23-Sep-17 World View -- The 1930s Spanish Civil War fault lines explode again over Catalonia independence referendum

[Guest]

Even if there is no war this time and the separatists are put down with little violence, this wont last. Don't forget that Spain is in a generational Crisis Era and that the last crisis was a civil war.

I expect that the separatists will even more angry if their cause is suppressed again. Although it is no likely to happen this time around, I don't see how this cycle can end without a civil war.

[Ambience]

This report does not reflect the real picture in contrasting the Franco War with the current resistance
and demand for a referendum by the Catalonian people. Franco was a brutal dictator, and he allied
his power with Socialist Germany, who brought in the tanks and heavy artillery to defeat the Andelusians.
(Recall movie For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Guernica) Also, many Russians who escaped the Bolsheviks
came to defend the Andelusians. We do not see any of these elements now, and Spain is also bankrupt.

[guest]

Russia was bankrupt in 1917 and revolution erupted nonetheless. The civil war that followed raged on until 1924, even longer in some parts of the newly formed Soviet Union. Bankruptcy mean nothing to separatists and revolutionaries but, perhaps, opportunity.