Submitted 3 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 123-mile border it shares with Russia, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland.
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“Build The Wall!”
Static defense worked for centuries in China!
And in France during WWII /s
Except in this case they’re trying to protect their country from a barbaric invasion, so its completely different.
Thus achieving?
1984@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I don’t think a fence will stop anyone… :) But sure, go ahead.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
A fence won’t stop anyone, but it can detect people, which sounds like the point.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Detect, deter and slow down.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s a bit more than a line in the sand, though, ehich I suspect is the point.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It does help
sonori@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Show me a five meter high fence, and i’ll show you a six meter high ladder.
More seriously, if you want to catch people at the border, you do mainly need to have cameras, sensors and people monitoring it, and you then just need to send some guards out in a truck to go out and talk to the things that walk through it.
If their arn’t guards, then there is nothing to stop anyone with bolt cutters or a cutting tool coming along and getting through, or as the US found out, coming along and stealing parts of the unguarded fence in the middle of nowhere whenever the price for scrap metal got high enough to be worth the trip.
The only problems with this approach of just sending guards out is that it doesn’t look as imposing in stock footage, and that it’s harder to deny people a chance at the universal human right of asylum if they’ve set foot on your territory and you have to talk to them and escort them back instead of pushing them away from a fence with your fingers in your ears saying I can’t hear you.