point we’ll have to make a choice, our societies, our lives, our security vs sleeping well until everything blows to nightmare.
but since the African countries that would suffer have a boner for the USSR or Russia, they can fuck off
Maybe my government should be a bit cool down in restructuring Frontex…
As long tradition if you attack a country you are responsible for its refugees we should be forcing Putin to take in Ukrainians
Weaponizing refugee flows worked for the likes of Turkey and Hungary, so why not for Russia?