The national security and integrity of Spain’s strategic industry entered today, April 16, 2026, a dangerous dimension unknown in our democratic history.
Express warning of Moscow-based group Oesia and its affiliate UAV Navigation as “legitimate military targets” constitutes prior verbal agreement which was met with a governmental silence as asymmetric as it was disturbing.
The joke is not rhetorical. Former President and current Vice President of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedevpublished a list of European installations that he said should be “neutralized”.
Entre ellas figura la tecnologia española presidida por Louis Furnellswhose headquarters in Madrid and Valdepeñas saw their geographic coordinates expuestas in official Kremlin channels.
This is due to the technological success of its drone guidance systems (capable of operating around them without a GPS signal) and their recent implications in the production of components for Patriot PAC-3 MSE missiles.
Before this attack on a company that is the cornerstone of our industrial dominance and OTAN defense architecture, the Ministry of Defense’s response was a laconic “no comment”.
This passion contrasts sharply with the diplomatic hyperesthesia displayed by the CEO Pedro Sánchez in recent episodes of a strictly personal or partisan character.
In May 2024, the government did not consider the definitive cancellation of the embassy in Buenos Aires and the relocation of the entire state apparatus due to an insult from the Argentine president, Javier Mileaheaded for the president’s address, Begoña Gómezwhich bears institutional responsibility.
Indeed, the “dignity of Spain” was considered the death diatribe in myth.
Now, when a nuclear power manages to bomb a factory in the Royal City, the prudence that is clear with the attenuation of functions seems to have lost the same dignity.
The history of this government prior to Kremlin matonism is sketchy to say the least.
One cannot forget the bureaucratic friction with which the assassination on Spanish soil of a Russian deserter was handled. Maxim Kuzminovcarried out in a garage in Villajoyosa (Alicante) in February 2024 by alleged Russian intelligence agents.
This flagrant breach of our territorial security has been canceled with discretion now being reported to the Oesia Group.
The pattern of behavior is thus consolidated: company management Pedro Sánchez he seems intransigent with democratic monikers who challenge his policies (as has happened in the case of the recurring crises facing Israel), but acts docile or silent in the face of autocracies that physically harm our citizens or interests.
The cautious attitude of Grupo Oesía is understandable. As a private entity operating in a critical sector, the bottom line and alignment with the state are the only immediate defenses.
However, what is corporate responsibility in a company, is lameness in government.
Jose Pardo de Santayanaa retired army coroner and vice president of the Real Instituto Universitario de Estudios Europeos, said in a statement to EL ESPAÑOL that Medvedev “is a real amenaza”.
Santayana believes that what he is saying is not rhetorical: “No one else could interpret it as a gray area, but it is more like a gray area. It is a clear and direct lesson in the use of power, which I don’t want to say that one will exercise, but if one retains the option.”
El silencio de Sánchez ante Putinwhile cultivating an ambiguous calculation of the weak regime and other authoritarian regime actors, I suggest that Spanish foreign policy began to follow liberal principles submit to the leader’s media scrutiny.
The serious state was supposed to summon the ambassador of the Russian Federation today to demand immediate action against the Spanish companies. Don’t forget to send a reminder of systemic weakness: in Spain until 2026.
The government’s idea is that a diplomatic protest is a recourse that is activated by serious personnel in the world, but it’s scary as I understand it, it’s run by our defense industry engineers and workers.
Asymmetry is unheard of. The government’s silence condemns us to international insignificance.
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