@juelzac1980@EvanWritesOnX Average Arab mind thinking of Israel every second. You don’t even live in your country and you ask Moroccans to do what ? No wonder Israelis are always 10 steps ahead. Always so predictable.
@jectorsaturnin@EvanWritesOnX Most people acted following a tiktok trend and all came back the next morning. For many this was just for fun, some vlogged with their iPhone 17 pro.
Morocco is an emerging regional power in Africa.
A future regional hegemon.
It has the growing economy, expanding military reach, diplomatic wins on Western Sahara, and increasing influence across the Sahel and West Africa.
But it remains a mid-tier dependent player in the wider multipolar order.
It still needs external recognition, foreign investment, and security cover to lock in its interest.
These are provided by the Gulf and the TPS.
So that’s the actual consolidating axis.
They are building a coherent economic and security bloc across North and West Africa; ports, logistics corridors, phosphate and energy deals, counter-terrorism cooperation, and political cover for Morocco’s Sahara position.
So the incentive structure is something like this;
Morocco gets legitimacy, resources, and a stronger hand against Algeria.
Gulf states get a reliable African partner, commercial footholds, and a counterweight to Algeria’s orbit.
The TPS gets a functional partner that manages migration pressure on Europe, cooperates on security, and limits Chinese/Russian inroads,
without having to own the problem itself.
And ALL of the above have an economic stake in Western Sahara via Morocco.
Algeria sits on the opposing axis. It hosts and arms the Polisario, leverages its gas supplies to Europe, maintains closed borders with Morocco, and draws soft support from actors who prefer a fragmented Maghreb.
Every Spanish or European concession to Rabat is a loss for Algiers; every migration spike that forces Madrid to choose is an opportunity for both sides to test leverage.
The Ceuta episode is Morocco using its border control to extract movement on the Sahara.
Destabilising Europe is not the primary objective, consolidating a coherent African flank under Maroc-Gulf-TPS axis is.
@Leninstopguyy@nourxalnasser@EvanWritesOnX Many Moroccan dynasties ruled in the Sahara, even today’s Mauritania was part of the Cherifian Empire so it is natural for Moroccans to feel attached to that land. I visited Dakhla once and everyone looked Moroccan to me. It looks like you have a personal issue instead.
@nourxalnasser@EvanWritesOnX WS Sahara was ruled by Moroccan dynaties, chiefs pleaded allegiance to the rulers, paid taxes, got protection until 1884 when Spain colonized it. It’s Morocco’s way to find it’s backyard (West Africa). Algerians want to stop that.
Because they can’t.
They pay Morocco to secure the border.
Morocco can use that border as leverage whenever multi player incentives align.
Morocco is in complete control when it comes to turning the tap on.
This also means that any state that aligns policy with Morocco,
for example the Gulf,
will have indirect leverage over EU through the border.
Consider what they gain.
A more locked-in Spanish (and by extension European) position on Western Sahara, which undercuts Algeria and the Polisario.
Morocco looking useful as the reliable manager of Europe’s southern border the same role Gulf countries want to project for themselves as stabilising partners.
Reduced space for any deeper Spain-Algeria gas axis that could dilute their own energy and political influence in Europe.
And people think this is Israel lol.
@EvanWritesOnX This is the most accurate and rational response I’ve read for the whole weekend. But I got an additional point for you. Look at what happened between the UK and Spain (Gibraltar) and continue from there.
@VerminusM 704 years of Islam vs 611 years of Christianity. It’s just a matter of time before it returns to the rightful owner. Few teenagers paralysed the whole Moroccan occupied city just with due to a tiktok trend
Spanish soldiers posing with the heads of Moroccan civillians they had massacred in 1923.
Spain a vocal "Defender of Palestine" has itself a dark and brutal colonial past, nowhere more brutal than in Morocco.
The Rif War was a brutal colonial conflict in northern Morocco from 1921 to 1926. During this attempt to prevent Moroccan independence, Spanish and French forces crushed the Berber liberation movement led by Abd el-Krim, who had formed the Rif Republic after annihilating a Spanish army at Annual.
To break the will of the resistance, Spain dropped mustard gas and other chemical weapons from planes onto civillian villages, crops, and evwn poisoned water sources. They killed tens of tjosands of men, women and children.
The horrific burns, blindness, and cancers that followed were policy, they were deliberate. Then came the scorched earth, burning crops, poisoning wells, razing homes to starve out resistance.
Whole communities were wiped out or scattered. In the south, it was mass arrests, summary executions, torture camps to crush any hint of rebellion.
This is the very same Spain that still claims the Moroccan (African) territories of Ceuta and Melilla, are "Spanish"
Understand the history of some of those calling the loudest for "justice" in far off places, they are not so keen on calling for it closer to home.
@KAlhamss@SamarDJarrah Nothing to do with Palestine or the useless late stance of Sanchez. It’s just a trend that went viral and people took the opportunity. Sanchez is an ally of Morocco who recognises the Moroccan Sahara.
@SamarDJarrah A tiktok and facebook trend that led to that. Many came with their cars and iPhone 17 Pro to pass the time to finally come back the next day and have breakfast at home.
@VillaverdeRCD That’s Laayoune, where the Moroccan flag prevails. The same way Ceuta and Melilla will be taken back with no bullet as we have seen this weekend.
@martinez_clips The Moroccans showed you what it like to reconquer an occupied city for fun if they wanted to in an afternoon, tour it for the whole night and went back home for breakfast, some vlogged with their iPhone 17 Pro and the whole city got paralized because of some kids, shame 😆
@RechargAmerica Their dignity when a bunch of Moroccan teenagers showed them what it is like to reconquer a Moroccan occupied city in an afternoon to tour it and come back home next morning for breakfast 😆
@D_Tarczynski Spain and the UK signed an agreement over Gibraltar, while colonising 2 Moroccan cities. So Moroccan teenagers showed them what it is like to loose a city in an afternoon, tour it and come back home the next morning for Breakfast. Spain must hand over the 2 enclaves.
@ImMeme0 Spain made an agreement with the UK over Gibraltar while they colonise 2 Moroccan cities. So the Moroccan teenagers reminded what it is like to loose a city in an afternoon, tour it and come back the next morning for breakfast at home 😆