EU on the freedom to violence

Just a few thoughts, no more than a short note really but longer than a tweet. Here in Greece the right wing opposition New Denmocracy party is demanding the intervention of police to clear out Idomeni of refugees and immigrants. Seems they (ND) are getting their directives straight from the right wing dominated EU. They  (EU) would like some news images of Storm Trooper attired riot police beating regugees with their billy bats while they scramble to collect their tents and protect their children and babies. FYROM police are very good at this kind of thing. The Greek government has taken a more passive aproach trying to convince refugees to leave Idomeni for one of the many organized camps around the country. Refugees and said camps remain unguarded and unhindered in their movements throughout Greece. This ires our European counterparts to no end as they try their best to deconstruct the Schegen treaty. At the same time the borders between Belgium and her neighbours shut down in violation of said treaty as a response to the terrorist attacks yesterday. Attacks perpetrated by European born muslims. Natives with Belgian passports that did not need to travel the Aegean in a homemade rubber dhingy. So if you are the victim of war trying to escape with your family Europe wants to send the message that coming here is a risk. It is a risk to cross the borders, to get trapped in Greece, to get seperated from your family, to lose your children. 10000 unescorted minors, recorded in Greece by police at refugee centers, are missing in Europe. If however you want to be part of a hard right organization and partake in violent acts there is little to stop you. If you are a native European muslim you can blow things up or if you are a native European christian you can beat refugees up. The new European morality is violence and Greece resists. Who is with us...leave a comment if you like.

NATO operating in the Aegean?

Times are changing, and rapidly. Try and bear with me as I give a short run down of the problems facing Greece and the EU as they are multilevel and intertwined like a Gordian knot. The summary goes like this:
1. Germany has an open border policy.
2. Turkey has an open border policy.
3. FYROM has shut her borders and refugees are trapped in Greece.
4. Austria spearheads group of Balkan states refusing to open borders even for transit refugees.
5. Germany is energy dependant on Russia for natural gas.
6. Germany wants access to middle east natural gas from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
7. Syria had refused to alow a pipeline to cross her territory to expediate point 6.
8. Austria is close ally to Germany.
9. Turkey is close ally to Germany.
10. Merkel sees threat to both Schengen zone and Euro zone from unilater Austrian actions.
Now taking into account point 1 and 2 consider point 10 to be realistic. Taking into account points 8 and 9 in combination with 5,6,7 suddenly point 10 is weakened. Countries become allies when they have common interests, I am not talking about hobbies and music, of economic, millitary and other such nature. Germany played hardball in the Ukraine supporting all kinds of pro-Nazi groups in order to tip the balance away from Russia. Failed miserably there. Germany went on to try and tip the balance by supporting ISIS in the middle east through Turkey. That episode ended with the shooting down of a Russian warplane that spent a few seconds in Turkish airspace. Turkey has been violating Greek airspace for years. Waterspace too. Now NATO warships are in the Aegean in an apparent attempt to stem the flow of refugees. The plan was that these warships would save refugees from their dinghies and then return them to TURKISH shores. Turkey has refused. The president of Turkey, Tagip Erdogan, went on a trip to west Africa to promote Turkish Airways service from Ghana and other countries with added daily flights to Istanbul at 50 euros a ticket and NO VISA REQUIRED. Turkey has an open border policy for anyone who wants to climb into a dhingy and attempt to cross the Aegean into Greece. Mekel claims to have an open border policy for any refugee that land on EU soil but NOT BY AIRPLANE. NATO has an anti-Russian mandate historicaly and is now operating in the Aegean. Russia of course has been sailing her warships down to Syria from the Black Sea through the Aegean. I think the conspiracy theory here has been proven. The only question that remains is what will the US public vote. If they vote either Clinton or Trump they will be voting for a Kissinger fan that will certainly increase the level of tension here.

Photo is from Idomeni at the Greek-FYROM border.