“Europe and the US to create soft protectorates in failed countries to stem immigration.” What countries do you consider to be “failed”? Most illegal immigrants don’t come from failed countries but are economic migrants.

I support large scale foreign aid, free trade, free services, free cross border R&D collaboration, free capital, free labor (who are strongly vetted for crime and Jihadism) to rapidly develop countries with decent leaders.

But this doesn’t solve the problem of “failed countries”. How to fix them? Three examples were:
-2003 Iraq [Iraq is rapidly improving now; but the cost of achieving this was high]
-2001 Afghanistan [lots of progress relative to 2001 . . . but it is all meaningless until Afghan Pakistani relations improve]
-1994 Haiti [mostly failure]

Solving failed states is hard.

I’m sure it must have happened in the Obama era- it may be worthwhile for Europe and the US to create soft protectorates in failed countries to stem immigration.

Also fertility rates have to be managed; one and done is a good policy (uncoerced of course) for most of the human population.

What do you make of this

https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1009515696001306624

It claims the numbers more or less mirror Obama’s tenure.