Nato is stirring war drums to get us all into war.

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Of course Putin has nothing to do with the refugee crisis currently engulfing Europe. He did not decide European Union border policy and more pointedly, he did not launch a covert campaign to oust Syrian President Assad, as did the Western aligned gulf states.

Nor has Putin been secretly assisting Sunni militants in their efforts against Syria, which helped precipitate the refugee crisis in the first place. Instead, Putin’s forces have been fighting against them. Unlike NATO member Turkey, which under President Erdogan has been secretly aiding the militants: buying oil from captured wells and supplying them with arms and intelligence.

Breedlove’s comments are simply an attempt to divert attention from the West’s complicity in this.

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Unfortunately most of the corporate media. like the Mail below, will report Breedlove’s comments without question or query. Leaving those disinclined to think for themselves with the illusion that he’s speaking with some kind of authority. Ed.
Putin is ‘weaponising’ migrants to ‘overwhelm Europe’ warns Nato chief as Macedonia continues to refuse access to TEN THOUSAND refugees stranded at Greek border

Sara Malm — Mail Online March 2, 2016

NATO’s top commander in Europe has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of deliberately ‘weaponizing’ the refugee crisis in order to overwhelm and destabilize the continent.

General Philip Breedlove said the massive flow of migrants from Syria has had a disruptive effect on the European countries where they found refuge, and that this has worked to Russia’s advantage.

General Breedlove warned US lawmakers Tuesday that Russia is helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad turn the refugee crisis into a ‘weapon’ against the West.

‘Together, Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve,’ Breedlove told the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Breedlove, who also heads the US military’s European Command, suggested this creates a distraction for Western powers as they grapple with the crisis and are forced to take their eye off its root cause.

‘These indiscriminate weapons used by both Bashar al-Assad, and the non-precision use of weapons by the Russian forces, I can’t find any other reason for them other than to cause refugees to be on the move and make them someone else’s problem,’ Breedlove said.

Further complicating the refugee crisis, he added, is that increasing numbers of foreigners who have fought in Syria are heading home again, bringing battlefield skills and sometimes extremist ideologies.

‘What we have seen growing in the past months and year is that in that flow of refugees we see criminality, terrorism and foreign fighters,’ he said.