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.
France not just "encourages" unwanted foreigners to invade Britain, it actively aids and abets said foreigners. We should have left them to rot in WWI and WWII.
> "a band extending south and west to Rabat and Casablanca can be secured and opened to European settlement. The resulting territory would function as a sunshine paradise for Europeans, an economic zone for large-scale solar generation feeding European grids"
Wow .. 21th century environmentally-conscious clean-energy lowered-emissions European scramble for Afrika.
Woke colonialism has potential, indeed the new Gonzo Dada thing.
Don’t blame the Moroccans. The issue is the Spanish government. But underlying that is the issue of the Spanish people being turkeys voting for Christmas.
Ambitious, bold yet actually feasible. I have often had similar thoughts about Libya. Joint British- French-Spanish-Italian occupation of the coastline zone and the desert hinterland to dump the small boat migrants.
"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.
Excellant thinking . Some extremely sensible ideas . Not only would this sort out Morocco for many generations , but it would act as an example both for cocky anti west nations like Algeria and as a post colonial example for wrecked countries like Libya and Somaliland ( helping to keep Turkey out ).
I like the idea, but seeing as Spain isnt eager to expand its own military I dont see anything like this happening. Not wanting to march along with the US, Israel, et al into costly foreign wars is smart but seeing as how Sanchez feels so sorry for the occupied nations of the global south he's rhetorically boxed himself in from carrying out such an expedition against Morocco
Ambitious, given the effeteness of western european governments, who, so far from strengthening territorial defences, seem on current trends to want to give up any idea of national sovereignty altogether
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.
France not just "encourages" unwanted foreigners to invade Britain, it actively aids and abets said foreigners. We should have left them to rot in WWI and WWII.
Where are Ferdinand and Isabella?
good luck with all this, especially since Spain is currently circling the drain demographically with deaths >> births and a tfr of 1
> "a band extending south and west to Rabat and Casablanca can be secured and opened to European settlement. The resulting territory would function as a sunshine paradise for Europeans, an economic zone for large-scale solar generation feeding European grids"
Wow .. 21th century environmentally-conscious clean-energy lowered-emissions European scramble for Afrika.
Woke colonialism has potential, indeed the new Gonzo Dada thing.
Who wrote this, a Dutchman?
Don’t blame the Moroccans. The issue is the Spanish government. But underlying that is the issue of the Spanish people being turkeys voting for Christmas.
Ambitious, bold yet actually feasible. I have often had similar thoughts about Libya. Joint British- French-Spanish-Italian occupation of the coastline zone and the desert hinterland to dump the small boat migrants.
"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.
Excellant thinking . Some extremely sensible ideas . Not only would this sort out Morocco for many generations , but it would act as an example both for cocky anti west nations like Algeria and as a post colonial example for wrecked countries like Libya and Somaliland ( helping to keep Turkey out ).
.... Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
Perhaps defend your own children, neighborhood and nation’s first?
I like the idea, but seeing as Spain isnt eager to expand its own military I dont see anything like this happening. Not wanting to march along with the US, Israel, et al into costly foreign wars is smart but seeing as how Sanchez feels so sorry for the occupied nations of the global south he's rhetorically boxed himself in from carrying out such an expedition against Morocco
long sentence and repeated 'seeing as'. poor writing...
Ambitious, given the effeteness of western european governments, who, so far from strengthening territorial defences, seem on current trends to want to give up any idea of national sovereignty altogether
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.