The debate in Germany over chancellor Angela Merkel’s open arms welcome of refugees is increasingly vocal and cantankerous on both the Left and Right.
Support for her policies will vanish as soon as there is a major incident such as we have seen in Paris, Nice, or Brussels.
Unfortunately, such an incident is increasingly likely.
The Financial Times reports Merkel Critics Turn on Refugee Policy as Germans Confront Terror.
Select Quotes
- “We are definitely capable of accommodating these people and making sure they have enough to eat and drink,” says Florian Hahn, an MP from the CSU, the Bavaria-based sister party to Ms Merkel’s CDU. “But actually integrating them individually, and making sure they get the right psychiatric treatment, is impossible. There are just too many.”
- Sahra Wagenknecht, co-leader of Die Linke, the leftwing opposition party, said the attacks showed the task of integrating huge numbers of refugees “is harder than Merkel, with her frivolous ‘we can do it’ slogan of last autumn, would have us believe”.
- Andreas Scheuer, the CSU party’s general secretary says all migrants who have come to Germany in recent years need to undergo stringent security checks. “The information they volunteer about themselves is not enough,” he told local media. “Every single refugee should be personally interviewed and subjected to thorough screening to avoid a generalised suspicion [towards all refugees].”
- Joachim Herrmann, Bavaria’s CSU interior minister, even suggested that Germany should be allowed to deport refugees back to war zones such as Syria if they have committed crimes. Government officials insist that is forbidden under the Geneva Convention.
- A backlash is brewing even in the chancellor’s own CDU party. “We have apparently imported a few completely brutal people, capable of barbaric crimes,” said Frank Henkel, Berlin’s interior minister. “We must state that clearly, and without taboos.”
- Thomas de Maizière, Merkel’s interior minister insists is fine. “The vast majority of refugees come to us for other reasons [than to commit violence] — either because they’re persecuted or expect a better life here,” said de Maizière.
Everything Fine?
Point number six is mathematically true. But let’s let’s did a little deeper starting with the March 2016 BBC report Migration to Europe Explained in Seven Charts.
Origin of Refugees
2105 Refugees by Country
In light of those charts let’s discuss Thomas de Maizière’s statement “The vast majority of refugees come to us for other reasons [than to commit violence] — either because they’re persecuted or expect a better life here.”
Six Assumptions
- Let’s assume no terrorists entered Europe in 2014
- Let’s assume no terrorists entered Europe in 2016
- Let’s assume the entire problem pertains to 1,321,560 refugees in 2015
- Let’s assume the “vast majority” of refugees are peaceful.
- Let’s assume if the people are peaceful, there are no other issues such as food, shelter, or services.
- Finally, let’s assume the refugees are not a drain on public finances.
Those assumptions bend over backwards as much as possible to support de Maizière’s viewpoint.
“Vast Majority” Math
What does “vast majority” mean? Does 99% constitute a vast majority?
- 1% of 1,321,560 (1 in 100) is 13,216 potential terrorists.
- .1% of 1,321,560 (1 in 1,000) is 1,322 potential terrorists.
- .01% of 1,321,560 (1 in 10,000) is 132 potential terrorists.
I suspect the problem cases are somewhere between .01% and 1%. If we assume 1 in 5,000 problem cases, there are about 661 radicalized migrants from 2015 alone.
Whatever number you come up with, it might be wise to double it to account for years prior to and after 2016.
Are those numbers acceptable?
Apparently they are to Merkel and her equally foolish interior minister.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
The recent beheading of a priest should have been the tipping point. These incidents, horrible as they are build a stronger case for Trump. Immigrant rapes, murders, and atrocities further reinforce the need to eject all immigrants of kind and restart the screening process once better filters are established.
The major problem remains that Western Europe en toto never saw the refugee crisis coming to begin with…so I don’t think a “making it up as you go” response should be a surprise to anyone.
I highly doubt it was a surprise to the USA given the American experience of “post Vietnam.”
So sure…it’s easy to be critical…but you could also argue … in fact should argue….that this is not an American problem. The USA is already up to its eyeballs in the “Middle East”..and is ramping up commitments to the region massively.
This was not the lesson of Vietnam as I recall…but it is what it is. This whole “blame Germany” thing seems incongruous at best. There is a thing called the “European Union” so this matter is a lot more complicated than presented here…although obviously the USA is not going to get in the business of protecting Europe’s borders.
