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“Also Frankfurt is a big transit airport, so they bring indians, Africans etc. to help Indians, Africans disembark”

That’s ridiculous. So you’re saying it makes sense to hire only co-nationals of visitors to interact with said visitors?

I can safely tell you that I have never met an American working at the security checkpoints in FRA or at the ticket counters, gates or pretty much anywhere there. So, uh, if they’re trying to put familiar faces in front of the passengers, there’s one group they forgot: white English speakers.

Frankfurt is now 12% Muslim. That number will go up and up, and was around 1 or 2% 45 years ago when I first went there. To call Frankfurt a “German city” now when 51% of the people who live there aren’t ethnically German is absurd. The Germans who lived there prior to that last 3 decades were there for at least 2000 years; my family history in Rhine-Westphalia goes back at least 1300 years, and that doesn’t include when my namesake ancestor left there 280 years ago for Rotterdam and then America.

Translation: Germany has been German for at least 2 millennia.

You might say that it would be a good thing if that area wasn’t so German, and there might be some justification for that notion considering the past 114 years of history.

But disrupting the old order was what led to those cataclysms, and doing more of it with immigration will lead to similar cataclysms. Young Kurtz next door in Austria is an example: they don’t care what happened in 1940, they don’t want to end up being a vassal state of Turkey or Saudi Arabia.

As for Russia, I can safely tell you that the Russian airport workers - security, immigration, restaurant etc - have been uniformly polite and helpful, as much or more then you could expect from airport workers. You say not many people want to transfer at Moscow? That might be true of people from the Magrheb or the Levant, but it is a crossroads for North Asia and Eastern Europe. That has not prompted them to forsake their own people and hire Tajiks to run the security checkpoints, or even Romanians. They tend to be 100% Russian. Since it’s their country, I have no problem with that. Virtually all of them speak English, and I speak enough Russian to get by.

And that’s the way it should be. Ask the French, they USED to be the same way: if you’re in France, shouldn’t you be trying to speak French?

You can say what you want. The fact is, there are no mass hordes of French, German, English or even Americans trying to take up residence in the s**thole countries of Africa and the Middle East, they all come to formerly European countries: America included. No one is suggesting their homelands get overrun with foreigners, just ours.

And we’re suppose to roll over and say it’s good?

Bunk.