SkyNews literally just said, "We are used to wars far away, but now the refugees are at our shores." Let that sink in.

Well, more at our land borders. Europe didn't give a rats ass about the refugees at the actual shores before.

Ignoring my inner cynic, it is good that we, the European countries, help Ukraine and the Ukrainian refugees, very good. But yes, I think the West is very much used to start wars in far away countries where we can ignore the consequences in our daily lives. Now someone else started it, close to our homes, and all of a sudden we cannot ignore it anymore. Comes as quite a shock to some, it seems.

Which, long term, may bring benefits to mankind for generation or two, in form of stronger objections to any war. I agree, this war feels much closer and real than any other war in recent decades, and for me it actually is (coming from Slovakia).

Not happy about this myself, we are all equal humans and it shouldn't matter how people dress, speak or religion they have, this reaction should be present in all cases of war.

> Europe didn't give a rats ass about the refugees at the actual shores before.

Europe took in millions of refugees from a different continent.

Syrian/Afghan refugees took a longer route to Europe instead of Saudi Arabia. That's what an economic migrant does.

I’m not sure why that’s relevant to them getting ambushed but do you have a source for that? The Google results for “We are used to wars far away” are pretty barren, I suspect your comment might be the top search result when they get around to indexing it.

I think the person who said that was Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence