Despite the omnipresent politically right crusade against "nationalism" that the EU-style forces are bombarding everyone with, it's normal as well as salubrious for people to belong to a patch – as well as for them to consider this human relationship important. Patriotism or the dearest for one's homeland aren't dingy words. Secession is nix new, either. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 large business office of the history is total of it. In recent decades, Kosovo Albanians were encouraged yesteryear the U.S. of A. as well as the European Union to separate from Serbia fifty-fifty without whatsoever referendum. In fact, Belgrade underwent the "humanitarian bombardment", as Madeleine Albright called it. For some reasons, she isn't calling for the humanitarian bombardment of Madrid these days. The European Union saw nix incorrect virtually these savage interventions into Serbia's internal affairs.
"Your Face Has a Famous Voice", a remake of an originally Castilian contest, became pop inwards Czechia. There receive got been many much improve remakes than this one-week-old Macarena.
In the same way, the European Union saw nix incorrect virtually interventions into Polish internal affairs – when its lawmakers (where Law as well as Justice enjoyed a constitutional majority) were debating constitutional changes of procedures involving judges; as well as Hungarian internal affairs (where some novel duties were codified for NGOs as well as foreign-owned schools). These fundamental European countries are beingness constantly harassed as well as threatened yesteryear prosecution yesteryear other European Union fellow member states, possibly expulsion, because of their "attack on the European values". Along with Czechia as well as possibly Slovakia, Republic of Hungary as well as Poland are also beingness constantly harassed yesteryear the European Union for their refusal to bring together the mad projection invented inwards several Western European capitals to intentionally Islamize the European continent. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 basic dot of their sovereignty – the right to determine who tin displace to their territory – is beingness mocked if non ignored despite the nearly universal as well as geographically uniform consensus of these countries virtually these matters.
But when 2-3 millions of Catalans, the active business office of a whole patch or nationality inside Spain, are violently suppressed just for their wish to quantify their ain opinions virtually the status as well as hereafter of the community, the European Union thinks it's of import "not to intervene into Castilian internal affairs". The hypocrisy as well as double standards are just absolutely staggering. I empathize with the Catalans regardless of their ideological season as well as handgrip with their right to determine virtually the existential aspects of their future, peculiarly if they're considered a separate entity non alone yesteryear themselves but also yesteryear the residual of Kingdom of Spain whose behaviour became downright hostile inwards recent days.
Just yesterday, Kingdom of Spain has approved a stair out that simplifies the relocation of companies' headquarters out of Catalonia. This tin inwards no agency live interpreted as a political difference. These are actual malicious acts that are designed to price the Catalan economy. Kingdom of Spain has already switched to the state of war regime of thinking. It clearly treats Catalonia as an enemy. Can a morally decent somebody dubiety the right of Catalonia to secede inwards such a situation? I don't intend so.
Yesterday's Castilian government's decree allowing the speedy transfer of the headquarters is utterly criminal as well as conflicts with some basic rules of capitalism as nosotros receive got known it for a rattling long time. In particular, the address of the headquarters is a business office of the corporate charter of the company.
That's a rather serious dominion defining the fellowship which is why the address of the company, similar whatsoever dominion inwards the corporate charter, requires a full general coming together of shareholders. They must genuinely vote virtually the relocation – or whatsoever other alter of the corporate charter. Such changes cannot live decided yesteryear the management. This fact isn't just some random formality. The full general coming together of the shareholders is needed because it is them who genuinely owns the company. The relocation of the fellowship mightiness hateful that the managers steal the beef of the fellowship from the shareholders. It could just disappear somewhere. That's why inwards a decent society, such profound changes of the company just cannot live made without a full general coming together of shareholders.
By adopting this "simplified" rule, Kingdom of Spain ceased to live a decent province that respects the private ownership inwards the park Western sense. And again, needless to say, the argue why it happened is self-evidently an endeavor to choke the Catalans, to strip them of their wealth as well as wish to resist the oppression. Kingdom of Spain is already fighting a war, although so far it's "just" the civil guards as well as economical hostilities that are beingness used as weapons. And the rattling supposition that "Spain is safer than Catalonia" that is included inwards the relocation system is just some other business office of the state of war propaganda. It is unopen to as justified or unjustified for companies' headquarters to escape Spain, to Catalonia or elsewhere towards the midpoint of Europe.
If these criminal acts were isolated exercises performed yesteryear the prime number government minister or the "king" or other apparatchiks, ane could view the events as some exceptions, anomalies that sometimes final result from loons that larn to the ability for a while. Wiser European countries could gear upward plans to assassinate the prime number government minister or the "king" if things were getting started to surpass Spain's borders, if they were fifty-fifty to a greater extent than serious as well as out of control. But that's evidently non what's happening inwards Spain.
