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We are waiting for the end of Europe again

July 19, 2016 Alexander Golts

The seventeen -year -old Afghan attacked late at night on the passengers of the train, which was traveling to the Bavarian city of Würzburg. Armed with a knife and an ax, he crippled a dozen people. The story, perhaps, would not have become first-headed if a few days before there had not been a tragedy on the embankment in Nice, somewhere a terrorist, or the owner of a double, Franco-Tunisian, citizenship, crushed 84 people. Cubmile press poorly hides gloating. Well, the next evidence of the weakness of the tolerant "geiropes", its inability to cope with modern challenges in the form of Muslim migration and Islamic terrorism. Relaxed politicians can not abandon these ephemeral liberal freedoms (who needs them when people die), and the special services, for years connected by the obligation to observe laws, have completely lost their ability to work. Moreover, these cleanlies decisively do not want to unite with Russia in a single anti -terrorist impulse. Crimea, you see, interferes.

A completely different thing is the brave Turkish chief Erdogan. This is quite enough to determine not to deal with terrorists even, but with their own military, who for some reason even have forgotten how to arrange the coups (makes itself felt, obviously, the influence of a relaxed NATO). The decisive Turkish president redraws the law as even Yarova did not dream of. He takes under arrest thousands of political opponents, as well as those whom he considers to be such. For example, judges who most outrageously made decisions annoying Erdogan. Promises to introduce the death penalty. At the same time puts order in international affairs. Threatens the Americans who cover the organizer of the conspiracy, attachs contact with the spiritually close Kremlin. After all, it turned out that the Russian bomber shot down the same insidious conspirators six months ago, who, according to Washington, wanted to drive a wedge between the two main charismatics - Putin and Erdogan.

It should be recognized that Europe, which personifies liberal values ​​- the priority of personal and civil freedoms, openness, readiness for dialogue, so annoying the Kremlin - really worries not the best times. The ideas of multiculturalism, based on the fact that migrants will be able to maintain their religious and cultural identity, while becoming loyal citizens of European states, failed. The preservation of identity at the time of crises turns into a rejection of loyalty to the country whose inhabitants immigrants are. This very identity turns into the fact that the “new Europeans” at best ignore, and at the worst - hate the very values ​​that provided them with the possibility of staying in Europe. In response, a wave of right isolationism is growing. The first is not a call even, but a bell’s blow is the UK out of the EU. It cannot be ruled out that the example may be contagious. Of course, Europe and even tragedies are waiting for Europe. Does this only prove that the values ​​that it is guided by is bad?

The end of Europe and the quick invasion of the barbarians predict two hundred in the last years. Two world wars swept around the Old World, he survived the division and cold war. And somehow he survived, retained his identity. I think, first of all, due to why Europe is Europe. Due to humanism, faith in the uniqueness of human life, confidence in the rights that everyone is given to everyone at birth - that is, all that Europeans so persistently recommend that they refuse in the name of security. If you call a spade a spade, then the barbarism of terrorists is offered to be knocked out by other barbarism - police arbitrariness. In the Kremlin, they just crave this. To say: look, and Europe chose a police state. With all the difficulties of the Old World, I do not think that this will happen. As the experience of the past shows, Europe has always found a way out. He will find this time. And again in the European capitals, with a squeamish surprise, they will look at all these spring and Erdogans, those who answered the challenges of the century by strengthening the police ...



Photo: Michal Fludra/ Zuma \ Tass


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