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Another strike on a major urban center in Europe, this time in the heart of the European Union.
Unexpected? Not at all, considering that Salah Abdeslam had been arrested just two hours earlier. It was expected that the Islamic State (IS) network in Belgium and elsewhere would likely be exposed during Abdeslam's interrogations. The closeness of time between Abdeslam's arrest and the Brussels attack suggests that the IS network was determined to act effectively before it was exposed and ultimately neutralized. At the same time, it sent a message of retaliation for its operational success with such large and important targets: Brussels International Airport and the metro near the bureaucratic heart of the EU. The impact? The same and worse for Europe.
The comments of the leaders of the EU countries and the international community, as well as the media, echo their previous comments on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan, etc.: “we condemn…, we deplore…, we recommend… blah blah blah.” Nothing has changed, or rather something has changed: Europe is in a worse situation. It is weaker. Every blow brings the EU closer to disintegration, and the combination of IS strikes with the economic crisis, the refugee crisis and closed borders contribute to this. As time passes, the EU loses any cohesion and returns to the situation it was in before the war: a continent of conservative and xenophobic nation states that act alone to undermine each other. The Union has become divided and composed of states within it, gangs of states with ephemeral and short-sighted aspirations.
This time, the worst thing for European leaders is that they have nothing to say to their citizens. And this is because not only have they done nothing to improve the EU's weaknesses (wrong geopolitical choices in the Islamic world, deterioration of the Palestinian situation, economic crisis, social marginalization of Muslims) but because they have not decided to conduct the necessary introspection and psychographic analysis. This would help them to realize their mistakes, gain self-awareness and improve. Without this introspection, nothing will improve. On the contrary, things will deteriorate rapidly and uncontrollably.
Instead, the leaderships of the powerful EU countries continue to keep their citizens in the dark of ignorance and demonize Islam, promoting intolerance in the name of “European civilization”. At the same time, they continue to look at the Islamic world with half an eye, with various voices in Europe claiming that the Muslim communities of Europe support the asymmetric attacks in Brussels with the alleged reasoning that Abdeslam was supported by 3-4 people from the city to ensure his hideout for 4 months in Brussels. The supporters of such xenophobic theories forget that it is very easy to hide in an urban environment with the help of only 2-3 people without this meaning that the entire community supports them. At the same time, they forget that Muslims and Europeans lived together on European soil after the war for decades without this violence. So, it is not the fault of the Muslim communities of Europe, but the geopolitical interventionist and neo-colonialist stance of Europe and the West towards the Islamic world. So what happened that started these attacks?
Instead of holding their governments accountable for their wrong choices in overthrowing Saddam Hussein and Moammar Gadhafi, the leaderships of the powerful EU countries remain silent on this matter and are working on plans to divide Syria and overthrow Assad. Instead of correcting their wrong choices in Palestine by effectively establishing a Palestinian state, they tolerate the seizure of Palestinian lands and the expansion of illegal settlements by Tel Aviv.
At the same time, both at the level of the European Commission's foreign policy and at the level of the leaderships of the powerful countries of Europe, this introspection and self-criticism also concerns the West's attitude towards the creation of the Islamic State in the Middle East, which took place at least with its political tolerance, if not with its operational support, due to its "divide and rule" policy in relation to the Sunni-Shiite dispute of Muslims. At first, IS favored Western plans to redraw borders in Mesopotamia, but then it became clear that everything has its price and that IS's action is not limited to the Islamic world but is globalized. The suffering of the Taliban-Al-Qaeda and the Twin Towers has not yet become a lesson in the West.
Therefore, the leadership of Europe continues to systematically turn a blind eye and refuse to realistically look at the world, being hostage to petty state interests and lacking cultural knowledge of the Islamic world. As long as Europe does not undertake the necessary introspection and revision of its attitude towards Islam, it will be constantly surprised by it.

Source: http://www.cnn.gr/opinions/arthra/story/26349/h-geopolitiki-stasi-tis-eyropis-ston-islamiko-kosmo-kai-to-xtypima-stis-vryxelles#ixzz43tBKOlwz