Is this an artists rendition of our new southern border wall? Did Mexico pay for it? NO!!! This is The Wall between Turkey and Syria and the EU paid for it!!
[Sources: Firing at Refugees: EU Money Helped Fortify Turkey’s Border, by Maximilian Popp – writing in Der Spiegel; European Commission Fact sheet, EU-Turkey Statement; The EU-funded wall that nobody wants to talk about, by a blogger who calls himself “I Am Awake”]
See footnote for other articles of note concerning this issue.
Is anyone but me sick to death of “our allies” in Europe. If there was ever a bigger group of “virtue signalers” I would be surprised. They have ever so many suggestions on how the US should govern itself and an equal number of suggestions on how we should spend our tax dollars supporting and defending their countries.
To say that they are not fans of our President is an understatement. He is holding NATO’s feet to the fire and asking for fair trade practices. The nerve of the man!
Most of the information below was printed in Der Spiegel, hardly a right-wing-rag:
- This is a 764 kilometer (475 mile) wall between Turkey and Syria.
- EU states have provided the government in Ankara with security and surveillance technology
- The equivalent of 80 million euros ($94 million) was given to Turkey to protect its southern border.
- The wall runs through the provinces of Sanliurfa, Gaziantep, Kilis, Hatay, Mardin and Sirnak and incorporates physical, electronic and advanced technology layers.
- The physical layer includes modular concrete walls, patrol routes, manned and unmanned towers and passenger tracks.
- Turkish soldiers fire machine guns at refugees approaching The Wall.
For all we hear from the leftists in our country telling us that we should “welcome” refugees in the same way our betters in Europe welcome them:
- The EU pledged €3 billion ($3.53 billion) to Turkey under the guise of humanitarian aid to the Syrian refugees in the country. In reality, this deal served to trap the existing 3.5 million refugees in Turkey.
- Once these resources are used in full, the EU will contribute an additional €3 billion.
Don’t you just love being lectured by these “virtue-signalers” about how we should deal with our southern border and asylum seekers.
And thanks to PCoop for sending this to me.
Roy Filly
Footnote:
A Deadly Deal: The European Union, Turkey, and Syria’s Refugees
The Rugged Individualist 
I personally witnessed the effective wall around Israel in 2002, which then was nearing completion.
It had deep sand for twenty feet on the outside, High wire fence, and an access road on the inside that could be reached by soldiers in vehicles at any fence site in five minutes after being alerted by sensors. The illegal incursions by suicide bombers dropped to zero after the fence was completed.
Border-wall security is definitely possible.
I just returned from a visit to those NATO countries. Beautiful, vibrant cities, rich cultures. NATO doesn’t “protect them” It’s just a conduit for American defense contractors to sell their wares at huge mark-ups. Trump hasn’t been right about very much, but he was correct in saying that NATO should be shut down. They and we are on opposite trajectories.
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