Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of a dwindling number of left-leaning voices in Europe
I didn't know there were any left. Good job, Spain!
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I'm more interested in seeing what happens with the second part of his threat, that he'll "use those bases whether spain likes it or not".
I believe that's called an incursion on foreign soil.
It's called: instead of uniting together to eliminate Iran we should gather together and eliminate the US government with its oligarchs. This will immediately solve a lot of problems in this world.
Trump should be pleased with Spain, they even named a military base after him:
"Trump's comments came after the US relocated 15 aircraft, including refuelling tankers, from the Rota and Moron military bases in southern Spain after the country's Socialist leadership said it would not allow them to be used to attack Iran."
What a snowflake.
What a fucking child, oh wait he also rapes children.
Honestly, those two are likely psychologically connected.
Jesus Fucking Christ this man is a fucking child. He is constantly throwing tantrums any time he doesn't get his way.
His brain is mush. Have you ever been around someone who is losing their mind. Nothing coming out of their mouth makes much sense and most of it is anger.
The frightening thing is that it often works for him. At least in short term.
He did admit he stopped growing/maturing by age 6. It tracks.
it describes his supporters as well.
It's screaming babies all the way down
There's a joke about the epstein files in there I ain't gonna make… but it's there.
The Karen administration.
What's the Spanish equivalent of "freedom fries"?
papas bravas
Chorizo de la libertad? 🤷
Freedom Fly
Well if you were not sure, this is clear evidence Spain did the right thing
As Trump said about Starmer:
I guess our relationship isn't what it used to be.
You are goddam right it isn't you malignant sociopath. And it's all 100% your fault, and the Americans that voted for you twice!
and the Americans that voted for you twice!
3 times.
They voted for a felon rapist pedophile 3 times.
And it's all 100% your fault,
You're talking like that's a bad thing.
Will someone ever succeed in explaining Trump what the EU is?
Remember when he tried to discuss a trade deal with Merkel? And she is like "uh, that's not how it works"
I'm pretty sure no one has ever successfully explained anything to Trump.
Certainly not the age of consent. Or consent in general.
Go Spain!
And Spain, before you count yourself blessed of being rid of them ..... It will only lasts until he or one of his oligarch's can make a buck, then it's taco time all over again.
I hope Carney builds up Canada's Spain trade relationship more. It honestly seems like a pretty cool country. Middle power countries should just use Trumps various outbursts to excise the states if need be, and to support each other. Someone else noted that the US primary exports are fossil fuels and machinery -- Canada's already exporting a bunch of machinery that way, and clearly has some fossil fuels available.
oh no, how will Spain handle not being able to get American exports???
It's fun to joke about, until you realize that this is horrifying news; as it eliminates almost $30B worth of trade. (Source taken from 2024 Spanish data) The US exports a ton of fossil fuels and industrial equipment. The more the US cuts themselves off, the more the global economy gets disrupted. This is once again, a losing situation for everyone.
Those are annual numbers.
TACO, so we're looking at, what, a week?
The upside is that it has the potential to bring Europe even closer together.
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Which also means that the people behind trump are also going to lose money. He can't piss off his handlers.
Agreed, the man will listen to "the market"
They’ll pass any loss on to the American people, whether that’s jacking up prices or the government bailing them out with our tax dollars. What remains to be seen is just how much his average supporters will tolerate and justify until the cost to them becomes unbearable. I hope more nations follow this lead; cut us off or get him to cut your nation off, strangle us economically and make us a pariah on the global stage. His loyalists and bots and foreign bad actors may be a loud minority on the internet, but they’re still a minority and getting a free pass to be a western male chauvinist isn’t going to keep party-line voters content when their businesses fail, their mortgages default, and their kids start dying in Iran.
yhea, but it's like ripping of a bandaid. the sooner the US turns into an isolated pariah state, the better
the sooner the US turns into an isolated pariah state, the better
And of the millions of people living in the US, all the minorities, all the people who didn't vote for Trump, all the vulnerable... just... fuck 'em?
I don't really want an isolated pariah state with nukes, 10 aircraft carriers and the biggest army on earth. I think that's going to make things even worse for everyone on earth.
imperialist BS, the US fucking over the globe for your benefit is good for you. the world stopping the US from fucking over the globe, which means it'll just fuck over it's people, is bad for you.
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He has not cut trade. He said he is going to cut trade.
This is important. He says a lot of shit, and it just goes no where. His base though.... They don't read. They repeat and echo the headlines.
He's going to tapas out
That is not just politically impossible, oh the lawsuits, but physically impossible. Not for weeks at the very least. His attention span is approximately 18 hours. So TACO.
Good. I wish the rest of Europe was this based.
Spain got balls , big beautiful balls , bigger dan dtrump
The pedophile strikes again.
Surely this will help the affordability crisis.
¡Viva españa!
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