Europe: Demography Governs Democracy - Russia: Lone Wolf of the Steppes - and Biden Admin's Iran Nuclear Policy is Disastrous, Misinformed and Dangerous

 

In this mailing: Giulio Meotti: Europe: Demography Governs Democracy Amir Taheri: Russia: Lone Wolf of the Steppes Majid Rafizadeh: Biden Admin's Iran Nuclear Policy is Disastrous, Misinformed and Dangerous Europe: Demography Governs Democracy by Giulio Meotti  •  May 29, 2022 at 5:00 am       There is a replacement of civilization and the media is not even covering it. "By 2050, 50 percent of the French population will be mixed." — Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Radio Classique, May 17, 2021. "The mayor of Grenoble adopts the arguments and rhetorical formulas of the Muslim Brotherhood: talking about freedom to impose sexism". — Céline Pina, Le Figaro, May 4, 2022. This wokeism talk pretends to be "inclusive" but carefully excludes entire groups on the clearly racist basis of skin color (whites) or ethnicity (Jews). Wokeism, filled with progressive, racist talk, pretends not to be racist but meanwhile is imbued with the syrupy racist ideology of "diversity" -- which advocates replacing a society by immigration. It also promotes political correctness, a deadly virus that paralyzes the vital reflexes of the West. Wokeism is the ideal ground for the debut of political Islam in Europe. This ever-increasing percentage of Turkish, Bosnian, Kosovar, Iranian and Iraqi politicians in Germany will increasingly influence the choices of the first European power in matters of immigration and multiculturalism. "What we see in big cities today will be normal for the whole country in the future. In a city like Frankfurt, we will have between 65 percent and 70 percent." — Herbert Brücker, head of migrant research at the Federal Institute for Employment Research, Die Welt, April 11, 2019. "The massive vote for Mélenchon is proof that the strategy of community victimization that began in the 1990s produced what it was intended to produce in one or two generations. Mélenchon gathered a large part of the Muslim vote, which obviously does not make it a Muslim or Islamist party, but only a 'cuckoo' party. Like the cuckoo hatching its eggs in the nest of a bird of another species, a cuckoo party shelters and protects ideas that are not its own. The Muslim Brothers have a strategy that they expressed in their plans from the 1980s: to form an alliance with the most docile parties to propagate their ideas". — Florence Bergeaud-Blackler, anthropologist, Marianne.net. April 22, 2022. There is a replacement of civilization in Europe and the media is not even covering it. (Image source: iStock) There is a replacement of civilization and the media is not even covering it. Sept pas vers l'enfer ("Seven Steps to Hell"), the new book by Alain Chouet, the former number two of the DGSE, the powerful French counter-intelligence service, is an indictment of the European élites. Chouet recalls: Continue Reading Article Russia: Lone Wolf of the Steppes by Amir Taheri  •  May 29, 2022 at 4:00 am       US President Joe Biden and Speaker of House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi say the Ukraine war will continue "until victory is achieved", but neither of them has said what might constitute victory. Which brings us to what the Florentine clerk advised 500 years ago: "Never wound a deadly foe and let him live. Either kill him or turn him into a friend." Will the Russian war against Ukraine, now in its fourth month, put an end to Vladimir Putin's ambition to surround his Russia with autocratic regimes or "illiberal democracies"? Pictured: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, in Sochi, Russia on May 23, 2022. (Photo by Ramil Sitdikov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images) Whatever its outcome, the Russian war against Ukraine, now in its fourth month, is already studied by many analysts with emphasis on two issues. First, will it put an end to Vladimir Putin's ambition to surround his Russia with autocratic regimes or "illiberal democracies"? Of the 15 nations that emerged as independent entities after the fall of the Soviet Union, only three, the Baltic republics, have managed to build Western-style capitalist democracies, becoming full members of the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, all three, annexed by Stalin, were never fully Sovietized. I remember that during a visit to Latvia in August 1974, our "minder" from Moscow observed that Riga, the Latvian capital, was "almost like Europe." Putin has no problem with Belarus, which has remained a Soviet-style state closely linked to Moscow. Continue Reading Article Biden Admin's Iran Nuclear Policy is Disastrous, Misinformed and Dangerous by Majid Rafizadeh  •  May 28, 2022 at 5:00 am       During a critical Senate hearing on May 25, 2022, Robert Malley, President Joe Biden's special envoy for Iran, defended the administration's efforts to revive the nuclear deal with the ruling mullahs of Iran. Although there is a report that the Biden administration will not be removing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the terrorist list, Malley clearly suggested that the IRGC's removal from the terrorist list is not off the table: "We'd made clear to Iran that if they wanted any concession on something that was unrelated to the JCPOA – like the FTO designation – we needed something reciprocal from them that would address our concerns." But Malley declined to say what the administration is asking for from the Iranian regime to de-list the IRGC from the terrorist list. Malley also suggested that the Biden administration will submit a final draft of the nuclear deal to the Congress for review. This proposal, however, is most likely an attempt by the Biden administration to pacify the Congress so they will let their guard down. We should recall that the Obama administration, in which Biden was the Vice President, also said that the Congress would get a chance to review the nuclear deal. But Obama went ahead and reached a deal with Iran without Senate approval. The nuclear deal was reached through executive order, not through the Senate. The Biden administration seems to be investing all its political capital in reviving the nuclear deal with the ruling mullahs of Iran, while it seems clear that Iran's theocratic establishment is only buying time to defiantly advance its nuclear program and has now reached the point where it is close to the nuclear threshold. (Image source: iStock) The Biden administration seems to be investing all its political capital in reviving the nuclear deal with the ruling mullahs of Iran; the Iranian regime has been defiantly advancing its nuclear program, stepping up its uranium enrichment, working on 1,000 more centrifuges, gaining irreversible knowledge in nuclear development while "negotiating" with the P5+1. It seems clear that Iran's theocratic establishment is only buying time to advance its nuclear program and has now reached the point where it is close to the nuclear threshold. The Islamic Republic is thought to be only weeks away from obtaining the weapons-grade materials necessary for a nuclear weapon. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned on May 17, 2022: Continue Reading Article