Spain: The correct use of Nope
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Spain joins Denmark and Greenland in showing the world how to respond to the demands of a fascist gasbag. Although Spain is not even pretending to be polite.
Spain has denied the US permission to use jointly operated military bases on its territory to attack Iran as Madrid stepped up its criticism of the “unjustified and dangerous military intervention”.
US on Tuesday: Threatens Spain for saying no to war.
“We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain,” Trump told reporters during an Oval Office meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. “We don’t want anything to do with Spain.”
Spain on Wednesday. Still no to war.
In a section of the speech that appeared to directly address Trump’s threats to end all trade with Spain, the prime minister said his country would “not be complicit in something that is bad for the world – and that is also contrary to our values and interests – simply out of fear of reprisals from someone”.
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Sánchez said a government’s prime responsibility was to protect and improve the lives of its citizens – and not to use geopolitics to cynical ends or to profit from war. “It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and, in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always; the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,” he said.
European Commision on Wednesday: Reminds Decaying Donald how the EU works.
In response, EU Commission deputy chief spokesperson Olof Gill said: “We stand in full solidarity with all member states and all its citizens and, through our common trade policy, stand ready to act if necessary to safeguard EU interests.”
Later, Commission Vice President Stéphane Séjourné said that when it comes to trade policy, “Any threat against a member state is by definition a threat against the EU.”
Paris has also aligned with Brussels, with President Emmanuel Macron speaking to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Wednesday “to express France’s European solidarity in response to the recent threats of economic coercion,” according to an Élysée source.
US on Wednesday: Spain said Yes to war.
Less than 24 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to cut off trade relations with Madrid over its refusal to let Washington use military bases on Spanish soil to attack Iran, White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt claimed Spain had “agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military.”
Levitt said Madrid had heard Trump’s message “loud and clear” and was now coordinating action with Washington.
Spain on Wednesday: See our previous statements in re: War. Jerks.
“The Spanish government’s position on the war in the Middle East, the bombings in Iran, and the use of our bases has not changed one iota,” Spain’s foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said an interview with Cadena Ser radio on Wednesday night. “Our ‘no to war’ stance remains clear and unequivocal … She may be the White House press secretary, but I’m the foreign minister of Spain and I’m telling her that our position hasn’t changed at all.”
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