Twelve migrants, including an infant, died off Greece. Six died after their boat collided with a Greek coast guard vessel.

Do you think russia sees this as a separate process from their process of trafficking humans to their frontlines? Of course it IS a separate thing, but that doesn’t mean that everyone is going to keep seeing it that way if Europe does not act on two fronts simultaneously, 1. fight russia and support Ukraine and 2. fight the tendency to dehumanize immigrants in Europe and the “west” that makes it so easy for russia to maintain power and legitimacy in the global south that is made to sustain their death machine.

  • gian English
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    6 days ago

    I am not interested in the tit for tat tactics going on here, I am interested in why everybody around the mediterranean is allowing migrants to be cast over and over into the mediterranean.

    Money. Only that.

    Money for the smugglers.
    Money for the politicians of the ports of departure countries, with a bit of blackmail (help us or we will not “stop” immigration).
    Money for the people in the “reception” industry, while most of the people really help who arrive, we had some cases (that we know of) of money that were used to buy expensive items (luxury clothes and so on) by the people who should have used it to help the immigrants.

    The immigrants are only a commodity to keep this “industry” going.