1/ 400,000 YOUNG AFGHAN MALES IN GERMANY -- WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?
One of the many taboos in the German immigration debate is why it's mostly young males (73% males, 78% under 34) who apply for asylum in Germany -- a trend which is becoming more pronounced.
2/ If you point out this fact, you will be met with feel-good moralizing ("Asylum has no gender") or puerile strawmanning ("Oh, so you're going to exclude them just because they're males. Great. Now I understand who I'm dealing with.")
3/ If you press the point, open-borders supporters will revert to further lines of defense, including "There's compulsory military service in country X" (so?) or "Young men are the only ones strong enough to make the journey".
4/ But we sensible folx all know that young males cause the most problems in society and that the societies these men come from are the most backward and violent societies on earth. Case in point: Afghanistan.
5/ I just read "The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins". (Recommended). Jacobsen interviews numerous American special forces operators who were responsible for training "indigenous" Afghan special forces. amazon.de/-/en/Annie-Jac…
6/ These Americans (and Brits) spent years in Afghanistan between 2003 and 2020. They were given the supposed "elite" of young Afghan military trainees to build into commando squads. Keep that in mind: According to Afghan officials, these were the *very best* of the crop.
7/ The verdict of the American officers was different. The officers first noted the staggering backwardness of Afghanistan. Fewer than 1% of Afghans had birth certificates, most didn't know how old they were.
8/ When asked, they would all say "25", even if they were obviously no older than 15 or younger than 50. 85% of Afghans were illiterate.
9/ When the American officers tried to perform simple screening through a questionnaire, only 1 of a large group of candidates filled out the form because he was the only one who could read.
10/ When he was picked, the others begged the Americans not to take him, because he was the only teacher in their village and if he were recruited, nobody would teach their children.
11/ Almost all recruits did not know basic math such as multiplication tables, and most could not count past 30. When a trainer took them to look at the moon to illustrate very large distances, he told them that Americans had landed men on the moon, which was news to the Afghans.
12/ One of them refused to believe it, pointing to the moon and saying "That thing is far too small to land anything on!". Of course, none of them knew their own blood type. Instead of paying a small fee to have it tested, they simply guessed.
13/ The Americans kept stressing how incredibly important it is for soldiers to know their blood type, but it made no impression. Many Afghans died while waiting to have their blood typed after an injury or from receiving the wrong blood type.
14/ Every one of the 10 U.S. special forces operatives spontaneously noted that 90% of these Afghan "elite" special forces were addicted to opium.
15/ The Americans had to confiscate their pipes before operations to prevent the Afghans from staggering into battle stoned out of their gourds. Yet there was something more disturbing than this complete lack of regard for their own welfare: the constant raping.
16/ The Afghan special forces soldiers constantly raped one another. There were cries of agony from their barracks just about every night. When the Americans tried to report the problem, they were told to simply accept it as an ingrained component of Afghan culture.
17/ And these were the "elite" special forces. As one recruit told an American officer, he transferred into the special forces from the much larger Afghan National Army because there was so *much* more male-on-male rape in that organization.
18/ As a result of all of this violent, bloody rape, most of the Afghans were infected with Hepatitis B (of course they had never gotten the vaccine).
19/ One officer joked that one of the biggest expenses of the entire program were antiviral drugs and antibiotics to treat urinary tract and other infections.
20/ Local Afghan warlords would abduct boys from villages under their control and keep them as sex slaves, raping them violently night after night, not even bothering to conceal what they were doing.
21/ The U.S. officers uniformly reported that a small fraction of their Afghan trainees turned into brave, dedicated soldiers, while the rest either cowered in fear or engaged in absurdly risky behavior right in the middle of battle, again highlighting their apparent inability…
22/ …to understand that they were putting themselves in mortal danger.
There are now 400,000 Afghan asylum-seekers living in Germany officially (plus many more underground), as we've seen most of them young males.
23/ It's almost certain dozens of the "special forces soldiers" Jacobsen described are now in Germany. Jacobsen's book (not to mention thousands of other eyewitness testimonies) shows what sort of society they were socialized into.
24/ And here's the kicker: Under current German policy, preference is given to Afghans who "assisted" the coalition forces as soldiers, interpreters, etc. The theory is not only do "we" owe them something, they might be persecuted by the Taliban for having worked with…
25/ …Westerners (even though this actually hasn't happened very often, since even the Taliban are hardly going to execute *hundreds of thousands* of people merely because they were once part of the Afghan National Army).
