When death lurks over, all the liberalness, open borders, humanity, refugees goes down the anal. It's nationalism again while all the years this lady was demonizing nationalists and natives who wanted control of their own destiny in Europe.
https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2020/03/14/the-case-for-corona-nationalism/
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The case for corona- nationalism
Published
2 days ago
on
March 14, 2020
By
Iveta Cherneva
In a recent Twitter conversation I had with journalist Teri Schultz, my views on the corona-virus measures really flashed out. The question was whether Europe as a community should help Italy with health supplies. The answer is no. Each European country needs to assess and meet its own needs first. European countries wouldn’t be banning supply exports if they had enough for their own needs. Another country doesn’t come first here.
I am a corona-nationalist.
We see the debate corona-nationalists vs. corona-internationalists. It’s those who advocate for unilateral action in closing the borders and banning health supply exports against those who claim that this is the time to show a will for international cooperation, while remaining “reasonable” and not allowing panic to drive us towards drastic measures.
So how does someone like me who’s worked for the UN, believes in NATO, has lived all over the world and is an internationalist in spirit become a corona-nationalist? Public health is a different story. Your internationalist values won’t help here.
The UN Charter and “the international community stepping up” won’t save you. Your own government’s measures will. The EU values won’t isolate the virus. It is your own government that can act now, close borders, ban exports of health equipment and mandate social distancing – the latter being the only thing so far that we’ve found to work in containing the crisis.
The corona crisis mandates measures that only national governments can take and should take. Showing your enlightened understanding of not allowing “panic” to take over, maintaining your “way of life” and “values” and believing in people’s own responsibility won’t save you. This is about biology.
People will die. This is a national security situation. It takes unilateral action, bans and limitations. Now.
The EU criticized US President Trump for banning all travel between the US and European Schengen countries, pointing to a lack of international cooperation. The EU was not consulted in this decision but they don’t have to be. The measure Trump took doesn’t need European approval. Trump doesn’t need to consult the EU. It’s what all countries should do. Now. So that we can recover after a few months and go back to being global. But right now is the time for closing down, looking inwards and isolation.
I am not applauding Trump. President Trump’s handling of the crisis in the US has been subpar. Bulgaria – where I’m sitting right now – has Prime Minister Borissov who is acting in a timely, lucid and determined way. I am actually happy we got him at the helm and not Trump. But the point is that limitations, closing off and corona-nationalism will take place. Only measures like these will save us. This is not the time to show how cool and international we are by keeping borders open, believing in the “global community” and the “spirit of international cooperation”. Believe in your own government instead. “I’m sure that if we just remain reasonable and civilized we can negotiate with the corona virus.” You can’t. We are dealing with an adversary that won’t be impressed by the liberal values of freedoms of thought and movement, and independence. Our main goal is not to combat the “irrational tendency” of fragmentation but to listen to it. Treat this as a national security emergency. It is not true that a global crisis can only be solved through a global approach. The response has to be very, very local. The corona-virus will be beaten only by national-level, unilateral action.