“Uncontrolled migration” is a myth. Try crossing any border in the world and you find that out very quickly. Nor is being a refugee a picnic or uncontrolled movement.
As for the hordes of Ukrainians flooding into Europe, that movement is carefully controlled. You get free entry into any European country for being “white” enough, even if you are from a country known to be lawless, mafia-ridden, culturally corrupt and riddled with Nazi sympathy.
Try showing up at the European border with brown skin and socialist or communist beliefs and those borders wide open to Ukrainians are closed to you.
But here it’s not merely the EU executive clerks who are at fault. The acceptance of these Ukrainians who don’t actually share European- espoused liberal democratic values is wide open in the European population. Because racism is a deep problem in Europe.
Already I have noted in Norway and the UK there are candidates for parliamentary office and active political party people who are not only from this new flood of Ukrainians but also seem to have ties to the U.S. Draw your own conclusions about what is happening to European local politics from here on out….
My point about "uncontrolled" immigration, is that governments need to plan for population increases. Infrastructure needs be built in the locations where the migrants will live: bus lines, libraries, housing etc.. Immigrant communities tend to congregate, which is great. Cultural and linguistic differences can cause social friction. The first generation of children of immigratants are often problematic because their cultural roots, their loyalty, lies in the nation and culture from which their parents migrated. They can feel themselves as cultural orphans. This creates cultural friction too. Immigration requires planning and support.
The estimate is that 10 million Ukrainians have emmigrated west and east. I've seen evidence of the institutional and social welcome refugees from Ukraine have received in Russia. I have seen nothing of the sort from Europe, though I have not been looking for it.
But that’s not about migration. I’ve lived in 3 different European countries abd in none of them did I ever see any kind of strategic or holistic framework used to manage decisions or to be consistent in any direction.
Political stooges just run through office and make decisions on short term knee jerk basis. Elections come, new crew, new set of disjoint stupidities. Then another election and a different set.
You get one set of political figures bribed by a property sober to approve building of huge residential complex for example. But is the public transport plan in place ? Nope. School development? Jobs there so that it doesn’t cause more commuting? No. That’s one example.
Another example is early. child education which keeps getting reasources cut despite consistent data showing that investment in this produces huge long term increases in not only wellbeing but the economic productivity of the children in adulthood. It’s the LAST thing you should ever underinvest in. But they all cut this to pour money into subsidies to weapons makers and oil companies. It’s not consistent or long term logical.
Or even now they are all sending weapons to Ukraine to attack Russia. Ok. Do they have bomb shelters for their own people? Nope. A peace process as an option ? Nope. Currently one estimate shows that the NATO countries in Euopre have five percent of the air defence equipment needed if a war breaks out with Russia - yet they are sending weapons to attack Russia? WTF? It’s just brainless and disjointed.
So that’s not about uncontrolled migration. It’s about institutions of government that have little or no filte, no long term frameworks, and no accountability either.
This is why at this crucial point of change in the world we see countries like Russia and China and Vietnam pulling ahead. Because they are pursuing long term plans.
Also it’s important to not make the mistake of describing blatant US stooges like Ursula Von der Liar, as “technocrats”.
That term is used to describe people with actual professional-technical qualifications, who would actually take decisions based on analysis, but perhaps lack emotional context or empathy.
Which is different from being a corrupt failed German political figure with no professional or educational credibility, placed at the top of the EU as a stooge.
Those are tro totally different things.
And the problem with the EU in Brussels is it’s stuffed with pure stooges. Not technocrats. The U.S. even recently attempted to have an American stuffed in there as competition commissioner - to gut all protections against the excesses of big U.S. corporations- but that was too blatant and it failed.
Well but excessive warfare _is_ a European value. A cynic would argue that the EU is just doing what comes naturally to it. The West needs war to distract from the fact that it's economy and financial industry are a giant Ponzi scheme. So ironically war stabilizes volatile domestic politics.
