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SPAIN AGAINST THE CATALONIA NATION -- The Catalan "Gordian knot" -- El “nudo gordiano” catalán

El “nudo gordiano” catalán

 

 

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 The Catalan "Gordian knot"


Written by Amadeo Martínez Inglés / UCR

Friday, December 08, 2017 06:44

 

 The Government of Rajoy used specialists in psychological warfare to overthrow the DUI

He
threatened the Catalan political leaders with employing the army to its
ultimate consequences if they implemented the declaration of
independence

Marta
Rovira, the general secretary of ERC did not lie, although she could be
unfortunate in the choice of the words used (the expression "with dead
people in the street" could raise blisters in some consciences), in her
statements of November 17 to the Rac-1 broadcaster in which he explained
in considerable detail that the Executive of Mr. Rajoy had sent threats
to the top Catalan leaders in the sense that he would not hesitate to
use the Army, if necessary reaching "extreme violence", if these did not
reduce quickly and opportunely the level of confrontation with the
Government of the nation.



The
Catalan republican leader counted, as I say, the truth, nothing but the
truth but not exactly "the whole truth" that she certainly did not know
at that time and that was (and is), obviously, much broader and more
complex than what unveiled to the Catalan station since these
hypothetical warnings from the Government (suggestions, threats or
whatever we want to call them) were actually part of a secret operation
available to the Government of the nation, to be launched well before
1-O, and that it was foreseen could reach its maximum virulence not
necessarily after a declaration of independence (which in the case of
the Madrid Government eventually thought to be able to neutralize with
the already famous article 155 of the Constitution) but after the
foreseeable later attempt of the secessionist leaders Catalan people to
truly enforce it, to make it effective on a national and international
level, with mass mobilizations on the street and occupation of
sensitive points of all Catalonia in charge of cash of the mosssos or operative pickets of the CUP.

Some
weeks have passed since the "scandalous" public statements of Mrs.
Rovira and at this time, and the campaign for the upcoming elections of
21-D has begun, this researcher is in a position to affirm that the
aforementioned threats of the Executive of Mr. Rajoy to the Catalan
separatist leadership, brought to public light by the secretary general
of ERC, never constituted in themselves a gross hoax and much less a
personal delirium as they were immediately qualified by the political
and media apparatus of La Moncloa but that existing, existed , and, in
addition, were planned in detail in areas of the Vice Presidency of the
Government with the timely help and advice of specialists in
psychological warfare (everything that has happened in recent months
between Barcelona and Madrid in this bizarre issue of DUI there is to
frame it in a peculiar war without fronts or psychological warfare) that
planned and coordinated an operational
or
secret to "sink the morale of Catalan politicians" both the Government
and the Parliament and thus avoid, in the first place, the holding of
the referendum of 1-O and, if this managed to get ahead, to start up
completely effective and operative the famous DUI.

This
secret campaign of the Government, made according to the very special
doctrine of psychological warfare (in Spain there are not many qualified
professionals in this novel discipline in military principle but that
in the last decades, after the II GM, it moved with force to the civil
field), contemplated the usual fronts in which this type of
confrontations (many times more virtual than real) tend to
instrumentalize their actions: political, economic, social and media and
reached two levels of operation differentiated: one of " low intensity
"during the month of September of 2017 (until October 1, date of the
announced referendum) and another of much" higher dedication and
operational effort "for the case (which was never fully believed by Mr.
Rajoy's Executive) that the controversial consultation of 1-O was
finally held and that it would have to neutralize ipso facto and "at any
price" its unacceptable consequences.

Let's
see, then, friends, with the data that I myself have been able to
obtain, the main lines of this peculiar psychological campaign against
the Catalan independence movement that at the moment, only for the
moment because the Catalan Gordian knot is still intact, seems to have
achieved all the ends for which it was designed:

In
the first phase of operation prior to 1-O, specific actions of
intimidation ("variable incidence vectors", according to the slang of
war psychologists) were effectively developed by news media related to
the Government.
Let's see some:

-         The
Spanish Army sends convoys to barracks in Catalonia, specifically to
its base in San Clemente de Sasebas, to reinforce its deployment in the
region in the face of the aggravation of the Catalan crisis.
False
information but supported, as it is de rigueur, in a real alternative
event: the displacement of a column with camping material to the
aforementioned San Clemente base from the Logistics Group 41 of Zaragoza
to adapt its facilities to the arrival at the same of national police
contingents and Civil Guard.

-         The
investigative journalists of a certain digital media closely related to
the government "discover" a military convoy with dozens of Combat Cars
on logistics transport platforms passing through the town of Alcalá de
Henares and on the way to Zaragoza and possibly Barcelona.
Photographs of those transport platforms loaded with Leopard armor are distributed. False information, of course, but according to the intimidation operation that we discussed. The
photos were old and referred to a unit of Combat Cars that in the past
traveled to the field of maneuvers of San Gregorio, in the capital, to
carry out their routine combat exercises.

