Czech police stepped up their work on the Austrian/Czech border and Czech interior minister basically said to the Slovak counterpart to do the same on the border with Hungary if they don’t want Slovak/Czech border to be closed. If they do their job right it should be enough to avoid Austria on the way. I was thinking about spending a day and night in Salzburg on the way back, well, that is now definitely off the list.
Those got high mainly after Iraqi invasion. Everyone and their dog in Europe was standing with US after 9/11, you have only your own politicians to blame for losing all that goodwill.
And if you look at Iraq now, with ISIS making mess also out of Syria, and the shitload of refugees coming here, I’d say that those nay sayers who were demonstrating against the Iraq invasion in the European cities back then were pretty right.
Ukraine has been Europe’s Mexico for two decades now. Just that we kept sending them back every time and all the time when someone without proper paperwork showed up.
I think I’ll go vz.58 next spring. I can’t justify the price of AR in near future 