{"id":665248,"date":"2025-12-31T18:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665248\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:58:10","slug":"ten-purposes-for-spain-the-west-life-and-freedom-in-the-year-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665248\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten purposes for Spain, the West, life and freedom in the year 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some guidelines to steer Counting Stars in the right direction this new year<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.\u201d<\/strong>. J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Lord of the Rings”.<\/p>\n

Counting Stars turns 21 years with the same freedom and some changes in sight<\/a>
Does an independent blog like Counting Stars still make sense today?<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re in the final hours of 2025 and a new year is already upon us. After 21 years, this blog is quite predictable (and I’m proud of it), so I don’t think you’ll find any surprises in my purposes for the next 12 months:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Continue defending the right to life and human dignity<\/strong>, especially in the face of crimes such as abortion and euthanasia, whose social acceptance is a disgrace to our time. This defense will remain uncompromising and unequivocal.<\/li>\n
  2. Continue defending the unity of Spain, democracy and the rule of law<\/strong>, seriously threatened by the most sectarian, authoritarian and corrupt government in our democratic history.<\/li>\n
  3. Continue defending freedom against those who attack it<\/strong>, especially freedom of education, religious freedom, ideological freedom, linguistic freedom, freedom of information, freedom of expression and economic freedom in the face of the constant attacks and threats they suffer.<\/li>\n
  4. Continue to denounce Christianophobia and anti-Semitism<\/strong>, two scourges that have caused serious massacres in the last century and that are resurfacing with particular force today, also in the West.<\/li>\n
  5. Continue to denounce the abuses of power by rulers<\/strong>, whatever their ideology or party, at the national and international level, and continue to defend a limited State<\/strong> that puts effective brakes on those abuses.<\/li>\n
  6. Continue to denounce totalitarianism, both nazism and communism<\/strong>, anti-democratic and criminal movements that have murdered millions of people, and also Islamic extremism<\/strong>, which today is one of the greatest threats to Western civilization.<\/li>\n
  7. Continue defending Christian values, Western civilization and liberal-conservatism<\/strong> and to continue supporting political and social initiatives that coincide in that defense, from the strictest independence of Counting Stars.<\/li>\n
  8. Continue defending the cause of Ukraine<\/strong> against the large-scale Russian invasion that began in 2022, a just cause that demands the liberation of all territories invaded and occupied by Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship, which has become a serious threat to peace in Europe.<\/li>\n
  9. Continue defending the State of Israel<\/strong>, the only real democracy in the Middle East, which has been constantly fighting for its survival since its founding, and which now also suffers a campaign of hatred and slander after suffering in 2023 the biggest anti-Semitic massacre since the Holocaust.<\/li>\n
  10. Continue defending and advocating for a Nation I admire, Poland<\/strong>, a country that for the last century has been a reference point for those of us who reject totalitarianism and for those of us who defend the Christian roots of Europe, and which now faces a great threat because of Russian imperialism.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I wish you all that 2026 makes your best wishes come true<\/strong> and that we can still be reading each other in a year’s time.<\/p>\n

    Happy 2026!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some guidelines to steer Counting Stars in the right direction this new year \u201cAll we have to decide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-665248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115815717452254077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}