HIBAPRESS – Casablanca
Once again, the Polisario Front finds itself facing a bitter reality created by baseless Algerian promises. After weeks of promotion within the Algerian media close to the authorities that Russia and China would use their veto power against any UN resolution supporting the Moroccan position, the recent Security Council vote revealed the truth: no veto, no objection, only a growing international consensus around the reality and legitimacy of the Moroccan proposal for autonomy.
Algeria has sold the Polisario Front a political dream made of its own diplomatic imagination, and deluded them that the balance of power in the United Nations can be overturned through statements or formal moves, but diplomacy, as everyone knows, is not managed with slogans or maneuvers, but with credibility, realism, and good judgment, which are the elements in which the Moroccan position excels from the beginning.
When the major countries met within the Security Council, Algeria found no one to support its outdated discourse. China and Russia, on whom Algeria was betting, preferred a balanced position that preserves their international interests without getting involved in a regional conflict that has long lost its international dimension.
As for the United States and the influential European countries, they have announced their explicit support for the Moroccan initiative as the only serious and applicable solution, which ensures stability and development in the region.
Today, the Polisario leaders find themselves in a new predicament: Algerian promises have evaporated, and the international community is moving in another direction. While Algeria has been raising the slogan of the right to self-determination, Moroccan diplomacy has been working quietly on the ground and in the field through major development projects in the southern regions, making these areas a model of stability and prosperity.
Algerian diplomacy, in the eyes of observers, has turned into a machine for producing political illusions, making promises behind the scenes and losing in public. Morocco, on the other hand, has chosen the approach of a state confident in the legitimacy of its positions and the justice of its cause, starting from the firm conviction that the logic of construction and progress is stronger than the logic of bidding.
This diplomatic illusion has not been limited to the Sahara file only, but has increased Algeria's isolation at the regional and international levels. In the African Union, its influence has declined significantly, as the majority of African countries see the Moroccan position as a model for a peaceful solution and joint development. A growing number of countries have also opened consulates in Laayoune and Dakhla in a symbolic step that expresses practical recognition of the Moroccan identity of the Sahara.
As for its relations with European partners, Algeria found itself in the position of a spectator, after Morocco strengthened its strategic partnerships in the fields of energy, migration, security and investment with major international powers that no longer pay attention to the propaganda of targeted media campaigns.
The balance of diplomacy in the region has changed. While Morocco relies on the strength of credibility and international consensus, Algeria is betting on an outdated discourse that repeats the same slogans for half a century. With each new UN resolution, the truth becomes clearer: that the world is with the Moroccan solution, and that those who sell illusions reap only disappointment.
In the end, it is once again confirmed that just causes do not need a veto, but the truth, and Morocco, simply, stands on the side of truth.
