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Merkel in Davos: 'Our mistake was not being prepared for refugee crisis'
Deutsche Welle ^ | 01.23.2020 | Elizabeth Schumacher, Kate Martyr

Posted on 01/23/2020 7:47:05 PM PST by Olog-hai

In a wide-ranging speech at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that Germany had made a mistake during the 2015 refugee crisis. Not, she said, by welcoming asylum-seekers fleeing conflict, but by not preparing for their arrival as civil conflicts began cropping up across the Middle East and northern Africa.

“The mistake was not to have paid attention to create an environment where people can stay in their own country,” the chancellor said.

She warned that the mistake should not be repeated with Libya, where the conflict between the UN-backed government and rival commander Khalifa Haftar is destabilizing other nearby countries like Mali and Niger.

“We have to do everything to ensure a peace process” in Libya, Merkel said, to prevent another major humanitarian crisis and refugee influx. Berlin recently hosted talks between the warring sides in Libya, which ended in an agreement to limit foreign interference and commit to a UN arms embargo. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: davos; dhimmitude; eurabia; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; libya; mali; merkel; niger; obamalegacy; rop
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Now Merkel is saying exactly what she slammed Trump for saying years earlier.
1 posted on 01/23/2020 7:47:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

She’s been having more and more dreams of Ceausescu.


2 posted on 01/23/2020 7:50:10 PM PST by TigersEye (MAGA - 16 more years! - KAG)
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To: Olog-hai

Oh Angela, your mistake was in continuing to welcome them even after you recognized there was a very serious problem. I believe it was deliberate on your part.


3 posted on 01/23/2020 7:54:39 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Olog-hai

Your mistake was in encouraging it. And it was intentional, not a mistake.


4 posted on 01/23/2020 7:56:45 PM PST by tinyowl
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The people were furious about all the so called "refugees". She basically told them to suck it up....cuz I said so.

And when she says refugees, I believe she's really talking about Muslims. And she welcomed them with open arms.

5 posted on 01/23/2020 7:59:14 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Olog-hai

Love how they CTA when the BS hits the fan. Is she admitting she couldn’t figure this out years ago? If so, then her IQ would be about the same as a bag of hammers.


6 posted on 01/23/2020 7:59:31 PM PST by lecram (Marcel L'Heureux)
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To: Olog-hai

Your mistake was being an idiot as chancellor.


7 posted on 01/23/2020 7:59:39 PM PST by Fungi
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Prepared? She solicited it.


8 posted on 01/23/2020 8:00:26 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Olog-hai

You should have paid attention to Jean Raspail.


9 posted on 01/23/2020 8:00:29 PM PST by Savage Beast ( George Orwell's 1984 nightmare is the Democrats' Dream.)
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To: Olog-hai

10 posted on 01/23/2020 8:01:41 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Aryan Urkle.

Nice.


11 posted on 01/23/2020 8:06:57 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Olog-hai

Mistakes were made.


12 posted on 01/23/2020 8:11:03 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry, honey. Germany is giving you Das Boot up Der Heinie.

Yeah, I know Boot means boat...close enough.


13 posted on 01/23/2020 8:12:34 PM PST by jdsteel (Americans are Dreamers too!!!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Angela (m)Urkel


14 posted on 01/23/2020 8:15:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

“Arab Spring”. Who were the actual bozos who thought up that shite? Yah, Obama, but who were the brains behind that stillborn Frankenstein?


15 posted on 01/23/2020 8:22:01 PM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: jdsteel
The German word for a boot is Stiefel. Not immediately what comes to mind, for sure.
16 posted on 01/23/2020 8:24:12 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: dfwgator

Ich bin gefallen und ich kann nicht aufstehen!


17 posted on 01/23/2020 8:26:33 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Olog-hai

Your mistake was letting them in.


18 posted on 01/23/2020 8:27:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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LOL!


19 posted on 01/23/2020 8:28:36 PM PST by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: tinyowl

Precisely. She has destroyed most of the European West, per the NWO dictates. If Hillary had been elected, we’d be done for, too.


20 posted on 01/23/2020 8:29:22 PM PST by WWG1WWA ("Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius)
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