We pray for peace, but most of the people coming here are coming from peaceful countries. I doubt ending the wars will make "living in a rich country at a high living standard for free forever" unnattractive.

Most people on the planet would probably like to move here, but if we just relocate millions of people here, the welfare state math doesn't check out.

German workers and laborers aren't productive enough to support multliple times their own number in welfare recipients. Printing harder and faster doesn't change that.

And Germans are already badly paid and most own no property. We have reached the phase where they lay down their tools and join the welfare line.

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There are "push" AND "pull" factors.

A lot of "Merkel's Million" were "pushed" from Syria, whose destruction at the hands of jihadis was financed and armed by the West (with a lot of help from Qatar, Sa'udi and Turkey.

Jake Sullivan: "Al Qaeda was on our side in Syria".

I agree with you on the pull factors, though. Personnel are upstream of policy, and across the West we have nothing but feckless, irresponsible virtue-signallers who take no responsibility for outcomes and no longer seem embarrassed to be known as such.