Sanchez ignores the Russian threat and continues to weaken Spain

Europe is at a critical strategic moment due to the rapprochement between the US and Russia since Donald Trump came to power.

The infamous favors of Pedro Sánchez's government to Vladimir Putin's dictatorship
Pedro Sánchez's government tries to delete the Russian plot of the 2017 coup in Catalonia

At a time like this, what European countries should do is increase their defense spending to face the growing Russian threat, a threat against which it is very possible that we can no longer count on the support of the US, since its government seems more interested in getting closer to Putin than in maintaining its ties with its European allies. Some European countries have been increasing their investment in defense for several years now, with such clear cases as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

However, there are European governments that seem to have not realized what is coming. This is the case of Spain. While other countries are arming themselves, Pedro Sánchez's government continues to weaken Spain to buy the support of its communist and separatist allies - some of whom have been acting like puppets of the Kremlin - because Sánchez's main concern is to cling to power, and not to ensure national security.

A new example of this irresponsible policy is the agreement reached yesterday by the PSOE and the separatists of Junts to transfer to Catalonia the control of the borders and immigration policy, two powers that are exclusive to the State, according to Article 149 of the Spanish Constitution. One more agreement to disarm the State in exchange for obtaining a little more time for Sánchez in power.

Coincidentally, this pact was reached with a separatist party that sought Russia's support to break national unity in 2017. Let us remember that Russia promised military and economic support to the Catalan separatists during the coup they carried out in that year. The Sánchez government has made efforts to erase all traces of this Russian interference as payment for the parliamentary support of these same separatists, going so far as to deny that this interference existed, as the Minister of Justice Félix Bolaños affirmed on November 28, 2024.

This would also explain the fact that Russian propaganda networks have been operating at full capacity in Spain without the Sánchez government doing anything to dismantle them. After all, some of the government's allies - for example the far-left party Podemos - have been faithfully repeating many of the Kremlin's slogans, without Sánchez having rebuked them at any time.

While all this is happening, Spain is one of the NATO countries that invests a lower percentage of its GDP in defense, systematically failing to comply with its commitments to the Alliance. Only Belgium and Luxembourg invest a lower percentage. Beyond going to have his photo taken at international forums, Sanchez is not taking any measures to change this. He is wasting his time on defence matters because for him his main concern is his own political survival, even if the consequences are weakening Spain at one of the worst times for European security in decades.

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Photo: Efe.