COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Can Dundar is a good and brave man.
Erdogan is a terrifying phenomenon, and the EU should have
nothing to do with him.
But of course the reason the EU behaves the way it does with
Turkey is entirely owing to America’s now-unhealthy influence.
America has reduced Europe almost to a colony which must
follow the "mother county's" guidance in all things, even when
something is against Europe's own interests.
Things like supporting - both implicitly and explicitly -
the horrors of Syria, horrors induced entirely as part of American policy in
combination with Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.
The Syrian horror has not just killed a lot of innocent
people, it has helped create a refugee crisis which seriously threatens the stability
of Europe.
Things like enforcing senseless measures against Russia
simply for its opposing ugly American policy in Ukraine.
Europe is hurting its own economy in order to support
anti-democratic policies associated with a coup government so incompetent that
it fights its own people.
Europe's independent voice is not heard any more on these
and other serious matters.
