EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Eddie Teach]

I'm trying to conquer the world with the Ottomans and you guys are killing my buzz.   

[Zanza]

"All of this is happening because European powers were colonial rulers of the Levant for 30 years."

And that aggrandizes themselves how exactly?

Everything that happens happens because of the actions of Europeans.

I certainly read a lot of people blaming this refugee crisis on the most visible European politician, Angela Merkel, and not on the wars in the Middle East, economic malaise in Africa or hopelessness in the Western Balkans.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

"All of this is happening because European powers were colonial rulers of the Levant for 30 years."

And that aggrandizes themselves how exactly?

Everything that happens happens because of the actions of Europeans.

I certainly read a lot of people blaming this refugee crisis on the most visible European politician, Angela Merkel, and not on the wars in the Middle East, economic malaise in Africa or hopelessness in the Western Balkans.

more then enough people blaming this on wars waged by the west, western imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and about anything else you can imagine, as long as the 'white man' is to blame for it. Merkel gets blamed for inviting them all in.

[Zanza]

If that's your perception of reality...

[Martinus]

Well the primary role of the provinces for a couple centuries there was to be farmed by corrupt Pashas.

That does not go against my "the Ottomans were terrible" hypothesis.

Actually part of the point.  They would bleed the Balkans to build horrible, tacky palaces along the Bosporus.

Which is probably better than any use anyone has found for Balkans ever since.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

If that's your perception of reality...

just saying what's in the left leaning press, not my problem if you can't accept that.

[Razgovory]

If that's your perception of reality...

just saying what's in the left leaning press, not my problem if you can't accept that.

Fortunately the right know the real source of the problem.  Jews.  Jews are trying to destroy European culture by inundating it with brown people.

[LaCroix]

Honestly, the Ottomans.  I'd mellowed in my anti-Ottoman Byzanteen prejudices when I was in College/doing my Masters but being in the Balkans has, well, confirmed everything.  A journey from north to south Serbia-from the old Austrian frontier to Rashka and Kosovo-is a journey from Europe to, well, ethnic hatred, tribal thinking and chronic underdevelopment.  It's not some kind of mistake that we've now spent more than a century fighting wars stemming from the utter failure of the Ottoman Empire. Gavrilo Princip, Mlada Bosna, ISIS, Al Qaeda-same parents. 

The Ottomans legacy here is astonishing.  You go through regions that were supposedly favored-Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo-and they just didn't build shit.  The sole legacy of the Empire was the creation of ethnic hierarchies premised on hatred, oppression and continued poverty.  No literacy.  Minimal trade networks.  Minimal investment.  You go to the great recruiting grounds of the greatest Ottoman soldiers and statesmen and the only impressive buildings are pre-Ottoman.  They make the Austrians look like goddamned Cyrus the Great.  It's incredible.  The Porte didn't give a shit if central Hungary was almost unpopulated.  They didn't care if a million Serbs fled Kosovo for the Austrian frontier.  They didn't care if Albania was ludicrously poor as long as Albanian tribes could be counted on to repress the occasional Serb or Greek rebellion.  That was the logic of the entire Empire.  The Western colonialists just imitated that for a few decades.

much appreciated 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

If that's your perception of reality...

just saying what's in the left leaning press, not my problem if you can't accept that.

Fortunately the right know the real source of the problem.  Jews.  Jews are trying to destroy European culture by inundating it with brown people.

[Razgovory]

If that's your perception of reality...

just saying what's in the left leaning press, not my problem if you can't accept that.

Fortunately the right know the real source of the problem.  Jews.  Jews are trying to destroy European culture by inundating it with brown people.

Just saying what's in the right leaning parties, not my problem if you can't accept that.

[The Brain]

Is Raz a sassy big and beautiful black woman?

[Tonitrus]

At a carnival parade in Ilmtal, Bavaria: "Ilmtal's Asylum Defense" (the left side had "Asylpaket III" painted on it in reference to the recent federal law package "Asylpaket II".

I have to say, that's a pretty decent Tiger I mock up.

Other parades similarly questioned Germany's asylum politics. In Saxony, a mock up train was labeled "Balkan Express", with people dressed as locusts on/around it.

Ed Anger probably has a similar mock up built onto his riding lawn mower.

[Syt]

Ed Anger probably has a similar mock up built onto his riding lawn mower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mkuPxHsK0

[Crazy_Ivan80]

If that's your perception of reality...

just saying what's in the left leaning press, not my problem if you can't accept that.

Fortunately the right know the real source of the problem.  Jews.  Jews are trying to destroy European culture by inundating it with brown people.

Just saying what's in the right leaning parties, not my problem if you can't accept that.

so you agree that the leftist press will blame west for all that's wrong in the world first, and only lay the blame where it belong after the political-correct bs has been stripped away. Nice to hear.

[Ed Anger]

Ed Anger probably has a similar mock up built onto his riding lawn mower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9mkuPxHsK0

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