Syria: 3 Good Explainer videos & some reality.
Syria: 3 Good Explainer videos & some reality.
QUESTION: What number of refugees would you welcome to the EU and UK & provide a proper life for?
The number of people displaced by the Syrian civil war is over 4m.
As the second video (from July) stated "this is the end of the beginning... it will get worse".
The current media stories about migrants/refugees making it to Western Europe are about a few thousands of people.
I'm in favour of helping refugees & I find our (UK) government's stance on this shameful but unsurprising, I think it represents the values of those who voted for this govt.
However... when you understand the numbers involved you realise helping even 100,000 or 200,000 people is still a tiny proportion of those affected. As the third video explains it is our (EU, UK) policy to STOP people claiming asylum, to make it impossible in fact.
The reason we have no solution, is that there is no short-term solution to a problem on this scale.
We (UK, the west) already made our policy decisions about the middle-east.
We value access to their oil, not the people. What's happening now is the result of decades of policy.
It is heartwarming to see thousands of people receive a humane welcome in a prosperous German city. But don't let that fool us - as a society we are willing to see millions suffer to maintain our lifestyles.
What number of refugees will we welcome to the EU and UK & provide a proper life for?
The war in Syria explained in five minutes (2013)
https://youtu.be/K5H5w3_QTG0
The Syrian refugee crisis in numbers (July)
https://youtu.be/7OWXoBtsHTY
Where Are the Syrian Refugees? (June)
https://youtu.be/0_QrIapiNOw
https://youtu.be/K5H5w3_QTG0
QUESTION: What number of refugees would you welcome to the EU and UK & provide a proper life for?
The number of people displaced by the Syrian civil war is over 4m.
As the second video (from July) stated "this is the end of the beginning... it will get worse".
The current media stories about migrants/refugees making it to Western Europe are about a few thousands of people.
I'm in favour of helping refugees & I find our (UK) government's stance on this shameful but unsurprising, I think it represents the values of those who voted for this govt.
However... when you understand the numbers involved you realise helping even 100,000 or 200,000 people is still a tiny proportion of those affected. As the third video explains it is our (EU, UK) policy to STOP people claiming asylum, to make it impossible in fact.
The reason we have no solution, is that there is no short-term solution to a problem on this scale.
We (UK, the west) already made our policy decisions about the middle-east.
We value access to their oil, not the people. What's happening now is the result of decades of policy.
It is heartwarming to see thousands of people receive a humane welcome in a prosperous German city. But don't let that fool us - as a society we are willing to see millions suffer to maintain our lifestyles.
What number of refugees will we welcome to the EU and UK & provide a proper life for?
The war in Syria explained in five minutes (2013)
https://youtu.be/K5H5w3_QTG0
The Syrian refugee crisis in numbers (July)
https://youtu.be/7OWXoBtsHTY
Where Are the Syrian Refugees? (June)
https://youtu.be/0_QrIapiNOw
https://youtu.be/K5H5w3_QTG0
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