It says a lot about a country when its average citizen can’t leave to see the rest of the world or tell the rest of the world how great it is to live there.
What it says is that they were the victims of one of the most extensive bombing campaigns in history that reduced their country to rubble, then had the southern half of their country occupied by the US military who are still there to this day. We’ve been sitting on their doorstep blocking them from normal trade and threatening to invade constantly for most of a century, closing their borders is a completely reasonable response.
It says a lot about a country when its average citizen can’t leave to see the rest of the world or tell the rest of the world how great it is to live there.
What it says is that they were the victims of one of the most extensive bombing campaigns in history that reduced their country to rubble, then had the southern half of their country occupied by the US military who are still there to this day. We’ve been sitting on their doorstep blocking them from normal trade and threatening to invade constantly for most of a century, closing their borders is a completely reasonable response.