Vox, separatism, Russia and The Washington Post: the clamp between Putin and progressivism

@ElentirENG ES 9·01·2023 · 18:54 0

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The effects of appeasing totalitarians

84 years have passed since the beginning of that invasion and unfortunately there are many who do not seem to have learned anything about the effects of trying to appease totalitarians, as France and the United Kingdom did with Hitler in 1938 when leave Czechoslovakia in their hands, providing Germany with time and resources that were very beneficial for its subsequent invasion plans.

Yesterday's editorial from The Washington Post

We have an example of this forgetfulness in the editorial published yesterday by The Washington Post newspaper, titled "Spain is held hostage by a faction of breakaway regional extremists". The title was later changed to this one: "Spain is held hostage by a faction of breakaway regional extremists". The thesis of the editorial starts from a correct starting point: that the instability generated by separatism in Spain benefits Russia, which has already offered help to the Catalan secessionists with its separatist coup on October 1, 2017, as the American newspaper noted in 2021.

Criticizing Vox for "flag-waving"

However, the American progressive newspaper is carried away by its ideological prejudices, for example when talking about " Spain’s far-right Vox party — macho, flag-waving, migrant-bashing, climate change-denying and hostile to LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access and even government moves against gender violence." Leaving aside those typical lies and labels typical of the left-wing media to demonize the conservative right (as if the bad guys, for example, were those who defend the right to life of unborn children , and not the left that calls the "right" to kill them), it's really funny that The Washington Post criticizes Vox for "flag-waving", as if that were a bad thing. Some media have lost their sense of ridicule.

Is a government of socialists and communists "liberal"?

The Washington Post's absurd portrayal of Spain includes talk of "the governing liberal party of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez." A newspaper of this relevance should know that the government of Spain is not made up of a single party and that there are no liberals in it, regardless of the meaning we give to that word. The government of Spain is in the hands of a coalition between the socialists of the PSOE (a party increasingly leaning towards the radical left) and the communists of Podemos and Izquierda Unida.

What the newspaper does not say about the government of Pedro Sánchez

And since that newspaper mentions the issue of Russia, it wouldn't hurt to remember that Vox is the Spanish party most hostile to Putin, according to a European NGO last year past, while Podemos and Izquierda Unida are the most pro-Russian parties in Spain. In fact, in 2014, and given Podemos' support for Russia's interests in relation to the Russian annexation of Ukraine, Russian pro-government daily Pravda called Podemos a "pro-Russian party".

In fact, Podemos has shown its rejection of all military aid to Ukraine, assuming a rhetoric very similar to that used by other pro-Russian parties in the rest of Europe. And while that extreme left party adopted that position, the socialist Pedro Sánchez increased the purchase of Russian gas by Spain, thus helping Putin to finance his war of aggression against Ukraine.

The coincidence of the agendas supported by Putin and Soros

Why doesn't The Washington Post say anything about this? This question should be answered by that newspaper. In any case, we must not forget that both Putin and George Soros -one of the great sponsors of the political left in the West- they have dedicated themselves to supporting very similar ideological agendas in the West and even the very leftist politicians who promoted them, among them extreme leftist parties such as Podemos.

In other countries this coincidence has gone even further in Spain. In Germany it was the government of the social democrat Gerhard Schröder, which led a great rapprochement with Putin's Russia, helping to develop joint projects such as the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which left Europe Central at the feet of the Russian dictator. When Schröder left his position, was rewarded with a management position at a Russian state oil company, Rosneft, directly controlled by the Russian government.

Poland's conservative government's warnings about Russia

Although The Washington Post does not say so, Poland's conservative government, in the hands of a party that is a partner of the Spanish Vox party, was the one that warned the most about Putin's intentions before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but the European Union, controlled by progressive politicians - the European Commission has been in the hands of a coalition of socialists and popular people for years - he preferred to look the other way.

The Washington Post proposes more concessions in the face of separatism

The Washington Post not only hides all this, trying to demonize conservatives once again, but also the progressive newspaper wants Spain to continue giving in to the separatists. This is what the last paragraph of his editorial says:

"Mr. Sanchez would be wise to try offering inducements to Catalan nationalists, short of another (illegal) referendum, to persuade them to join a coalition government. Those might include forgiving some of the sizable debt Catalonia owes to the national government, or moves to implant the Catalan language more fully in government proceedings. Failing that, Spain is likely facing elections — again."

Thus, for The Washington Post it is preferable to continue appeasing and fueling separatism through concessions that contribute to weakening Spain and that generate inequality among Spaniards, rather than calling new elections that may lead to the departure of the left from power. Once again, we are witnessing a political clamp between Putin and progressivism, a clamp that may be voluntary or not (that would be good to investigate), but which has the same effects: weakening one of the oldest nations in the West and to a democracy that is a member of NATO, to the greater glory of Putin and the left. Some seem to have learned nothing from history.

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Photo: Reuters. Vladimir Putin at a rally at Luzhniki Stadium on February 23, 2022, one day before the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.