Jiang says Europe's 2014 refugee crisis forced a choice between border closure and cultural identity preservation or mass intake; Merkel's open-door confidence produced the opposite of the promised integration.
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Jiang says Merkel's 2015-style refugee posture looked less like a realistic plan than a slogan masking motives that were never honestly articulated.
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"...its cultural identity, or it could open the floodgates. And Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, she said something really, really famous and that..."
"...capacity to absorb these tens of millions of refugees. And Angela Merkel said, we can do this, man. We can do this. Have faith...."
"...to absorb these millions, tens of millions of refugees. But Angela Merkel, the German chancellor said, we can do this. Okay? And it's been..."
"...the capacity to absorb these millions of refugees. Right? So, Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, famously said, we can do it. No, you..."
"...first and foremost America you know Americans love to bug Angela Merkel's phone uh you know the uh Edwin stolen leaks revealed that NSA..."
"...to russia as well you you just pointed out to angela merkel gerhard schruder he's even on the board of gasprom i think he's..."
"...have the system in order to accommodate these immigrants And Angela Merkel who is the leader of Europe at this time The German Chancellor..."
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