SPAIN MOVES INTO ALLIANCE WITH RUSSIA ON BURMA

As growing global alliances continue to move into place, socialist leader Zapatero demonstrates his solidarity with ex-KGB man, Putin on Burma.

You may already know that Putin has been busy allying himself with China on the Burmese Junta crisis, opting for non-action against the Junta rather than condemning them as the U.S. and other western countries have done. It's worthwhile having a look at Zapatero to get a perspective on the Spanish government head.

From Wikipedia:

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (born August 4, 1960 in Valladolid) is the Prime Minister of Spain. The party he leads, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), won the general election on March 14, 2004. Actions of his government have included withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq, legalizing same-sex marriages and a program of legal amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Now that you have a pretty good idea of what Zapatero is all about, consider his (Spanish) government's complete overreaction to an anti-Communist group of protesters who took to the streets yesterday in Spain. Three vans of riot police were sent by the Spanish police department against what was a peaceful demonstration to declare solidarity with the Buddhist priest led people of Burma against the repressive 45 year iron grip on the country and the bloody crackdown. What was so threatening?

Protest against communist regimes is not thought highly of in Spain seeing as its socialist government has far more in common with China and Russia than with the other nations which have condemned the Communist government's crackdown:

Zapatero has... spoken about Burmese dictatorship...with Putin:

Both men also spoke about the worsening situation in Myanmar. They agreed that the international community needs to monitor the situation very closely, but the leaders believe it is still too early to draw conclusions or introduce sanctions.

Too early to draw conclusions or introduce sanctions? Might this be because Russia is in bed with China which has economic interests in Burma? Immediate sanctions is the least the rest of the world should be doing in relation to this gross abuse of human rights.

Zapatero has a good relationship with China -to whose leaders he did not even remind their lack of respect for Human Rights- asking even for a lift in the arms embargo (but afterwards claiming he is a “pacifist” ). And now wants to strenghten the ties with Russia. But he has again mistaken the rules about basic sight regarding diplomacy: in the same statement Putin remarked that Lugovoi was a Russian citizen who could not be extradited by now (to Great Britain to face justice for his alleged murder of ex-Russian citizen and dissident, Litvinenko living in Britain).

Putin, it seems is busy forming alliances with not only the Islamic world but also with Socialist governments worldwide.

Linked into this network is also Venezuela, Cuba and a few African countries.

While the E.U. consolidates further, the Communist/Muslim alliance seems to be gathering steam as well now looking to be gathering Spain into the fold. Regionalization is on the move and it's clear that the power continues to shift further and further from the individual to the larger power masses forming like huge black clouds on the horizon.

Via Spanish Pundit.

Cross-posted here

Reliapundit adds: More on Spain supporting another tyranny CUBA, HERE.