• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As someone who lives next door to Russia, fuck that with a rusty fork! open borders are great between Britain and Ireland or between Schengen countries because there’s a level of shared values and goals and no aspirations to expand. But if Estonia for example opened it’s border to Russia, the entire country would be annexed within the year. And they’d all be shitting in buckets too.

    There’s a fairly secure high standard of living throughout Europe, which is largely because Russia isn’t part of it. Yeah geography Russia is parry of Europe, but no-one considers them to be. Similarly we don’t necessarily need china sending a few million people into Mongolia or open borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    It’s a lovely sentiment, but grow up.