So here’s a fun thing that happened today in the Spanish-Catalonian dispute. Catalonian leaders stated they want to follow the ‘Slovenian way’ to independence. Spain was quick to reply with: “ye you mean that violent conflict that ended dozens of lives?” Meanwhile in Slovenia, Slovenian foreign ministry
invites Spanish ambassador to have a much-needed history lesson.
The abstract of the history lesson goes somewhere along these lines:
- Slovenia to Yugoslavia: “gib independence”
- Yugoslavia: “No.”
- Slovenia: “But we insist.”
- Yugoslavia: invades
- Croatia and Bosnia: are also tossing shit around at the time
- Yugoslavia: decides that waging war against Slovenia isn’t too viable when they also have to deal with Bosnia and Croatia, retreating from Slovenia only 10 days after invading
- The end.
Which leaves us with two explanations for behaviour of Spanish politicians:
- Spanish politicians are uneducated twats in a dire need of a history lesson
- They had their history lesson, this is just them issuing a low-key threat to Catalonia
Knowing how badly Spain is reacting to Catalonian independence, both seem equally plausible.
Oh and by the way: it’s okay to not know the history of every square inch of the planet. Nobody needs to know the entire history of every little country on the planet. But if you
are going to make a reference to it, then at least check the facts. It’s really not that hard.