The hardline behaviour of the Castilian regime as well as the hostile, vehement spoken communication yesteryear the "king" (sorry, I just uncovering it funny to role this medieval jargon for politicians inwards the 21st century – this lightheaded terminology has been banned inwards my province inwards 1918 so I am using the quotes) is just a reflection of the widespread mood inwards the Castilian society. Some polls dot that 50% of Spaniards approve of the violence terminal Lord's Day spell 50% don't. The numbers themselves would dot a "tie" which is "not so bad".
However, this 50-to-50 dissever is genuinely non describing the province of affairs on the ground – for the same argue why it doesn't affair that just a little per centum of the Muslims are terrorists. The argue is that the hardline one-half of the Castilian patch is much to a greater extent than combative, self-confident, as well as bullies everyone else. It feels to a greater extent than relevant today as well as it is to a greater extent than relevant, indeed. When it comes to their actual ability – that ofttimes builds on their alliance with the regime as well as the "king" – they may handgrip some 90% of the existent ability inwards Kingdom of Spain these days.
The Castilian patch has switched into the state of war mood. @CataloniaHelp2, a Twitter account, has posted several incredible videos that demonstrate how far this mood has come. Aside from the numerous scary pictures of the violence terminal Sunday, I was shocked yesteryear the bus with the armed services police that was shouting or singing "go for them". They bear as thugs who display absolutely no professionalism as well as they were happy that they would live able to shell some citizens of Kingdom of Spain who belong to a nationality – as well as who pay 25% of the salary of these "military cops". They await precisely similar the soccer ultras who should live challenged yesteryear the constabulary inwards civil countries.
I uncovering it terrible because men doing this sort of move should still experience the pressure level to live professionals. So they're non genuinely looking forrard to such vehement days. True professionals don't genuinely similar beating people, peculiarly non people defined just yesteryear their nationality and/or their wish to peacefully limited their political opinion. And moreover, professionals similar that are constantly afraid that if they role disproportionate force, they volition live inwards trouble. These thugs clearly don't confront whatsoever pressure level similar that. The thought that "you tin shell the crap out of your Catalan without whatsoever fearfulness or restrictions" is self-evidently a mainstream, dominant thought inwards these enforcement forces as well as inwards Kingdom of Spain inwards general.
Another shocking video from that Twitter channel is the pledge of allegiance to the flag that was filmed inwards the Montijo Fruit Company inwards the Extremadura part adjacent to Portugal. On the background of the Castilian anthem, these fruitcake employees pompously march as well as salute to the Castilian flag just similar if they were some of import Nazis. If at that spot were hints that this video is a satire, I would forthwith believe that it must live a satirical stunt, indeed. The video from the fruit fellowship looks almost just similar this funny satirical video virtually Castilian politics that was aired on Polonia TV3, a Catalan TV station.
Except that everything indicates that the fruit fellowship "pledge of allegiance" is genuine. Employees of fruit companies genuinely receive got to "pledge their allegiance" to the Castilian symbols as well as indirectly the hardline politics of Madrid these days. Some of them genuinely bask it, others are manipulated. But regardless of the ratios, this fruit fellowship video shows a textbook instance of fascism:
Fascism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ is a shape of radical authoritarian nationalism,[1][2] characterized yesteryear dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition as well as command of manufacture as well as commerce[3] that came to prominence inwards early on 20th-century Europe.The Castilian regime is beingness placed to a higher identify everyone else, with no doubts allowed, spell the opposition is suppressed yesteryear beast force. On top of that, the manufacture as well as commerce are beingness controlled yesteryear the regime. In non-fascist countries, ane tin move inwards a fruit fellowship – or almost whatsoever other task – regardless of his or her opinions virtually the electrical flow Castilian regime as well as its policies. But when the "right opinions" move de facto mandatory fifty-fifty inwards regular jobs such as those inwards fruit companies, yous know that fascism has already taken over your country.
Kingdom of Spain is a province on the periphery of Europe – when Mr Günther Öttinger said that Kingdom of Spain or Catalonia are "in the middle of Europe", it suggests that he hasn't seen the map of Europe for quite some fourth dimension – but it's still a business office of the European Union. On top of that, the European Union has basically supported the fascist policies of the Castilian government.
Sabadell, Catalonia, 2012. "Ode To Joy" on the street, the de facto European Union anthem. Imagine how much the Catalans' relations to the European Union must receive got soured inwards recent days relatively to that 2012 day, for example.
