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The sudden mass crossing into Spain’s North African enclave raises questions that Europe cannot afford to dismiss as merely another migration crisis. The timing, Morocco’s behavior, and the growing strategic alignment between Rabat, Washington, and Tel Aviv point to something potentially more consequential: the weaponization of migration as an instrument of geopolitical pressure against Spain — and, by extension, against the European Union itself. In the end, it resulted in a political crisis within the EU.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Western European countries actively sought to turn the southern coast of the Mediterranean into their own sphere of influence, continuing, as before, to exploit the states on the African and Asian shores.

The question that opened this series, whether nations that won independence have won sovereignty, admits of no simple answer. The picture is one of gradation, struggle, and uneven advance rather than a clean division between the free and the unfree.