The so-called Arab Spring was not Arab, because it was not planned and invented by the Arabs, because it "slapped" Israel, Turkey, and because Iran was left out. Even today, the leaders of the United States, Britain and France could not answer why they planned government changes in North Africa in 2011, in their terms an 'Arab Spring'.
Where the Arab Spring took place were all countries with which some European countries had serious problems because they wanted change in the context of certain economic interests.
Background to the Arab Spring
In the 1990s, climate change caused the first mass migration from North Africa to Europe. Later, during and after the wars in Iraq, from several Arab countries, as well as from Afghanistan and Southeast Asia. In North Africa, Morocco and Libya held back migration during that period. The anti-government protests of the Arab Spring also devastated countries (Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt) that could have held back refugees. In 2015, around one and a half million refugees could have arrived in Europe, a figure that could rise to eight to ten million in the future with family reunification.
The ill-considered decisions of some leaders of the European Parliament and the German Chancellor have turned Europe into a political and economic crisis zone, because they have failed to define in time who is a refugee and who is an immigrant.
Three exceptions
- Tunisia was the test area, where they tried out how to revolt the population with the so-called "Jasmine Revolution" and how to start a war by faking news in the media. When the oil embargo was imposed on Libya, Tunisia sold its oil. Libya's oil revenues enriched Tunisia because it got a share. When the embargo also ended and Libya reached a settlement with the Western countries, the Tunisian economy went downhill.
- In Egypt, it was thought that the death of 80-year-old Mubarak would cause economic chaos in the country, and then when the army took over, they went back to where they were with Mubarak, but under a different name.
- In Libya, Gaddafi did not take his friends seriously, although he did take a photo with US President Barack Obama, Tony Blair visited him, French President Sarkozy did, and he agreed with Berlusconi on oil supplies. For a few years before 2011, no one had a problem with the Libyan leadership, but then, at the suggestion of the US leadership, suddenly everyone had the realisation that they were dealing with a dictator.
It's important to remember that these countries have always had strong, heavy-handed leaders, because that's the only way to keep order. Societies have a fanaticism that requires strong control. Where certain extremist organisations, clans, different religious groups are fighting each other, only such leaders can keep order.
Before the Arab Spring
Before 2019, Libya committed itself in a treaty with the European Union to placing African refugees in collective camps and not to release them, but to return them to their countries of origin.In early September 2010, when Gaddafi visited Italy, he asked the European Union to pay at least five billion euros a year to fight illegal immigration, so that Libya would detain the refugees.
They have promised to do so, and have even said that they want to improve dialogue with the Libyan authorities, particularly on migration from Africa. When they started to loosen the clans and tribes, Gaddafi warned them that if they supported the uprising against him, he would open the refugee floodgates that had been holding back Africans.
The impact of the Arab Spring on today
Today, it has been confirmed that migrants are making their way to Europe, mainly to Italy, from the Libyan coast at Europe's southern borders. The overthrow of Gaddafi is a mistake of the UNSC and of French and British policy, which was prepared and decided in 2011 by the military alliance they led, backed by US support. Germany abstained in the vote. Libya is now in chaos, with various militias, Islamic State organisations controlling the country, which has been divided into parts and is now an ideal breeding ground for people-smuggling gangs to Europe.
The Arab Spring is therefore not an Arab invention, but mainly an invention of the American, French and British political leadership and intelligence services. Libya is more a Franco-Italian invention, Tunisia is more a Franco-British invention, and Egypt is an invention of American intelligence. Syria, on the other hand, was a Saudi-Catari-American idea, because the Saudis want to become the leading ideological and military-economic power in the region. This ideology is none other than Wahhabi, ultra-fundamentalist Islam. This is what the Russian military action on the side of the Syrian government was all about.