Once again those adages:
Cui bono? Follow the money
All wars are bankers wars
All war is a grift
“Uncontrolled migration” is a myth. Try crossing any border in the world and you find that out very quickly. Nor is being a refugee a picnic or uncontrolled movement.
As for the hordes of Ukrainians flooding into Europe, that movement is carefully controlled. You get free entry into any European country for being “white” enough, even if you are from a country known to be lawless, mafia-ridden, culturally corrupt and riddled with Nazi sympathy.
Try showing up at the European border with brown skin and socialist or communist beliefs and those borders wide open to Ukrainians are closed to you.
But here it’s not merely the EU executive clerks who are at fault. The acceptance of these Ukrainians who don’t actually share European- espoused liberal democratic values is wide open in the European population. Because racism is a deep problem in Europe.
Already I have noted in Norway and the UK there are candidates for parliamentary office and active political party people who are not only from this new flood of Ukrainians but also seem to have ties to the U.S. Draw your own conclusions about what is happening to European local politics from here on out….
I agree the Europe has a problem with racism.
My point about "uncontrolled" immigration, is that governments need to plan for population increases. Infrastructure needs be built in the locations where the migrants will live: bus lines, libraries, housing etc.. Immigrant communities tend to congregate, which is great. Cultural and linguistic differences can cause social friction. The first generation of children of immigratants are often problematic because their cultural roots, their loyalty, lies in the nation and culture from which their parents migrated. They can feel themselves as cultural orphans. This creates cultural friction too. Immigration requires planning and support.
The estimate is that 10 million Ukrainians have emmigrated west and east. I've seen evidence of the institutional and social welcome refugees from Ukraine have received in Russia. I have seen nothing of the sort from Europe, though I have not been looking for it.
But that’s not about migration. I’ve lived in 3 different European countries abd in none of them did I ever see any kind of strategic or holistic framework used to manage decisions or to be consistent in any direction.
Political stooges just run through office and make decisions on short term knee jerk basis. Elections come, new crew, new set of disjoint stupidities. Then another election and a different set.
You get one set of political figures bribed by a property sober to approve building of huge residential complex for example. But is the public transport plan in place ? Nope. School development? Jobs there so that it doesn’t cause more commuting? No. That’s one example.
Another example is early. child education which keeps getting reasources cut despite consistent data showing that investment in this produces huge long term increases in not only wellbeing but the economic productivity of the children in adulthood. It’s the LAST thing you should ever underinvest in. But they all cut this to pour money into subsidies to weapons makers and oil companies. It’s not consistent or long term logical.
Or even now they are all sending weapons to Ukraine to attack Russia. Ok. Do they have bomb shelters for their own people? Nope. A peace process as an option ? Nope. Currently one estimate shows that the NATO countries in Euopre have five percent of the air defence equipment needed if a war breaks out with Russia - yet they are sending weapons to attack Russia? WTF? It’s just brainless and disjointed.
So that’s not about uncontrolled migration. It’s about institutions of government that have little or no filte, no long term frameworks, and no accountability either.
This is why at this crucial point of change in the world we see countries like Russia and China and Vietnam pulling ahead. Because they are pursuing long term plans.
Also it’s important to not make the mistake of describing blatant US stooges like Ursula Von der Liar, as “technocrats”.
That term is used to describe people with actual professional-technical qualifications, who would actually take decisions based on analysis, but perhaps lack emotional context or empathy.
Which is different from being a corrupt failed German political figure with no professional or educational credibility, placed at the top of the EU as a stooge.
Those are tro totally different things.
And the problem with the EU in Brussels is it’s stuffed with pure stooges. Not technocrats. The U.S. even recently attempted to have an American stuffed in there as competition commissioner - to gut all protections against the excesses of big U.S. corporations- but that was too blatant and it failed.
Well but excessive warfare _is_ a European value. A cynic would argue that the EU is just doing what comes naturally to it. The West needs war to distract from the fact that it's economy and financial industry are a giant Ponzi scheme. So ironically war stabilizes volatile domestic politics.