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Originally Posted by Phoenix
The world is going down the shitter
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No it isn't. I seem to recall that some smart professor saying that there has never in modern day been fewer conflicts than there are today. It's just more visible because we have awesome powers of communication.
An example .... Let's take the war in Jugoslavia:
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About 400,000 out of some 1.2 million Bosnian refugees at the beginning of 1996 have already found durable solutions, whether by repatriating, being granted a more permanent status in host countries, starting the process of acquiring citizenship, or actually obtaining citizenship. That leaves a little over 815,000 still seeking solutions, of whom the greatest number are located in Germany (315,000), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (253,000) and Croatia (160,000). In addition, some 750,000 remain displaced within Bosnia and Herzegovina, of whom roughly 450,000 are in the Federation and 300,000 in Republika Srpska (RS Entity). And a further 48,000 Croatian Serbs have settled in the RS Entity.
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This was in 1996. In Denmark we took more than 20.000 bosnian refugees - are they are problem today? No. Did they go back? Not all. Are they a part of society those that stayed behind? Yep.
(Some) people in this country are freaking out because 2.000 people arrived. So what? we can fit them in.
The real problem with Syria (IMHO) is that no western country wants to put troops on the ground - and you cannot win anything w.o. troops on the ground.
So until we do that, my EU brothers and sisters, prepare to get more refugees LOTS and LOTS more of them.