The Mediterranean Sea has long been viewed as a vacationer’s paradise or a tragic theater of migration, but a bombshell investigation released this week by Spanish media has redefined these waters as a radioactive transit lane for the world’s most dangerous regimes. For over a year, the wreck of the Russian cargo ship Ursa Major has rested silently on the seabed between Cartagena and the Algerian coast. When it went down in heavy seas in December 2024, the captain’s manifest claimed it was carrying harmless port cranes and construction equipment. We now know that was a lie of catastrophic proportions. According to the intelligence dossier declassified this morning in Madrid, the Ursa Major was actually transporting VM-4SG nuclear reactor casings—critical technology destined for North Korea’s illegal submarine program—right off the shores of Algeria.

This revelation is more than just an intelligence failure; it is a geopolitical earthquake that exposes North Africa’s role in the “Axis of Tyrannies.” The incident confirms what security realists have long warned: the Mediterranean is no longer a NATO lake, but a porous, lawless highway where Russia, Iran, and North Korea move their most sensitive military hardware with impunity. The fact that........

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