{"id":63741,"date":"2026-03-02T06:45:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=63741"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:51:07","slug":"the-countries-that-pedro-sanchez-always-forgets-when-appealing-to-international-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/02\/the-countries-that-pedro-sanchez-always-forgets-when-appealing-to-international-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The countries that Pedro S\u00e1nchez always forgets when appealing to international law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, yesterday again criticized the US and Israeli operation against the Iranian dictatorship.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/01\/the-iranian-dictatorship-and-spain-an-infamy-for-which-the-money-trail-should-be-followed\/\">The Iranian dictatorship and Spain: an infamy for which the money trail should be followed<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/03\/01\/the-death-of-a-dictator-and-the-contrast-between-the-streets-of-iran-and-leftist-circles\/\">The death of a dictator and the contrast between the streets of Iran and leftist circles<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez's silence on Iran's attacks on Israel and Arab countries<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The socialist leader described the military intervention as \"unjustified and dangerous\" and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sanchezcastejon\/status\/2028194307501326370\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">appealed to \"international law.\"<\/a> Significantly, <strong>S\u00e1nchez has not criticized<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CENTCOM\/status\/2028182813837828251\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Iranian dictatorship's attacks on Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Iraq, and Qatar<\/a>, attacks in which the Islamist regime of the ayatollahs targeted civilian airports and residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.euronews.com\/2026\/02\/28\/iran-cerro-el-sabado-el-estrecho-de-ormuz-alegando-riesgos-para-la-seguridad-por-los-ataqu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez has also remained silent on Iran's decision to block the Strait of Hormuz<\/a>, a vital waterway for civilian maritime traffic and especially for the transport of oil and gas. As on other occasions, <strong>S\u00e1nchez is very vocal when criticizing the United States and Israel, but not when it comes to condemning the abuses of certain dictatorships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Silence on North Korea's provocations against Japan<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It suffices to recall, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/es\/corea-del-norte-lanza-al-menos-dos-misiles-bal\u00edsticos-hacia-el-mar-de-jap\u00f3n\/a-75671548\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea's successive missile launches toward Japan<\/a>. Let us remember that this communist dictatorship has conducted <a href=\"https:\/\/armscontrolcenter.org\/fact-sheet-north-korea-missile-test-activity\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than 272 such launches against Japan since 2012<\/a>. In all his years as Prime Minister of Spain, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=from%3Asanchezcastejon%20corea%20norte&src=typed_query&f=live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez has not dedicated a single tweet of condemnation to these constant provocations.<\/a> Would that have been his reaction if a democratic country had done something similar instead of a communist dictatorship?<\/p>\n<p><big>Silence on Taiwan and Tibet<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, <strong>S\u00e1nchez has not once condemned the provocations of the Chinese communist dictatorship against Taiwan<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=from%3Asanchezcastejon%20taiw%C3%A1n&src=typed_query&f=live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an independent and sovereign country that he has never mentioned on his Twitter account<\/a>, something that is not the result of chance or mere oversight, considering that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/11\/11\/chinese-communism-is-already-referring-to-pedro-sanchezs-spain-as-the-china-of-europe\/\">the Spanish socialist leader is one of the main European partners of the Beijing regime<\/a>, a totalitarian state that, in case anyone is unaware He has forgotten that <strong>it has militarily occupied Tibet for 75 years<\/strong>, an independent country it invaded in 1950. Coincidentally, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=from%3Asanchezcastejon%20T%C3%ADbet&src=typed_query&f=live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez has never dedicated a single tweet to criticizing that occupation<\/a>, nor even to mentioning the occupied country.<\/p>\n<p><big>Silence on the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus<\/big><\/p>\n<p>A similar situation exists in the Eastern Mediterranean. <strong>In 1974, Turkey invaded the northern part of the island of Cyprus<\/strong>, an independent and sovereign country since 1960. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom\/cyprus\/area-administered-by-turkish-cypriots\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">To this day, Turkey continues to militarily occupy that part of the island<\/a> with a significant troop presence. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/search?q=from%3Asanchezcastejon%20chipre&src=typed_query&f=live\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e1nchez has never written a single tweet to criticize that illegal military occupation.<\/a> In fact, in 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/06\/13\/sanchez-declares-himself-the-best-ally-in-europe-of-one-of-the-main-supporters-of-hamas\/\">the Spanish socialist leader declared himself Turkey's best ally in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Silence on Venezuela's threats against Guyana<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <strong>S\u00e1nchez has also not criticized<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/mundo\/articles\/czxy0zggr75o\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the threats of the Venezuelan dictatorship to occupy the Essequibo<\/a>, <strong>a region that is part of the sovereign territory of Guyana<\/strong>. However, in January of this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/03\/the-united-states-launches-its-attack-against-the-nicolas-maduro-dictatorship-in-venezuela\/\">when the United States captured dictator Nicol\u00e1s Maduro<\/a> as the head of a major drug cartel that has infested the North American country with fentanyl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/01\/03\/pedro-sanchez-helps-nicolas-maduro-again-by-accusing-the-usa-of-war-mongering\/\">S\u00e1nchez was quick to criticize that intervention<\/a>, accusing the US government of \"warmongering.\"<\/p>\n<p><big>Silence about Russian troops in Georgia and Moldova<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Let us also remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/04\/22\/russia-is-the-power-with-the-most-bases-in-other-countries-without-their-permission\/\">Russia has troops stationed in parts of Georgia and Moldova without the consent of those countries' governments<\/a>. 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. <strong>S\u00e1nchez has never written a single tweet to criticize this illegal military occupation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez's betrayal of Western Sahara<\/big><\/p>\n<p>It is also worth remembering that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/19\/sanchez-ha-claudicado-ante-marruecos-cual-fue-la-verdadera-causa-del-chantaje\/\">in March 2022 S\u00e1nchez unilaterally changed Spain's policy on Western Sahara<\/a>, <strong>recognizing Morocco's sovereignty over that former Spanish province illegally occupied by Rabat<\/strong>, without consulting Congress, betraying 46 years of Spanish foreign policy on that territory and trampling on <a href=\"https:\/\/documents-dds-ny.un.org\/doc\/RESOLUTION\/GEN\/NR0\/597\/52\/PDF\/NR059752.pdf?OpenElement\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Security Council Resolution 690 (1991) of the UN<\/a>, which points out that the situation of that former Spanish territory must be resolved through <em>\"a referendum on self-determination of the people of Western Sahara\"<\/em> which Morocco refuses to organize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S\u00e1nchez's silence regarding these dictatorships has become too frequent to attribute to mere coincidence<\/strong>, 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. <strong>What S\u00e1nchez is doing is feigning equidistance between the West and its enemies, but in reality, his attitude benefits these dictatorships<\/strong>, 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: <strong>have these regimes put a price on S\u00e1nchez's complicity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/psoe\/54964143975\/in\/dateposted\/\">PSOE<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro S\u00e1nchez, yesterday again criticized the US and Israeli operation against the Iranian dictatorship.<\/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":[10398],"tags":[17358,15304,26380,2049,26378,822,12880,11257,12305,11043,693,2721,17125,17124,19085,11462,643,14387,10830,159,26251],"class_list":["post-63741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-abkhazia","tag-cyprus","tag-essequibo","tag-georgia","tag-guyana","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-moldova","tag-morocco","tag-north-korea","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-peoples-republic-of-china","tag-republic-of-china-taiwan","tag-south-ossetia","tag-spain","tag-tibet","tag-transnistria","tag-turkey","tag-venezuela","tag-western-sahara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=63741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}