{"id":65148,"date":"2026-08-03T12:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65148\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:14:45","slug":"spain-forfeited-its-borders-trump-should-hand-ceuta-to-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/65148\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain forfeited its borders. Trump should hand Ceuta to Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diplomacy<\/a> is often an exercise in willful blindness, but there comes a point when reality completely shatters the fiction. For America\u2019s foreign policy <\/a>establishment, that moment has arrived in Spain.<\/p>\n

The July 30 collapse of Ceuta shattered the fiction of Spanish sovereignty<\/a>, exposing Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s sanctimonious strategic deterrence. For years, he lectured allies on decolonization while exempting Spain\u2019s own enclaves, but Morocco \u2014 once again \u2014 called his bluff. Rabat\u2019s engineered surge of 50,000 to 60,000 migrants met a pathetic Madrid response of just 60 soldiers and 30 Civil Guard officers. As juvenile facilities ballooned to 2,400% capacity and 67 people died, S\u00e1nchez offered public relations spin instead of a real security blueprint. This aspiring dictator sowed regional hypocrisy, and Morocco harvested it. Washington must cease endorsing the fiction of Spanish colonialism in North Africa, and unconditionally recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Ceuta, Melilla, and the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n

This manufactured paralysis lays bare a rot that the Trump administration routinely ignores. NATO alliance membership cannot substitute for a government\u2019s refusal to exercise state power. Flags, treaties, and diplomatic courtesies are meaningless illusions when a foreign power can shatter a European border in hours, laying bare an anti-American Madrid establishment that responds only with manipulated statistics and excuses. Sovereignty without enforcement is dangerous magical thinking that, in this case, cannot secure the Strait of Gibraltar \u2014 the world\u2019s most strategically vital maritime chokepoint.<\/p>\n

This assault was no spontaneous humanitarian crisis; it followed a traditional pattern of Spanish appeasement and Moroccan leverage. In 2021, S\u00e1nchez allowed terrorist Polisario Front leader Brahim Ghali into Spain under a false identity. Morocco retaliated by opening the migration valve, pushing almost 10,000 people into Ceuta. After the Moroccan intelligence services compromised the phones of the leftist petty colonial master and some of his closest senior ministers with the Israeli<\/a>-made Pegasus spyware, a panicked S\u00e1nchez discarded four decades of Spanish foreign policy to endorse Morocco\u2019s autonomy plan for Western Sahara. Predictably, \u201cprogressive ideological stances\u201d collapsed when political survival demanded surrender. The same cynical bureaucratic inertia that delayed emergency action during the Valencia floods now leaves a NATO trench completely undefended.<\/p>\n

An incompetent Madrid, incapable of policing its own borders, has become an albatross that actively endangers Western international security interests. Morocco, conversely, has proved it can control the flow whenever it chooses. Washington must face a blunt reality: Spanish sovereignty is no longer immutable. Madrid has forfeited it.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration cannot afford further inertia. The Pentagon and the intelligence community must bypass Madrid\u2019s pusillanimous objections and establish a Southern Strait operating picture with Rabat as the lead partner. Simultaneously, American sensors, intelligence-fusion cells, and interdiction planning must treat Moroccan forces as the primary, competent authority along the African shore. Spanish approval is no longer an operational prerequisite. American commanders cannot defend strategic lines that Pedro S\u00e1nchez\u2019s corrupt coalition willingly abandons.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, Congress must act, forging a Hybrid Coercion Response Authority to automatically suspend defense-technology transfers and intelligence sharing to any NATO member that deliberately engineers its own demographic collapse. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s reckless capitulation \u2014 selling dual-use material to Iran and legalizing more than one million illegal immigrants aiming to secure his party\u2019s survival \u2014 exemplifies this systemic folly. Washington, unequivocally, must bypass Madrid entirely, diverting and accelerating funding, hardware, and intelligence assets directly to the country actually enforcing sovereignty along the African shore \u2014 Morocco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I AM A PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST. HERE\u2019S WHY I\u2019M MOURNING LINDSEY GRAHAM<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, the White House should offer Rabat a Gibraltar Security Guarantee. In exchange for advanced maritime surveillance, Morocco must guarantee zero-tolerance interdiction and absolute cooperation against Iranian and Hezbollah networks in Northern Africa.<\/p>\n

America must stop subsidizing Spanish<\/a> failure. Sovereignty belongs to nations, not colonial anachronisms. While S\u00e1nchez capitulates, King Mohammed VI stands ready to reclaim Morocco\u2019s historic borders.<\/p>\n

Jose Lev Alvarez is an American\u2013Israeli scholar specializing in international security policy. A multilingual veteran of the IDF special forces and the U.S. Army, he holds three master\u2019s degrees and is completing a Ph.D. in Intelligence and Global Security in the Washington, D.C., area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diplomacy is often an exercise in willful blindness, but there comes a point when reality completely shatters the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[191,1062,2367,194,915,2264,305,20907,17,4732],"class_list":["post-65148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-borders","tag-congress","tag-diplomacy","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-morocco","tag-nato","tag-sovereignty","tag-spain","tag-trump-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}