Over the last 24 hours, if you watch German news....there's more hype going on in Spain over the 1 October anticipated vote in Catalonia.
This morning, I opened up the business news and there's an interesting piece there from Bloomberg.
The Spanish authorities are all engaged in stopping any vote from occurring.....to the point that they've moved 16,000 cops from around the nation....to the Barcelona region.
Now, you'd look at that and think over this development....it means that they've probably taken a significant number of cops from the rest of the nation, and if anything happens over the next ten days....they will be unable to react. Terror act or mass demonstration anywhere else?
But it gets better. To house the cops....they've gone and rented a couple of ferries, and intend to dock them at the Port of Barcelona.
To some bureaucrat in Madrid, it makes perfect logistical sense.
I looked at the idea of this dockside placement and it would make immediate sense as a target. You'd go and cut off electricity and water to the port. Then you'd cut off road access.....burning tires, wrecked vehicles, etc. You would make the housing for the cops more of a problem than an asset.
It seems like every single day....the pressure intensifies and puts the federal government of Spain at a weaker position. Even across Europe, there appears to be pro-Catalonia efforts underway....which you would not expect.
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