Which leads to an interesting observation. The West is all for self-determination. But only when it involves other countries, not their own.
Good point. I’ve been for Texas independence since the early 80s, myself.
If I were the new Catalan parliament, I’d be formulating a plan for independence that included transport, currency, mail, taxation, spending ... everything that you want to have in place before you propose full political autonomy. Establish a reasonable potential for economic self-sufficiency. (I don’t know how far they are from that.)
The comparison with Scotland is instructive: Scotland couldn’t support their welfare state for a year without subsidies from the rest of Great Britain.