That's so fucking bleak. Israel whines to daddy USA for more bullets while selling bullets to Spain because Spain needs bullets because daddy USA isn't funding NATO enough

An oroborous but the snake is made of bullets

fuck me now we have to buy grass fed cruelty free bullets? how much are those gonna cost?

I honestly doubt Sumar or even Podemos would have collapsed the government. I could see however IU collapsing Sumar due to this issue.

Thats so cool on the leftist parts tho. Democrats should take notes about how to weild power.

let a girl dream

Nah, this moment only sucks for the central leftist parties. Both Bildu and the BNG are the strongest they have ever been.

Change in Spain will only come from a federalist coalition of leftist parties.

The left was not able to stop that

There is no left willing to stop that. Possibly Bildu and Podemos will reject the policy (without pulling out of the government "coalition"), but even Esquerra Republicana supports the war budgets, with congress members such as the well-known Gabriel Rufián saying shit like "Leftism also means order and security". It'si disgusting being European right now, who needs fascists when you have socdems.

Franco has a utilitarian policy regarding the middle East, his commandment of Moroccan troops early in his career probably played a role. Since the Moroccan colonial troops are well treated and played a role in winning the civil war, Franco also granted more political freedom within the Spanish Protectorate . He is also a catholic so his antisemitism drove his policy regarding the treatment of Spanish Jews and not recognizing Israel for the majority of his tenure.

So pretty bad.

As for the PSOE, they refused to call a widespread uprising of the Moroccans in the beginning of the civil war because half of the country is ruled by France, the Republicans don't want to alienate France and its control over the territories.

His government majority hangs on a few hinge parties, the most progressive ones being Bildu, Podemos and Sumar (arguably in that order) [edit: adding BNGa at the request of a cool comrade below who corrected me]. They haven't even removed the Ley Mordaza (mouthgag law) from the right wing that was applied over a decade ago as a response to the 15-M protests movement.

Additionally, Spain (and hence the PSOE) has a larger maneuvering capability right now due to the economic conditions. Spain, being a deinsdustrialized and tourism-driven economy, is suffering much less from the EU lagging behind industrially compared to China and the USA, than are other countries like Germany or France. Employment numbers are at a historical high for reasons I can't really understand (other than possibly the widespread availability of highly educated Spaniards accepting low-ish wages of 1800€/month drawing the influx of consulting and other service firms, and the growth of tourism, with around twice the Spanish population in visitors each year). This puts the government at an advantageous position, because it can claim on media that "we're the only good™ country where line go up"

However, the growth of the right wing is inevitable, it's a miracle that there's not a right-wing coalition in the government. If only because people get tired of having the same party in power as things get progressively worse (rent prices hiking, stagnating wages, chronical unemployment especially of younger people...), the right wing will almost inevitably win the next elections in a coalition of PP + VOX. The only thing that prevented that from happening last elections was the right wing sabotaging its own capabilities of coalition with regionalist parties of Catalunya/Galicia/Euskal Herria, due to calling them all essentially state-breaking terrorists.

Nah, but because it's his only option to getting power. As some user said before, he'd either nationalize or privatize his own mother for 4 more years in the presidency.

I was trying to make a joke about "the Squad" not in fact being a squad