Praised by supporters as a dream long unfulfilled until now and denigrated by detractors as a miserable frankenstein of a state never meant to have been, the Iberian Union begins to leave its infancy years. Just less than thirty years ago, the ticking time bomb of the ill-fated Spanish Republic drew its last breath as a once-reluctant general of the Spanish Army became the face of a new movement that altered the course of Spain forever. With the erosion of cordial relations between German-dominated Europe and Italian-dominated Europe, the writing on the wall could not have been made clearer, at long last bringing the two Iberian states of Spain and Portugal into an intertwined destiny, to counter the ever-closer breath of Hitler down the neck of the Mediterranean.Seven years have passed since the inception of this unprecedented union of the entirety of Iberia, and perhaps its foreignness to naturality begins to take form now more than ever. An increasingly ineffective government coupled with stagnating military power and a restless citizenry tired of authoritarian strongmen are not all that spell doom for this young nation - for the growth of regional nationalist movements call for secession from the Iberian Union, not least notable of which are Catalonians, Basques, and Moroccans.To say the Caudillos, Franco and Salazar, do not rest well on the current state of affairs, is to put it lightly. But, as revolutionaries with a long tradition of vanguardism, they shall see to the triumph of Iberia's destiny, or perish with the Union.

