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Say Goodbye to Permissionless Travel

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Its fun that americans only notice these things when its imposed on the US. Travelling to the US as a foreign citizen has always been harder than the reverse. In fact I would say travel being unrestricted has really been a very short term anomoly, and then only for a very small part of the worlds population.

Yeah. Shame on the US government. I also don´t understand why the US government is so afraid of people who can afford international travel to come to the US, yet opens its south borders.

Post 9/11 travel restrictions for people not suspected of being a threat - this is a pretty solid victory for terrorism.

It's a great victory for governments whose stupid bureacrauts can play being God once more

Frankly, and with 20 years of hindsight, Bin Laden won.

He has caused anti-Muslim feeling in the West, and demonstrated our weakness by badly losing the wars in Afghanistan and creating a mess in Iraq and Syria.

He hated the US because of their friendliness with Israel and Saudi Arabia. Israel is more repressive towards the Palestinians, while Saudi Arabia is now also friendly with China who keep their Muslims in concentration camps.

So perhaps he won against the USA, but has failed in a more multi-polar world he created?

> Frankly, and with 20 years of hindsight, Bin Laden won.

Frankly, and with one year of hindsight, Bin Laden won.

I find myself thinking more and more frequently how nice it would be to go back to the carefree days of the early 90s.

What a sad state of affairs that is.

Given the friendliness of Cuba with Russia, the EU should just ban their citizens from going to resolve this problem.

Peace envoys in all shapes and forms are welcome anywhere in the world and are not bound by the usual laws of the land like passport controls. It sets a fine and upstanding example to those back home and to people elsewhere in the world, a wonderful practical form of influential global education capturing hearts and minds with awe. What could possibly go wrong?

It does make me wonder if the editors and owners of news organisations, and the reporters are giving away their own subconscious bias.

But why single out Cuba? China is friends with Russia, even likely supplying them with weapons, and is also a “communist”. (Single party) state. Yet we can travel and do business there but not Cuba? It makes little sense.

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