Posted on 03/25/2016 9:46:50 AM PDT by Lorianne
Most of the refugees arriving in Europe are escaping war and poverty in the Middle East and seeking a better life in the West. But according to European officials, other migrants are traveling into the Nordic and Baltic states from Russia and are not fleeing the fighting in Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, but rather have been living in Russia and are being encouraged by the Kremlin to join the tide in Western Europe.
Speaking to an audience at the German Marshall Fund Brussels Forum last weekend, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves alleged that these migrants often hide their status as permanent residents of Russia.
"You've seen several thousand coming from Finland across the Russian-Finnish border," he said. "There is something very fishy going on."
Russia encourages these migrants, according to Ilves and other European officials at the forum, because they strain European governments and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment that benefits the far-right parties Russia has supported. Pro-Russian parties have gained influence in Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, France and elsewhere. They tend to support the weakening of European Union institutions and favor closer ties to Russia, including through the end of sanctions.
Russia's campaign of airstrikes in Syria, which has largely targeted civilian areas, also adds to the waves of Muslim migrants entering Europe through Greece. General Philip Breedlove, NATO's supreme allied commander in Europe, said earlier this month that Russia was "weaponizing migration," as a means to "overwhelm European structures and break European resolve."
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Yep Putin sure is. Oh well...
They’ll be sorry... eventually.
An Islamized Europe would be worst for the Russians to have around than even Chechnya is.
The fault is that the ruling elites of several European countries have sold their peoples out to the Islamonazi mass invasion. If a few more are being sent in from Russia it wouldn’t be any surprise. But the fault is Merkel and the quisling rulers of France Italy uk and Belgium for allowing ( or even inviting) the millions of Islamic invaders in! National leaders are supposed to defend their countries, not sell them out to the enemy.
If they are?
Oh well. Europe is too stupid to stop it, why wouldn’t Russia do it?
More like European stupidity has turned itself into a weapon against them. This is always the outcome of fools and their foolish ideas.
Europe should expel the muslims.
This is no different than Mexico, along with South American and African Nations aiding the United States Government and it's immigration policy with moving the migrants desired by the US Ruling Elite into the United States and imposing those migrants (ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS) upon legacy US citizenry, except that the Ruling Elite MSM shills will complain about Russia and kneel before Obama.
And who started the war in Syria in the first place? Who was not-so-secretly shipping TOW missiles to the Islamists to use against Syrian tanks?
The West signed its own death warrant.
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