This is a bigger deal, I think.
It may seem stupid, but the Catalan leaders are working to get outside support. I imagine they have little military asides from some thousand farmers. Without outside help Madrid maybe able to force surrender.
Please note the Catalan region is adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea and so easily accessible if one can sail through the straight of Gibraltar. Gibraltar, too, is contentious; contiguous to Spain, but controlled and militarized by the U.K.
I think the issue here is similar to the one in the U.S. and maybe in the Ukraine, maybe in the U.K.. A small minority of Catalans are very prosperous. They produce enough for themselves and a surplus that is taken or given to Madrid where it is then distributed to poorer states and people. I imagine the Catalans think about themselves as hardworking and the people that get Madrid's distributions as lazy. It looks like a lot of waste to me both by effort and existence.
It may seem stupid, but the Catalan leaders are working to get outside support. I imagine they have little military asides from some thousand farmers. Without outside help Madrid maybe able to force surrender.
Please note the Catalan region is adjacent to the Mediterranean Sea and so easily accessible if one can sail through the straight of Gibraltar. Gibraltar, too, is contentious; contiguous to Spain, but controlled and militarized by the U.K.
I think the issue here is similar to the one in the U.S. and maybe in the Ukraine, maybe in the U.K.. A small minority of Catalans are very prosperous. They produce enough for themselves and a surplus that is taken or given to Madrid where it is then distributed to poorer states and people. I imagine the Catalans think about themselves as hardworking and the people that get Madrid's distributions as lazy. It looks like a lot of waste to me both by effort and existence.