Earlier White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Spain has agreed to cooperate with the U.S. military after President Donald Trump threatened to cut trade with Madrid over its stance against the US-Israeli strikes on Iran
Which then quickly prompted the Spanish government to categorically deny any such agreement of cooperation with the US military.
Article translated w/ DeepL
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has “categorically” denied that Spain will “cooperate militarily” with the US, as previously stated by White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. At a press conference, the US official said that “Spain has agreed to cooperate militarily in the last few hours.” In an appearance this morning, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez summed up Spain’s position on the conflict “in four words: No to war.” For its part, the European Commission has warned that it is prepared to act and safeguard the interests of the Union in response to US President Donald Trump’s threat of a trade embargo against Spain. On the ground, Turkey has reported that NATO systems installed on its soil have shot down a missile over its territory, which fell without causing damage after flying over Iraq and Syria. NATO has condemned the launch by Iran. In addition, Israel continues, together with the US, its bombing of Iran, where it has attacked targets in Tehran and other cities. The death toll from the offensive by both countries has exceeded 1,000, while the Ayatollah regime has continued to launch missiles against US targets in countries surrounding the Persian Gulf, such as Kuwait, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar.
Straight up lying about what other governments agree to.
Like, I don’t even know what the purpose was here… what did they think, the spanish won’t be hearing about it because its in english?
Honestly I think it’s a tried and true shameless asshole business strategy of his or something. You tell everybody you made a deal and brow beat the other party into just going along with it instead of trying to correct history.
It might not work for many people and businesses, but it probably works for a narcissistic trust fund scumbag that was handed a real estate empire and taught strategy by the very man who raised Donald Trump to have the personality he does.
Well they also tried to do the same with the Venezuela’s VP, and that also blew up in their face. My guess is it will just be a thing they do now.
The only other option is that they did reach an agreement and said agreement allowed Spain to deny its existence. Trump did this with Iran before bombing actually, where he proposed the Iranian government could save face with public statements while complying with his demands. When they refused, he bombed them.
The purpose of this is that right wing news media will only report what Trump said while never mentioning the rebuttal. Now they’ll do whatever they want and when they get push back they’ll say “yeah but you said we could” and all of his fans will back him up. And since Trump purged most of the senior military that opposed him the military will most likely back him up too. So now if there’s an international incident involving the illegal use of US military bases in Spain they can say it was Spain that broke the agreement.
Facts don’t matter for these people. They only care about what their dear leader says while everything else is noise or ignored entirely. Essentially, this message isn’t for us or Spain, it was for MAGA.
Ah the Spanish, they still only have sticks and stones no way they can receive broadcasts
bro thinks he’s playing Civ
They’re too busy with their siestas, drinking wine and talking very loudly to read international media.
as a Spaniard, I confirm
And expecting their very own Inquisition.
Right after the conference José Manuel Albares declared “it’s siesta time”
They know that their supporters won’t question it further.
Exactly. These comments are not directed at the sane, it’s so their supporters don’t have to admit that trump loses most of the time.
They said they’re going to cut all trade with Spain over Spain not letting them use bases for these Iran strikes. My guess is someone in the Trump cabinet imports Spanish wine or some shit, and so they need trade with Spain.
Trump says Spain let them do the thing, so trade is back on! Art of the deal, baby!
i mean…it works with Netanyahu’s speeches in hebrew, for dove-zionists back in the States that only speak english
Trump is dumb enough to believe that Spaniards don’t understand English just because he doesn’t understand Spanish
No, because nobody understands a word this guy is saying.