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Europe in the Balance

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Posted By: Moritz55, 8/31/2025 10:52:14 AM

Almost weekly in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, and Germany, a sensational assault committed by an illegal migrant -- often enjoying some sort of state support or with prior arrests for the same crime -- surfaces. Until recently, European politicians and the media sought to either ignore such news or accuse those who clamored for tighter borders, more police protection, and stiffer penalties of being "racists" or "xenophobes." Until recently, that is. Mass protests are now common in Britain against the Labour Party's open borders policies and generous welfare entitlements for immigrants who arrive illegally and without authentic "political refugee" status.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: marbles 8/31/2025 11:25:50 AM (No. 1997901)
The planned take over of Europe. Take away each country's currency and replace it with the euro. It's easier that way when traveling between countries. Set up the EU to make laws that the people can't vote on. It's better for the people, they can't be trusted anyway. Implement an invasion by people that have no interest in assimilation and favor them over the law abiding citizens. And we see the people of GB, France, Germany and Austria rising up against the barbarians. muslims are murdering thousands in North Africa. Poland and Hungary said no to the EU and kept the invaders out. muslims are a protected class. Why is that? Their intention is to take over the world. They've said it. They're intend to do through murder and fear and reproduction. The useful idiots of the world are standing with palestine/gaza whatever. Are they not aware that gaza borders Egypt and that there are multiple walls and barbed wire to keep the palis out? Why is that? We can't let PC nonsense shut the truth down.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 8/31/2025 11:57:50 AM (No. 1997915)
Original headline has a question mark.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: earlybird 8/31/2025 12:01:10 PM (No. 1997918)
Wise Margaret Thatcher foresaw the perils in giving up sovereignty.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: bpl40 8/31/2025 12:32:38 PM (No. 1997924)
The core of this argument is this. The fact that your country has messed up. And people are oppressed and economically deprived is no justification to go somewhere where things are better managed. That right simply doesn’t exist.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/31/2025 1:14:22 PM (No. 1997934)
I went to Europe in 2006 for business. I had been there 2 years in 1953-55 as a child, my Father was in the Army. Everything looked normal, the old places I lived etc. were still there with minor changes. After my business items I decided to drive to the Ferry and cross to England. Driving there was certainly different, all those idiots were on the wrong side of the road (ha ha). Anyway I hooked up with fellow motorcycle riders at the Ace Cafe in London, a Mecca for Motorcycles of all types. I got to know a few fellow riders but one thing struck me as odd. Most of these guys had trades jobs, Electricians, Plumbers etc. The odd thing was they were also on some form of Welfare payments and were complaining about it and at the same time they sounded very conservative. I asked them how that all works. Seems England had and has a very generous welfare system paid for with high taxes on companies. I told them at the time their country was going to fall if the madness continued, they all laughed, Who's Laughing NOW????
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Reply 6 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 8/31/2025 2:07:39 PM (No. 1997958)
Sounds like Europe has reached PEAK STUPID and is out of choices. The Left has been told repeatedly that their policies are NOT sustainable but they are arrogant and power hungry and refused to listen. Now they are out of options and learning that things can't be forced to go the way they want. There is a natural order to society and the economy and you can only bend it so far. Europe has reached the limit. As for immigration, if immigrants could have built a better economy in their countries of origin, why didn't they? The blunt answer is that their societies, with the ideas they support, will always fail. Western society worked well because of the ideas they adopted. When you pull in people who don't understand those ideas and demand they be changed, you undermine successful societies. The Left allows the changes to happen and either celebrate the destruction that results or are stunned that surrendering principles that work results in societal collapse.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino 8/31/2025 2:31:54 PM (No. 1997970)
This article by VDH was posted yesterday - - under a different headline in the New York Post. It's the same words by the same author - - but with a different headline in a different publication. Because the Post did not properly attribute this syndicated article, we will leave it up.
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