"WHY" Immigration crisis
Solving core issue is a superior policy compared to building walls.
What is the purpose of writing about this? Let's start with some questions.
In my experience, there is a huge difference between the people who oppose immigration and the immigrants themselves. Both parties seem to be victims of some other force. Both parties are put against each other and sometimes fight it out mildly, but politicians play on both sides' emotions.
What is this other force I talk about? Why are these people leaving their homes and heading out into an uncertain world? Why would they take these risky smuggling routes and risk the lives of themselves and their families? Have they not seen or read about rubber boats sinking due to overcrowding? What forces drove them to migrate to the developed west in such unusual steps?
Will the politicians save us?
Political parties love to shout out popular narratives that tap into the pain and needs of the people already brewing to gain votes potentially. From the voter’s perspective, we must determine if they will ever deliver on the promises they plan to fix. We first need to understand the issue's core to figure that out.
What is causing the pain, and are these politicians addressing plans to fix the core of the problem? Or are they shouting out popular narratives that are unlikely to be achieved?
Did Mexico ever pay for the wall?
Watch the following video and notice how this charismatic politician riles the crowd…
Trump Maintains Mexico Will Pay for Border Wall
Building a wall is extremely inhumane.
Would you like to have a wall? Check out a few of the examples that already exist in South Africa.
Check out the South African Walled Examples
The WHY?
Why are there masses of people migrating?
Most people are forced to leave their home cities and countries because of uncertainty about the future. What causes this uncertainty? Mostly this is a direct result of economic/military strangling caused by the policies of a superior country.
Have you ever heard of the terms Regime change, IMF, Democracy, Weapons of Mass Destruction(WMDs), or Dictatorship?
Example so we can relate? There are many, but let me mention a few.
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Iraq
Libya
Syria
Ukraine
Multiple African countries
*(Honestly, I don't know enough about countries to mention them here)*
The why? Why is there immigration crisis?
It’s the hegemony of the US dollar.
USD as the Worlds Reserve Currency
US hegemony is a widely accepted root of most misery with one goal, total dominance on the planet through the US dollar. Making sure USD stays as the Worlds Reserve Currency gives the world all the issues mentioned above
NATO vs. Russia with the goal of Regime change at the cost of Ukraine.
Syria with the goal of Regime change but failed yet not given up.
Iraq, after Saddam, wanted to sell Oil for Euros.
Afghanistan in the War on Terror hoax (notice that Islamic terrorism stopped after Covid the room?).
Libya after Gaddafi announced a Gold-backed Dinar for the African continent.
Pakistan Regime change of the Imran Khan government.
Hungry potentially soon.
Propaganda is already underway in Haiti.
China may be next. The propaganda campaign has begun.
The US launched 251 military interventions in 1991 and 469 since 1798.
Source
All this is to keep the dominance of USD at the top and to kick down potential challengers.
The US has military bases all around the world. The US taxes the whole world through the debasement of the Dollar. The US controls the foreign policies of all of its allies, and if not, regime change commences.
Now that we have seen the political and military usage to destabilize countries Let’s add the International Monetary fund(IMF) into the equation. This is where Economic warfare joins to give a country a finishing blow.
IMF is the lender of last resort. Whenever countries through whatever enter an economic hardship phase, IMF can be called upon for loans. Countries with (corrupt) politicians or military dictators sign these LOANS with a fixed interest payment on the name of their people. These politicians spend the money on contractors from the West to fix things (Money flows back to the West), keeping a cut for themselves in offshore banking accounts like Switzerland or the City of London.
Annual flows of money from and to these developing nations show us a grim story of a reality politicians will never mention. This modern form of colonialism is sucking the colonies dry to feed the small population in the so-called developed West. Jason Hickel, an economic anthropologist for The Guardian, wrote in 2017 about how developing countries develop rich countries.
Article Source
Research Source
For every dollar of aid to developing countries, $24 flows back to the developed world. This is called economic warfare, where the people there starve for the lifestyle of the few in the West. Even though the people of the West are not to blame, the leaders they elect are; hence the responsibility falls upon the people.
Now that it is demonstrated that the people of developing countries are sucked dry by the West, let’s discuss the solutions politicians are not discussing.
Excuses from the anti-immigration camps
Migrants must live in peaceful countries in their region.
This is always the fact. Most migrants tend to stay in the region of neighboring countries, putting enormous resource pressure on those countries that mostly haven’t enjoyed the profits of the economic warfare or are in the process of dealing with the same. That’s not fair. Should the world be fair?
Migrants must stay home to rebuild their country back.
People never leave their home cities to which their identity is connected when they have a choice, or some hope is left. It either is too dangerous, or the situation is hopeless. In the West, people do not realize that economic migration is a valid reason to leave a region. When the leaders of a country act as thugs and exploit you economically, no one in their right mind would say. Death tastes the same, either through a bomb or famine.
Our countries are full, and we cannot take in more people.
This is something you may deal with your politicians that do not talk against these exploitive policies. When a small group of people(leaders of the 17% that live in the developed world) exploit the rest, they will come to share the only bread left in your/our hand.
We should build a wall to defend ourselves against migration.
The US, the biggest beneficiary of this exploitative policy, has a huge sea wall between itself and the exploited regions. The issue is Europe that has land connections or is not too far from these regions, which has to deal with the migration problem. Southern Europe is the most impacted, while their economies are not strong enough to deal with this inflow.
Pushback of migrants to repel entering countries.
Using violence to discourage people from entering safe areas is somehow accepted and humane in some circles. I wonder what your views are about this after reading this piece.
How to Overcome the situation?
