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The United States states was voluntarily formed by participating independent states into a Perpetual Union. That fact makes your comparison illogical.Many Brits didn't understand why the Obama administration made it quite clear and was so outspoken about the UK Government's decision to offer the people of Scotland a referendum on whether they wished to remain in the UK or become an independent nation.
Madeleine Albright declared that the US did not want to see a close ally become "fragmented". In private though she went further by declaring the UK's decision as "Crazy".
Of course, the real reason the US objected was the same reason Spain objected. Neither wanted states or nations being allowed to freely gain independence based on the majority of their electorate voting themselves out of a union, and they didn't want it to become the internationally accepted norm. Spain knew it would lose Catalonia and the US knew that at any point in the future any state could vote to, and secede from the Union if that is what the majority of people voted.
Would you call the US and Spain's stance 'Free World' or 'Totalitarian?'