Merkel delegates EU security to Turkey's Erdogan

 
    Angela Merkel has become so desperate that she is now bribing Turkey, a nation with a network of some 25,000 smugglers, to help bail her out of the migrant mess.  Basically, she is outsourcing the EU's responsibility of securing its external border to an unstable tyrant (Erdogan) who bears much responsibility for the chaos in the Middle East.

Two things:
1. Once again, Merkel is selfishly arrogant. She is the leader of Germany, not Europe.  Many others look at Turkey as a big problem, not a solution.  She may be Time's person of the year and the international media's darling, but that does not make her Queen of the Central/Eastern European  estates.

2.  Turkey cannot be trusted, not in the Syrian war nor with the refugees.  They have openly flooded Europe with the migrants via an impotent Greece.  Merkel and the EU would have been better off listening to Hungary's Orban on providing soldiers and police to help control Greece's border.  This is the problem and so are the smugglers that Turkey harbors.  Merkel/EU are not serious people or they would tell Turkey that unless they stem the flow, we will close the border and send them right back to you.

       The Merkel/EU has become so politically correct, so feeble that nobody respects them anymore, not the refugees, not the smugglers, not Turkey, and certainly not the nations of Eastern Europe, who have lost all confidence in Merkel to take any actions to stem the flow.  Time magazine certainly does not have to live with the consequences of her actions.

        I cannot see Merkel or the EU surviving this politically.  She will resign from office by March 2016 once the V4 firmly rejects her refugee resettlement scheme. Look for the EU to break up into various regional, less centralizing unions to better reflect the regional values of its people.

      It would have been one thing if Merkel humbly acknowledged her mistakes and took the responsibility to correct it.  But Merkel has done neither and continues to be held captive by her visions of glory and legacy.  Unfortunately, at least for now, her illusions are holding the rest of the EU hostage to a security nightmare.

       The V4 nations may be about to change that.