President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in the Oval Office. After brief remarks of mutual appreciation, President Trump and Chancellor Merz responded to questions from the assembled press pool.
Chancellor Merz expressed support for the objective of eliminating the regime threat from Iran. President Trump notes at the beginning how Iran is targeting civilian targets in the region and generating even more support from the Gulf states for the USA.
When asked about the British and Spanish refusal to support U.S. military logistics and deployment, President Trump let the media be aware he is not happy with the position of Spain and the U.K. President Trump also announced [11:00 of video] an economic embargo of trade with Spain as an outcome of their position.
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The sun has set on the British Empire, that’s for sure.
Crescent moon rising.
Freedom rising, thanks to Trump.
By any chance is Chancellor Fred Merz wife’s name Ethel? That would be funny!
No. It’s Fred.
Not in the UK…..
Blood Moon rose today
Purim was yesterday. The modern day Iranian Hamans being hung on their own gallows.
Bad moon rising.
Treat them equally boycottwise.
Great point:
When the world’s biggest neocon complains about this military action…
https://rumble.com/v76iyp2-bolton-screams-its-all-over-for-them.html?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v1_sa_o%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
How about just get the hell out of nature and the un…..for openers. Hand the Western girly men out to dry.
The sun set a long time ago. Now it is setting on Englandistan and its capital Londonistan. Starmer is a fitting end for the Western country as it transitions to the 6th Century. The Decade of Rape Gangs should have been a clue to those still with a working brain.
Yes it is…let’s hope Herr Starmer was listening and feels the earth quaking underneath him.
I suspect this economic boycott was as much a warning shot across his bow as it was a torpedo below the Good Ship Spain’s waterline.
Dear Betsy for the third time today you are the best 😎👍
Thank you, LtoL..it’s impossible to tell you how much I appreciate your kind words…and you 💕
Nope. The British Crown and their cousins still rule the West from behind the scenes. They control the Uniparty, the EU politicians, as well as Canada and Down Under.
Trump is trying to change that. Unfortunately, he has a lot more leeway on foreign policy than he does on domestic policy…..with 100 + 535 traitors all working against him…..minus a few good ones that you can count on one or two hands at the most.
And the intelligence agencies? Go look up the history of MI6. The Queen’s personal pirate Mafia. Now they have branches in every Western nation who still serve the same masters.
The sun never set on the British Empire because God didn’t trust an Englishman in the dark.
The Spanish government has a short memory.
And a Muslin infiltration.
Well, to be fair, we all have one of these. Especially Texas, which seems right on par with the UK and France. Yikes!
comparing apples to oranges…
The UK and France invited the muslims to come…
Whereas in Texas, the muslims were sent by obama and biden in effort to turn Texas in to a blue state…
Being “sent “by the “leadership” is akin to invited…. Doubt the heritage British citizens were overjoyed with their government tactics any more than in USA.
Agreed. Nobody votes for this.
So, you consider obama and biden to be “leaders”???
Muslim invaders were invited into Spain
“The invasion of Spain was the result both of a Muslim readiness to invade and of a call for assistance by one of the Visigothic factions, the “Witizans.” Having become dispossessed after the death of King Witiza in 710, they appealed to Mūsā for support against the usurper Roderick.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Spain/Muslim-Spain
Exactly! Including NYC, spread throughout our own country. All of this action, needs to be followed by mass deportations, denaturalizations…
Roderic weeps in Visigoth.
Trump is leading the new Crusades, no one else has the courage, wonder if Richard The Lionheart had as much opposition.
no thinking heads on spikes might have been a determent.
Not an infiltration… The spanish government invited the muslims and let them take over their nation…
They give legal status to over 500,000 invaders on Jan 27th of this year
Other than Paella, Rioja and some nice beaches not sure what Spain has ever brought to the team…. and I will take a low country boil, CA Cab, and NC beaches over those any day!
Their olive oil is outstanding but not irreplacable
<Their olive oil is outstanding but not irreplaceable>
Spain is also known for quality printing…
Ever since 1478, when they started their Spanish ink precision 🙂
<chuckles>
And also inspiring profound Russian Literature:
Oh, you are the clever one, Wordman! 😉
Indeed, but no one expected the Spanish ink precision…
We have no word for , Retreat,
Run away!
Run away!
We always go with High end Greek olive oil.
Popeye says let Bruto have her.
Also a decent sherry.., the rest, meh
Licor 43
And their wine is affordable but not remarkable. Can’t think of much else we use from Spain. Other than the port at Rota.
Jamon Iberico rivals Proscuitto di Parma.
Tapas, don’t forget tapas. LOL
Good luck finding a restaurant in Spain that still offers tapas.
Sort of like the Canadians’ only contribution to the world economy being oil, which they’re trying to get rid of haha
The sad thing is that they turn back the previous moose slime invasion and rescued Christendom.,
now just another socialist/satanic outpost.
NC!!
Well, the USA is quickly rebuilding the auto industry. PDJT is saving the Oil/Gas industry in the USA. Oh, and he is incentivizing the pharmaceutical industry to return to the USA and make them stateside.
It looks like we don’t need Spain.
We never did.
Haven’t seen any SEATs deriving around lately.
Spent part of two years in Spain. Everyday they gave an ugly car contest; every day a different car won. Not an automatic anywhere.
“Other than Paella, Rioja and some nice beaches not sure what Spain has ever brought to the team”
Judit Masco
https://juditmasco.es/en/
Sports Illustrated swimsuit model in 1990
https://sicovers.com/featured/judit-masco-swimsuit-1990-sports-illustrated-cover.html
Ok, I’ll give ya that….
