Does the #Polish government actually believe that the Middle Eastern refugees herded across the border from Belarus are a national security issue? Or are they just acting on the fact that the *voters* believe this? I fail to see how this small number of people can be perceived as so scary.
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I think the government is mostly responding to the fear of the security people, who are by training and nature super conspiratorial and paranoid, and whose prosperity largely depends on coming up with scary theories for why others do things.
These security ideas are then taken up by politicians and tried on the population, and when something gets purchase on the collective mind they run with it.
