The countries that Pedro Sánchez always forgets when appealing to international law

The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, yesterday again criticized the US and Israeli operation against the Iranian dictatorship.

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Sánchez's silence on Iran's attacks on Israel and Arab countries

The socialist leader described the military intervention as "unjustified and dangerous" and appealed to "international law." Significantly, Sánchez has not criticized the Iranian dictatorship's attacks on Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, and Qatar, attacks in which the Islamist regime of the ayatollahs targeted civilian airports and residential areas.

Significantly, Sánchez has also remained silent on Iran's decision to block the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway for civilian maritime traffic and especially for the transport of oil and gas. As on other occasions, Sánchez is very vocal when criticizing the United States and Israel, but not when it comes to condemning the abuses of certain dictatorships.

Silence on North Korea's provocations against Japan

It suffices to recall, for example, North Korea's successive missile launches toward Japan. Let us remember that this communist dictatorship has conducted more than 272 such launches against Japan since 2012. In all his years as Prime Minister of Spain, Sánchez has not dedicated a single tweet of condemnation to these constant provocations. Would that have been his reaction if a democratic country had done something similar instead of a communist dictatorship?

Silence on Taiwan and Tibet

Similarly, Sánchez has not once condemned the provocations of the Chinese communist dictatorship against Taiwan, an independent and sovereign country that he has never mentioned on his Twitter account, something that is not the result of chance or mere oversight, considering that the Spanish socialist leader is one of the main European partners of the Beijing regime, a totalitarian state that, in case anyone is unaware He has forgotten that it has militarily occupied Tibet for 75 years, an independent country it invaded in 1950. Coincidentally, Sánchez has never dedicated a single tweet to criticizing that occupation, nor even to mentioning the occupied country.

Silence on the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus

A similar situation exists in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1974, Turkey invaded the northern part of the island of Cyprus, an independent and sovereign country since 1960. To this day, Turkey continues to militarily occupy that part of the island with a significant troop presence. Sánchez has never written a single tweet to criticize that illegal military occupation. In fact, in 2024 the Spanish socialist leader declared himself Turkey's best ally in Europe.

Silence on Venezuela's threats against Guyana

Incidentally, Sánchez has also not criticized the threats of the Venezuelan dictatorship to occupy the Essequibo, a region that is part of the sovereign territory of Guyana. However, in January of this year, when the United States captured dictator Nicolás Maduro as the head of a major drug cartel that has infested the North American country with fentanyl, Sánchez was quick to criticize that intervention, accusing the US government of "warmongering."

Silence about Russian troops in Georgia and Moldova

Let us also remember that Russia has troops stationed in parts of Georgia and Moldova without the consent of those countries' governments. These Russian troops are stationed in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and in the Moldovan region of Transnistria, in support of the pro-Russian separatist governments in those territories. Sánchez has never written a single tweet to criticize this illegal military occupation.

Sánchez's betrayal of Western Sahara

It is also worth remembering that in March 2022 Sánchez unilaterally changed Spain's policy on Western Sahara, recognizing Morocco's sovereignty over that former Spanish province illegally occupied by Rabat, without consulting Congress, betraying 46 years of Spanish foreign policy on that territory and trampling on Security Council Resolution 690 (1991) of the UN, which points out that the situation of that former Spanish territory must be resolved through "a referendum on self-determination of the people of Western Sahara" which Morocco refuses to organize.

Sánchez's silence regarding these dictatorships has become too frequent to attribute to mere coincidence, especially considering his close ties with some of them and his alliance in Spain with far-left parties that blatantly support some of these dictatorships. What Sánchez is doing is feigning equidistance between the West and its enemies, but in reality, his attitude benefits these dictatorships, as he remains silent about their abuses and always focuses his criticism on the United States and Israel. The obvious question, given the socialist leader's lack of scruples, is: have these regimes put a price on Sánchez's complicity?

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