Europe says it’s facing a “migration crisis.” But what if the crisis didn’t start in Africa or the Middle East—what if it started in Washington, London, and Brussels?br br In this APT Opinion deep dive, we break down the argument Europe refuses to confront: the people drowning in the Mediterranean aren’t fleeing “failed states”—they’re fleeing the ruins of Western wars. From Iraq to Libya to Syria, Western interventions turned functioning nations into firestorms of displacement. And now, Europe calls the survivors a “border problem.”br br The EU’s 2025 Asylum and Migration Report labels Spain, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus as “under migratory pressure,” while countries like Poland and Hungary refuse to take migrants or pay fines.