For some time now, I've been reading messages claiming that Russia doesn't pose a threat to Spain and that our country should remain neutral.<\/p>\n
Russian interference in Catalonia and the dispatch of a sabotage unit<\/big><\/p>\n These claims seem to overlook the fact that Russia supported the 2017 separatist coup in Catalonia by offering economic and military aid to the coup plotters<\/a>, an issue I already addressed here three years ago. Let us also remember that the Kremlin sent members of GRU Unit 29155 to Spain<\/a> at the same time that the separatist coup was being organized. Let us remember that Unit 29155 is in charge of carrying out sabotage<\/strong> and paid terrorists in Afghanistan to assassinate NATO soldiers<\/a> when Spain was participating in the international intervention in that country in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 against the United States.<\/p>\n This Sunday, Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Torreblanca addresses this issue in El Mundo<\/a> recalling that Russian interference in Spain<\/strong> and indicating what Russia Today and Sputnik, Kremlin propaganda media, did to support this separatist coup in Spain:<\/p>\n Between September 11 and 27, 2017 alone, both media outlets published 305 pieces about Catalonia with the intention of fueling the crisis<\/strong>, polarizing opinion, distorting information, undermining Spanish institutions, and generating instability and tension.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The government's attempt to prevent this interference from being investigated<\/big><\/p>\n It's no secret that in Spain there are politicians and parties that are not interested in having this interference investigated<\/strong>. The first are the parties of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's own government<\/a>, since their Catalan separatist allies were implicated in contacts with Russian agents at that time.<\/p>\n In fact, the amnesty approved by S\u00e1nchez for the 2017 coup included<\/strong> the erasure of Russian interference in Catalonia<\/a>, an erasure that was clearly reflected in a statement by Minister F\u00e9lix Bola\u00f1os<\/a> in November 2024, stating that \"there has been no Russian plot in support of Catalan independence\"<\/em>, simply because its government has decided to prevent further investigation.<\/p>\n Separatists and the far left don't want to talk about it either<\/big><\/p>\n Obviously, among those interested in burying this Russian interference are also the government's separatist and communist allies<\/strong>. The separatists for obvious reasons, at least in the case of the Catalan separatists, since they were the ones who contacted Russia, a fact that should lead to a treason trial<\/strong> that we surely won't see because S\u00e1nchez also included this accusation in his amnesty<\/a> to avoid Carles Puigdemont, whose party, Junts, is an ally of the government, being convicted for it.<\/p>\n As for the far left, the Spanish communists have been acting as Moscow's useful idiots since the Cold War<\/strong>. Before, they did so because of a clear ideological connection with the Soviet communist dictatorship, and now they continue to do so because, after all, Russia is an ally of communist dictatorships like Cuba, China, and North Korea<\/strong> and is also the great supporter of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela.<\/p>\n The inexplicable attitude of a section of the right<\/big><\/p>\n
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