The mass crossings at Ceuta and Melilla expose the consequences of a political class that has traded border security for ideological commitments.
The street fights with ICE seem to have ended for now. So have many of the televised SWAT-style immigration arrests. Did the resistance win? Have the changes made by the second Donald Trump administration helped curb illegal immigration or has much of this just been for show? A careful look at the sum of the evidence at this point is stronger than the political debate surrounding it, and the measurable effects are increasingly difficult to dispute.
On Wednesday July 29, 2026, at roughly 3:20 pm CET, a drone struck the Energos Winter — a Marshall Islands-flagged floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) owned by US company New Fortress Energy — on its starboard side at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta, in the northern Nile Delta.
Is US Foreign Policy becoming a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”?
The record influx overwhelmed the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, leaving at least 18 dead and prompting Italy to threaten the return of border controls.
In August 2026 Icelanders will vote in a referendum whether Iceland should open accession talks with a view to joining the European Union.
The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC)
Royal Navy Commodore Steve Jermy commanded warships in the 5th Destroyer Squadron and Britain’s Fleet Air Arm. He served in the Falklands War and in the Adriatic for the Bosnian and Kosovo campaigns. Then retired after an operational tour, in 2007, as Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan. He is the author of the book: “Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century”.
