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Couldn't they just not take in immigrants? This seems like a false dichotomy.

How are they going to achieve that? Naval blockade? Shoot on site? Millions and millions of highly motivated people are going to overcame anything short of overwhelming violence.

And yet, it will come to that: Europe just cannot take in tens of millions of people in a couple of years. Once the social systems start collapsing, even the unthinkable (armed borders and the like) will become an option.

Nice? No. But what's the alternative, committing state-level suicide? That's why the first rule of rescue is ensuring the safety of the rescuer: if the rescuer is down, there's no hope left for the victim. And if Europe goes down, that will not help any migrants, either.

Europe doesn't have the money or resources to maintain that for the decades and decades it would take. Resisting the inevitable is suicide, not the other way around. Is it going to be pleasant or easy? No, it's going to be difficult and fraught with upheaval, but it's the result of choices we've all made for decades. Time to pay the piper.

Well, that's what the common people in Germany are also asking themselves, but our beloved leaders (Merkel) are pushing the immigration over our heads for "humanitarian" reasons. And when I say "humanitarian", I mean "cheap labor for the industry".

Any concerns regarding massive immigration, cultural differences, homeland security, etc. are labelled as xenophobic hate-mongering, despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

What do you think you could do to stop it, recognizing that this is going to be an escalating issue for decades to come? How exactly do you propose to close yourself off from immigration without becoming an utterly closed society?

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