EU Official Says No One Will Recognize Catalonia>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The EU and the Spanish government had better eat a few smarten up pills. They need to negotiate fiercely.
Here are some nations that WILL recognize Catalonia:
1) North Korea
2) Iran
3) Yemen
4) Syria
5) Somalia
6) Cuba
Nothing like having an export base for terror right on the European continent.
You forgot the People’s Republic of California
It makes one wonder. I once read that it was his experiences in Stalinist Catalonia that gave George Orwell the ideas for his iconic novel “1984.”
If Catalonia does become independent, the people will soon be slaves in their own country. Catalonia will be controlled by Islamists that the leftists have welcomed in.
“Here are some nations that WILL recognize Catalonia:
1) North Korea
2) Iran
3) Yemen
4) Syria
5) Somalia
6) Cuba
Nothing like having an export base for terror right on the European continent.”
This is what might happen if California broke with the US. Their instant economic crisis would give enemies of the US an intro into the US with a long border to infiltrate. Think we’ve got problems with the Mexican border? At least the Mexicans manage what comes in from their ports. (Sure, drugs. But drugs aren’t dirty bombs, barrels of poison sufficient to destroy water supplies and frozen bacteriological weapons.)
This is like California trying to be independent from the USA. Iran, NK, Somali, Syria and Cuba will immediately recognized iCA as a country and an ally.
[[Nothing like having an export base for terror right on the European continent.]]
They have Paris , London and others already .
I must admit that there are two rather large nations, one in particular with multiple large axes to grind with the Euros, who could really upend the situation if they so choose. Any guesses, FReepers? ;-)
That said, what this may really boil down to is if a significant number of Catalans are willing to risk all. Or, to put it another way, to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor”. If the pro-independence leaders are arrested and their followers slink off home, the rebellion will be crushed. As has been stated elsewhere, Catalonia has little to fight with, in the way of arms.
But, if 10’s of thousands of Catalans physically interpose themselves to protect the rebel leaders, and things turn violent, then as Catalan casualties mount, IF they hold fast, the Catalans’ cause will strengthen, and the 10’s of thousands may well increase to 100’s of thousands. Ultimately, what would Spain do? In this day and age, I do not think they can shell Barcelona.