Austria, like the US & Hungary, backs out of the UN migration pact

[dead0man]

If you think the current refugee crises around the world are bad, I've got some news for you as to what it's going to be like in the coming decades with environmental disasters on the horizon. Governments are going to be mowed down and overwhelmed whether they follow U.N. pacts or not.

jeez man, we can see your boner.  Do try and contain yourself!


and how do you think refugees are going to "mow down" govts, especially the ones that are willing to secure their borders?  Of course it will overwhelm those that think they can take them in, it already is, but I'm not understanding how it would work for the good countries that aren't stupid?

[dead0man]

They wouldn't use mines and certainly not miles of them...that's silly. 



It would be automated drones deploying various crowd control methods.  Less lethal ones at the start, more lethal ones if those didn't work.  Unless we're rocking a post scarcity economy like Star Trek, the US won't be letting in 20 million refugees at the same time, ever.  No matter how many commercials with Sarah MacGlaughlin music playing over images of dirty kids in camps that play during BBT reruns.

[dead0man]

They wouldn't use mines and certainly not miles of them...that's silly. 

Nah, it's cheap and efficient.

Sure, compared to having humans every 100 yards, but not compared to drones.

Plus the the Feds don't own the land they would need to own to put "miles of land mines" on the border.  They've had that issue just trying to put up the wall and they only need a few hundred feet for that.

[dead0man]

If we are talking about a situation bad enough that tens of millions of people could be expected to storm the border things like property rights won't matter. The rules will be totally different in such a dystopian scenario.

Sure, and land mines would still be a bad way to stop them.  You understand that they only work once right?  That they are indiscriminate?  That they are relatively easy to neutralize?  The DoD still uses them in some specific circumstances (Korea is the only place left I think), but they've mostly been replaced with better options.

[dead0man]

Well you've clearly thought this through, I will stop trying to question your air tight logic.