My good friend and evil partner in action, Brett Stevens, sometimes lends me his Facebook account to cause chaos and confusion. I think I did it again, this time on the topic of why Turkey should become an EU member:

Jessica Graap at 3:23pm April 6
I still don't know why the American president (past, present or future) should have any kind of opinion of who should and should not join the EU. Last time I checked, America is not in Europe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brett Stevens at 4:58pm April 6
Obama is lobbying for Turkey to join the EU because his advisors need to secure that area in order to circumvent Anglo-American dependency on Russian gas and oil. It makes 100% sense to me, but yeah, we'll see some immigration to Northern Europe, which is less fancy. But they come anyway, if not from Turkey, from the third world.

OMG, how could I make the preposterous suggestion that perhaps using geopolitical tactics to secure European energy independence is more important than some faceless Conservative’s Ultimate Law of immigration? Danish conservative Maria Johannesen at least kindly replied by inviting me over:

Maria Johannesen at 6:13pm April 6
From what you are saying Brett, it is obvious to every European that you do not have a clue about what is happening over here. And neither does Obama. But it does not come as a surprise that the world view of americans is frightening simplistic! Come live with us for a while!

Maria, if you serve the Aalborg Akvavit frosty cold, and prepare some smörrebrö, I might consider your proposal. The fact of the matter is that I've lived in Scandinavia all my life and know what I'm talking about, residing in arguably the most multicultural part of Sweden. Do I let this come in the way of securing an extremely important new gas line to Europe? No, not even when I've had too much Aalborg.

Take a good look at this picture:

This was during the time when Russia temporarily cut off the gas supply to Ukraine. This is the bully politics of the 21st Century between former Cold War blocks and the West. Get used to it folks. What the EU is planning together with America is simple:

The Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline (Turkmen: Transhazar turbaly geçiriji) is a proposed submarine pipeline between Türkmenbaşy in Turkmenistan, and Baku in Azerbaijan. According to some proposals it will also include a connection between the Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan, and Türkmenbaşy.[1] The Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline project if built would transport natural gas from Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to central Europe, circumventing both Russia and Iran.

So what has Turkey got to do with this? Let's look at the map again, this time marked by the transcaspian gas line:

This is why Obama's advisors (forget Obama, he's just a talking model, nothing else) are urging Europe to push this deal through. Of course, they are right - at least if the West hopes to escape energy dependency on Russia. That's why we need Turkey. Sure, we might see some negative side-effects, partly from Russia and Iran who don't like us playing around in Georgia, and some immigration to Northern Europe.

The Conservatives make me laugh. Here's what they are worried about:

Thor Poulsen at 11:40pm April 6
Brett, your country was multicultural from the beginning, you have different approaches to the subject. But you cannot turn a several thousand year old continet into a multicultural ghetto in 1 or 2 generations, it won´t work. And we don´t want it!
And regarding the nutty conspiracy theories, please take a look at the text of the Barcelona Agreement / Euro-mediterranean Union. Tell me honestly, that you would not be frightened about that? Maria posted a link to a group earlier in this thread, check it out. There you can find all the official EU documents and links... Brett, we are doomed, we are finished.

This person has first decided Europe will eventually become "Islamofascist" and overthrown by radical Muslims (there is some truth to this, but the fears projected by the Conservative parties in Scandinavia are 70% rhetoric and 30% reality. My 2 cents: the majority of Muslim immigrants will be secular liberals within 2-3 generations), and then decided that there's nothing we can do, so he gives up on everything and falls into the trap of fatalism. He pretends he cares about the subject, but in essence, he's just displaying anger and confusion. This is the state of radical Conservatism anno 2009.

In fact, the whole NWO (New World Order) paranoia is insane. Here's some brutal realism I stumbled upon earlier today:

The New World Order

1) Seek qualified scientists for appointment to natural resource allotment and conservation posts, not popularly elected officials who are law/economics school graduates as is the current practice
2) Dislike equality, evidenced by lots of German and English and yes Euro-Jewish faces among the top elite, but not one dark or asiatic member
3) Disagree with democracy government in practice and instead promote it as an illusion for public consumption to keep majority of the 90 IQ masses from self-destructing in revolt and anarchy
4) Want less people in the world, approx. 500 million (see Georgia Guidestones), so that the planet is not rapidly destroyed by acute overconsumption as the humanzee primate overpopulates itself toward oblivion
5) Frequently promote wars in crowded third world countries (very high birth rates, daily life was already hellish and subhuman) with five, six and seven figure civilian casualties, ostensibly to grab resources for creative Westerners to utilize
6) Completely ignore the uninformed public with its 90 IQ and 6th grade literacy by holding themselves above the law and keeping secret meetings between government and industry leadership

I'm seeing unflinchingly pragmatic, realistic, talented people who are capable of securing power and working together toward common, complex and immense goals, necessary evils that no popularly elected official can tackle without losing popularity. All this and they are gentle enough to not send death squads after their very vocal and very harsh critics among their own people.

The person who wrote this is pulling our strings, but is mostly correct. A NWO government may not be so bad after all, if that helps to regulate humanity and disarm unstable nations with nuclear power. Will it work? I don't know. It's not really interesting, since it's just another method of getting something done, and it's the future we're heading to. I'm sceptical of Pax Americana, or even a world government, but if our elite decide Rome-style leadership is best for humanity, let's see what they can pull off.

About Conservatives: I have much sympathy for these people. I also partly identify myself as classic Scandinavian Conservative. But I reject their paranoid world view, their socialist dogma, and their whiny approach to politics. They need to get their act together, stop pointing out Islam as the Ultimate Evil, and re-build community culture instead. As long as they see foreign policy through the lens of secular patriotism á la Geert Wilders, they spell failure to me. Let's have a laugh at these whiny Conservatives and move on.

To Turkey: Welcome to the European Union family.