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Almondsetattoday at 7:19 AM6 repliesview on HN

It's a coordinated hybrid warfare attack. Terrible title. Or are the "migrants" Belarus has been shipping to Poland also a "surge"?


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hamper653today at 7:24 AM

Why the quotemarks around "migrants"? You think these people aren’t actually migrating from one country to another?

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rq1today at 7:26 AM

It was indeed an attack.

The trains and other public transports to bring these people there were free that day for that specific destination.

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kubbtoday at 7:23 AM

People need convenient excuses to build their inaccurate, personal “reality” and headlines are a perfect medium for that.

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shevy-javatoday at 7:33 AM

Agreed. This smells like coordinated externally.

Whoever was the main one to have coordinated this should be punished. In case of Finland it was Russia to have coordinated this. In case of Spain, the most logical actor was Morocco. There should be sanctions that are rigidly enforced here. It should also be treated as a military attack against the EU by Morocco, aside from sanctions.

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colordropstoday at 7:24 AM

Yes, a concerted campaign on TikTok and Instagram (hint hint) targeted these people with lies about the consequences of a supreme court ruling on immigration. This happened soon after Spain proposed an EU measure to break association with Israel.

anovikovtoday at 8:07 AM

Well, this is certainly the case. Many migrants said that they were encouraged and directed by Moroccan police that informed people in advance, removed border controls and on the crossing site, encouraged people to cross.

It's an exaggeration to call this an attack - those people were not military, we not legally obliged, conscripted, or paid to do it - the are willing migrants, they actually want to immigrate and live in Spain. What changed is that they were given the opportunity, "they did it because they could".

In any case, they are all back now. It failed.