{"id":13185,"date":"2015-10-09T06:22:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:22:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:22:14","slug":"the-real-reason-for-the-refugee-crisis-you-wont-hear-about-in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13185","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won\u2019t Hear About in the Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/the-real-reason-for-the-refugee-crisis-you-wont-hear-about-in-the-media\" target=\"_blank\">The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won\u2019t Hear About in the Media<\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"by-line\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d24g2nq85gnwal.cloudfront.net\/images\/authors\/refugee.gif\" alt=\"The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won\u2019t Hear About in the Media\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a meme going around that the refugee crisis in Europe (the largest since World War II) is part of a secret plot to subvert the West.<\/p>\n<p>I completely understand why the locals in any country wouldn\u2019t be happy about waves of foreigners pouring in. Especially if they\u2019re poor, unskilled, and not likely to assimilate.<\/p>\n<p>It leads to huge problems. Infrastructure gets strained. More people are sucking at the teat of the welfare system. The unwelcome newcomers compete for bottom-of-the-ladder jobs. Things easily turn nasty and then turn violent.<\/p>\n<p>But the idea that the refugee crisis in Europe is part of a hidden agenda &#8211; rather than a predictable outcome &#8211; strikes me as strange. And it\u2019s a notion that conveniently deflects blame away from the people and factors that deserve it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interventions Destabilize the Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The civil war in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/syria\" target=\"_blank\">Syria<\/a>\u00a0has turned the country into a refugee-maker.<\/p>\n<p>Syria\u2019s neighbors have reached their physical limit on their ability to absorb refugees.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the reasons so many are heading to the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/lebanon\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon<\/a>\u00a0has received over 1 million Syrian refugees. That\u2019s an enormous number for a country with a population of only 4 million &#8211; a 25% increase. Jordan and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/turkey\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey<\/a>\u00a0also have millions of Syrian refugees. They\u2019re saturated.<\/p>\n<p>The number of refugees heading to the West, by contrast, is in the hundreds of thousands. So far.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just Syria that\u2019s sending refugees. Many more come from Iraq and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalman.com\/articles\/tag\/afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\">Afghanistan<\/a>, two other countries shattered by bungled Western military interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are the refugees from Libya. A country the media and political establishment would rather forget because it represents another disastrous military decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won\u2019t Hear About in the Media There\u2019s a meme going around that the refugee crisis in Europe (the largest since World War II) is part of a secret plot to subvert the West. I completely understand why the locals in any country wouldn\u2019t be happy about waves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[284,3615,522,4600,6327,3814,776,862],"class_list":["post-13185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-european-union","tag-mena","tag-middle-east","tag-migration","tag-north-africa","tag-refugees","tag-syria","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13186,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/13186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}