Update: This "Super El Niño" will be perhaps the strongest in 500 to 1000 years, and could legitimately be the most extreme global weather or climate event experienced by humanity since the invention of the printing press. Only more extreme situation is a volcanic winter.
🇺🇸🇵🇾 Marco Rubio signed a civil nuclear cooperation deal with Paraguay.
Doesn’t sound flashy until you zoom out.
Paraguay runs almost entirely on hydropower and has been looking at small modular reactors to diversify its grid.
The U.S. locked in a formal framework to help them explore that path.
It’s another quiet deepening of ties with one of the most pro-U.S. governments in South America. Security, minerals, and now nuclear energy are all on the table.
Source: @SecRubio / Writer: Lucas
It has now been established that what happened in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla was a successful example of hybrid warfare orchestrated by the Moroccan government against Spain. Nearly 50,000 Moroccan nationals were transported from towns and villages across Morocco using trucks and other heavy vehicles organized by the government before being funneled into the two Spanish enclaves. The objective was to exert political pressure on the Spanish government in an effort to force concessions over Morocco's long-standing claim to Ceuta and Melilla.
Melilla es española desde 1497 y Ceuta desde 1668, cuando pasó de Portugal a la Corona. Melilla, cuando la tomó Castilla, estaba en ruinas y sin control efectivo de nadie: los wattasíes de Fez y los zayyaníes de Tlemecén se la disputaban sin ocuparla. No se arrebató a ningún Estado, se ocupó un vacío. La dinastía alauí, la que reina hoy, no llega al poder hasta los años 1660: casi dos siglos después.
Pero el título español no depende de esa fecha, y ahí está su fuerza. Depende de cinco siglos de posesión continua, pacífica y efectiva, con una población que tiene ciudadanía española, vota en elecciones españolas y está representada en el Congreso. Eso es prescripción adquisitiva, la forma más sólida de soberanía que reconoce el derecho internacional.
Marruecos no reclama por herencia dinástica, no puede, sino por contigüidad geográfica y marco descolonizador. Y ahí el argumento se le complica: Ceuta y Melilla nunca fueron colonias, son territorio metropolitano con las mismas instituciones que Cádiz o Málaga, y sus habitantes no han pedido nunca cambiar de bandera. La descolonización se decide por autodeterminación, no por proximidad en el mapa.
Cinco siglos y una ciudadanía que se afirma cada vez que hay urnas. Eso no lo mueve un argumento de contigüidad.
The images coming from Ceuta are unacceptable.
We cannot allow anyone to come to our Union without abiding by our rules.
Dangerous crossings must stop immediately. Smuggling networks must be dismantled. And returns must be swift, as our rules allow.
I tasked two Commissioners to support to control the situation.
@magnusbrunner is already working closely with Spain and is ready to travel to critical points.
He will work on additional operational support to Spain, including through Frontex.
@dubravkasuica is in contact with her Moroccan counterpart.
I am confident that our close partnership with Morocco will help deliver concrete results.
Esta es la visión de EEUU, según me dicen.
España se verá obligada a entregar Ceuta a Marruecos. Los ciudadanos españoles que aún residan en Ceuta no se quedarán y probablemente ya están huyendo.
Esa es la razón por la que esto está sucediendo para los EEUU. Ceuta y Melilla han estado en disputa durante siglos según la administración Trump. Marruecos está recuperando un territorio que considera suyo aprovechando la debilidad de España por la mala relación con Trump.
Sánchez ha medido mal y ha perdido la partida ante Trump y Netanyahu.
Jaque mate y situación insostenible del gobierno. Hoy va a visitar la zona.
Breaking: Spanish intelligence believes that the invasion of Moroccan immigrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is a false flag operation orchestrated by the Moroccan government on the orders of King Mohammed VI. Not only are there many pardoned criminals and prisoners among the 12,000 Moroccan nationals who have just arrived at the enclave, but there are also reports of Moroccan army soldiers among them who were brought to the border by trucks and were guided by Moroccan Police👇
The reason people are invading Ceuta, Spain right now is because that removes Spanish control from both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar.
So you're going to have the Strait of Hormuz, the Red Sea and the Strait of Gibraltar contested, cutting off all transport to the Mediterranean.
This is how all world wars begin, over vital trade routes.
@econchart "Bolivia’s debt crisis was not built on Wall Street. It was built in La Paz, when the central bank became the Treasury’s ATM and the domestic financial system became its captive lender."...
Truer words are rarely spoken.
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I���m so sick of the hypocrisy.