Post #4335269

2026-08-02 10:46 UTC

… the Trump administration wants Spain to give up Ceuta, and two weeks after Congress formally agrees, Ceuta is suddenly stormed by migrants who tell the press, that rumors spread through social media that they could get to the EU this way, because the border had been breached. Of course, this is not proof that the US caused this. But it certainly is a suspicious sequence of events which I intend to keep an eye on. 2/2

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@swaldorff@swiss.social 2026-08-02 13:47

@randahl@mastodon.social As a dane, I am particularly incensed that the danish government has attacked the spanish one in this situation, showing none of the solidarity it got from all the other EU countries when Denmark was attacked by the US trying to take over Greenland.

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@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 10:50

@randahl@mastodon.social then EU should ask US to give up Alaska.

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@McWabbit@tenforward.social 2026-08-02 10:57

@randahl@mastodon.social When or if the US turn back to a reasonably normal democratic nation, they will still be eyed with suspicion. The damage they have done to international relations, especially with their former allies thrown under the bus so swiftly and willingly, will be felt for decades.

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@ckd@mas.to 2026-08-02 11:04

@randahl@mastodon.social I wonder more about the reaction of other EU member nations: Ceuta is not part of the Schengen region, so why does Italy (but also Germany's Friedrich Merz) get all revved up about this?

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