The president Donald Trump threatened this Tuesday with cut all trade with Spain. This after the Iberian country refused to allow US planes to use Spanish bases to attack Iran and opposed increasing its defense spending within the framework of the I’LL TAKE
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“Spain has behaved terribly”Trump told reporters during his meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Washington.
Trump describes Spain as a “terrible ally” and announces that they are going to “cut off” all trade deals with the country: “They are being very unfriendly. Spain has nothing that we want. It is a fantastic people, but with terrible leaders.”
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“We are going to cut all trade with Spain. We don’t want to have anything to do with Spain“he added after the decision of the government chaired by President Pedro Sánchez.
Hours earlier, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, JosĂ© Manuel Albares, had assured that I didn’t expect “any consequences” after Spain refused to allow the use of its bases by the United States.
Albares recalled that Those facilities are “under Spanish sovereignty” and assured that “Spain’s commitment to Euro-Atlantic security is beyond any doubt”, giving as an example the country’s participation in missions in the Baltic countries, Lebanon or Iraq.
The Sánchez government argues that the US and Israeli offensive against Iran does not fit into the United Nations Charter and, therefore, rejects the use of its bases.
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Finally, Donald Trump boasted this Tuesday about the extensive damage caused ​​in Iran due to the joint attack by the United States and Israel, which according to him is going well.
(With information from AFP)
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