In Spain, criminal gangs comprising second- and third-generation Latin American immigrants are a major threat across the country.
In Turkey, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu threatens the EU – either give 79 million Turks free passage throughout Europe (no visa required) or we’ll send you a couple million more “Asylum Seekers” from Africa and the Middle East.
Sultan Erdogan recognizes Europe’s weakness (In Kierkegaard’s phrase, a “sickness unto death”), but still insists that Turkey be granted entry into the European Union, even as he re-establishes the Caliphate at home.
Curious, isn’t it – just ten years ago, the UK’s duo of Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were vying to become President of the European Union. Today, the UK is leaving the EU, Blair and Brown are disgraced, and the EU is collapsing.
And tomorrow?
Well, as Fats Waller used to say, “One never knows, do one?”
3:51 pm on August 15, 2016
