Between the candor and the kindness, Spain doesn't seem to have learned how screwed up our world will be if Putin wins Ukraine, Hamas (Iran) ties with Israel and Trump is elected (the demagogues are sometimes right and nobody like them to sell it: the US will withdraw from NATO if the European partners do not fulfill the commitment of 2% of the GDP for Defense, agreed ten years ago, and from which Spain is still far away, rubs the 1, 3%).
"Nothing we say is against Israel", Minister Albares said yesterday at the Munich Conference. Hours earlier, six ministers demonstrated in Madrid with shouts and demagogic slogans against Israel. Still good, Minister, still good.
The removal of Aleksei Navalni, a decent man, invites us to look in the mirror. Beyond the rhetoric - it seems that the Spanish have the universal heritage of kindness and peace -, the world is shaping a disturbing three-way marriage of convenience (Moscow, Beijing and Tehran), united by universal values: destroy the dissident, relegate the individual to the totalitarian interests of the State, represented by single parties, and configure a world of silence, fear and submission. Goodbye citizens, all subjects.
The wars in Ukraine and Gaza have been started by one and not the other. The aggressors are the aggressors: Putin and a Hamas controlled remotely by those to whom the fate of the Palestinians is irrelevant. The more they die and suffer, the better for their interests.
The Allies committed atrocities during World War II – bombing German cities, dropping two atomic bombs on Japan – but their victory left a better world than Hitler and his mariachis would have created.
I doubt that any Western taxpayer would be enthusiastic about military spending. But it is naive, given how Putin acts, to think that people can understand each other through dialogue. Yes, as long as you have cannons behind it. The US has the Pacific on its mind and Europe only has NATO. And it is crazy – a very Spanish thing – to think that others will pay for our defense. Cemeteries are full of good words.
