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Maybe you don't remember, but the refugee crisis was already well underway in 2015 when Merkel opened Germany's borders and had that infamous selfie taken with an asylum seeker.
The numbers had been steadily increasing since 2012. So, no, she didn't order it; the truth is much more mundane (and frightening at the same time). She was merely incompetent and ignored the warnings of her own minister of the interior. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
As an aside, we also have to thank the "Coalition of the Willing" for the past ten years. Without "Iraqi Freedom", there would've never been an Al Quaeda in Iraq; which in turn would've never morphed into the Islamic State; which in turn would've never prompted one of the biggest refugee waves since the Second World War. It's somewhat ironic the American right is so deeply invested in the refugee crisis, considering their erstwhile approval of that useless war.
The numbers had been steadily increasing since 2012. So, no, she didn't order it; the truth is much more mundane (and frightening at the same time). She was merely incompetent and ignored the warnings of her own minister of the interior. Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
As an aside, we also have to thank the "Coalition of the Willing" for the past ten years. Without "Iraqi Freedom", there would've never been an Al Quaeda in Iraq; which in turn would've never morphed into the Islamic State; which in turn would've never prompted one of the biggest refugee waves since the Second World War. It's somewhat ironic the American right is so deeply invested in the refugee crisis, considering their erstwhile approval of that useless war.