{"id":58724,"date":"2025-02-17T06:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=58724"},"modified":"2026-02-17T00:19:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:19:03","slug":"the-measures-that-sanchez-has-not-wanted-to-take-to-stop-favoring-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/17\/the-measures-that-sanchez-has-not-wanted-to-take-to-stop-favoring-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"The measures that Sanchez has not wanted to take to stop favoring Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rulers should not be judged by their promises or their propaganda, but by their actions, which are often much poorer.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/02\/the-infamous-favors-of-pedro-sanchezs-government-to-vladimir-putins-dictatorship\/\">The infamous favors of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government to Vladimir Putin's dictatorship<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/18\/sanchez-increases-the-percentage-of-russian-gas-imported-by-spain-it-already-exceeds-that-from-the-us\/\">S\u00e1nchez increases the percentage of Russian gas imported by Spain: it already exceeds that from the US<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The Spanish Prime Minister, the socialist <strong>Pedro S\u00e1nchez, is an example of a politician whose actions do not match his words<\/strong>. A few weeks ago I reviewed here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/02\/the-infamous-favors-of-pedro-sanchezs-government-to-vladimir-putins-dictatorship\/\">his favors to the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin<\/a>, favors for which he should be automatically excluded from any European meeting whose purpose is to help Ukraine achieve a fair peace with Russia. Despite this, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/zONol\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sanchez will attend today the emergency meeting called by Macron in Paris<\/a> to address the situation in Ukraine. <strong>The question is: why is he going to this meeting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Those of us who know his performance as head of the Spanish government know the answer to this question well: <strong>Sanchez is going to pose, take photos and promote himself<\/strong>, with a view to the moment when he has to leave the government. To show that he has something to offer vis-a-vis Russia, <strong>Sanchez should announce these measures that he has not wanted to take until now:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stop buying Russian gas.<\/strong> As the British newspaper Financial Times pointed out a few weeks ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/p9noZ#selection-1711.0-1711.54\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain is the second largest importer of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the European Union<\/a>. <strong>First is France,<\/strong> which also makes it very clear how little seriously Macron has taken the Russian invasion of Ukraine so far. Let us remember that <strong>instead of reducing these imports after the Russian invasion<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/12\/18\/sanchez-increases-the-percentage-of-russian-gas-imported-by-spain-it-already-exceeds-that-from-the-us\/\">Sanchez has increased them<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/10\/11\/sanchez-increases-the-purchase-of-russian-gas-while-prohibiting-its-extraction-in-spain\/\">at the same time that it prohibits extracting gas in Spain<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mcbMY\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has 40 years' worth of natural gas in its subsoil<\/a>. S\u00e1nchez prefers to buy it from Putin, <strong>something incomprehensible and that should be investigated by the agencies in charge of fighting corruption<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stop buying Russian oil from Morocco.<\/strong> The government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/30\/pedro-sanchez-knew-that-spain-was-buying-russian-oil-from-morocco-and-was-silent\/\">S\u00e1nchez has violated the European ban on buying Russian oil<\/a>, buying it from Morocco, knowing where that oil came from: coinciding with the European veto on Russian oil, Morocco began to export oil to Spain for the first time since 2015. Again, <strong>anti-corruption agencies should investigate this<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dramatically increase Spanish military aid to Ukraine.<\/strong> Currently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/27\/sanchez-promises-ukraine-aid-much-less-than-the-amount-of-its-purchase-of-russian-gas\/\">the cost of this aid is much lower than the amount of natural gas purchased by Spain from Russia<\/a>. According to data from the Ukraine Support Tracker of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifw-kiel.de\/topics\/war-against-ukraine\/ukraine-support-tracker\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish aid to Ukraine is proportionally much lower than that of other European countries<\/a> such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, the Netherlands or Denmark. <strong>In absolute terms, Spanish military aid is lower than that of small countries such as Belgium, the Czech Republic and Lithuania,<\/strong> and is even lower than that of a poorer country such as Romania. <strong>Sanchez puts much more effort into buying Russian gas than into helping Ukraine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Investigate Russian interference in the 2017 separatist coup in Catalonia.<\/strong> S\u00e1nchez is allied with the separatist parties that promoted that coup, so <strong>instead of investigating that interference<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/01\/29\/what-sanchez-already-knew-about-the-russian-plot-when-he-offered-amnesty-to-puigdemont\/\">has prevented it from being investigated by the judges<\/a>, and after doing so, his government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/30\/pedro-sanchezs-government-tries-to-delete-the-russian-plot-of-the-2017-coup-in-catalonia\/\">launched the version that this Russian plot did not exist<\/a>, a colossal lie that demonstrates the lack of scruples of his government.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fulfill the commitments acquired by Spain before NATO in defense investment.<\/strong> This commitment required member countries to invest at least 2% of their GDP in military expenditure. <a href=\"https:\/\/efe.com\/economia\/2024-06-18\/espana-otan-inversion-defensa-pib\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In 2024, Spain was the NATO country that invested the least percentage in defense<\/a>: <strong>at 1.28% of GDP<\/strong>. A ridiculous percentage, which is the result of S\u00e1nchez's alliance with the extreme left and with separatist parties bent on boycotting national defense.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recall the Spanish ambassador to Russia.<\/strong> Let us remember that last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/19\/the-cynicism-of-the-sanchez-govt-it-insults-javier-milei-and-now-it-pretends-to-be-offended\/\">his government recalled the Spanish ambassador to Argentina<\/a> after provoking a diplomatic incident with that country due to insults by several of S\u00e1nchez's ministers against Argentine President Javier Milei. <strong>Sanchez has not taken that measure against Russia<\/strong> despite all the crimes that country is committing against the Ukrainian people. It is a shameful diplomatic attitude.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breaking his pacts with the parties closest to the Kremlin in Spain.<\/strong> S\u00e1nchez has in the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/cuatro-eurodiputados-espanoles-de-extrema-izquierda-no-condenan-la-invasion-de-ucrania\/\">a minister, the communist Sira Rego, who refused to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a> and who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/02\/17\/a-sanchez-minister-rejected-a-condemnation-of-putins-repression-against-alexei-navalny\/\">voted against the European condemnation of Putin's repression against Navalny<\/a>, the Russian dissident murdered a year ago. <strong>Sanchez also relies on separatist and far-left parties that have been favouring Putin<\/strong>. The clearest case is the communist party Podemos, which acts as the Kremlin's main puppet in Spain. <strong>Sanchez has sought out these vile allies because he lost the last general election<\/strong>. He prefers to govern in a minority, with a weak government and depending on Russian puppets, rather than calling new elections and letting the Spanish people elect a stronger government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sanchez has had the opportunity to do all this in three years and he has not done it.<\/strong> There is no indication that he will do it now. Even if he had the will to do so (something he has not expressed until now), <strong>he has chosen to depend on political allies who are very comfortable with his favours to Russia<\/strong>, but that does not prevent him from travelling to Paris to show, once again, that <strong>his word is worthless<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/54321826387\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rulers should not be judged by their promises or their propaganda, but by their actions, which are often much poorer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10398],"tags":[18211,693,2721,7841,10731,16153,15307],"class_list":["post-58724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-spain","tag-coup-detat-of-2017-in-catalonia","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-podemos","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}