26/ As I've pointed out before, large spikes in crime rates in Germany in 2023 finally forced German officialdom, kicking and dragging and screaming, to reluctantly, hesitantly admit that there is, in fact, a close connection rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/k…
27/ between large-scale illegal immigration of young males from the world's most violent and chaotic societies and double-digit increases in crime. Of course, nobody could have predicted that outcome. Unless they were...paying attention to reality.
28/ But who cares about reality when there are lofty moral sentiments to uphold and "dark forces" of "xenophobia" and "racism" to combat?
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A tendency of Germans and especially their bureaucrats is a fixation with enforcing rules to the exclusion of common sense and (in certain eras) basic humanity. Wait for the 2 stingers at the end of this insane tale. swr.de/swraktuell/bad…
2/ This is a story told by Boris Palmer, the Green Party mayor of Tübingen, Germany. Former Green, actually -- he was basically forced out of the party for questioning Green orthodoxy.
3/ One example was his book about immigration called "We Can't Help Everyone". You'd think that was common sense, but no, it was (groan) a "racist dog whistle". Palmer recently unveiled a €250 million plan to extend Tübingen's main hospital, the University Clinic.
1/ Federal crime stats for Germany from 2023 have been leaked to a German newspaper prior to general publication. Here are the year-on-year increases over 2022:
✅ Overall crimes: +5.5% vs. 2022, +9.3% vs. pre-pandemic 2019, welt.de/politik/deutsc…
2/ ✅ # of criminal suspects: +7.3% (2,246,000)
✅ # of suspects w/o German nationality: 41% (+ 17.8% yoy)
✅ % of recent immigrants among suspects: 18% (+ 29.8% yoy)
✅ Burglaries: 77,819 (+ 18.1%); burglaries in Berlin: +35.2%
✅ Violent crimes: 214,099 (+8.6%)
3/ ✅ Aggravated assault: 154,541 (+6.8%, record high)
✅ Simple assault: 429,175 (+7.4%, record high)
✅ Robbery: 44,857 (+17.4%)
✅ Knife assaults: 8951 (+9.7%)
✅ Homicide: + 2.1%; rape +2.4%
✅ Proportion of non-Germans among violent crime suspects up 14.5%
Die Welt just published an important article on why Germany can't deport anyone. Currently there are 250,000 people living in Germany who have no right to be here. welt.de/politik/deutsc…
2/ Most of these are rejected asylum seekers or people who have committed serious crimes. They're called "Ausreisepflichtige" because they have been informed they have a "duty" (Pflicht) to leave the country. Only a trivial fraction leave voluntarily, since life in Germany
3/ is invariably a thousand times more appealing than life in whatever country they left. So why can't Germany deport these people? The first problem is that 50% of them arrived with no identity papers, some even erasing their own fingerprints with acid.
I'm chuffed to reveal that Quillette has published my piece on antisemitism in Germany, which I think highlights some pretty serious journalistic malpractice. quillette.com/2024/02/13/nar…
2/ If you read English-language press coverage of Germany in the New York Times or Guardian or NYRB or almost anywhere else, you've probably come across the claim that according to German government statistics, "90%" or "the overwhelming majority" of antisemitic hate crimes in…
3/ …Germany are committed by right-wing Germans.
This statistic is false -- and what's more troubling, these news outlets know it's false but keep using it anyway.
1/ About a year ago, I predicted that Germany would soon start seeing the kinds of protests that often topple Third-World governments, in which masses of people protests cuts to fuel or food subsidies. In poor countries, dw.com/en/germany-far…
2/ millions of people live from jobs which require them to use fuel, but which don't pay enough to allow these people to buy fuel at market rates. So millions depend on the government to provide them fuel at artificially low prices. These subsidies of course have a distorting
3/ effect, entrenching inefficient practices and creating ever-mounting government debts. When the government tries to cut these subsidies, mass unrest ensues -- there were 41 fuel riots in the world from 2005 to 2018, virtually all in poor countries. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
1/ Die @Welt has an interview with a co-author of the groundbreaking Dutch study on the net economic costs of immigration, which has sparked a huge controversy in the Netherlands. The top line finding is that immigration has cost welt.de/politik/auslan…
2/ the Dutch state an average of €17 billion per year since 1995, mainly in providing generous welfare benefits to unemployed migrants. Work migrants from Western (blue) & non-Western (black) are the only net contributors. Asylum seekers are the biggest net drain.
3/ The other finding is that migrants who don't integrate into the labor market stay in the Netherlands the longest, along with migrants who arrive for family reunification. Immigrants who adapt successfully tend to take their skills and leave the Netherlands,