[Peace-discuss] Why Catalonia is important

[Karen Aram]

#21SilkRdPolitics #CataloniaSpain

Catalonia in the context of big power politics and EurAsian integration. Here is a very cogent analysis by David Kersten.

||This is just theatre. Sure, people get hurt, they may even die. But look at the bigger picture.

Catalonia is a rich part of Spain. It doesn't want its taxes paying for the poor. Think of it as balkanisation imploding from the inside.
The more Europe breaks up into little pieces the more places the US can install puppets and bases. Just look at what happened to the former Yugoslavia as well as the former Soviet states which it promised it wouldn't bring its troops to. A promise it broke.
Since the American Empire is losing its grip on the world as both Russia and China seek to secure the Eurasian landmass, it is in America's interests to not only do everything it can to prevent this and to prevent losing Europe to the Russians and Chinese but also gain a stronger territorial foothold. Poking sticks at China through North Korea, the South China Sea, and Myanmar are small potatoes. Seizing greater control of Europe by weakening it in the name of "independence" and "democracy" is a much better prize for far less effort.
The balkanisation of Yugoslavia was just the start. The catastrophe in the Ukraine was another step forward for American imperialism. If Catalonia secedes then the snowball will be well and truly rolling, and rolling back to the city states of Europe's Middle Ages, or something like that. The rest of Europe will fall into chaos, Europe will be broken and malleable, (even more than now), and Washington will meet both Russia and China from its latest colonial acquisition - Europe, or at least, what's left of it.
As for the EU, what can it say? Either way, it's fucked. Watching how things pan out on the ground is, from its vantage point, the smartest thing it can do.||
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