Comment by germandiago | Hacker News Reader

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USA is supporting Morocco and Morocco has had a long problem with Sahara and claims for Ceuta and Melilla, spanish cities. Also they want to take over at some point Canary Islands.

Americans are playing two faces here: Spain is our friend and at the same time they are supporting Morocco.

It is not nice IMHO. Last year after more than four decades of Shara conflict between Morocco and saharauis the soanish government suddenly changed position for this topic with zero explanation. Something government knows most citizens are against. I think americans forced Spain to do it.

On the way we had a conflict with Algeria, which is who provided us with cheap gas. It is a stupid movement forced from outside.

At the same time, Israel normalized relations with Morocco, putting an embassy there. And now they are in Sahara mining...

Is this all by chance? I doubt it. It is all planned. Against our own interests.

Pure geopolitics.

It's because of immigrants. Look on a map. Morocco is promising to stop African migrants and take back their own. Has nothing to do with America.

Yes, our american friends just forced that move for Sahara and just did this: https://www.elespanol.com/mundo/africa/20231208/marruecos-co...

Who do you think sold that to our neighbours? No, they are playing two decks and harming us on the way.

I do not have anything against americans per se, but they have a big responsibility on what happened in Europe lately and they are also playing two decks there for many reasons I won't explain here now, but Nordstream/Germany's russian gas is one of the topics, if not the topic.

Anyway, I prefer to leave it here and comment more about other news, particularly technology, which is what I enjoy the most.

Feel free to reply, I just do not want to start a long thread about this since it is inside HN policies to talk about these topics the less the better :)

Thanks for your exchange.

Have you ever traveled in Western Sahara, on both sides of the berm? Especially over a span of time that would allow you to witness the changes that have occurred in the region’s demography? The indigenous Saharawi population is so small now it could hardly form a viable state, especially one able to resist migrant flows from further south. As the other poster said, European states’ foreign policy now is strongly driven by migration concerns. Yes, the marginalization of the Saharawi from their own region is a result of Morocco’s occupation, and that can be lamented, but the damage is already done.

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