CATALONIA BATTLE LINES NOW BECOMING CLEARER WITH GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE IN BRUSSELS

Puigdemont as Harry Potter - shitlibs join the "useful idiot" brigade.

The Catalan situation is getting interesting, with the President of the Catalan regional government, Carles Puigdemont, and a number of his ministers fleeing to Belgium, where they are applying for asylum. 

This is starting to look a lot like a government-in-exile, which would allow Puigdemont to call the shots in Catalonia and coordinate demonstrations and civil disobedience, while the Spanish authorities would be powerless to stop him.

As reported by the Daily Mail:

"Five other sacked members of the Catalan government are said to be with him in Belgium in what is being billed as a meeting with Flemish separatists. The group fled from Spain to Marseille in the south of France by car to avoid being stopped by officials acting on orders from Madrid. They then flew on to Brussels. But Mr Puigdemont and his fugitive ministers all intend to apply for asylum, Spanish media have reported. A decision on whether asylum will be granted is expected within the next five days."

Right there you have the reason why the Catalan nationalists will ultimately win. The Spanish government basically just let them walk right out of the country, when they could have arrested them. This is not the sort of thing that would ever have happened on general Franco's watch. 

OK, arresting them would have caused problems too. But at least that would have decapitated the independence movement and could have led to chaotic activities by nationalists that could have caused a conservative reaction in favour of the Spanish government. 

Now, assuming they aren't arrested and extradited from Brussels, the Catalan leadership will be able to direct the independence push from abroad and maintain just the right level of chaos to suit their cause. 

The battle lines are now becoming clearer. Basically the Spanish government is all about shutting things down and hoping everything will just go away -- a self-evidently absurd approach -- while the Catalan nationalist side is all about keeping the pot bubbling away by maintaining a level of disruption and excitement on the streets, while preventing excesses. Eventually, they calculate, this will force a deal, and the only deal on the table involves independence. 

A lot of Alt-Righters seem to be reading this situation wrongly, seeing it as a resumption of the famous Spanish Civil War in which General Franco crushed the Leftists and the anarchists. That is essentially a LARPy take on this struggle. 

Sure, Catalonia is riddled with shitlibs and sure the local antifa seem to be onside with independence and are decrying the Spanish state as "fascists" and "neo-nazis.' But don't be taken in by any of that crap. The antifa are siding with independence because it provides then the shortest route to their brand of LARPy violence. Yet again they are just being "useful idiots" for a cause that is not their own. Nothing new there.

As for the Spanish government, they are just the usual bunch of "soy boy" centre-right cuckservatives, seeking permission to manage the ever-growing and leftward-leaning social democrat state apparatus on the basis of having slightly better middle management skills. 

The reestablishment of the status quo on these terms does nothing for the Alt-Right. What we benefit from is growing chaos that gets people thinking and feeling along identitarian lines, and organically organising for themselves, without asking the existing state or transnational structures for permission. 

This is what this clash does in spades. Plus it might also go viral and energise identitarianism across Europe. Note the way that Puigdemont is now tying Catalan secession with the long-running Flemish nationalist cause. The first group of people he met with after arriving in Brussels were Flemish nationalists, who are typically much more right-wing than Catalan nationalists. 

This shows that what is going on here is much more complex and full or potential than knee-jerk Alt-Right fans of the Spanish government think. 

This is not just an insurgency against the Spanish state. It is also a potential challenge to the EU, which expresses its power through the old, so-called "nation states" of Europe, which have already been reduced to anti-identitarian organisations with ersatz fake elastic transracial identities that have been weaponized by the globalist system to attack Whiteness and European identity.