If anything given the whole Crimea Thingy the USA is doing the exact opposite actually…and indeed one look at how the USA sees it’s own “border issues” gives lie to the entire debate would appear.
“Mush-Talk” strikes again.
Mish is very much stuck in the past when it comes to geopolitics, and from his “election silliness” post a few days ago he doesn’t seem to know much about statistics either.
Just because the roullette ball has landed on a red state or a blue state every year since Mish started watching — does not change the odds of that state (or any other) voting the same way in 2016.
People move constantly, the employment base of states changes often, old historical voting blocks grow old (and die).
Meanwhile, both Trump and Bernie represent the green slots on the roullette wheel. The anger of people who normally would vote is off the charts this year (not just in the US — see Brexit).
Mish, just like the DNC and RNC, whines about “populism” — but that isn’t what is happening at all. Historical voting correlations were never a certainty, and whatever they may have been in the past they are changing along with demographics.
Voting trends that have worked for the past 30-40 years are breaking down. That isn’t populism, that is changing demographics.
Mish doesn’t grasp this (similar to Merkel and Bush and Clinton and Cameron and…) — so he thinks his loose correlations of yester-year will somehow force the people of FL and OH to vote the same way (because they often, but not always, did during Mish’s data set)
Merkel is managing Germany according to post WW2 views of the world, apparently oblivious to the current calendar. Same mistake as many other G7 politicians
I cannot fully agree with you there Frank . We are being presented with a post WW2 script , and various leaders as well as political groups play along with it also , but I know that the planning that is at hand is something well beyond that . I guarantee you that , as far as is possible from an anonymous author over the web.
I don’t need to dream up any conspiracy to make my point – the acceptance of millions of middle eastern migrants into an already confused EU is absurd in the extreme without a further motive at hand . Ask yourself if a 1990s Germany, hence more post WW2 scripted , would have acted the same way.
I don’t blame Merkel , she deserves to be put on trial in my opinion , but that is a matter for the German people .
The question is, who is anyone trying to impress , and to what ends . If you follow it through and know who is in the room , you would not have too much difficulty reaching your own answer.
France is truly screwed already and is trying, unsuccessfully so far due to the existing establishment , to reduce its Arab/Muslim legacy .
Scandinavian countries are the authentically naive players that Germany is not .
IMHO.
@chrysangle — I think we are saying the same thing?
Merkel was indoctrinated in East Germany; they were “taught” (politically indoctrinated) that everything in the world was all Germany’s fault. Obviously, Germany was at fault for more than half of the crimes and chaos that was WW2.
But history gets edited by the victors, and the victors did not want to admit that the Versailles treaty created fertile soil for a mushroom like Hitler to grow in. The victors did not want to admit Germany is in the middle of the continent, and thus when a Serb shoots a Hapsburg Duke — the rest of the world must go through Germany to fight each other.
The victors decided to exonerate themselves, and told German students that the entire problem (not some of it, ALL of it) was the fault of nationalism and racism. That is the indoctrination that Merkel went through. When she or her classmates tried to examine the bigger picture, they were branded nazis and the victors proved that racism was not exclusive to Germans.
You may not think for yourself. The victors said its all your fault, and that is that.
So now a bunch of foreigners are showing up, raping stealing killing, etc. They are trying to force the native people to adapt to the “new world order” by force and intimidation. In short, its an invasion.
But Merkel has been brainwashed into thinking she may not resist. Too many Germans suffer from the same indoctrination.
Its a very unstable situation. When these people “snap”, its going to be ugly for everyone.
If the liberals were actually as tolerant as they tell themselves they are, they might have allowed *SOME* German nationalism, but don’t let it get out of hand. Find a happy middle point. Extremism, in either direction, is bad.
The Germans were forced to go from one unstable extreme to the other — and it “worked” for the post WW2 generation who felt guilt (as they should).
Racists (including many commenters here) took things way too far, claiming that Germans born decades after allied occupation were equally guilty. They are being blamed for crimes that happened before they were born.
It happens in the USA also — Mish thinks that the political voting patterns of baby boomers are still dominant as the boomers “retire” ( I use quotes here, because as a group the boomers never bothered to save for retirement).
Merkel is too old to represent Germany. I don’t mean that in a literal “years of age” sense. I mean she thinks like she was indoctrinated to think, with a post WW2 mindset.
