Across Europe, things feel increasingly fragile. As governments lose control of basic order and the state becomes rapidly incapable of maintaining law and order, this isn’t so much a ‘clash of civilisations’ as the West quietly rolling over and letting itself die.
Today, it was announced that Germany will be working alongside the Taliban. Yes, those same extremist Islamists that NATO forces—including Germany’s—spent years fighting in Afghanistan. The aim here is to facilitate the deportations of Afghan criminals living in Germany. Despite not officially recognising the Taliban regime, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government will allow two Taliban officials to work at Afghan diplomatic missions in Germany. Apparently, the only way Merz can conceive of deporting undesirable migrants and failed asylum seekers from the country is by enlisting the help of a murderous, terrorist regime.
It is a depressing indictment of the situation Europe has got itself into, where a nation must grant de-facto diplomatic representation to a brutal Islamist government in order to deport asylum seekers driven to Germany by the Taliban themselves. This scheme, however ridiculous, is at least doing something to stop Germany from being overrun by opportunistic criminals, dangerous thugs, and those who will generally strain the country’s already creaking public services.
In other areas, the government is failing miserably to even try to stop rising crime. German police are more interested in going after pensioners who are rude to politicians online than stopping young male migrants from assaulting teenage girls and running riot in small towns. In some places, like the town of Harsefeld, the authorities have given up policing altogether, and now let gangs of migrant youths commit violence and deal drugs as they please. As such, local citizens have been forced to set up their own patrols in an attempt to keep the streets somewhat safe.
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