Spain & the EU’s ‘Oriental despotism’ is legitimizing Catalonia as a leftist cause

The Vineyard of the Saker:

The ultimate problem with Catalonia is that they aren’t trying to secede from the European Union.

Now that would be something which the non-Spanish left could really rally around, during this ongoing age of Brussels-imposed poverty.

For so long this seemed like a fake crisis – a distraction – but the new reality is: a huge crisis could explode now, due to a massively authoritarian/capitalist response from Madrid which was also just as massively stupid.

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