Pravda Is Trying to Soften Ceuta Invasion

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The invasion of Ceuta should be a clarifying moment for the European mind. 

To the transnationalists, that is a very bad thing, because what is being made crystal clear is that Muslims are invading Europe and that diversity is not our strength. 

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So how to respond? Reframe reality, one photograph, one video, and one sympathetic story at a time. It worked to turn Hamas into victims during the Gaza war, and now look at the insanity that liberals are promoting in nearly every election in the United States. Literal Islamists are winning Democratic primaries. 

Save the rapists!

Very few of the invaders who crossed over into Ceuta were women or children, and of those "children," most are teen boys nearing military age or prepared to become child soldiers, who are a common "thing" among Islamists. But if you give them a sad backstory, pose them in just the right way, you can make the liberal mind weep as they project their imaginations of victimhood onto the victim who needs saving. 

The reality of Ceuta, of course, is really quite different. Morocco is certainly no hellhole; it is a tourist destination, and while certainly not wealthy by European standards, it is not exactly Libya. It has a diversified economy that is growing at 4-5% per year with low inflation, and a hub for European industrial investment (if you build it in Morocco, the CO2 emissions aren't counted as yours!). 

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In other words, a Moroccan "refugee" is also known as a scammer. 

Pedro Sánchez and Ursula von der Leyen want everybody to calm down and look away from the flood of invaders, pointing out that many of them flowed back into Morocco once the fun of storming the beaches and running riot was over. 

But when 75% of 60,000 invaders decide to go back home, that leaves 15,000 still roaming the streets in a city of 85,000; that's still a huge disaster. And they aren't all cuddly children pensively sitting on a beach. 

Ursula von der Leyen is chiding EU countries for being mean to Spain, but most countries aren't having it anymore. The invasion of Ceuta is the anvil that broke the camel's back; anger over immigration has been simmering among EU populations, threatening the political stability of governments across the continent. Angela Merkel is no longer seen as a kind grandmother taking in the needy, but the witch who created this crisis by opening Europe's borders to criminals, Islamists, and rapists (but I repeat myself). 

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Pedro Sánchez just regularized about a million illegal aliens, giving them access to the Schengen Zone countries, and they are all worried that if he brings the Ceuta invaders to the mainland, the same thing will happen again. 

After all, that is clearly the goal of the invaders, and while Ceuta is not in the Zone, it is a Spanish territory, and there is no way that Spain is just going to leave so many people in a city that is not equipped to deal with so many "refugees." Were it not for the fury of his fellow EU members, those people would already be in Spain. 

As it is, they are taking boats across the channel and making it to the mainland on their own. 

Sánchez isn't budging; he is demanding his fellow EU members get on board with his immigration agenda, which, if nothing else, is clarifying. 

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He is still preaching the "diversity is our strength" nonsense, and obviously helping his own Pravda folks to reframe the invaders as victims in need of love and kindness, and perhaps a few thousand Euros a month of subsidies. 

Von der Leyen is pretending that Morocco didn't help coordinate this invasion, which is absurd on its face. Its own police helped direct people to the breach in the border and send criminals from its jails to Spain. But if von der Leyen admits that, it would only fuel the "conspiracy theories," such as the Great Replacement theory, and we couldn't have that. 

I don't think that line will work, though. It looks like a new invasion is being planned for the middle of the month, and those initial images left a strong first impression that will be difficult to overcome. Unlike the years it took for the press to reframe Hamas as victims, there just isn't time to change people's minds. 

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At least I hope not. I often underestimate the ability of liberals to ignore reality. They are certainly going to try. 

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David Strom 7:20 PM | August 03, 2026
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