In the last few years we were repeatedly given solid proof that EU in its current state is incapable of making important, difficult decisions and taking appropriate action in a timely manner. “Closing the stable doors after the horses ran out” appears to be a well-established modus operandi.
In the light of this notion, I really worry about the consequences of EU taking its sweet time to admit that our current immigration policy is untenable. And by that I don’t mean that we’re taking in too many migrants, I mean that it’s foolish to expect that bribing transit countries to stem the flow will be sustainable going forward.
Not only does this strategy entail handing massive leverage over ourselves to states that don’t meet basic criteria of trustworthiness, let alone demoractic standards (I’m not bashing Turkey here, we’d be golden if it was only about Turkey), it’s also entangling us in said states’ various existential struggles that threaten the deals we made. The Niger fiasco is an excellent example of that and it was just one of many ways in which things can and will go wrong.
We need to get real, if we want to hang our domestic stability and security on our control over what goes on in Africa and Middle East, let’s raise our military spending to 10% GDP, reestablish conscription and send a 20 million strong occupational force to basically bring back colonialism. Of course, I am drastically opposed to such a proposition, but at least it has a somewhat logical link between the intended goal and the measures to achieve it, unlike hoping that we’ll dodge the effect of the calamity of large swathes of the world becoming unihabitable by sending officials to shake hands, promising to build a school and going “Oh no, what do we do now?” when things inevitably go tits up.
We’re playing half-assed nation-building with juntas and tyrants over a quarter of the globe when we know for a fact that even full-assed nation-building with a puppet government in a single country doesn’t work. All that so we can out-source the dirty work of turning back the migrants to protect our precious humanitarian sensibilities.
It’s absurd and it needs to stop now, not when the migration really ramps up and we have an armada of dinghies on the Mediterranean and no contingencies to handle it.
When did ever russians care if others starve? They did not care even for the other states in USSR or the Iron Curtain
Why is the world in such denial to accept that russia is a morally bankrupt society. Compassion and humanity are viewed as weaknesses. They only understand strength and force. This madness can only stop through ways russia understands.
Kinda ironic they could potentially be starving the same nations in Africa they claim they “support”.
Moscow literally doesn’t give a fuck who dies or how many. They don’t care how many Russians die. They don’t care if the whole world dies they are bitter old men clinging to their own dead myths about the USSR
Russian leadership wouldn’t care even if Russians starved. They give zero shits about human life, why would anyone assume they care about africans?
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Nor do any politicians anywhere.
In the last few years we were repeatedly given solid proof that EU in its current state is incapable of making important, difficult decisions and taking appropriate action in a timely manner. “Closing the stable doors after the horses ran out” appears to be a well-established modus operandi.
In the light of this notion, I really worry about the consequences of EU taking its sweet time to admit that our current immigration policy is untenable. And by that I don’t mean that we’re taking in too many migrants, I mean that it’s foolish to expect that bribing transit countries to stem the flow will be sustainable going forward.
Not only does this strategy entail handing massive leverage over ourselves to states that don’t meet basic criteria of trustworthiness, let alone demoractic standards (I’m not bashing Turkey here, we’d be golden if it was only about Turkey), it’s also entangling us in said states’ various existential struggles that threaten the deals we made. The Niger fiasco is an excellent example of that and it was just one of many ways in which things can and will go wrong.
We need to get real, if we want to hang our domestic stability and security on our control over what goes on in Africa and Middle East, let’s raise our military spending to 10% GDP, reestablish conscription and send a 20 million strong occupational force to basically bring back colonialism. Of course, I am drastically opposed to such a proposition, but at least it has a somewhat logical link between the intended goal and the measures to achieve it, unlike hoping that we’ll dodge the effect of the calamity of large swathes of the world becoming unihabitable by sending officials to shake hands, promising to build a school and going “Oh no, what do we do now?” when things inevitably go tits up.
We’re playing half-assed nation-building with juntas and tyrants over a quarter of the globe when we know for a fact that even full-assed nation-building with a puppet government in a single country doesn’t work. All that so we can out-source the dirty work of turning back the migrants to protect our precious humanitarian sensibilities.
It’s absurd and it needs to stop now, not when the migration really ramps up and we have an armada of dinghies on the Mediterranean and no contingencies to handle it.
When did ever russians care if others starve? They did not care even for the other states in USSR or the Iron Curtain
Why is the world in such denial to accept that russia is a morally bankrupt society. Compassion and humanity are viewed as weaknesses. They only understand strength and force. This madness can only stop through ways russia understands.
Kinda ironic they could potentially be starving the same nations in Africa they claim they “support”.
Moscow literally doesn’t give a fuck who dies or how many. They don’t care how many Russians die. They don’t care if the whole world dies they are bitter old men clinging to their own dead myths about the USSR
Russian leadership wouldn’t care even if Russians starved. They give zero shits about human life, why would anyone assume they care about africans?
Such is the Muscovite way.