You may be familiar with the term "Stockholm syndrome," in which someone becomes attached to their captor or kidnapper, effectively becoming brainwashed into aligning themselves with someone trying to harm them.
So you know it's a big deal when Sweden — which pretty much owns the naming rights to Stockholm syndrome! — is doing this:
Faced with increasing crime and economic pressures from its migrant crisis, Sweden plans to significantly increase financial incentives for migrants to leave the country. Beginning in 2026, Migration Minister Johan Forssell says Sweden will offer $34,000 to migrants willing to return to their nation of origin.
Western Europe has been utterly pilloried by the migrant crisis over the past several decades. Their social services have been strained to the breaking point, their customs and traditions have degraded, their people have suffered harassment and aggression.
And this isn't just a one-off thing. The Swedish government already tried this last year and decided to kick its efforts into overdrive:
Presently, the Swedish government's program offers $976 per adult and $488 per child, with a cap of $3,903 per family. This program saw minimal uptake in 2023, with just one participant. The proposed increase aims to make the offer more attractive, especially for the several hundred thousand migrants in Sweden who are unemployed or reliant on state benefits, according to Sweden Democrats (SD) spokesman Ludvig Aspling.
You do have to imagine that even the lure of $34,000 won't be enough to deter many migrants from those sweet, sweet Swedish "state benefits."
Methinks most of them will decline to go back to Afghanistan and Syria!
The country "received over 250,000 asylum seekers since mid-2023," so you can imagine how acutely desperate they're getting.
Color me skeptical that the Swedish government has enough money to fix this problem.
There's only one way out of this mess, and it doesn't involve "tolerance and inclusion."
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