America gives Algeria its regional leadership in the region

The message of congratulations sent by the President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, to his Algerian counterpart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, contained a phrase that many observers and followers of Maghreb affairs paused over, referring to Algeria’s regional leadership in the region.
US President Joe Biden’s congratulations to President Tebboune on the occasion of Independence and Youth Day stated: “Algeria’s regional leadership has played a critical role in solving the world’s most pressing problems, such as transnational crime, extremism, instability, and conflict.”
The word “Algerian regional leadership” included in the US President’s message indicates that Washington sees and acts according to the logic that Algeria is a leading state in its regional environment and that this region can be controlled from its borders, which extend from the Maghreb region in the north to the heart of the African continent in the region. The coast to the south, and in the Mediterranean basin from its easternmost point to its westernmost point, with maritime borders exceeding 1,200 km.
The Moroccan regime is desperately trying in every way to compete with Algeria for leadership and influence in the Maghreb region, as the conflicts that have persisted between the two countries for decades are a manifestation of the struggle for leadership in the Maghreb region. However, Algeria has resolved this conflict in recent years, according to observers, by successfully isolating the Maghreb regime in its regional environment, as evidenced by the Alawite regime in Rabat’s call for help from countries far from the region, similar to the brutal Zionist entity, to break its isolation and try to find a balance that has been lost with Algeria.
The Moroccan regime is isolated from the Maghreb in the face of Algeria’s efforts to restructure the Maghreb Union, which have been practically supported since the 1990s by the decision of the late Moroccan King Hassan II to freeze his country’s participation in the Union’s institutions. Algeria succeeded in bringing together three Maghreb countries in a new consultative structure, which excluded the Alawite Kingdom and included Algeria, Tunisia and Libya, while Mauritania remained neutral.
On the other hand, the Moroccan regime, in response to Algeria’s isolation of the Maghreb, tried to besiege Algeria in the Sahel through its initiative called the Atlantic Initiative, which aimed to connect the countries of the Sahel to the Atlantic Ocean. However, this initiative was born dead because of Mauritania’s refusal to participate and the lack of communication. The geographical relationship between the Alawite Kingdom and the countries of the Sahel region makes the Atlantic Connection Initiative impossible, since its success requires the agreement of three countries: Algeria, Mauritania and Western Sahara, which are waging a war of independence against the Moroccan regime.
It seems that the United States of America is fully convinced that the Moroccan regime is in regional isolation and threatened by internal dangers that could topple the palace, in the face of the overwhelming anger of the Moroccan people against the normalization of the Alawite regime with the Zionist entity, as well as its complicity with it in the brutal and barbaric crimes committed daily by the occupation army against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, by contributing to arming them, and referring here to the ship that docked last month in the Mediterranean port of Tangier.
On the other hand, Washington sees Algeria as a country whose influence is expanding in the Maghreb and African regions, and whose positions are sovereign and principled, as embodied by its remarkable efforts in the UN Security Council, which embarrassed great powers such as the United States of America regarding the brutal Zionist aggression against the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
As for the Moroccan regime, its role remains functional and does not deviate from the lines drawn for it by its godfathers in Tel Aviv and Washington. With its neighbors, Algeria to the east and Western Sahara to the south, in addition to Mauritania, its de facto southern neighbor, it is an isolated island in the region, open to only one sea outlet (the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west), which deprives it of any role in the Maghreb and the Sahel.