The dominion of law could ever live a powerful statement as well as at that spot could live an alternative history inwards which I would receive got some agreement or tolerance for a similar reaction yesteryear the EU. But nosotros alive inwards the existent history as well as it's impossible non to compare the European Union's reaction to its reaction to other things. So the "big words as well as principles" are beingness used inwards diverse ways but it's still possible to stair out how the application of all these principles is calibrated. And the calibration is catastrophic. We receive got just seen that the fascist handling of the Catalan opposition is OK with the key Brussels officials; but the Central European countries' totally legitimate conclusion to save the asylum policies as they were valid for a long fourth dimension is non OK.
Countries similar Kingdom of Spain that demonstrably suppress the rights of millions of innocent people cannot live "intervened into" from the residual of Europe spell countries similar Poland as well as Republic of Hungary as well as possibly Czechia evidently can. Do I uncovering it condom inwards the medium as well as long term to belong to this European Union? I evidently don't, as well as neither do most of Czechs – betwixt 74% as well as 90% favor the Catalan independence, according to diverse polls at Czech intelligence servers. We're by as well as large against fascism, for the liberty of spoken communication as well as right to assembly, against centralization, for local decisions, against dramatic changes of demographics, for careful immigration policies, against hysterical environmental or climate alarmist regulations, for inexpensive energy, as well as so on, as well as so on. And nosotros reckon the oil bias that the European Union exposes yesteryear denouncing or back upward diverse events inwards the European Union fellow member states. So this mixture evidently is unsafe for us. It is self-evident that the regime inwards Madrid as well as other capitals has some "special, nepotist relationship" with Brussels spell Budapest as well as Warsaw don't receive got it. It's impossible to overlook that the Poles as well as Hungarians are treated as 2d marker nations inside the European Union – relatively to Spain. Europhiles receive got ofttimes told us to celebrate the centralized European Union describe on many questions inwards monastic enjoin to save our influence inside the EU. And there's sure as shooting something right virtually this correlation. But it doesn't alter the fact that it's still wrong for a political matrimony to allow this sort of nepotism, cliques of people, politicians, as well as whole nations that effectively receive got lower rights or less dignity than others.
Now, these questions are polarizing Europe inwards a sure agency that differs from the most recent left-to-right as well as other splits. It is rattling clear that Britons are much to a greater extent than probable to back upward the Catalan independence than the Spaniards or fifty-fifty the French. Britons back upward the Catalan independence because the right-wingers reckon Catalonia's analogy with Brexit; as well as Scottish separatists who were against Brexit reckon the similarity with their ain independence movement. Czechs reckon an analogy with the business of the Czech lands inwards 1938 as well as the business yesteryear the Soviet-led forces inwards 1968. Madrid's handling of Catalonia increasingly resembles both. In fact, the beast ability sent to Catalonia has basically been described as a "fraternal help" to a "silent majority" inwards Catalonia – well, nosotros know what nosotros had to telephone telephone the 1968 "fraternal help" as well as nosotros know that at that spot wasn't whatsoever soundless bulk supporting the occupation, just similar at that spot is none inwards Catalonia now.
Lots of people inwards Spain, France, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany etc. want to expand the ability of the fundamental governments – either the governments inwards the large European countries such as the members of the Munich Four; or the ability of the Brussels-based European Union "authorities". Which side is stronger or to a greater extent than numerous? Haven't nosotros seen a similar dissever of the Europeans inwards the past?
I intend that nosotros have. It seems to me that this dissever increasingly resembles the province of affairs inwards the belatedly 1930s as well as early on 1940s – the Second World War. On ane hand, nosotros receive got some fascism or "Axis" that genuinely wants to centralize everything as well as brand everyone bear inwards the same way. One tin uncovering tens of millions of obedient High German sheep somewhere inwards the volume of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany so this side of the emerging conflict believes that it's a sufficient status to impose all these rules, values, as well as policies on the residual of Europe.
And on the other hand, nosotros receive got the allies that prefer to save the national as well as local specifics. If political rights of whole nations are suppressed inwards this flagrant way, isn't it obvious that individuals receive got lost an fifty-fifty higher fraction of their rights? What's troubling is the high positive correlation betwixt the "shape of the axis" as well as "shape of the Allies" as they existed about 1941 as well as as they be today.
So Kingdom of Spain was an early on aeroplane inwards the adoption of fascism as well as at that spot was a Castilian Civil War inwards 1936-1939. Not everyone was a fascist at that spot inwards the belatedly 1930s as well as non everyone is a fascist at that spot today. But fascism genuinely needs some enemies that "unify the people". So nosotros tin reckon that the Catalans are genuinely helpful to brand the employees of fruit companies to salute. And so yous receive got Germany, the leader of the EU, as well as other countries of continental Europe that didn't resist likewise much when Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany occupied them.
On the other hand, yous receive got the Britons as well as Central as well as Eastern European countries – as well as likely Russian Federation with some delay – that reckon a work with the tendency inwards Kingdom of Spain as well as inwards the EU.
