Humanitarian Border Patrols and Buffers for Fortress Europe

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/22/eu-to-start-releasing-money-to-tunisia-under-migration-pact

This is but one in a series of incidents regarding deals with European authorities and African states. Couched in humanitarian terms, the real goal is to curb immigration. The Europeans and Americans both have realized that it's cheaper and better (in terms of optics) to prevent the migrants from actually arriving on European shores. If they can create and pay for a buffer that will block these streams of human beings fleeing war, poverty, overpopulation, and in some cases a collapsing climate, they can feel good about what they're doing – because they don't have to look at it or get their hands dirty as it were.

Out of sight and out of mind is the desired result and just as they won't have to deal with the reality of human beings in distress within their borders, they also can deflect concerns regarding the war and poverty which in more than a few cases the Western powers are themselves responsible for – at least in part.

The 'strategic partnership' referred to in the article is simply a pay-off – literally blood money. And these payments also buy the loyalty of Right-wing governments such as Italy's Meloni-led coalition. She ran on an anti-immigration platform and Brussels knows that if she fails – something more extreme will arise. Right-wing parties wielding populism as a stick are threatening the Establishment, and so the Establishment is triangulating. There's nothing new in that. However in this case triangulation seems more like capitulation or identification – the same policies are embraced merely in a different mode or style. Change the packaging and nomenclature, but the product is the same.

The bottom line is even the 'liberal' Establishment doesn't want this mass migration. It's fairly obvious and there is documentable evidence that they're trying to counter it – which of course belies the claims made by advocates of the The Great Replacement.

Do you really think these European leaders care if migrants are abandoned in the desert wastes? Like the Americans and certainly the British with their Rwanda plan, the goal is to create deterrents, generate fear, and make would-be migrants think twice before making the trek.

It's case of criminals covering up the results of their crimes and for others it's a matter of not wanting to see or acknowledge the realities of the hour with regard to population, limited resources, a lack of security, and desperation. They deny these realities even as they pour fuel on the fire.