Germany, Syria: Forget War Crimes, Let's Talk Migrant Returns
According to The New Arab, Germany plans to engage Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's foreign minister on topics including migrant returns. This comes after years of Western governments, including Germany, condemning the Assad regime for its brutal crackdown on civilians, which directly led to the very refugee crisis they now seek to 'manage.' Remember when Assad was a pariah, a war criminal whose
chemical weapons use was met with international outrage? Now, suddenly, he's a potential partner for 'dialogue.' One might wonder if the same moral outrage applies when European governments find themselves burdened by the human fallout of conflicts they often played a role in escalating or ignoring. This convenient amnesia allows 'stability' to become a euphemism for pushing problems back over
borders, effectively rewarding the very regimes that created the instability in the first place. The discussion isn't about accountability for the millions displaced, but rather, about how quickly they can be—ahem—'voluntarily' returned.