"The Spanish-Moroccan frontier is, for what it’s worth, probably the starkest ethnocultural divide within the European Space. On a genetic level, Spaniards, like all Europeans, are considerably more closely related to Turks than to Moroccans on standard autosomal measures, with Anatolian Turks sitting within a broader West Eurasian continuum, and Moroccans by contrast forming a distinct North African cluster dominated by isolated Maghrebi ancestry plus sub-Saharan African admixture."
Interesting. Could you share the source? Because of Arab/Berber colonialism on the Iberian peninsula, I would have expected some similarity between the genetics of Spaniards and Moroccans.
Bold thinking, but as it would stick it to Orange Man Bad, the support of the lanyardistas is not out of the question. And the EU loves expansion, so I'd love to see this idea lobbed into the agenda of a European Council meeting.
"........ the scale and facilitation make this recent episode an act of nothing other than state-sponsored aggression on European sovereign territory."
Interesting point of view, which I'm now comparing with France's policy, substituting 'British sovereign territory" as it encourages unwanted foreigners to invade Britain.
I couldn't agree more, and I've said as much many times over the past few days on my own modest X timeline.
Excellent.
"The Spanish-Moroccan frontier is, for what it’s worth, probably the starkest ethnocultural divide within the European Space. On a genetic level, Spaniards, like all Europeans, are considerably more closely related to Turks than to Moroccans on standard autosomal measures, with Anatolian Turks sitting within a broader West Eurasian continuum, and Moroccans by contrast forming a distinct North African cluster dominated by isolated Maghrebi ancestry plus sub-Saharan African admixture."
Interesting. Could you share the source? Because of Arab/Berber colonialism on the Iberian peninsula, I would have expected some similarity between the genetics of Spaniards and Moroccans.
Bold thinking, but as it would stick it to Orange Man Bad, the support of the lanyardistas is not out of the question. And the EU loves expansion, so I'd love to see this idea lobbed into the agenda of a European Council meeting.
"........ the scale and facilitation make this recent episode an act of nothing other than state-sponsored aggression on European sovereign territory."
Interesting point of view, which I'm now comparing with France's policy, substituting 'British sovereign territory" as it encourages unwanted foreigners to invade Britain.