Dead On Arrival - July 31, 2026

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Welcome to The Young Turks. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola with you guys. Big show ahead. So we've got the oil companies making a killing off of this war while taking our subsidies. We'll talk about that later in the program.
We are going to talk about Moroccans going into Spain. Maybe a surprising reason why they're doing it. And a country that might be involved, you'll never guess who it is, obviously, Nicaragua. We'll come back to that in a minute. And then the Maga Civil War continues also over the war. People are really starting to lose their patience in the right wing over this war. And more updates from the absolutely critical race in Michigan between America and Israel. All right, John, we're gonna get started first on this amazing issue in Morocco, so let me handle that one, all right? Okay. Okay, so we've had 50,000 immigrants pour in from Morocco to Spain in their promise called Quetta that they control.
And 34 have already died. Interestingly, half have already returned. I'm gonna tell you why all this happened, give you a couple of reasons, and a surprising country that might be involved. Now, if you're thinking, hey, is that the same country we're always talking about?
Well, we'll find out in a minute, isn't it? Okay, so first, let me show you what's going on here so you have a sense of how this is working. And then I wanna tell you the reasons behind it. Look at, quite on a map here. So even though it is part of Spain, it's actually in North Africa. And so it's right next to Morocco. It's disputed territory. Morocco has said for a long time that they think it's theirs. And so could the Moroccan government have been involved in instigating things there? Well, that's almost certain, as we're about to show you. But you see, it's not connected to the mainland in Europe. But since it is part of Spain and hence technically part of Europe, people that are there and have legal citizenship can go anywhere in the EU. So it is a very relevant place to be, especially if you gain citizenship. Okay, now let me show you how people are pouring in to that area. And this is from the Wall Street Journal, they did a good job of showing you. So the area is up on the north there, you see the dotted line. And a lot of people rushed through on land, but a lot came through the sea. And that's where unfortunately 34 of them died. There's a reason why they went through the sea, I'll explain that to you in a second as well. But did people just wake up one day and go, hey, you know what? I think I'll bum rush Spain.
Probably not, more likely to be organized. In fact, there's videos like this that we wanna show you, that shows you that literally people were brought in by the truckloads. So people don't randomly walk into a truck and then walk out and then rush into Spain, especially with police that are watching them. So, there's no question this is organized. And it appears that there's almost no question that the Moroccan government is at least allowing it to happen, if not encouraging it to happen. But it does appear to be encouraging. So what are the possible reasons why that might be? Well, that's what I wondered. I'm sure you're wondering why it's happening all of a sudden. So let's try to dive into it. First we start with the Wall Street Journal. Space Hold On Quetta has long been a point of friction with Morocco, they explain. Morocco doesn't formally recognize it as Spanish territory. Sometimes it has dropped controls on its side of the border, allowing people to search forward and overwhelm border defenses in Quetta. So this is a tactic that Morocco has used before, including as late as 2021 over different disputes they've had. So now this is done on a much larger scale than in the past, but it's not like the Moroccan government's above it. They've done it before and like I said, almost certainly involved in some way now.