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Dec 1, 2021 Mark Leonard

برلين ــ منذ عهد بعيد، افترض العديد من المراقبين أن المستقبل الجيوسياسي سَـيُـحـسَـم في معركة بحرية عند مضيق تايوان أو بعض النتوءات الصخرية أو الجزر المرجانية في بحر الصين الجنوبي. مع ذلك، ربما يكون بوسعنا أن نعرف المزيد من خلال دراسة المعاملة التي يلقاها بضعة آلاف من اللاجئين البائسين في مُـنـعَـزَل سياسي في القرن الحادي والعشرين.

لنبدأ بالقناة الإنجليزية. كانت القناة الإنجليزية موقعا لبعض من أكثر المواجهات دراماتيكية في التاريخ ــ من الأسطول الإسباني (أرمادا) وحروب نابوليون إلى إنزال نورماندي ــ لكنها لم تعد الآن مسرحا لسياسات القوى العظمى. بدلا من ذلك، تسبب مقتل 27 مدنيا انقلب قاربهم المطاطي مؤخرا بعد مغادرة الساحل الفرنسي في تحويل القناة إلى موقع لمأساة إنسانية.

ولكن بدلا من العمل معا في تضامن مع فرنسا لاستئصال مهربي المهاجرين المسؤولين عن هذه الوفيات، سعى رئيس الوزراء البريطاني بوريس جونسون على الفور إلى الاستعراض أمام جمهور سياسي محلي بإلقاء اللوم على الفرنسيين في رسالة مفتوحة نُـشِـرَت على موقع تويتر. بعيدا عن كون هذا التصرف مجرد لعبة بهلوانية سياسية صبيانية، فإن عجز جونسون عن القيادة على هذا النحو من شأنه أن يخلف في الأرجح عواقب مروعة وبعيدة المدى.

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Paul Friesen Dec 1, 2021

"Rather than working together in solidarity with France to root out the migrant smugglers responsible for the deaths, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson immediately sought to play to a domestic political audience by blaming the French in an open letter published on Twitter."

It is absurd to imagine that rooting out migrant smugglers will stop migrants. More will just appear to satisfy the demand.

The only thing that will end this spectacle is ending discrimination based on country of birth. How does that make more sense than discrimination based on race?
- Henk Crop Dec 3, 2021
  
  Paul. Bringing up principles does not solve anything.
  The countries that grow more than the 2,1 children per woman have to assume responsibilty.
  More condoms and women education is the only practical solution.
  Not only that, it is the only humane solution.
  Admitting immigrants without papers and then deport them if they do no meet the criteria ( usually 80 %) is a pervert play that only hypocrete Western politician can dream up. Disgusting ! Who elected such people ?
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Henk Crop Dec 1, 2021

Most illegal migrants come from Africa and the Middle East.
The leaders of the countries there fail to deveop their economies and also fail to reduce
the birthrate of their population to a manageable level.
For a sustainable population you need only a birthrate of 2,1 child per woman. In these countries the birthrate goes up to 6.
Also Africa is 7 times as large as the EU and is rich in Natural resources.
There is basically no need to migrate to the EU.

These 27 people should not have drowned in the English Channel.
They would not even be there if the EU politicians had done their job right.
Then they would have been arrested for illegal entry where they landed in the EU.
They would have been locked in a refugee camp and have been returned to their homeland.
Yes, scrupules human traffickers are involved. However they only prey on the political mismanagement displayed by the hypocritical EU politicians.
If these people were really refugees which had to fear for their life, they could have fled to one of Africa's 54 sovereign countries. In case they were Islamists they could also flee to one of the 56 Islamic Countries.

The EU politicians are not only hypocritical but they are also cowards because they hide from the responsities to their own citisen by referring to international agreements their countries have commited itself to. Many of these agreements are outdated and never consider the quantities and the burden on the receiving country. Countries should consider to withdraw from it.

In addition, the way the EU handles the immigration it will not solve anything.
Just Africa is expected to grow from 1500 million to 2500 in 30 years.
So the EU will be wiped out as a functioning society and economy.
This will hurt the EU as well as Africa and the ME.
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