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Onward to the Hollow State

By Thomas A. Smith

What s going on at the border?

  • Both the US and the EU are in the midst of an ongoing and accelerating migrant crisis of unprecedented scale (in the US, over the last three years alone, there have been ~6.5m apprehended migrants and ~1.5m gotaways — enough to become the 13th largest state).
  • Neither the US nor the EU appear to be able to contain or solve this crisis. National decision-making has broken down.
  • In the vacuum created, opportunistic corporations, non-governmental organizations, and criminal groups are exacerbating the crisis to loot the system.

We ve seen this complex crisis dynamic numerous times (the permacrisis). The most notable previous examples are:

  • 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.
  • The financial crisis.
  • COVID.

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