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Originally Posted by Rochard
I never understood Europe and their ability to leave / enter countries without any border protection at all. I'm not saying the US is locked down tight, but at the major border crossings there is full passport control.
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This is VERY important to have here. The ukraine/polish border often has wait times of over 24 hours. If you had to go through this in every country transport would take forever.
Even driving from my house to the italian alps, i have to go:
Poland -> Slovakia -> Austria -> Germany -> Back into Austria ->Switzerland -> Italy.
Switzerland has some psuedo border control, they have one or two guys waving cars past or stopping more suspicious ones but it only takes a minute or two. If i had to sit at the border for even 12 hours each time this trip would take like 3 or 4 days instead of 10 hours.