Being stuck in the past is dooming Europe. They are so busy playing “name the next Hitler” meme, that they can’t see the present.
Red slot blue slot?? Wrong. It’s a craps game and a dice roll and a ‘no choice’ choice. You only have to look at rep. Bush and dem. Obama to see that it’s all the same coin. Laughable really when you think of all that ‘yes we can’ bs. Now we have a ‘change maker’! Ffs how much more of this will they make us swallow
Blah blah blah …and then maybe it’s just a matter of Merkel’s East German ‘destroy the west’ indoctrination being too deeply imprinted to erase.
“I see evil people. They don’t know they’re evil.”
I agree with what you say there, and it is a good social representation to which I would add that the identity blank that exists due to that is occupied by a very civilized submission to state/government orchestrated balance.
I hold nothing against the Jewish people at all, of those I know there are facets that I hold in very high regard, and others that do not agree with me, same as for any other people I meet. The interwar years and monetary chaos that occurred was handled ( not necessarily caused) by the Jewish community in Germany ( 1%) so adeptly that they amassed an incredible position of German wealth ( I forget the figure) , this is fully documented – the only argument that exists is if there was an unfair international financial conspiracy to this end or if it was achieved by skill and graft. I don’t know and will not make broad guesses. The rise of nationalism due to this, as well as due to the impositions placed on Germany by her neighbours, could only have been expected, in fact there was a nationalist socialist vogue in the west at the time, including the US ( which evolved into the nationalistic anti-communist stance we are more familiar with, with its socialist trappings in tow). Hitler just happened to be too extreme in his ways, or you could say lacking some of the most basic human traits of compassion – I am sure volumes have been written on the subject.
When you boil down to what is actually at stake in real world circumstance (beyond individual survival) though , we always find the same faces…territorial integrity, financial leverage, resource access, social discipline, military leverage.
Nationalism is the refuge of an insecure population, some say of scoundrels, but personally I would place it as a definition that makes more sense when everything else does not, a sort of call to a combined legacy that a group of people can adhere to when they find no answer elsewhere. Just as state is the direction and management of those people, it is not in itself nationalism but technique limited to the jurisdiction of a nation.
The actions of state are limited by national law, those laws are its only inhibition, ones that are generally designed to limit the misuse of private and public resources. As state is to be considered as absolute, there are laws that are designed to reinforce the perception to those in power that the absolute is only with regard to within that jurisdiction.
However, the technical ability, and even necessity, that is derived from international frameworks of interaction, does set up a parallel universe of wider objectives. This cannot be denied, a glaring example would be EU itself, another would be NATO , which I am not sure has not become a shield allowing certain countries their own misadventures.
So you have two or three technical authorities interacting on the same, and wider, stage/s, be those territorial, financial, resource etc.
Continuing, when a pro-western rebellion fails two or three thousand miles away, Germany, above all others, welcomes in all the refugees/ migrants that happen to be around , just like that. There is no way this cannot be construed as a planned assimilation , the destruction and reshaping of countries neighbouring EU combined with the harbouring of their civilian populations within EU or paying for their shelter in third countries. Why do you think Erdo has no moral dilemna in threatening to send refugees to EU? I would say it is because the conditions in the part Turkey was asked to play by EU have not been met by EU, nor does EU seem to accept even picking up the resulting tab that was later improvised as solution.
Why is this all happening?
Because the combined objectives of those that technically rule are set elsewhere, in expansionary endeavours where the costs are expected to be supported by the local citizenry, because ‘ they are not genocidal any more, but humanitarian examples for the rest of the world to follow’.
Notice the rest of European countries have no moral difficulty in rejecting migrants or discriminating between them when they choose, they just try not to stand out while they do so… and not to upset the German leadership, which has become the (ultimately temporary) EU mouthpiece and purse.
I’m just talking out loud here and don’t pretend an authority, but the picture appears so obvious to me that restricting the narrative to anything less becomes deceptive – Germany is fully complicit, no kind gestures or apologistic demonstration will make it otherwise.
The Germans had better figure out what exactly they are about, I think, as few will feel sorry for them ( or the French, amongst others) elsewhere.
