The needless deaths here are going to be some genuinely innocent folk looking to migrate away from war torn areas being killed, the retaliations of those deaths and then the back and forth as deaths accumulate on each side when it is the politicians in Europe who are ultimately to blame for the whole lot of it.

Agreed, and was kind of my point. The deaths are needless, but the truly sad and wasteful part is that the "elites" didn't have to do this to us.