The Bundeswehr must undertake operations in Mali “so that people will no longer have to flee the violence and hopelessness,” claimed German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen during a speech in Mali. Von der Leyen is using Germany’s influx of refugees to legitimize the Bundeswehr’s foreign interventions.
However, Germany’s aggressive foreign policy actively helps create the causes and conditions for more refugees. As a prime example, German policy since the late 1970s, in collaboration with other western governments, exacerbated the Afghan civil war by its support for the Mujahidin in opposition to the Russian backed government. These governments “knowingly increased the probability” the Soviet Union would intervene in favor of its Afghan ally. “We now have the opportunity of giving the USSR its Vietnam War,” wrote U.S. National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. This created social upheaval, forcing millions of Afghans to flee the country. Afghanistan has never recovered from the political, economic and social devastation. The German mission in Afghanistan ended last year.
Besides instigating unrest in 1979, the USA and others fuelled the Afghanistan war during the 1980s by paying “triple-digit millions annually” to the Mujahidin, which included Osama bin Laden and other jihadists. “Al Qaeda is a spin-off from their networks and strucutres during the war in Afghanistan.” The Bundeswehr was involved in training jihadists and in armed combat. The result of this western intervention was a wave of more than six million refugees in the 1980s, the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, along with another wave of more than six million refugees.
As Germany increases its involvemnt in foreign military engagement watch for more refugees, not less. German intentions in Mali may not be immediately clear, yet the flow of refugees continues.
“And there shall be wars and rumors of wars…” Matthew 24:6
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