[HotAir] Sometimes it takes a punch to the gut or a slap in the face.
For many "civilized" people the instinct is to deescalate, to appease an adversary, based on the belief that civilized people do their best to avoid fights.
It’s a tactic that is smart when dealing with other civilized people. Generally speaking, fighting is a losing proposition, and if you can resolve a dispute by talking and compromise the chances that the costs of compromise will be lower than the costs of fighting are high.
But this instinct is wrong, even stupid when dealing with uncivilized people. Their goals and attitudes are fundamentally different and they see appeasement as an opportunity to get even more of what they want because they see you as weak.
That is the fundamental problem Europe faces when dealing with the influx of immigrants, who have no interest in integrating into European societies. They simply want to take them over as they bleed them dry through welfare payments.
...The response of the Arab migrants to the brutal Hamas attacks in Israel may have been a wake-up call to the very European leaders who have been attacking Right-leaning politicians and governments in Eastern Europe as fascists for rejecting the massive influx of migrants. Countries that have virtue-signaled their way into dangerous territory are reconsidering the wisdom of embracing savages.
It’s about time.
The Scandinavian countries have been among the most welcoming, and now they are about to become the most aggressive about deporting the migrants. As in Germany, which just announced a new policy of kicking illegal migrants out of its territory, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden have upped their migrant game: they are combining their resources to push back against the flow and to kick out immigrants who are becoming unwelcome.
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