The Algerian regime has already collapsed.
Politically, socially and economically, the country has imploded long ago. If some still haven’t noticed, it is only because the shockwave has not yet finished breaking through the thick walls of lies built by the military junta. But sooner or later, the sound of the crash will reach our ears, and when it does, it will be deafening.
Since its artificial creation in 1962, Algeria has remained a political anomaly, an unmanageable enigma for analysts, a territory where opacity rules above everything else. A state born in violence, ruled through violence, and today crumbling under the weight of its own demons.
A country trapped by its Soviet ghosts
Algeria continues to survive on empty slogans, militaristic speeches and outdated propaganda. While the world progresses, it sinks deeper into a nostalgic Soviet fantasy dragging it toward collapse. The country floats in a geopolitical no man’s land comparable to limbo: neither alive nor dead, but dangerously unstable. A phantom state pushed toward the edge.
A military regime turned into an organized mafia
The cause is well-known: a sprawling military regime, corrupt and clan-based. A handful of “Generals” (self-promoted corporals in reality) have turned into mafia bosses, draining the wealth of a country that once had the potential to prosper.
Today, they desperately attempt to seal the cracks of a sinking ship by printing money in the basement of the Central Bank the same way one prints raffle tickets.
The result is clear: the dinar collapses, the economy suffocates, the state treasury dries up, and what remains of the country survives only by purchasing artificial social peace… until the petrol dollars stop falling.
On the horizon: riots, bankruptcy and chaos
And that moment is approaching fast. Oil and gas are no longer diplomatic weapons, and the revenues from hydrocarbons are evaporating like snow under the sun. Soon, Algeria will no longer be able to subsidize flour, milk, cooking oil, medicine, nor suppress the anger of an abandoned youth.
The country is sliding toward a scenario everyone fears: bankruptcy, hyperinflation, and social explosions. Long waiting lines in front of closed banks, food shortages, riots, arbitrary arrests and burning forests: this is no longer fiction. It is the preface.
This military regime, corrupted and divided among rival clans, has no vision, no direction, no project. It is devouring itself, incapable of governing, incapable of reforming and incapable of surviving as a modern state. Algeria is not moving forward anymore; it is disintegrating.
Morocco must remain prepared
In Morocco, we do not need to fear or ignore this silent implosion. We simply need to stay vigilant. Because when Algeria fully collapses and the “shockwave” of this geopolitical disaster sweeps across the region, our responsibility will be clear: secure our borders, protect our stability, preserve our development model and remain a pillar of strength in a region shaken by turmoil.
Translated from Abderrazzak Boussaid’s French article – le7tv