Perhaps the situation is a bit more complex than your view.

But your view is certainly backed up by the horrific photos of Guardia attacking elderly grandmothers who voted as well as the Catalonian Police who were trying to protect voters from being beaten with batons by the Guardia.

What a complete debacle!

And the feckless, Merkel-led EU is doing absolutely nothing to try to help the very dire situation which many observers are calling: "An inch away from civil war."