In regards to the linked article thanks for the link. Not completely my cup of tea but I agree with some of the issues raised re: political correctness, but mostly I wanted to follow up on a point raised.

The author says that basically no one is willing to tell the truth apart from Eastern European leaders. I think it is worse than that, I think that most leaders are populist bullshitters and they do not wish to examine the deeper truth lest it take away their power

That truth is that wars cause refugees. Can you remember the last great refugee crisis out of the middle east, pre Gulf Wars? Probably Lebanon in the 80's. Another war.

This then begs the question of who is at war? It is the Psuedo Capitalist West - having invaded 2 countries without armies* (Afghanistan & Iraq*), destabilised / overthrown 2 others indirectly through arming militia's (Libya & Syria) and economically destabilising another (Iran). Haven't touched Saudi, the financier of most of the terrorism resulting from Western foreign policy.

So why are we at war with them? It is all geopolitics, an attempt at securing power in the region, destabilising / removing threats and maintaining hegemony. This is loosely justified by nationalism and fear "they are coming to get us". And who is "they"? It keeps changing.....Dictators with WMD's, Al Qaeda, Khosoran Group, Dictators gassing citizens, AQIS, Al Nusra, Dictators looking to reintroduce gold for oil, ISIS. The list ever morphs

Then we get to, well our economy is toast - how much is this war costing us? Trillions of dollars!! While the economy is in the toilet we are spending trillions on bombing the citizens of countries who haven't got a pot to piss in anyway?

And now, once millions of people are trying to leave the bombed out wrecks of their countries (not an 'invasion' btw TPTB) the sheeple of the West start getting belligerent about how can we afford it? Blame socialism!! How about we blame the spineless creatures who make the decisions to go to war? Coincidentally the very same people who profit from such wars, the same who bring about so much death and destruction and who forment so much hatred that ends up as blowback, which then serves to justify the war in the first place.

This is something I find so shortsighted about the libertarians, free marketers and Rothbardians. I read one guy writing that its very simple, if you cant afford to emigrate from these places just stay home because you're not invited and nobody should be forced to pay for helping you. What a load of ideological, hypocritical, high horse rubbish.

How about we take a little bit of the money used to build bombs and redirect it to either helping people or stopping the wars and rebuilding their countries so they can go back to where they came from? Why can we find trillions to bail out fucking banksters but have an aneurysm over refugees?

These refugees are not perfect but nor are they all rapists. They bring their own customs and bigotry with them and this can be very hard to tolerate. I do not know the solution but I know that we are blaming the symptom without moving against the deeper cause.