Trump Admin Warns of Mass Migration While Fueling It
In 2018, the Trump administration, via Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, issued urgent warnings to European and African leaders about the 'existential threat' of mass migration. This alarm bell, dutifully amplified by Newsweek (see source), conveniently omits the US foreign policy machine's role in creating these very crises. Consider the 2003 Iraq invasion, the prolonged 'War on Terror'
destabilizing swaths of the Middle East and North Africa, or the arming of proxy wars—each a direct catalyst for displacement on a global scale. The US has invested trillions in military interventions, not in preventing the need for migration. So, the 'threat' isn't manufactured poverty or endless warfare, but the human beings fleeing its consequences. It’s like setting a house on fire, then
complaining about the smoke. How many more interventions must precede these 'existential threat' declarations? Perhaps if fewer countries were bombed into failed states, fewer people would seek refuge. Just a thought.