Jose Manuel Albares He assured on Tuesday that there was “no reason” to think the government’s refusal to cooperate on the offensive against Iran was “to deal with diplomatic problems or trade retaliation”, given that the relationship with Washington is “solid with the risk of bombs”.
Just an hour later, from the Oval Despacho, Donald Trump he lamented that “España brought fate” and hoped that “we wanted to cut off all trade”.
The government rejected the Red and Moron bases for “Operation Furia Épica”, which forced the Pentagon to urgently redeploy 15 refueling planes, resolved a major conflict with the United States in decades.
One that took a step further from the most wanted precedent when Trump made a similar correction after Sanchez’s actions to avoid the requirement to raise the defense rate to 5% of GDP.
Why? This time the US president delivered the words to the peopledictating order to the Secretary of the Treasury to cut off all trade ties with our country.
To be sure, technically Trump cannot impose individual trade sanctions in Spain without being shocked by global measures from the European Union.
But the damage capacity is still huge. It has the power to inform and condition established companies to cancel their inversions and agreements with Spanish firms.
The consequences of this breakdown can be devastating.
The total volume of goods exchanged between Spain and the United States exceeds 47,000 million euros. With a trade deficit of 13,458 million Losing access to the North American market would seriously affect our exports oil, wine and industrial components.
But even more charged would be a vigorous coup. The United States currently supplies 44.4% of the natural gas consumed in Spain. The trial of this minister would leave us facing a national emergency.
And it is also possible to step forward, as the government does, to take this active act which EEUU is the number one investment partner in Spainwhich represents approximately 15% of total foreign inversion.
The patronage showed you “deep concern”. He said the EU was a “fundamental partner” and demanded that the government “bring this situation back into the hands of the European Union”.
But instead of examining the manufacturing sectors, The executive decided on the decision.
Moncloa replied that Spain was an “export power” and that she was trying to “contain possible impacts” and “diversify government ministries”.
You should ask yourself where these funds will settle to help the damned and what level of imagination you need to create so that it can replace regular gas overnight.
It’s only fair to acknowledge that Trump has sensibly taken the antipathy to expanding the capabilities of the Spanish population.
His discretionary interventions in foreign countries show an absolute disregard for international legality, and his foreign policy is undermined by the interests of his traditional allies.
Diplomacy, however, is not about providing leadership, but about shrewdly managing reality. Sánchez could have escaped a hit in Iran without getting a frontal chokeas well as other European countries.
Because Spanish Islam is essential in the European context. While France or Germany maintain minimal or pragmatic cooperation with Washington to avoid reprisals, Sánchez preferred to fight.
That’s what the president has done in recent months with the goal of a variety of things: piss off the angry giant once or twice until he gets what he wants: the giant coups him.
It is clear that Sánchez is trying to present himself as a fighter for national sovereignty in the face of Trump’s aggressive meddling. And these arguments in defense of a rules-based order would prove irrefutable, Let’s not be because we know that Sánchez is a big fart who only acts for political reasons.
The government is determined to turn this conflict into an election platform.
It is true that the previous exit exists Zapatero In 2004, when Iraq’s “no war” toasted its notables at the polls and spread across the board in popularity.
But the context of 2026 is very different from others.
Zapatero counted on the support of Paris and Berlin; Sánchez is alone. Zapatero returned to administration Shrub in a moment of bonanza; Sánchez is doing this at a time of energy dependence and economic weakness. And the presidency of the United States was not in the hands of a hot-tempered maniac like it is today.
It is possible that this strategy is used to move on its most ideological bases, but the rest of society will pay the price.
This serious incident will only contribute to the continued eruption in Spain that will undermine the core of the plundered nations and condemn them to an orbit of Third World marginality.
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