The Spanish government said on Thursday that it would deploy the army to Ceuta to reinforce security after the crossings, which saw many migrants swim around the border to reach the territory.

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    If European countries don’t want weird borders that include parts of Africa, they should give the land back.

    Also without said colonies there’s nowhere for facist general to overthrow your democracy from.

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      19 hours ago

      Yeah I had no idea that place even existed… why do they even have that chunk? I thought they swam all the way to mainland spain.

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        The reconquista. When Christian Spanish kingdoms were conquering Muslim Iberia they took part of North Africa with it, as a treat, and just kept it since. The (honestly kinda sensible) Spanish position is these are core Spanish territories that simply happen to be in Africa rather than colonial territories that should be given back. Historically the Spain (or equivalents)-Morocco (or equivalents) border has been pretty fluid, so there’s no reason per se that “Africans stay in Africa, Europeans stay in Europe” should hold here, but in that case they don’t get to complain about having a land border with their former colonies.

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      Also without said word colonies there’s nowhere for facist general to overthrow your democracy from.

      Has anyone really been far, even as decided, to use even go want to do look more like?