-         The
Ineffable Minister of Defense, Mrs. Cospedal, leaves the media with few
faces and releases her enigmatic threat: "the Armed Forces know very
well what their missions are in defense of the integrity of Spain"

-         The
Government, through its belligerent Ministry of the Interior, mounted a
ridiculous and very badly planned operation to transport thousands of
police and civil guards to Catalonia to park in ships moored in ports,
summer hotels and army barracks.
With
a clear and unique plausible mission: Intimidate Catalan political and
social leaders and the civilian population as a whole.
A
logistical movement of the CFSE that should never have existed, that
left the whole country unprotected and that, faced with the worst
possible scenario, it should never have passed 500 reinforcement riot.

-         Apart
from these operational actions more or less planned and undoubtedly
poorly executed, the vice president of the Government,
commander-in-chief of the psychological process of neutralization of the
other enemy process, "the Catalan Process", records certain political
and social "mediators" from all over Spain so that one day, and another
also, before 1-O, punish the eardrums of the "leaders of the Catalan
subversion" with the mantra of how good it would be if the famous
referendum was not held and the bad ones, very bad, consequences that
would lead to its celebration.

I
could go on, my friends, but I think that is enough for the moment so
that we all realize that the Government of Mr. Rajoy, in this unpleasant
matter of possible military intervention, has not left a single moment
of playing dumb. to name as "gross hoax" and "delirium" what in reality
was intimidation and threats in the framework of poor planning and worse
execution in a pedestrian operation of "psychological warfare", but I
will continue a little more, if I allow, delving into the second phase
of that plan, which launched the vice president after his loss of
personal papers of 1-O ordering the entry into action of the CFSE in
polling stations when he was aware of the success of the sovereignist
bet on the tug of war ballots and ballots.
And
that made the entire government of the nation, absolutely everything,
enter institutional panic after the televisions of half the world
collected on their newscasts such an ephemeral country.
The
worst thing is that billions of citizens saw it all over the planet
with the bitter consequence of knowing in real time how this country
spends it and what kind of Francoist democracy we still suffer to this
day.

For
once the referendum of October 1 has been held (illegal,
unconstitutional, malignant, despicable ... as the cacique government of
this country wants, but absolutely democratic in a 21st century
Europe), a few hours after the end, the threats, the warnings, "the
little guy that I give you with all my strength if you do not take off
your pants" by politicians from different parties, senior government
officials and social leaders and with very defined objectives in the
Government and the Parlament, would intensify until incredible ends and
the mask would be completely removed.
Although the institutional warnings do not diminish:

-
Mrs. Cospedal comes out again to the media with this threatening new
song: "The Spanish Army is prepared to defend the integrity of Spain."

Accompanying
him in such an institutional statement is his second in the ministry
and operational chief of the FAS, the JEMAD (Chief of Defense Staff) who
releases the following, most likely at the behest of his superior: "The
FAS are ready to defend the nation"

-October
12, day of the National Holiday, and in the corridors of rigor with the
news media, new broadside of the minister of war (psychological): "I
think it will not be necessary for the Army to intervene in defense of
the integrity of Spain "

Take it now! And
the chief of the Spanish Government, Mr. Rajoy, does not tremble when
he dismisses the words of the general secretary of ERC, Mrs. Rovira, as
"gross fraud" and "delirium". But what will be threats to this property
registrar? come to more, to much more, that we still suffer the cut
citizens of this country?

But
is it that this man does not know how the Armed Forces act when they
are given a mission in war or in a situation of extreme emergency, if we
leave aside, obviously, the military fire brigade that had the idea of
​​organizing in its day Mr. Zapatero and still walking around with his
sleeve instead of the assault rifle?
Yes,
yes man, leaving unfortunately dead on the ground, with many direct
damage to the enemy (human lives and war material) or collateral (human
lives of civilians and haciendas and material goods)

You threatened everything you wanted and more, Mr. Rajoy. And your vice president, to whom you have given missions that you do not know how to fulfill, too. At
the moment the play has gone well, because fear is free and their
opponents were not willing to fight and die (as the slogan of the
faithful infantry says) for their ideals.
But
do not be arrogant about saying you are going to re-run for the
elections because it is "a good kid who has not done anything wrong" or
trust too much because the NE war that you have driven for years by
electoral interests not It is over and you, to this day, are already
quite finished politically and personally.
Be wise once, Mr. Rajoy, and go home to rest. Leave us Spaniards (we are already older) to solve our problems. Surely we do better than with you at the head of the Government. And do not ever threaten to take your powers (the military) to walk. Neither know, nor should, nor can you use them.

Madrid, December 7, 2017

Amadeo Martínez Inglés is a military man with the rank of colonel, writer and historian