The
Bourbons remain true to Talleyrand’s bon mot: they learn nothing, and forget
nothing.
King
Felipe VI’s fateful speech on Tuesday night prepares the way
for full-blown intervention to
crush the Catalan insurrection by any means necessary, with the
unqualified backing of a European Union that has lost its moral compass.
The
rebel leader Carles Puigdemont said King Felipe was “pouring petrol on the
fire”. The Catalan riposte is tragically predictable. Its parliament will
declare unilateral independence from Spain on Monday unless the
Catholic Church can mediate an eleventh-hour compromise.
As matters stand, the Catalans are
embarked on a course that will lead to their expulsion from the euro and the
closure of their economic borders, for that is what the Spanish government has
vowed to do – what the EU has endorsed, thinking that its dangerous bluff will
never be called.
The
Jesuitical casuistry...
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EU shows its moral character backing violence in Catalonia.