“Your current government is an aberration”

Graham’s reaction has been the most virulent since the Trump administration due to Spain’s rejection of its bases in Spanish territory being used to carry out maneuvers in the Iran War. moving away from the position maintained by Western democracies.

The Republican congressman has responded to the decision of the Spanish executive with harsh criticism of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. He has accused him of exhibiting political weakness by not supporting Washington, and warns that the Spanish attitude will impact the United States’ perception of its European partners.

The senator, a veteran in foreign policy issues, was harsh on his social networks with the executive headed by Sánchez.

In a long message, he states that in his opinion, the executive chaired by Sánchez has “lost its way” and shows little willingness to condemn the Iranian regime, while criticizing the United States and its “Operation Epic Fury.”

The issue of Rota and Morón especially touches Graham. In his text, he remembers his work in the US bases in Spanish territory during the 80s, while at the same time points out the position of the Spanish government with a soft line regarding the Iranian regime.

The tanker planes that have not been able to use the Spanish bases have been transferred to other US bases on European soil.

While signaling his rejection of the Spanish executive, Graham shows in his messages his desire for political change to occur in Spain. “I hope that the current Spanish Government is an aberration, not the norm“, he pointed out.

In parallel, Graham refers to his “admiration” towards the Spanish people and the position of previous governments, which stood alongside the US in other military operations.

His message of rejection of the Spanish government has received favorable messages, especially from the VOX environment, with the MEP Hermann Tertsch.

Tertsch has responded that “the Sánchez government is not only corrupt, but they are a band of traitors who are causing great harm to the Spanish people.”

It has also fueled the idea, within some profiles of the MAGA world in the United States, that Spain should be the next country to be intervenedafter the following objective occurs: Cuba.

Graham, Republican senator from South Carolina since 2003went from warning that Trump was a risk for the country to becoming a faithful supporter of the top president and one of those closest to the Republican leader.

The figure of Graham has often been part of the interventionist wing of North American politics. Since his beginnings in the Senate, he aligned himself with the more “hawkish” trend of the Republican Party, defending intervention in Iraq, increasing troops in Afghanistan and stronger interventions in the Middle East.

A tough stance

The profile of Lindsey Graham has been linked since joining the Senate, as a member of the Republican Party to a hard line within his political formation.

The parliamentarian has been defending a aggressive foreign policy. But if there is a country towards which his speech has been especially forceful throughout his political career, it is Iran.

Graham not only has endorsed severe economic sanctions against Tehran. He has repeatedly openly defended the possibility of preventive military intervention to stop his nuclear program.

In 2015, during the debate on the nuclear agreement promoted by Barack Obama’s administration, Graham declared in an interview with the network CNN that if Iran continued to move toward nuclear weapons, the United States had to be willing to use force.

“If I have to order the use of military force to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon“I will do it,” he said then.

That same year, in the midst of the Republican primary campaign, he was even more explicit in defending attacks against Iranian nuclear facilities if diplomatic channels failed, as finally happened a decade later, leading to this escalation in the Gulf countries.

Graham was among the strongest opponents of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the nuclear agreement sealed in 2015 between Iran and the so-called P5+1, the group formed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China – along with Germany.

The intention of this agreement was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, in exchange for a lifting of sanctions by Western countries.

In various statements reported by US media, the senator maintained that the pact did not effectively dismantle the Iranian nuclear program, but rather, in his opinion, legitimized it under international supervision.

When Donald Trump’s administration decided to withdraw the United States from the agreement in 2018, Graham supported the exit and defended the “maximum pressure” strategy, based on the tightening of economic sanctions and the diplomatic isolation of Tehran.

It caused unrest in Denmark

The Greenland issue has been another of the key points in the external line marked by the Trump Administration since the return of the Republican leader to the White House.

In mid-February, Graham held a meeting with the Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksenwhich, according to various sources, called “little lady”which generated tension with the Danish country.

According to the news agency, Anadoluanother participant in the diplomatic meeting described Graham’s behavior as “appalling, shocking and extremely inappropriate.” According to Berlingske, Frederiksen remained calm.

In parallel to this, Lindsey Graham himself came to assure that “Who cares who owns Greenland?“, while ensuring that the Arctic island will emerge stronger from the crisis, since thanks to Trump, it will gain popularity.