Algerian Politician Demands Morocco Pay For 50-Year Polisario Support

Marrakech – In what transcends mere irony into the realm of pure farce, Algerian politician Nour-Eddine Boukrouch has detonated a diplomatic bombshell of breathtaking audacity, demanding Morocco compensate Algeria for the billions hemorrhaged supporting the Polisario Front across five decades.

Unsurprisingly from a regime sustained by the residue of a long-expired revolution, this brazen inversion of responsibility recasts Algeria as victim rather than aggressor in the latest contortion of Algerian political theater. The statement thus amounted to outright political bankruptcy, exposing the El Mouradia Palace’s attempt to offload its strategic failure on Western Sahara onto Rabat as a convenient scapegoat.

In a recent article he published on his social media, Boukrouch’s preposterous proposition emerges from an argument that flouts all legal and international norms, leaving the Algerian state exposed before its own people, as it seeks compensation for funds it voluntarily and unilaterally spent to destabilize a neighboring country. Perhaps more critical, Boukrouch’s absurd proposal effectively admits that the so-called “phantom republic” was nothing more than a black hole that devoured public resources to no end.

The former minister compared Algeria’s expenditure to the “fortune of Qaroun,” invoking Biblical metaphors to describe the ast