Europe Builds Fortress Walls with Neocolonial Bricks
📰 THE STORY: Deutsche Welle, like much of mainstream European media, presents the EU's new migration policy as a necessary step to manage 'illegal arrivals' by speeding up asylum processes and strengthening external borders. The narrative focuses on the EU's internal challenges and the need for stricter control. 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: This 'toughening up' comes
decades after European colonial powers directly engineered the instability, resource extraction, and proxy conflicts that continue to drive migration. In 2011, NATO, spearheaded by France and the UK, bombed Libya, turning Africa's most prosperous state into a failed one, complete with open slave markets, directly unleashing a major migration route across the Mediterranean. The 2003 US/UK invasion
of Iraq, built on fabricated WMD claims, destabilized the entire region, creating a refugee crisis that reverberates today. Double Standard: Western media and governments frame migration from the Global South as an 'invasion' or 'illegal' problem, yet ignore the historical and ongoing 'invasion' of resources and political interference by European powers in those same countries. When millions of
Ukrainian refugees fled war in 2022, they were welcomed across Europe with open arms and expedited status; those from Syria, Afghanistan, or North Africa face detention, deportation, and violent pushbacks, often dying in the Mediterranean Sea. Follow the Money: The 'toughening up' means more contracts for border security firms, surveillance technology providers, and private detention centers.