The Morning Rant: Spain Is Lost

50 years of American-sponsored welfare at the expense of any sense of national pride, desire to participate in the defense of its own culture, and the active importation of subwits from the 3rd World because they were just too lazy to pick up their own garbage and mop their own floors has led to the current situation in Spain. Or should we be honest and call it Al-Andalus?

After the death of Franco in 1975, the die was cast on Spain. They fled from any sense of nationalism, civic pride, love of Western culture, and perhaps most telling, their religiosity. The decay of a once formidable culture has led to their startling acquiescence to the invaders from the Muslim world. After a massive terrorist attack on the Madrid train system in 2004, in which almost 200 people were killed, the country tucked its tail firmly between its legs and ran from the West, ran from self-determination, ran from solidarity with 2,500 years of western culture, straight into the arms of a post-modern malaise, compounded by the Muslim invaders in their midst.

Their natural inclination for powerful government at the expense of the individual made their "social democracy" experiment a thinly veiled cradle-to-grave socialist state. Except of course their own defense! That was supplied by their membership in NATO, which means it was provided by the United States.

Their current betrayal of America and the effort to wrest the West away from ascendant Islam is not surprising; it is a natural result of the arrogance and obliviousness of the current European mindset that values diplomacy and negotiation over all, even at the expense of...everything!

Key US ally blocks airspace to military flights over Iran, escalating standoff with Trump

Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles confirmed the move, saying Spain has denied both airspace access and the use of joint U.S.-Spanish bases for any operations tied to the Iran conflict.

"This was made perfectly clear to the American military and forces from the very beginning," Robles said. "Neither the bases are authorized, nor, of course, is the use of Spanish airspace authorized for any actions related to the war in Iran."

Spain already had refused to allow U.S. forces to use the strategically critical Rota and Morón bases in southern Spain, installations long viewed as key hubs for American military operations into Europe, Africa and the Middle East. The expansion of that restriction to Spanish airspace effectively cuts off another logistical pathway for U.S. operations and signals that Madrid is willing to directly limit U.S. military movement despite its NATO membership.

And for the taxpaying citizens of America? Don't go to Spain. Don't buy Spanish products. It's simple. They don't support us, so why should we support them?

Besides, it is a country that is rapidly descending into the evil of progressive atheism, in which the value of life and culture is measured by an amoral calculation more akin to Mao than to Ignatius of Loyola (whatever you might think of him).

Here is a powerful bit of data that Spanish culture is gone... replaced by the same post-modern melange currently engulfing Canada, the UK, and a few other Western countries.

Father loses legal fight to halt euthanasia of 25-year-old daughter in Spain

Noelia Castillo Ramos' case galvanized international attention after her father, Gerónimo Castillo, mounted a legal battle against the authorization of various Spanish courts for his daughter to receive euthanasia in 2023. Aided by Abogados Cristianos (Christian Lawyers), a conservative Catholic organization, Mr. Castillo exhausted all appeals to the Spanish courts.

The father argued that his daughter wasn’t fully psychologically able to make a decision regarding euthanasia and that she needed better medical and psychiatric care. His legal battle was ultimately shut down by the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on March 10.

Spain has chosen its path, and we should respect that choice. But no amount of Serrano ham, Paella, and magnificent art should lure us to continue our support of this failed state.

[France too is barring American use of its airspace, but that is a discussion for another time!]

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posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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