The Norwegian TV show Occupied is not realistic in the specifics but it’s eerily realistic in the underlying idea: Europeans will accept anything, swallow anything, turn a blind eye to anything in order to avoid conflict. They are so comfortable in their status quo and so used to the idea that all the risks attendant on preserving it are shouldered by somebody else that they’ll pretend nothing is happening to the bitter end.
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“Europeans will accept anything, swallow anything, turn a blind eye to anything in order to avoid conflict.”
If you change that to “Western Europeans” I’ll agree completely. Further East the people who were tempered in the forge of communism are made of entirely sterner stuff.
I disagree strongly with a lot of the specifics (Orban cozying up to Putin, the current mad Polish government, etc) but the only rational reactions to the migrant crisis is coming from former Warsaw Pact countries. Everyone else is trying desperately to convince themselves that’s only a hard job to do and if they support the government and don’t make a fuss then it will all work out..
I’m not going to watch Okkupert for the time being (American movie Russians are so boring and unrealistic that I can’t suspend disbelief), it’s also why I avoided the third season of House of Cards)
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Yes, Western Europeans, precisely. The Poles have been very independent and reasonable on Ukraine.
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