The day President Adolfo Suárez warned Morocco: "We can bomb Rabat in 48 hours"

The territorial integrity of Spain is currently facing one of its most critical moments due to the disastrous management of the socialist government of Pedro Sánchez, whose weakness has encouraged an unprecedented invasion in northern Africa. However, the firmness in the defense of Ceuta and Melilla —Spanish cities since 1415 and 1497, respectively— was a constant during the Transition.

In January 1978, during a visit to Madrid with King Juan Carlos I as a witness, the Moroccan monarch Hasan II attempted to intimidate the newly elected president Adolfo Suárez.

In a meeting marked by tension, the Alaouite monarch, emboldened by the success of the Green March on Western Sahara in 1975, made a direct affront to national security: "You know that Ceuta and Melilla have no defense against a surprise invasion from Morocco".

In the face of this frontal attack on sovereignty, Adolfo Suárez did not back down and responded with a firmness that today seems forgotten in the halls of La Moncloa: "You know that if that were to happen, we could bomb Rabat, or Casablanca, in just 48 hours".

With this blunt warning, Suárez reminded that "defending Spanish territory is established in our Defense plans", abruptly halting the expansionist desires of a Morocco that sought to take advantage of the supposed political weakness of Spain.

This lesson in patriotism from Suárez painfully contrasts with the current reality, where the migration crisis has turned into a true invasion tolerated by socialism. The data from the latest massive incursion is chilling:

It is estimated that 40,000 immigrants entered illegally into Ceuta and another 1,135 in Melilla under the passive gaze of the Government.

The crisis has claimed at least 72 lives, most of them drowned, while Rabat washes its hands, blaming the disaster on "mafias" and "misinformation".

The president of the City, Juan Jesús Vivas, has denounced that more than 10,000 people still remain in Ceuta, debunking the "normalcy" that the Sánchez government tries to sell.

The CETI is overwhelmed, with more than 700 people crammed into a facility designed for 512 places.

While leaders like Santiago Abascal demand the "permanent militarization of the border" and the vice president of the Andalusian Junta, Manuel Gavira, denounces that this "invasion encouraged by Morocco" is turning the region into the "dump of Sánchez's suicidal policies", Minister Albares is labeled a "traitor" on social media.

The institutional neglect is such that even 22 countries of the European Union have had to call for a tightening of migration policy in light of the Spanish chaos.

The story of Adolfo Suárez and his threat to bomb Rabat in 48 hours serves today as a reminder that sovereignty is not negotiated or surrendered, it is defended with the firmness that only a true servant of the Nation is capable of exercising.