German car manufacturing. VW’s biggest engine factory is in Gyõr, Hungary. BMW is building in Debrecen, then there is also Mercedes. Hungary is also a major battery manufacturer since recently.
Couple that with some other industry, like the only non-Danish Lego factory in the EU for example, or others.
Cutting Hungary out from the customs union would cost a lot of people with a lot of power in the EU a lot of money.
Yeah, H1B people are closer to indentured servitude as in they can go home. Prisoners are straight up slaves.
Yeah, a huge amount of countries and people were colonized by Europeans. Some of those are still colonies. There could be endless arguments about what exactly the people in the Republic of France owe people who have been colonized by the Emperor of France.
The end goal for that should be a relationship like the one the UK has with Canada, which turned from a colony to an equal ally.
For that, there should be a transfer of technology and knowledge, so giving them free access to higher education in eg. France, or gifting them patents, or funding infrastructure - not like China or the IMF though, I mean without an ulterior motive.
On the very stats you sent me it says the top 3 are Afganistan, Syria and Ukraine. Afghanistan is its own mess, and I think the narrative I accept is that Europe’s part in it was that we went there to preserve NATO - much good that did, see Trump - but we’re still part of the problem, and we should take in Afghanis because of that even for long term resettlement, and so should the US.
But the point is, the amount of displaced people from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine are nearly equal. The latter two are Russian “near abroad” colonies fighting what is essentially a war of independence, and together they far outnumber Afghanis, especially near Europe. And that is an asylum problem rather than a “we owe them” problem IMO.
And that actually shines a light on another issue, the differences between parts of the EU. That is because you are describing the EU as an union of colonizers, it couldn’t be farther from the truth for countries like Finland, Latvia or Hungary, which have been colonies rather than colonizers for most of their existence. In fact, Hungary has mostly been behaving as a German colony for the past 20-30 years.
The way I see it, while the EU has member states with heavy colonial pasts, a lot - IDK even most? - of the others are in a tough spot because of this, as their societies are even less used to the multiculturalism that being a colonial power brings, and they are right IMO in saying “we did not fuck this up, it’s not on us to fix it”.
Finally, again the problem is that while reparations for colonial wrongdoings should happen, the priority should be stopping current neocolonialism. We can’t heal old wounds while inflicting new ones.
On the one hand, the current refugees are not coming to Europe from old European colonies, but from Russian ones. In fact, most of them come because of Russia bombing many of them as a last ditch attempt of a failing colonial power to maintain its exploitative hold on them. That is true of Syria or Ukraine.
I think it’s two separate issues, with migration being the shared aspect. Economic migration I think should be considered in the context of what you said, like people from ex-colonies should be helped by opening up the education system or the job market - in very regulated ways, mostly prescribing a very high minimum wage - for them, while people from eg. Syria should be helped by giving out asylum, but the two systems should be entirely separate. If anything, I think the costs associated by housing Ukrainian or Syrian asylees should be taken from frozen Russian assets, as part of the cost of rebuilding those countries.
Trying to “fix” ex-colonies, or completely opening up the country to economic migration creates neo-colonialistic dynamics IMO.
I bet it’s preparation for putting people in camps domestically to “work off their debt”.
The US wants more slaves.
This is such a hard issue. If documented rights abuses and limited protections are a reason for extending asylum, we could have most of the world in here as refugees, including the whole populations of the US, China and India.
On the other hand, it is a fundamental contradiction of European values to push people back into places where they are abused.
Then again, Russia has weaponized masses of asylum seekers with great effect.
I hope it’s not going to be Germany, the policies of their current conservative leadership is why we’re dealing with a lot of these fires.
They are responsible for making the EU reliant enough on Russia that they thought we would stand by and let Ukraine fall. They are responsible for the absolute state of Hungary. The migrant crisis. Bankrupting Greece in the name of austerity. I’m sure the list goes on.
Or just decent regulation. You’re offering an AI product? You can’t attest that it’s been trained in a legitimate way?
Into the shadow realm with you.
Anon wasn’t trying to live off the land, just to have a hobby
Guantanamo is one of my guesses
Yeah that’s for the wrong sorts of people. Don’t worry, it’s only selectively enforced, and the cops know you’re one of the good ones. /s
That’s what Meloni wants to be but Trump seemingly prefers to speak to Macron. It must be Trump doesn’t give a fuck about ideology and only understands power.
That said, I don’t care what US oligarch cumrag Washington Post says about Europe.
I wonder if those protect from the Israeli spyware Hungary has been buying.
These are French people, countries exist outside the US.
That’s the neat part, you don’t.
Welcome to the third world guys.
Nothing is really self-sufficient. Tanks especially so, especially today.
The idea that the Soviets had was to just have a Tunguska running around within tank platoons, that’s why it’s also a tracked system. The thing with drones is that we have been de-emphasising SHORAD systems since the West always assumed air superiority, while the East was more into asymmetrical defense against expensive platforms, imagine stuff like the 9K31 or the Osa. Somehow nobody thought that progress means that while more and more advanced expensive platforms become reachable, the knock-on effect is that already-available platforms become much much cheaper.
The 2A8 is capable of mounting TROPHY, there is a thing called Eurotrophy, I think that’s the company with the license?
The problem with stuff like TROPHY or ARENA is that they are last-ditch and expensive, shooting drones down with a Gepard or a Tunguska autocannon is cheaper, which can save lives if there are hundreds of drones going for you at the same time.
Oh no it wasn’t, that’s not what I’m saying. I don’t think it’s Soros’ fault, he meant well, maybe wanted to do something for the homeland that scorned him.
What I’m saying is that Soros was too idealistic IMO and the focus should have been on rooting out the old guys club that the communists left us rather than giving people money to join them.
That said, hindsight is 20/20. If anything, I blame Merkel and the neolibs of her cohort that kept dumping money on Orbán - in exchange for fucking up Hungarian workers - after they came out as kleptocrats.
Yeah it was not against you, only against WP, even if I was harsh with language. I should have made that clear.
Sorry and thanks for posting.