Ceuta and Melilla: Russian-Aligned Narrative Exploitation of the Border Crisis

CRC analyzed hundreds of posts across eleven languages following the 30 July 2026 Ceuta/Melilla border crossing, mapping five narrative clusters from "invasion" framing to conspiracy theories alleging a US-Israel-Morocco plot over the Strait of Gibraltar. The blog traces a decontextualized 2019 tweet used as false "evidence," flags RT's selective amplification, and argues the crisis has a digital-cognitive dimension serving Russian, Chinese, and Iranian interests.