Arms trade http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/making-a-killing-the-1-2-billion-euros-arms-pipeline-to-middle-east-07-26-2016
Germany sets white paper for troop deployments inside Germany… another ‘benefit’ of events… http://www.infowars.com/munich-attack-fallout-germany-prepares-for-domestically-deployed-military/
Voegelin, Molnar, and other thinkers have written that all ideologies share at least one characteristic: a prescription for an alternative reality, made up out of nothing by one or more disaffected cranks (my words here). Zealots transform ideologies into serious problems whenever and wherever such zealots manage to acquire sufficient authority in order to force masses of people to live in a bogus “reality”. Europe, along with much of West, is at last showing signs of awakening from the dystopian nightmares of multiculturalism and egalitarianism (at least). We must hope that the process of recovery may be carried out with as little disruption as possible. Europe’s very existence hangs in the balance.
Funny, I found this one today before I even knew about the priest. It must be a sign!
http://img12.deviantart.net/1c61/i/2014/029/c/e/angela_merkel_meme_by_sal_ria-d748osk.jpg
http://www.aesopfables.com/cgi/aesop1.cgi?4&TheScorpionandtheFrog
A pretty stringent, yet supportable metric, would be comparing the number of 2015 refugees who turn out to become “terrorists”; to 1st, 2nd and so forth “immigrants” who lived in Europe prior to 2015. It’s by no means a given that the former are any easier to radicalize than the latter.
Germany has traditionally had a good track record of integrating Muslim immigrants, compared to most other places in Europe. A nice side benefit of having an actual functioning economy, I suppose.
But if you start out with the premise that you need to be “making sure they get the right psychiatric treatment”, you’re pretty much sure to put an end to that track record.
The bottom line is that democrats and leftists want more and more muslims.
Not matter how much carnage mulsims will cause. No matter how many killings or rapes they will cause.
As muslims will vote as a block and for the generations for the party of bigger and bigger government.
For the party of more and more free sh*t.
Until, one day, they can vote for Sharia Law.
But until that day – they will be the most reliable democrat and leftist voters.
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Here it may be useful to introduce another factor that has played a major role in the Islamization of Molenbeek in the past two decades, though it is virtually never discussed in the politically-correct Belgian media. And that is the de facto alliance between radical Islam and the European Left. In Molenbeek, a hard-left socialist and an anti-Semitic zealot by the name of Philippe Moureaux was re-elected mayor time and again for 20 years by the Muslim vote and allowed the place to become what it has. Nor is this an exception, with the socialist-Islamist collusion an unfortunate fact of life throughout Europe today and likely to become worse.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/03/brussels_molenbeek_and_the_way_out_for_europe_.html#ixzz4FZFwmdIb
The Left uses Muslim immigrants as footsoldiers and shock troops against White Christian populations.
Globalists use Muslims as bio-weapons.
Yo, Yo, Yo… the Democraps are telling us that . “It’s time for a woman for President”!
https://andelino.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/angela-merkel-gets-hitlerd-10.jpg?w=460&h=443
https://redgreenalliancedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/merkel-refugee-meme1.jpg?w=470&h=265
https://i1.wp.com/assets.patriotpost.us/images/2015-06-02-8ee63786_large.jpg
As we saw in France one terrorist can cause TREMENDOUS damage. He murdered 84 innocent men, women and childen with his truck and injured hundreds more.
If only .01% (132) of the refugees are terrorists that’s still too many. And .01% is an unrealistically low assumption. The number certainly exceeds 3%. Likely above 5%.
Sooner or later I think Germany will experience an attack like we’ve seen in France. The odds are greatly in favor of it with all the imported refugee immigrants. Then the German people will finally act and oust the political enablers. But it may be too late by that time.
No idea why the Germans are so tolerant of this assault on their nation. I lived in Germany for several years. I came to know and like the German people. I was very impressed with the average German’s knowledge of their political system and their elected leaders. Most could identify their local, state and national politicians with precision. In fact, most Germans knew more details about the American political system than your average American. But that didn’t shock me. America is renown for being ignorant and apathetic about the governance of our nation.
But I’m confused why the Germans haven’t taken more of a deliberate stand against Merkel. Perhaps the average German still harbors exaggerated guilt over what took place during the Nazi era. Maybe the Germans feel an obligation to save the world from evil. I don’t know. But whatever the reason for their tolerance of the invasion by indigent Muslim refugees is – they need to get over it in a big way before they lose their nation and entire culture.
OldTimer – it is as you say, stemming from guilt and shame. It’s too bad.
