“Merkel stoutly defended her open border policy as being consistent with western values.”
It’s not who we are. ...now where have I heard that BS before?
“Merkel stoutly defended her open border policy as being consistent with western values.”
Open borders are consistent with Western values, i.e. Judeo-Christian-Classical values, when the border is only open to those who share Western values, which many elites in the West do not.
Any other is suicide and suicide has not been a Western value since 476 AD.