A handful of war and auxiliary ships could shut down the med permamently immigration wise. Also bad optics as that would be colonialism 2.0.īecause we are refusing to secure our borders. While due to the lack of manufacturing industry whatever we spend will flow back to us.Įven if it was in our interest, the scale of the intervention that would require to make temporary peace in Africa would make Afghanistan look like childs play and there is no scenario where the public would support a tenth of that. As long as Africa is in perpetual warfare we act as kingmakers by supporting whatever faction, thus securing trade deals that ensures our companies to extract resources for pennies. We deport criminals when we have decisively proven in court that they are criminals and merit no protection. We put in newspaper warnings to discourage crossings. The African states where these people are coming from are incompetent and unable to solve these problems so we try to bribe them, we try to get rid of ISIS/Boko Haram/Al-Shabab/Al-Qaeda. Many of these Nigerians who arrive in Europe are uneducated, fed a myriad of lies about life in Europe and they have nothing left for them in Nigeria anymore. Here ends the tale of Nigerian#1034031 in Europe. Commit a crime for them, or they'll make sure you disappear. Their family is a gang, and you have to prove your loyalty. Perhaps you escape and you meet some 'Nice' Nigerians who take you in to their family. In transit to the next processing facility you slip off to meet the gang that forces you to gather tomatoes for pennies while you live in squalor. They put you in an open-air camp to process you, and the smuggling gang finds you again. When you land in Italy, the Italian people don't want you. You get picked up by the Italian navy, lucky for you as the boat that went before yours sank and everyone aboard it drowned. You owe them thousands of € but it's OK because you will make all that money in Europe, just like in the stories you heard. You avoid the slave markets of war-torn Libya and the trafficker finally puts you on a boat. You and many others get passed along this route across the desert, a number of your travel companions dying or being abandoned midroute. You start a trek again and a trafficker tells you he will help you cross the Sahara and get to Europe. They don't mention the crimes they've comitted, the deportation or the fact that they're embellishing their story and don't mention that they spent most of their time living illegally in squalor. You meet some older Nigerians who boast about how much money they made in Europe.
You wander the country for a bit as an internal refugee (like 2.1 million Nigerians). Boko Haram, an off-shoot of ISIS, attacks your village. You are a young Nigerian in a remote village. Hypothetical scenario for you here, some empathy may be required. This map is interactive! More locations ».Related Subreddits SubredditĬasual conversations focused around Europe.īy Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.īy Edward Okuń, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. During the week, please use /r/CasualEurope instead. Non-OC photograph posts are only allowed on weekends. Interested in doing an AMA? Know someone who is? Message the mods! Rules on photo posts