Can politicians solve this migration problem while supporting the exploitation of their homelands? Why are we never informed about our politicians' exploitation of developing countries?
I believe that politicians who ignore these issues are either in on it or unaware of it. Anybody who fails to mention these issues is unfit for the position they wish to secure by winning your support.
Historically, every time a new reserve currency holder comes to power, the impulse to exploit others emerges. As with the Dutch empire and their Guilder, these issues are the product of economics and reserve currency.
We have seen it with the British Empire
A good example of this is the US empire, which is the largest. How can one country be an aggressor when there are US troops almost at their door?
This huge military can be paid for by taxing the world. Making sure the US dollar is the reserve currency by making sure international commerce between countries is always performed with the Dollar. Saudi Oil, especially, is an interesting data point here. Why did the Saudis decide to sell their oil in dollars? Search and learn about this.
How is the world being taxed? All countries need to hold dollars for all their import needs in their foreign reserves. Those are in billions and billions of dollars.
The USD gets to steal the world's purchasing power by printing new units of dollars into existence by devaluing all its holders.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 9th president of The Islamic Republic of Iran, tweeted about this, which is a very rare occurrence.
Tweet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the 9th president of The Islamic Republic of Iran
To fix the migration problem, there is a need for a world reserve currency that doesn’t have the following issues:
Trust in humans (i.e., politicians).
Fiat money (i.e., money not backed by anything scarce that is hard to produce).
What comes to mind?
GOLD???
Yes?
The US dollar was once backed by gold. Yet it is not since 1971. The effects of that on humans have been immersed. The adverse effects of this are documented on this website.
Visit Source
National gold reserves are great, BUT they have the component of Trust built into them. We would be required to trust the politicians not to lie that they won’t print more currency units than they can back up by the gold parked in the safe. That the politicians won’t steal the gold through corruption. Trust everywhere is built into this system which is sadly not wise.
We would need to transition to a trustless, easily verifiable, Bearer instrument with instant finality and hard and scarce money, creating a balancing force of wealth worldwide. Let me first go one by one and explain why these characteristics are needed.
Trustless.
Trustless in the monetary policy controlled by multiple constituencies, all holding the same incentive, namely the survival of that money.
Easily verifiable.
How much currency(Euro) is right now in circulation? The source of this information must be the Central Bank, but did you know that most of the money created is made by Commercial Banks? Let’s assume the numbers are shared without error between these banks, and I still trust that the Central bank is telling us the truth. There are countries where banks are being shot at because they refuse to give money to the people. Recent example? Lebanon (youtube source)
Bearer instrument with instant finality.
Gold is not transferable over space. I cannot buy something on Aliexpress with gold sitting in my safe. Cash has the same issues. Credit card transfers are reversible, and bank transfers are not instantly final. Interbanking finality is something else; suppose you wish to send $100 to a remote town in Afghanistan. There are no banks with banking contracts to make that transaction, hence the need for the likes of Western Union.
Hard and scarce money.
The urge to print money and win votes through social programs rises whenever the ease of creating money rises. Printing money devalues the current holders of that money. FIAT money which is unbacked by anything and mostly just digits in a computer system, are the easiest to produce and inflate.
Hard money like gold requires a lot of energy to produce, and it is scarce compared to any other metal we know.
Now the real Solution
The answer to this question we have right now is Bitcoin + policies to stop exploiting other countries through military or economic warfare.
Bitcoin is scarce, as only 21 million units will ever be mined. It has a fixed monetary expansion rate which halves every +/-4 years. The supply of Bitcoin can easily be verified by an individual running a full Bitcoin node which can be run on any old computer/laptop or a Raspberry Pi. When typing this article, the supply is 19290302.36721349 Bitcoin at the block height of 776482.
Transferring Bitcoin through Lightning takes seconds, and using the on-chain method for large amounts takes a maximum of 10 minutes. Now there are nuances here, but I will leave them aside for this article.
Is there a positive and a negative side?
Negatives (but are they negative?)
Growth on cheap credit in the West will fall to natural levels.
Markets will be able to reward value-adding companies and punish value-exacting companies leading to no zombie companies.
Rent-seeking behavior will disappear.
Positives
The growth that is achieved will be sustainable.
No boom and bust cycles.
No rent-seeking leads to a push for capital deployment for productive goals.
The currency's purchasing power in the middle of nowhere will have the same appreciation level as those living in the developed West.
All human work contributes to the welfare of each other.
Forever wars cannot be financed.
The opportunities to build wealth by storing your hard-earned value will be available to everyone.
Less consumerism and demand for quality products reduce the negative impact on the environment.
Equality in access to international markets is created by access to international money standards and systems.
Because of the discipline introduced by Bitcoin, politicians will have to be very careful about where the taxpayer's money is spent.
Having this little list of benefits ensures that people cannot be stolen from and can build a strong base that will eliminate the problems of the developing world within a couple of generations.
Is this going to eliminate migration? Of course not; natural disasters and human conflicts will continue to displacing people, but some will be displaced less. It is possible people will migrate from the West to the East or South if we create a level playing field for humans. They will make their decisions based on other factors, like the weather. Possibly better food.
In conclusion, if your politician does not address the core issues that drive migration in the first place, they will not be able to fix the issue by building a wall or supporting pushback.
As a West, we need to stop exploiting other regions through military or economic warfare or prepare to share some of our bread and lifestyle with them. Make sure your politicians address this issue, which is causing a lot of harm to other peoples.
One day, I hope to see a world where moving from one country to another would not be a matter of bombs raining down or famine but of the weather or availability of food.
Greetings.