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> Asylum today is basically: "look, Russia, US, UK, France and coalition blew up my middle eastern country, so now countries like Denmark No-no-no, Denmark too
by f6v 2y ago
> Asylum today is basically: "look, Russia, US, UK, France and coalition blew up my middle eastern country, so now countries like Denmark
No-no-no, Denmark took an active part in Iraq invasion and was also invaded Libya. Refugee crisis isn’t just about Syria.
- Rinzler89 2y agoWhich middle eastern conflict did Austria take part in?
- stop50 2y agoThey contributed Troops to the ISAF troops in afgahnistan for example. Correction: wrote Usaf instead of ISAF
- Rinzler89 2y agoWhat? Austria not Australia.
- stop50 2y agoBoth countries sent troops, australias was much bigger.
- mikhailfranco 2y agoLink? Not in the list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Enduring_Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_Operation_Endu...
- stop50 2y agoOEF != ISAF https://web.archive.org/web/20220120001326/http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/epub/pdf/placemat.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220120001326/http://www.nato.i... OEF is an NATO Operation, Austrias policy is not to join any International primary Military Organization.
- mikhailfranco 2y agoOK, good. So ... 3 soldiers (about 20% of Tonga's contribution)
- mikhailfranco 2y agoAustria: GDP $516.0b, pop 9.0m Tonga : GDP $000.5b, pop 0.1m So Tonga 1/1000 GDP and ~1/100 pop contributed 5x more soldiers than Austria. There's a Coldplay song: Tonga: "Para-para-para-dise" Austria: "Para-para-para-site"
- pistolpeteDK 2y agoRintzler89 is still right though. Hardly any asylum seekers in eastern european countries because “nordic welfare” > “eastern european welfare” Not an easy thing to fix