Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Loat Cetus for Wednesday the 30th of April 2025. I am joined by Dan and geopolitical strategist commentator Firas Modad. Welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me.

Pleasure. And today we're going to be talking about the great Spanish blackout,

because that caught everyone on the hop, although I understand that it was probably predictable,

right? A few people did. We're going to examine Trump's first 100 days and how he's got

surprisingly good reviews

from his enemies on this and what to expect in the upcoming India versus Pakistan war, quote

unquote.

All legally looking forward to that one?

Yes, that's definitely going to be wonderful here.

Right, so without further ado, let's get on with it.

Yeah, so nobody expects the Spanish blackout, but it happened.

So AP is reporting this.

Well, everybody's reporting this.

Massive power outage in Spain and Portugal leaves thousands stranded and millions without lights.

And I'm sure you've all seen the images now.

People having to walk off trains without power, some people being stuck on trains

overnight, stadiums being shut down, hospitals, having to go to their emergency backup and so on. It was

a complete power loss in Spain, which is surprising. Just a quick thing, I didn't actually look into

this deeply because I knew you were going to cover it today. So was this all of Spain?

Yes, I think it was. There might have been a few splatterings of areas.

It was all of Spain, bits of Portugal, bits of France.

I heard not Gibraltar, though.

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