Former British diplomat William Mallinson told RT that a
major part of the problem involving the Catalan crisis is "the
enormous size of the European Union and globalization" which
brings about the "slow destruction of the nation state
itself.” This undermining of the nation state causes the
"smaller parts getting irritated."
Mallinson then drew parallels between what is now
happening in Spain to past events when NATO opened a relentless
offensive on Yugoslavia and the capital Belgrade over the question of
Kosovo independence.
"Why isn’t NATO bombing Madrid for 78 days,
because the situation is similar in very many ways."
“In fact, Kosovo is even more a part of Serbia than
Catalonia [is to Spain.] Let’s remember in the Middle Ages joined
when Ferdinand and Isabella joined all those bits of Spain together.
Let’s remember that Spain is a united country but it is a
conglomerate. We also must remember this dangerous knock-on effect.
This is going to feed Basque anger more and more. And of course,
other parts of Europe, possibly even the Walloons in Belgium, not to
mention Scotland,” he continued.
Mallinson suggested a possible solution to the ongoing
crisis is to "throw out the hotheads and get Mr. Rajoy to
talk to the leaders of Catalonia to try to come to some kind of
temporary compromise while everyone gets together and try to put a
stop to these deleterious effects of globalization and the
destruction of the nation state."
"Keep the interfering people out,” he
emphasized.
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