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Are you an idiot? Accepting hundreds of thousands people who force the way through the border instead of following legal procedures is a recipe how you end with far-right majority in a scope of one election cycle.
"instead of following legal procedures"
This would be funny, if it wouldn't be used to justify torturing and murdering people.
The people have been lied to by Belarus. Now they are trapped between the Polish side and the Belarusian side. Both force them them back into the "death zone" where there is no food and water. People detail cruel abuse and torture by both sides.
When people try to register that they are seeking Asylum legally at the border guards, they are denied. Poland is criminally denying the people the chance to legally apply for Asylum, thereby the only options left are dying or trying to enter and make it through Poland. Forcing people into "illegality" to then use that claimed "illegality" as a justification for abuse or even murder is a standard Fascist/Authoritarian tactic.
The idiots are those, who defend brutal crimes against humanity arguing it would prevent the far-right. Actually it means the Fascists win by getting their policies pushed through without even being in the government. Then this normalizes their even further fascist positions and makes them even more "electable". However if the "center" turns criminal, fueled by racist hate and employing crimes against humanity on a mass scale, they themselves also become like the Fascists.
The people have been lied to by Belarus - make it a problem of Belarus. Raise the UN concern, sanction the fuckers to shreds.
You think you'll help people if you just let them in? They'll scale this shit 10 times and more and more people would get hurt. You are dealing with hostile government, they have resources to do that (especially that it's net positive for them as they take payments from them).
The government that uses these humans as pawns in their power game will not care for them.
You cannot win a power game by racing to the bottom with the opponent. The sanctions will hit the devasted people living in a brutal dictatorship and the only way to directly hit the perpetrators is by establishing rules on the movement of capital and that will be prevented by a multitude of moneyed interests.
"Just send them back" is the naive approach.
Thats how the sanctions are supposed to work. You hit people, people's live conditions deteriorate rapidly and they riot.
So starved and (militarily) uneducated people should revolt against a dictatorship with fighter jets and drones? Or are you starving them enough so that they won't pay the military or mercenaries? What kind of revolutionary nostalgia is this, we aren't living in the 1800s any more.
Fine, you are right, lets just do business as usual with them. I mean why shouldn't we trade with countries that dream to counquer us?
My point is that there are sanctions that would hit them and we must pass those. The moment we try to justify the preventable mass deportation and mass starvation of others we lose to gametheory.
To be fair though, "Just let them in" isn't very promising either, if you're not keen on having far-right governments..
The far-right governments are not being voted in based on material shortcomings produced through immigration or refugees.
There are material shortcomings based largely on wealth inequality and the immigrants/refugees are a scapegoat.
If we start throwing others under the bus to appease the far right we lose by default. We must demand and provide a life of dignity for everyone, this is a distribtuion issue.
True. But they are voted in based on perceived or feared material shortcomings produced through immigration or refugees. And they are scarily successful with this.
In politics, emotions can be as important as facts, whether we like that or not. When after Fukushima the German sentiment towards nuclear power soured even further, the government reacted although nuclear power rationally didn't become more unsafe there, it was a decision largely based on emotions. (Absolutely not trying to incite one of these toxic online nuclear debates, just the first example that came to my mind)
I guess the main problem here is that there is no rock-solid and clearly transparent mechanism in Europe governing refugees and immigration. Or even clearly distinguishing the two. Each country is tinkering with its own solution, although European laws and regulations exist and overlap each other. Some regulations such as Dublin only exist on paper, some countries don't want to participate at all.
All of this leads to a system that fails to convey trust. And if the population has doubts in a system, it is very easy for an extreme party to further accelerate these doubts.
Yeah, I am there with you. There is a book ont the topic thatI like (altough I disagree on many things with the author) called "the way is shut" by benjamin studebaker. It is way too expensive, but I heard of some pdfs somewhere...