Because of the linking of this dispute to the right for self-determination, at that spot are genuinely lots of regions that would live to a greater extent than probable to destination on the pro-Catalan, anti-Brussels side. It's plausible that all the regions that receive got seriously discussed the proposal to gain independence (even if the separatists remained a minority) – Scotland, Flanders, Padania (wealthy Northern Italy), Bavaria, as well as many many others – are rather probable to live "mostly anti-fascist" inwards the modern sense.
If the conflicts polarized inwards this sense volition proceed on escalating, I intend it's rattling of import for our, pro-freedom, pro-local, anti-fascist side to win again, similar nosotros did inwards 1945. The experience teaches me that nosotros should possibly appreciate to a greater extent than rapidly than 85+ years agone that nosotros volition demand allies similar Russian Federation at the end. The Soviet Union alone entered the state of war against Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany inwards 1941 as well as it remained "formally ambiguous" upward to that moment. But I intend it's fair to say that it was almost guaranteed that Nazism, if it survived, would commencement a conflict with the Soviet Union shortly or later. Analogously, I intend it's to a greater extent than probable than non that if the European disputes larn to a greater extent than serious, they volition eventually move a conflict of the European Union fascists against Russian Federation – fifty-fifty though Russian Federation evidently refused to recognize Catalonia now.
The plane of Russophobia with the "modern fascist side", as sketched above, is immense. Well, at that spot are lots of anti-Russian hostilities inwards the Britain as well. But I intend that the continental European, "modern fascist" Axis is to a greater extent than hostile towards "ordinary peaceful Russians' attitudes" spell the British Russophobia is to a greater extent than focused on the villains or the military.
So again, I am non enthusiastic virtually everything that Russian Federation does or thinks as well as I would likely prefer non to alive at that spot fifty-fifty though my 2 times 2 weeks inwards Russian Federation receive got been rattling nice. But the similarity of the province of affairs to the province of affairs about 1940 seems rigid plenty to me to believe that despite these Russia's imperfections, Russian Federation volition unavoidably move a natural as well as rattling of import ally of the practiced guys inwards Europe ane time again.
God bless us.
By the way, I've repeatedly mentioned it's normal for the "regime change" to receive got identify – for the borders or the constitutional monastic enjoin to larn seriously modified. Czechia or Czechoslovakia has undergone lots of such changes inwards recent years – 1867, 1918, 1938, 1939, 1945, 1960, 1969, 1989, 1993, 2004... Most of them took identify "peacefully" although a armed services threat was behind 1/2 of these profound events. Does the high frequency hateful that this charge per unit of measurement of changes automatically implies that nix is left from the province after a while? Look at this history of the map of Czechia. It was bubbling a fleck but await e.g. at 0:24 inwards the video (years 1019-1041) as well as 0:29 (years 1054-1260) – as well as also basically 1276-1289, 1306-1310. The shape of the Czech kingdom was virtually indistinguishable from the electrical flow territory of the Czechia (1:54). When some of the other episodes are considered fluctuations, nosotros haven't changed our territory for 998 years. So all this fearmongering virtually the demand to save every particular virtually the constitution is just rubbish inwards the long run.
Different nations receive got unlike histories, however. Look at the evolving maps of Germany. Germans receive got roughly inhabited the same infinite as good for 1,000 years. But a large deviation is that upward to 1871, Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany was composed of a huge discover of mini-states. Did it hateful some catastrophe for Germany? I don't intend so. Much of the progress was peacefully taking identify inwards these ministates. And did the centralized Germany, born primarily inwards 1871, convey a lot of peace to Europe? I don't intend so. It has largely brought 2 ground wars – to the whole world! So this whole epitome that the centralization as well as consolidation brings peace – which is used yesteryear the pro-European Union demagogues as good as assorted fans of the Castilian matrimony as well as other cases – brutally conflicts with the historical facts. If there's some correlation, the correlation is the contrary one. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 genuinely large centralization is a recipe for genuinely large trouble. Lots of wars took identify because of the struggle for centralization or because of empires' efforts to avoid dissolution – which was ultimately unavoidable inwards most cases. It has genuinely been normal that the secessionist movements were the peaceful, non-violent ones. Sadly for Catalans, that patch is largely disarmed which may pose some challenges there. One argue why the vehement beating of millions of people wouldn't receive got identify inwards Czechia is that the regime would know that over 5% of those people are legal holders of weapons as well as they could proportionally defend themselves. (In the sub-category of legal gun holders with concealed arms registered for self-defense, nosotros genuinely shell the U.S. of A. on the per-capita basis.) Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 necessary status why Catalans were treated inwards this agency was that the nearby keen sees that they can't genuinely defend themselves physically. While the totally non-violent graphic symbol of this struggle is said to live nice, it's ofttimes lethal, too.