Aren’t those mostly a Russian thing?

No the Islamic State is actually active in Nigeria as part of the insurgency there, though funnily enough they’re the less bad of the two main groups (the worse being Boko Haram).

Because imperialism is bad? Here we have the US bombing people on the other side of the world in order to keep the oil flowing at the expense of locals. This sort of Western support for corrupt African governments is a large part of why Africa still can’t claw itself out of its post-colonial hole, not to mention the instability and innocent deaths that foreign strikes so often cause.

In case anybody hasn’t gotten the memo, this is in fact bad.

Not gonna shed too many tears over this.

I mean isn’t that what nonsense is?

Wouldn’t the market just expand to absorb the extra demand?

According to betteridge’s law: No.

Again, that is already present in plenty of (unsure if most) developing countries, and the ones where it isn’t aren’t common sources of brain drain. There’s a reason the West tends to import Indians and Iranians rather than, say, Congolese; the majority of educated people from any country will stay there, either because they don’t want to leave or because they can’t find an opportunity to do so. This is simply not the bottleneck holding back the Global South; education is one of the few things a developing country can do more of with minimal effort.

Not a justification for that either. “Seizing” ships is another word for piracy.

And they will still end up cleaning your toilet and flipping my burger and deliver my food

I’m not talking about those, but the ones coding your web portals and prescribing your medicine. Tight immigration policy can effectively deter these people, which would be a detriment to European economies because of declining birthrates. See: Japan and South Korea. In 2025 Germany needs Syrian doctors more than Syrian doctors need Germany, that’s my point here.

It’s not even about money, I will just never want to do it and there’s not enough people in any of these jobs and many more even though we’re in an economic downturn period.

I totally agree on the moral front, but it is about the money. The reason there aren’t enough people in these jobs is that they don’t pay a living wage, not that they’re inherently icky.

I strongly believe that to improve a country you need educated citizens

True, but you also need cooperative authorities willing to give their educated citizens the leeway to prosper. That’s the real bottleneck here; plenty of developing countries have accessible higher education. If you want the EU to help developing countries develop, you should start from neocolonialism. Many of the regimes holding back developing countries are basically running on foreign dollars and euros.

As if people can be motivated to come to Europe on a whim and only haven’t come because we only accepted from a dangerous entrance by sketchy boat.

I mean, yes exactly. Why would you think otherwise?

Even of it works, it’s an expression of values that will corrupt the EU forever.

Uh… I’m sorry to tell you but that ship has already sailed. The EU already treats workers as objects.

Not exactly. Immigrants without valuable skills will go illegally; those with valuable skills will just go somewhere else or not bother and that’s not good for the labor-hungry European economy.

That’s a surprise given that Ukraine was still ruled by its pro-Russian regime at that point. I guess I have a few more people to wish a slow and painful death now.

I mean, yes, but this “victory” came at the cost of two hundred thousand dead, God knows how many wounded, twenty years they could’ve used to develop their country and even tighter Taliban control than before the US invasion. Afghans managed to kick the US out, but they did not succeed at defending anything. If I was Venezuelan my lesson from this would be “absolutely don’t get into war with the US,” because such a war would leave their country in ruin just like Afghanistan.

If they do that will you protect them from the wrath of the US war machine? Exactly.

Or the middle option: She’s incompetent but this is what the people guiding her want.

Don’t join the army and don’t be a cop, especially not in 2025. Odds are you’ll be sent to beat up protesters.

As a wise man once said: Things will have to get worse before the get better. The average American will need to suffer a lot more before they’re ready to think about taking their guns to protests, let alone using them.