Europe is bribing thugs to keep would-be migrants in their home countries. From Martin Jay as strategic-culture.org:
The EU has shown the entire MENA region that is has pots of cash to prop up the most brutal dictators to prevent migrants from reaching its shores.
What word would you use to describe the EU diverting a billion euros towards the coffers of Tunisia’s despot Kais Saied? ‘Blackmail’ seems to spring to mind. The EU, along with Italy’s right-wing leader Giorgia Meloni have just signed off close to 2 bn euros in ‘aid’ to Tunisia — in exchange for Saied to do something about the hundreds of African migrants trying to leave Tunisia’s shores in a quest to make it to Italy and then onto France before getting asylum status.
Both the EU and Italy firmly believe that the EU continent is at breaking point — not in terms of logistics or even cash that it diverts to refugees — but politically. The fallout between France and Italy over the migrants being sent over the border into French territory is bad enough; but there is a common belief that after the waves of Syrians which arrived in recent years, with many opting for Germany, that the political breaking point for both the incumbent parties and the EU itself has arrived. And so the EU does what it usually does when its policies fail and it has no other ideas. Gets the cheque book out and starts handing out cash like there’s no tomorrow.
Gadaffi would have done it free of charge, getting rid of him wasn’t just because he was going to sell oil for something other than dollars.
As a lil’ shaver I used to laugh my ass off at the SNL Gadaffi skit for jeans.