I’d be astonished if Ukraine were to actually join the EU.
Seems the US is supplying advanced grenade launchers, anti-tank weapons (Raytheon?) + training to Ukraine army, which now includes the Azov Battalion.
The neo-nazi Azov Battalion has formed a national core which is both a political party & a street militia that has deployed 600 members into the streets of Kiev to ‘restore law & order’.
Excellent ‘Real News’ piece but if time constrained, see 5.00– 8.00. What could possibly go wrong? Maybe Crimea better place for your hols rather than Kiev.

I suspect that a lot of crude Judeophobes who attack ALL Jews for the crimes of the Zionist elite, are actually hasbara operatives working to smear critics of Zionism and Israeli and Diaspora elites as ‘antisemites’.

Hello Peter, well that’s just nonsense isn’t it. It’s not about Jews as you claim, it’s about the influence that the racist supremacist state of Israel would have over an independent Catalonia, people who trot out this anti-Semitic claptrap are either useful idiots or scumbags.
And i and the article is in no way advocating the Spanish govt and their brutal tactics used against the citizens who mostly do not fully understand the situation, very much like my fellow Scots who fall for the independence nonsense while the Scottish govt wants to remain in the tyrannical EU, hence no independence, this quote from the article should help explain that a bit.
“One should not be under the impression that the criticism of the reactionary, independence movement in Catalonia implies that the Spanish government is somehow ‘resisting imperialism’. The Rajoy regime is rotten to the core. In fact, many analysts suspect they may even be secretly collaborating with the Catalan separatists.”

Hello LB – The point about Catalonian independence is not what ‘many people’ may want, but what Catalonians want. That is the principle of the right to the self-determination of peoples, including, for example, Bretons, Corsicans, Crimeans, Dombass inhabitants, the Flemish, French Canadians, Kurds, Palestinians, Western Saharans and so on. The list is long. Unfortunately, although what’s good for the goose (Kosovo) should be what’s good for the gander (all the others), the right to self-determination can conflict with other UN Charter principles, such as national sovereignty and the inviolability of international borders. That creates conflict. Resolving the conflict is the messy part.
Thanks for the link to the article. I read it and certainly don’t recommend it (it’s not about Catalonia or even Israel, but about Jews and their unremittingly evil influence throughout history), but everyone is free to make up their own mind about its arguments.

And let’s see how it works when the EU’s pet (I might have got that the wrong way round) , Ukraine, joins the EU.

For dedicated fascists, armed thuggery to put down democratic voting doesn’t seem ‘objectionable’ at all. All the usual EUnuchs (Mogheini, Mr Druncky, Barosso etc) were queing up to approve it.