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> Germany admitted close to one million Not Germany, Merkel. Merkel Incentivized and allowed admitting refugees at an unprecedented rate.
by DoingIsLearning 2y ago
> Germany admitted close to one million
Not Germany, Merkel. Merkel Incentivized and allowed admitting refugees at an unprecedented rate.
- thenaturalist 2y agoThis observation is moot and quite frankly pretty boring for two reasons: Firstly, as much as people spouting the same simplistic tune may wish for, by all means the government is not just a single person. Secondly, Merkel or anyone else who would have been in that position during that time would have simply needed to deal with the fact that there were millions of Syrians bleeding into Western Europe across dozens of different routes and hence in ways which the legally open borders of Europe were absolutely not equipped to deal with effectively. The fact countries of entry to the EU did not at all fullfil their legal obligations with regards to asylum processing is.... let me guess: Again Merkel's fault right? With comments like these, you might win some imaginary "Thanks Obama/ Thanks Merkel" bingo you're playing with yourself, but it's really not contributing to any debate about where we pragmatically go from here into a better future. I'd love to hear more about the latter rather than the former.