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Frau Katze's avatar

It’s true that the mentioned “anti-Trump” resistance hasn’t mentioned this but they are pretty focused on the US. Heather Cox Richardson doesn’t report foreign affairs unless the US is involved.

The Bulwark could have covered it, as they do report on the right by itself a bit. Maybe they will yet.

Bob Tinsman's avatar

I think they should keep an eye on trends in the right wing media machine, because we need to be aware of how disinformation is being weaponized.

Frau Katze's avatar

Check out “Decoding Fox News” and the media watchdog “Media Matters.”

I also subscribe to the WSJ, whose editorials trend right. Their editorial on Ceuta was titled “Morocco Invades Spain.”

Lidia's avatar

Yeah, they are lying that this is in Spain when it's off the coast of Morocco, not in Europe. I wonder if it was helped along by someone like russia...?

elliottoberman's avatar

Spain is beautiful, it was one off, don't get so excited, go to Malaga Costa Del Sol hit the beaches nude beaches

Isabel Huete's avatar

Soy española y no soy conspiranoica precisamente, oero creo que toda la situación que hemos vivido en Ceuta no ha surgido de la nada ni de la iniciativa de un loco.

No se movilizan a más de 70.000 personas a la vez para que crucen la frontera de otro Estado si no es con la intención de desestabilizarlo y crear un estado de alarma en él y la desconfianza entre sus socios. Se ha atributo a las mafias el mensaje en las redes que invitaba a la ocupación, pero las mafias buscan beneficio económico y lo que ha sucedido no les reportaba nada sustancial.

Pienso que la geopolítica dedicada a desestabilizar a quienes hacen frente a los intereses de las derechas extremas, implicadas en la destrucción de las libertades y de la democracia, racistas, xenófobas y machistas (y otras muchas cosas) tienen mucho más interés en que gobiernos como el español, progresista y socialdemócrata, defensor de los DD.HH., de la ONU y del TPI, desaparezcan para que no puedan influir en las sociedades menos sumisas al pensamiento único que se quiere implantar.

España ahora mismo es un modelo en libertades, independencia, crecimiento económico y democracia, y eso le ha creado enemigos poderosos que no van a parar hasta que no la vean sometida. Todos sabemos quiénes son sus enemigos.

Robin Bury's avatar

Musk so boringly predictably. Racist can't shut up

iTamar's avatar

In 2021, there was another episode of assault on the border of Spain from Morocco with serious consequences. The recent event involving some 70,000 people and more than 150 dead for a population of just over 84,000 is a true collapse in an area of nearly 20 square kilometers. That Ceuta is a matter of Spanish sovereignty is as indisputable as it is Antequera, Cuenca, León or Hellín and only Morocco (which invaded and appropriated the Sahara), the well-paid Moroccan lobby and those who do not know where the sun rises question it. The term 'invasion' is therefore quite appropriate and was used by Sánchez in his first official statements on the matter, so he named the facts and also underlined it by calling it a serious attack on Spanish national sovereignty. Perhaps it was the only right thing he has done in this matter because he is still on vacation and subsequent events have diluted his strength. It is true that the vast majority of those who participated in the assault have returned to Morocco, but there are still several thousand people, mostly adults, roaming around Ceuta. The deterioration of social life in Ceuta is appalling, with fear, tensions and a lack of the necessary means to cope with problems created in terms of hygiene, sanitation, supply, occupation of public and private spaces, reports of sexual violence that exceed ten cases and a long period of disastrous consequences. There are more than 10 registered cases of scabies among the military personnel sent, the housing conditions of the police officers sent out are deplorable, and the Civil Guard officers sent out are not paid adequately, but what about civilians, children, adolescents, young people, adults and the elderly, whose lives have been so severely disrupted? What about their rights as Spanish citizens who suffer from the government’s abandonment? It has been speculated by the rawest and most anti-Semitic left that Israel (even the US) has handled the threads of so deplorable made for its own agit-prop. Also at the speculative end of that left, political gain has been sought. They are all people who put their own interests first and ruin those of their country. To these are added those who make up the Moroccan lobby in Spanish and European politics, in Madrid, Brussels and Strasbourg, at the price of influence, status, money and power, some of which maintain important properties, companies, businesses and other dealings in Morocco or with Morocco. Has no one wondered about the surprising turnaround in Spanish foreign policy with Sánchez’s government, party and coalition regarding the Sahara? Has anyone wondered what the secret services of Morocco know following the spying on Sanchez’s phone and some other minister? The explanation of what is going on in the Spanish city of Ceuta and the anxiety experienced by the vast majority of Spaniards as a result of the invasion that occurred from Morocco is simpler than the simplicities offered by others. Neither the migration mafias organized the affair, nor were Netanyahu and Trump behind it. The responsible are on one side and another of the Strait of Gibraltar, are the Moroccan authorities with their king at the head, whose irredentism has not stopped with the Sahara, extends to Ceuta, Melilla (the other Spanish city) and also aims the Canary Islands, as Spanish as Extremadura. The other perpetrators are at the head of the government with Sánchez in charge, authors of a policy and legislation on immigration and foreign affairs that are neither realistic nor meet the interests of Spain, besides being characterized by a serious irresponsibility, consequence of his maximalisms and his claim to remain in power at the price of bypassing the division of powers, the rule of law and democracy. To this is added (as if nothing else) the abandonment of a strong, intelligent and reliable foreign policy not only with Morocco, but with the USA, with Israel, with other countries, including the EU, and in different geostrategic scenarios in favor of political positions for the consumption of its parish and its fatuity towards the outside. As soon as he entertains a Sahrawi leader at Algeria’s request with Moroccan anger, as he aligns himself with Morocco by turning 180 degrees on the Sahara, betraying the Sahrawis and angering Algeria, not in the service of Spain but as a satisfaction of its own vagaries and personal needs. There are also those responsible for the tragic disaster of Ceuta, both in Brussels and in Strasbourg and in Luxembourg, especially in the unclear, blunt and erratic migration policy of Brussels and in the European parliament where many of its members project domestic policies and turn the chamber into a space of personal trapping, without a European vision or an autonomous and strong defense, neither in a joint and coherent foreign policy, nor in promoting the economic, social, cultural and civilizational interest of Europe, abandoning its deep roots in Athens, Rome and Jerusalem. This is where power vacuums, black holes and blind zones come into play, destabilizing and condemning situations that are dangerously critical for countries like Spain and continents like Europe.

Thanks.

John Gear's avatar

So what you’re saying is that the right, with full control of the big huge media megaphones, should set the agenda on whatever it wants and it’s our job to constantly react to that last we be surprised that they’re marinating in tropes we would find distasteful.

ronicalit's avatar

All they have is fear. We need to break the narrative frame. They all work together and use the barbarian’s are at the gate. Meanwhile, it is the criminals who work for them, the influencers they pay, the poor confused and abused people who are desperate to believe in something.