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Nihil

(13,508 posts)
22. You fail to perceive the gravity of the situation.
Sun Nov 8, 2015, 07:49 PM
Nov 2015

The people who are closing the doors - because they are *full* - are not going to
care about niceties as "back to where?". Those are the luxuries expressed by the
vocal (but unhelpful) armchair "activists" from thousands of miles away.

The thing about triggering a "door shutting event" is that it cascades to the next
nation, the one who can no longer stand aside in order to let people pass through
to "somewhere else". That, in turn, triggers the door to be shut in each poor,
increasingly nationalistic nation: the doors that were only remaining open as long
as the exit doors were equally open. Once the exit door closes, the danger from
the combination of frustrated migrants and frustrated nationalists hits ignition
temperature very quickly. All that government can hope to do - in order to maintain
any form of public order - is close the "IN" door.

This will inevitably lead to two things: the first is that the accumulation of migrants
causes border issues; the second is that the strain on the country's structure exceeds
the ability to meet demands. The first issue allows the nationalists to have a free
target of "others" to blame for problems - law breakers from "out there".
The second issue gives the support for the growth of the nationalist response - the
increasing number of innocent citizens who are being impacted by the migrants.

Those people simply will not care about the "where" to send them "back" to.

If there is not a voluntary "retreat" by the people perceived as an "invading army"
then the "where" will be a bloody mess to be talked about by future historians.
(cf. Balkans, Rwanda, etc.)

"Where" at this point resolves to "away", not to a useful destination.

Sweden can no longer guarantee refugee beds [View all] MowCowWhoHow III Nov 2015 OP
This situation is going to be a disaster once the weather starts getting colder. smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #1
K&R n/t w0nderer Nov 2015 #2
What has Pied Piper Merkel unleashed... CJCRANE Nov 2015 #3
Should the US Government help prop up the dictators? The2ndWheel Nov 2015 #5
Why prop up islamist royals CJCRANE Nov 2015 #9
When the first domino starts to fall ... Nihil Nov 2015 #4
They can't send them back, back to where? There are also about 1 million more people trapped in Dem Sunlei Nov 2015 #8
So they're not fleeing Isis? CJCRANE Nov 2015 #10
guess you misunderstood? Sunlei Nov 2015 #11
So what role did Isis and Al Qaeda play in this? CJCRANE Nov 2015 #12
russia, assad, is and others can all share the blame far as I care. The world has 12 million plus m Sunlei Nov 2015 #13
It's much more fun to assign blame rather than solve problems. LanternWaste Nov 2015 #16
I don't get the Isis revisionism... CJCRANE Nov 2015 #17
The ISIS revisionism covers over the fact that NO-ONE knows WTF to do. Nihil Nov 2015 #21
Well said (n/t) EL34x4 Nov 2015 #23
You fail to perceive the gravity of the situation. Nihil Nov 2015 #22
isn't this the home of ikea???? perhaps they can not figure out how they go together dembotoz Nov 2015 #6
Finland is the home if Ikea. n/t christx30 Nov 2015 #15
No, IKEA was founded in Sweden. Quantess Nov 2015 #18
i thought sweeden cause if finland it would have a better finnish dembotoz Nov 2015 #24
above and beyond, they planned for 190,000 "asylum" refugees this year. Sunlei Nov 2015 #7
This is going to break Europe Marrah_G Nov 2015 #14
+1000 smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #19
They are willing to build mosques in Germany, but they won't take in any refugees Marrah_G Nov 2015 #20
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