Spain is being punished.
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I don’t doubt the rest of the video, but kind of weird to say migration is a “punishment” no?
There is nothing wrong with migration in and of itself but this must be seen in context. US imperialism, through its stooges in Israel and Morocco, is encouraging migration for multiple reasons, among them to stoke right wing sentiment in Spain - hence, the talk from some US politicians and pundits about how this wouldn't have happened if Spain had its own Trump. They are trying to weaken Sanchez and improve the standing of Vox, Spain's right wing party. They won't be happy with Spain until it gets its own Milei at the very least.
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/bki11ns9tzx
it's hard to have sympathy for the spanish when it comes to cueta and mellila since they're probably the brazen examples of colonialism in the last few generations and they practice orwellian style doublespeak when it comes to the global north asylum towards the global south.
but to be fair, spain's recent humanist trajectory puts its in another league beyond the likes of most of europe's big players when it comes to palestine and latin america so they have earned some kind of break.
That's precisely right. It's colonialism, but you have to read it not in isolation but in context of current events. When has the US ever come out against colonialism? When have they sided, say, with the Sahel states against France, or with the Palestinians against Zionist occupation? The US is simply angry at Spain for not allowing the US to use their airspace against Iran, for openly making modest noise in support of Palestine, as well as for forging closer ties with Algeria, which will never be forgiven for expelling the French (same as Haiti in that regard).
i'm aware and my intention was to characterize this conflict as 2 warring colonial hegemonies while giving voice to the small, but somewhat significant concessions that the spanish have given towards palestine.
Hundreds? Last count is around 49k people
I wonder why so many are putting their lives at risk to make this crossing. cannot think of any reason for the life of me
Poverty, starvation, their family are suffering and their country can or will not help. They hope for a better future for themselves or to become an anchor for their family in Europe.
@coolasbreeze@lemmy.world to add to what @Regna@Regna@lemmy.world posted:
the spanish gov't is legally obligated to let the people stay if they make it the proper gov't office to request asylum; so the spanish put up razor wire fences w soldier and attack dogs to prevent them from making it into the office.
Plus, consider crossing the dessert or the ocean, one way have risk to die by drown and other have to treat with mafia, rogue military, frontex and north african goverments try to hunt any subsaharian person in their borderline, is like a obstacle course in the roughest difficult
The cruelty (part of it) is that they’ve already crossed the obstacles of desert and wastelands.
They got bussed there in trucks by the Moroccan army
And then they learn the worst thing could happen in Yurop is forced return
I can't tell if you are being sarcastic