I spoke to a german yesterday and he ccommented as to how bad it was getting. Germans are insecure with the increase in crime and that the government seems to be covering it up. He also stated that anyone who dares speak out about it is labeled as a Nazi, effectively siliencing all but the most radical.
Political correctness as being inforced will create massive radicalization as all moderate voices will be silenced, allowing for an unabated advance of destructive policies.
After 1200 years Muslims have yet to integrate peacefully into any society.
So, we can accurately (100%) guess that Florian Hahn, Sahra Wagenknecht, Andreas Scheuer, Joachim Herrmann, Frank Henkel, and Thomas de Maizière, all live in gated communities/guarded apartments and are accompanied by armed personnel where ever they go. Just like obama, who is building a taller wall around the White House even though he has the highest amount of security in the world, bar none.
The dems are so laughingly transparent if you just stop listening to what they say and watch what they do.
The dems equate walls and fences with hate and intolerance.
Yet they build a 4 mile 8 foot fence around the perimeter of the Philly Convention Center to keep the riff-raff out.
ha. You can’t make this crap up.
Last month walls went up at the White House and facistbook founder, Mark Z(f)uckerberg’s house.
And you need ID to get in to vote…
I heard that the dems opened up a gender-neutral restroom at their convention.
I wonder if Hillary would use a restroom with some guy in the next stall grunting and farting?
The battle for the feminization of America has already been won.
These lib boneheads not only revise history – they’re on track to building a uni-sexed society.
Making women more masculine and registering them for the draft doubles the pool of warm bodies to sacrifice in warfare, if the politicians so decree. Equality is useful from a military point of view, and Hillary is a War Monger.
Not that it matters, when 500,000 troops could not subdue Vietnam and 100,000 troops could not whip the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I exercise at the gym. In the last 10-15 years there’s been an explosion in the number of women bodybuilders. Half appear to be on ‘roids. Ripped. Males have become feminized (the new fad is for men to openly cry – see john Boehner) and females masculinized. Traditional roles upended. I feel sorry for youngins’ in their mating years. Neurosis must be epidemic in the younger generations. I thank God I’m as old as I am.
progressives see change as postive, when we know it is not always the case. even they have made the mistake of naming their top agenda “climate “change””, seemingly unaware that they are connecting change to a negative. at what point will we limit our self destruction by simply admitting that some things are as good as it gets. the key with many if not alll things is knowing when to stop, in recognizing that further “improvements” only make things worse. i suppose when you are in charge and are convinced you are smarter than everyone else, you are inclined to do something, even IF it is wrong.
The chart, “Top 10 Origins of People Seeking Asylum in EU” shows the vast majority are from countries invaded or under mercenary attacks (so-called civil wars) by USA.gov (War Party/neo-Cons) and its allies. Stop fueling the wars with arms and paid mercenaries (so-called “moderate rebels”) and the refugee flow should ebb; unless my logic is flawed and I am missing something.
As to the politicians welcoming refugees, don’t forget that they even welcomed the Ebola virus, ignoring simple 30-day standard quarantine protocols; and were just lucky that more people were not killed. Something is seriously wrong with these politicians.
Ya think?
we didn’t see the mass exodus until muslims got serious about killing muslims. the west has plenty of blame in this, but lets not ignore who it is we are talking about. a backwards third world “civilization” that regularly oppresses just about anyone for any reason. who in their right mind would NOT want too get the hell out? further, many are using war as an excuse as they are coming from areas not in direct conflict.
The politicians of the present ruling class need to be removed.
Between 3 August and 30 August a big one comes!
Good God. Why would the rulers want to stop war? It promotes 4 main NWO objectives:
1. It builds the military industrial complex, drains the middle class and enriches the PTB.
2. It creates opportunities for regime change and conquest of foreign lands and resources.
3. It manufactures a by-product of globalization (ie. refugees fleeing from harm’s way).
4. It synergizes the dismantling of Western Civilization.
It’s so simple it’s stupid.
War is here to stay.
Who didn’t see this coming? I mean really, an open door policy of migration. The German people are reaping the seeds sown by an utter moron of a leader
refugee issue will see Merkel thrown out, her legacy ruined and the demise of the EU hastened.
