BBC reports that Merkel is stepping down in 2021

No more of her running the EU

This makes place for someone good to stand as Chancelor, but at the same time makes room for someone even worse

According to reports she's stepping down because "recently she met with her advisors and the admins from her party and their Democratic party and they looked and only saw widespread dissatisfaction throughout the country."

>2021

not soon enough

Agreed

Just enough time for her to make Europe brown

The U.S. will send 5,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico to counter a massive migrant caravan, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The new estimate is a dramatic increase from Thursday, when the military planned to only deploy 800 troops.

According to The Journal, troops will be stationed at ports of entry divided among Texas, Arizona and California and will later help with administrative tasks on the U.S.-side of the border.

>only 800 troops
>now increased to 5,000 combat trained soldiers
>against 6-7,000 civilians
DIS GON B GUD

It’s now 5,200 now, I think.

It keeps going up.

Who thinks theyre gonna use these along with the noisybois

>550 yards

Shut up you disgusting amalgamation of genes

550 yards for non lethal though

It's enough to basically tell them to fuck off.

Im pretty sure someone is gonna start shooting though

Democrats are being called liars and fakers for everything the past two months, they need something to use against their opponents

I just hope that they keep them off our soil otherwise the court system is going to be overloaded more than usual

Aye.

550yd is plenty of stand-off distance

The optics of this situation are gonna be super bad tho.

God I wish I was deployed already

Coz these are active duty troops

Not reserves

Aw man, why don't they let the reserves do it

It's not like they're doing anything else

550yds is more than enough, although no matter what the optics are horrible as you have people either illegally entering the country while the country looks weak or forcefully keeping them out and looking authoritarian

There's no good way to look, might as well do the right thing and turn them around, tell them to go through proper channels

That would be the best option, although try to tell that to the caravan. All I know is that we can't let them just waltz or force their way in, we don't negotiate with terrorists

Right

I personally think that the current legal immigration system needs heavy reform, but we can't just let a bunch of people in in spite of the laws.

I think the current state in Europe is showing that mass amounts of illegals flooding Europe is causing havoc and the coastal countries are either letting it happen or are powerless to stop it

@Nic386 Well because the Reserves are for filling in the holes in divisions from real wars! *starts 3rd international proxy war in 10 years*

I'm not a proponent of mass immigration by any means, I just think we should have a better process than I've been lead to believe we currently have for those who would follow our laws to enter our country.

Maybe our immigration system is actually where I think it should be, but all the shit I hear about it right now is partisan so I can't really trust any of it

Civic nationalism is globalism

well thats like, your opinion man