World Politics Digest thread

And Feijoo will say a vote for the Socialists is a vote for Podemos and they will turn Spain into Venezuela.

Yeah, I got my hopes up a while back when Podemos and Ciudadanos first emerged but they've both been tossed aside. They just couldn't break the stranglehold of the big two.

In a lot of ways, Spain is not unlike the UK. There's a lot of classism and harking back to better days. The Civil War, the dictatorship and the transition steered it away from a similar path but there's still a lot of things I notice among Spaniards that remind me of the English.

The royal family get more flak but a lot of Spaniards struggle to see a world without them and there's not much of a Republican movement, despite there having actually been a republic in the last hundred years.

There's a lot of banging on about traditions and what it means to be Spanish and build a unified identity but God forbid the Catalans or the Basques don't want to be a part of that, even from more open-minded types.

I anticipate that this will be a shitshow of a campaign.

He is a bell-end about many things but I don't see a problem with a Serb having a problem with Kosovo.

He should certainly receive a sporting sanction because I am sure it's against various rules

Kosovo was never a country but it long a part of Serbia and historically significant part so I won't judge any Serbs upset about what the Albanians done.

It's akin to us claiming Liverpool as part of the Irish Free State.

Yugoslavia was a very short lived entity Serbia existed long before it.

So famous people cant have an opinion on a volatile matter ?

Or Ukraine where the entire celebrity word is writing messages.

You can kinda see why Djokovic wouldn't see any difference for his public support of one powder keg where he feels his country was invaded and another.

Plenty of celebrities have waded in on stuff like this. Paul McCartney's song Give Ireland back to the Irish for instance or the whole BDS movement in Palestine.

I don't want to go too far down the road of sounding like I am defending Djokovic as a person as he has some dubious ties to various crackpot ideas but I don't see a problem with a famous Serb supporting Serbs in Kosovo or being anti Kosovo.

Plus often in favour of legalising some drugs - the ones they use specifically and solely; plus often with opinions on age of consent that would not be particularly popular either; from my experience of having to deal with some of them.