Th way to make Europe safer is to stop destroying the Middle East, not to screen or block “potential terrorists”. There are many thousands of “potential terrorists” in the US: They’re angry white men with guns. Usually they’re just intimidating, sometimes they become mass murderers. Yet the US isn’t deporting all angry white NRA members, it’s having a dialogue over what is or isn’t acceptable morals of violence, race questions and the like. It’s overdue. Similarly in Europe a dialogue is overdue about what we’re doing to the Middle East, what it means to be Muslim in Europe, etc. The more that this topic is taboo, as it is in France, the less safe Europe will be.
The way to make Europe safe is to remove or eradicate Afro-Muslim colonists and to remove the traitors and collaborators who have facilitated their settlement in Europe.
Yup, I’m sure that would work beautifully…
European leaders like Merkel need to be detained, put on trial, and made to pay for their crimes.
Traitors and collaborators should be shot.
Europe is headed for Civil War.
Angela Merkel is the Marie Antoinette of 21st century Europe.
“Let them eat cake” or “let them em all in”
is she an idiot or a genius?
Personally, i think she’s a genius, but i’m in a minority of one on that.
PS Angela Merkel,keeps reminding of that robot in the
1927 German film Metropolis.
in the film the girl is named Hel (she’s the “good” girl, who dies,
and then gets resurrected as a robot (“bad”)
who goes haywire and wreaks mayhem etc etc
till order is restored at the very end and everybody lives happily ever after.
(Brigitte Helm as Maria and her robot double[a] )
Every Syrian/Afghan/Iraqi refugee is a potential, untapped bank customer (borrower).
The debt-based monetary system can never “stand still”. It constantly needs new debtors in order for new money to be borrowed into existence. These people may be from a Dark Age culture, but they have clean balance sheets, and “the system” needs them.
Think about it. Not as crazy an idea as you might think.
Angela Merkel had a difficult choice: Champion letting in a million Arab refugees in which almost certainly many were terrorists and obviously rapists, or leave them to starve in the desert. Based on her personal values, she chose the first option.
Whether you favor or oppose that decision is likely based on your ability to weigh the actual risk of personal injury from the terrorists and rapists.
Regardless, the decision is made and Germany is where Germany is. If I was Kaiser, I’d start a works program and hire the entire immigrant population to reforest the country, beautify the cities and countryside, clean up toxic waste dumps, and anything else that needs to get done that isn’t. If they’re working they won’t have time to scheme. Once Syria stabilizes, ship them back with some Euros in their pocket and some gratitude to Germany.
“I’d start a works program and hire the entire immigrant population to reforest the country”
And another 2 million if not 10million would want in
I’d bet they all want in. But Merkel can make a reasonable claim that those allowed in were in desperate straits, and there is no need to let in people just because they want in.
The Germans could adjust the work quota and the food ration to achieve whatever level of immigration they targeted. It’s not like they don’t have experience in this area — they wanted X number of V2 rockets so they needed Y slaves and Z food (in addition to rocket parts). They also knew how many slaves would die per week at a given food ration, so they knew the exact procurement rate for replacements and played slave procurement cost and their technical skills learning curve against food cost. And that was with IBM punched card machines; think what they could do with supercomputers.
Unfortunately the cat is out of the bag in Europe. The attacks will continue until the governments will have no choice but to forcibly round up and remove the illegal immigrants from society. Do not think it impossible. I can think of two or three excellent examples just in the twentieth century alone. Society as a whole will also make Muslims so uncomfortable that they will also leave. Spain with the moors and Jews in the Middle Ages is a textbook case of harassment that resulted in almost total emigration over just a couple generations.
You gotta love these bleeding hearts who think the Germans and the EU owe these Muslim refugees jobs, housing, healthcare, education and good futures. What drugs are they on?
First and foremost every sovereign nation has a duty to it’s own citizens. Importing millions of indigent and, in many cases, illiterate foreigners does not benefit their own citizens. It burdens them tremendously in more ways than one.
I agree that the western nations committed atrocious acts by invading the ME nations. War is a racket. Politicians like Bush should be held accountable for their behaviors and acts, but we know that won’t happen. The crooked system protects them just like it protects Hillary now. But the innocent citizens who live under these ruthless savage leaders shouldn’t have to pay for their sins. Every single election we are forced to choose between Frankenstein and Dracula. If you really think we live in a democracy I have oceanfront property in Iowa for sale.
I’m tired of supporting illiterate indigents from foreign nations that offload their garbage on us while retaining their educatied and productive citizens (eg. Mexico).
So I empathize with the Germans and the Europeans.
We need to elect politicians with attitudes like Trump. .