Scott has made a handy list of Trumpian walls being built across the still-smouldering Ottoman Empire, and a quick check reveals that none of them appear to be being built by Spanish contractors. Now, around Spain local governments are renovating, but more usually simply new-building medieval (Moorish) walls for the tourist trade (in monstrous contravention, BTW, of the 1964 Venice Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites). How poetic, as well as how lucrative, it would have been had they exported Al-Andalus to the source of our troubles!
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