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This is myopic and a waste of analysis. You can also argue that Europe's colonialism and arbitrary political partitioning of Africa, South Asia and the Middle East created the corrupt regimes that the US has had to deal with since WW2. Greed is unfortunately not unique to any one group at any one point in time.
Is it better ?
It is also needlessly inflamatory; the USA is far from the only actor in the world; it even has a secondary influence at best in places like Syria and Ukraine where a ton of refugees have come from.
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> and refuse to disclose their home country, in which case imprisoning them until they agree to play ball doesn't seem unreasonable. How would this work in practice? Person comes from country A, claims he is from country B. You send him to country B, they can't find records of him and simply don't take him back. Now what?
This is a biased political piece and should probably be locked by moderation. It is also needlessly inflamatory; the USA is far from the only actor in the world; it even has a secondary influence at best in places like Syria and Ukraine where a ton of refugees have come from.
Having a couple of people saying: No, this should not be discussed is dystopic and illiberal.
This is a biased political piece and should probably be locked by moderation. It is also needlessly inflamatory; the USA is far from the only actor in the world; it even has a secondary influence at best in places like Syria and Ukraine where a ton of refugees have come from.
The response to potentially heavy, controversial topics should not be avoiding the discussion, nay, not even avoiding, but forbidding it. Surely we're all adults and we can engage with the arguments presented, and in the process learn something. And if the discussion becomes heated, then it becomes heated. Then some hours pass and we move on. Having a couple of people saying: No, this should not be discussed is dysto…
you say that like liberal is a good thing
No nation, anywhere, ever has agency, except “senile” old Dark Brandon and good ol boy W. Dudes must be the greatest strategic thinkers in generations. Putin, Merkel, Macron, etc, just puppets on our strings. Conspiracies used to be pretty involved and complicated. Now the Bell Curve for conspiracies would be completely flat. Even CATO channels the ghost of Pravda.
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The response to potentially heavy, controversial topics should not be avoiding the discussion, nay, not even avoiding, but forbidding it. Surely we're all adults and we can engage with the arguments presented, and in the process learn something. And if the discussion becomes heated, then it becomes heated. Then some hours pass and we move on. Having a couple of people saying: No, this should not be discussed is dysto…
> illiberal you say that like liberal is a good thing
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I often do the "background check" of the writers that smell propaganda/psyop. What did they write and when they wrote it. If you do just a quick check of what this guy wrote, you'll see he isn't just "a critic". His Ukraine-related articles are the real litmus test. He's literally spewing the russian propaganda nonsense.
I had a look, maybe, to me he just looks like bog-standard D.C libertarian think-tank type of guy. The Cato institute positions itself as libertarian non-interventionist (founded by American libertarians and a billionaire), so it would be consistent with their viewpoint. To me it seems more likely the shilling going on here is domestic rather than foreign.
No. It’s the lack of backbone that causes the crisis. Why can’t every country do what Poland did?
Note: I am talking about refugees. Poles of all people (since 1795 at the very least) should know and do better.