It is yet another example of the Trump administration's running roughshod over people and norms it doesn't care about in the pursuit of its own fleeting glory. But as is so often the case with Trump, his characterization bears little relationship with reality. Western Sahara is an arid, sparsely populated territory running along the coast of northwest Africa south of Morocco and north and west of Mauritania. And that's before getting to the ostensible American values of democratic self-determination and human rights. While Mauritania withdrew from Western Sahara in 1979, in 1981 the Moroccan army began building a gigantic 1,700-mile-long artificial sand berm staffed by over 100,000 troops and the longest minefield on the planet to contain the Polisario Front within the even more remote interior of the contested areas.
While 17000 people and 67900 km of space signed up to join the ranks of Discoverer and Trump.
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