Their manchego (sheep) cheeses! Even at Costco prices, doubt will enjoy anymore…maybe US production will go up.
Have seen a lot more sheep ranching in certain CA areas over last 20 years.
When I went on unemployment for the first time in my life and had to go over to the local unemployment office, they had on the bulletin board a flyer for shepherds here in California!
Thinking of my dear little step-grandmother, Baltasara, who emigrated to the US with her family about 1906, when she was still in Spain as a little girl (as early as she could walk, ride a little donkey), she had the job of being a little shepherdess, going around those craggy hills, minding the sheep, learning how to find those who may have rolled down and needed help getting back up again – when nothing was happening, she was on her donkey, praying her rosary constantly. She was famously doing her rosary at the train station when she and her Mama and Papa and brothers had survived the horrible sea voyage and now found out that they had to make another plan due to the earthquake (their original plan was to go to Northern California and grow grapes for wine). The manager of a mine in Arizona spotted Mama praying her rosary (at about ten years of age, she was an old pro at it by then) and her entire family on a bench in the train station. A totally different plan but there was no way they could contemplate making that voyage back to Spain!
Mama met my stepdad’s father – there in the mining community (her father and he both worked in the office); Ben wanted to marry her when she was about fourteen – her father said she had to wait until after she was 16 to get married – so a few days after her sixteenth birthday, they were married and had two children in Arizona and then moved to Los Angeles where they had five more children.
Thinking of my stepdad and his parents and siblings, all good people and wonderful people still living in Spain who came for visits – they themselves I am sure would not be happy about the invasion of their beloved country –
just as so many of us whose families have lived in California for generations, we do not associate with or condone Newsom, Pelosi, Mayor Karen Bass of LA and others who have hurt our beautiful state – California was always just the greatest place and it has fallen into some bad hands.
I hope Spaniards will stand up against those in their government who are ruining Spain – God bless you! Make Spain Great Again!
As President Trump would say, “thank you for your attention to this matter”.
I will miss the Spanking sh wines. Cheap and good.
Great art – my favorites, Goya and then early early Picasso – and very early Dali (the later stuff, not so much)
My favorite painting of all time is Velasquez “Las Meninas”. When I saw it at the Prado Museum in Madrid, I had tears in my eyes. It’s that beautiful.
I meant to say Velasquez, too – magnificent works! I will go check “Las Meninas” – thank you!
I just took a look at that… That was painted in the 17th century? Wow!
Smoked paprika.
The best paprika is from Magyarország (a.k.a. Hungary).
Portugal was nice, people were friendly
spain was the pits, people were almost as rude as the french pricks are…
I admit I did quite enjoy the Bocaria and La Grata Familia in Barcelona.
Of course, Barcelona doesn’t usually even claim to BE Spanish…😉
What about Spanish rice? Makes good cabbage rolls.
How about a few good tennis players….?
Nadal and Alcaraz is all I can come up with.
Yes, that is what I was thinking. Besides olive oil, what else does Spain export to the US? It will be hard to boycott things we don’t already buy.
Iberico pork
Spain lived a laid-back lifestyle for years and years off of the gold they grabbed from the New World.
Now there is no more gold left from that.
I’ll second that. 90% of what I saw of Spain was depressing, dusty, and ill-tempered. The last probably because of the first two.
NC beaches (on average at least) are #1!
I have a potential issue. I have been an agent for a Spainish exporter to develop distribution as an agent. I’m curious is this is serious. Or important.
Interesting screen name you selected.
What did your Spanish exporter have to say about this issue?
Finally a President that rewards those who support America and punishes those who boycott America!!! President Trump truly is the first America First President EVER!!!! JMO Godspeed President Trump!!! JMO
👉Spain 🇪🇸 messed with the Bull, now Spain 🇪🇸 gets the horn.
Trumpzilla stomping bigly.👈
The Lonely Bull
Lawfare suit in 3-2-1!!!
The Frogs are in but, no one knows for how long.
Did they not criticize us for the attack on Iran literally just a few days ago?!?
they had to replenish their supply of white flags before they entered the fray…
I thought they surrendered several hours in.
Can’t do tariffs then just boycott. Could also work with those who want a refund. “While we are negotiating, you may not buy or sell any foreign goods. See you in court, and appeals court, and supreme court. Could take a while.”
Yep
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Love how Trump said we can use the airbases in Spain regardless of what their leaders say.
The irony is that could be applied to the Supreme Court tariff decision they passed before the State of the Union address!
I thought I’d share this with you all. It’s a short read but something to ponder regarding Iran and their oil.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/iran/an-iranian-victory-is-different-from-an-american-victory/
Very good article.
The Stans’ railroad.
By this dude’s logic, Iran’s best shot is to blow up the railway themselves just to make China angry.
When I read about Spain’s decision not to allow US fighter jets to fly out of jointly operated bases, I hoped Trump wouldn’t let that slide. BTW, how much of the funding of these jointly operated bases is provided by Uncle Sugar? Bet I can guess.
Hope they enjoy their trade embargo. A heaping portion of FAFO to go with their tapas…
Sí?
So I tried to find our total expenditures on bases in Spain, always a murky proposition. Here’s the 1988 agreement (we can easily exit these bases, at least legally):
https://es.usembassy.gov/agreement-on-defense-cooperation/
Pedro Sanchez, Spain’s president since 2018, has also been the head of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party since 2017. And, like all good little socialists since the dawn of time, he much prefers to spend other people’s money. Trump has been after him to increase Spain’s contribution to NATO, which was 1.43% of Spain’s GDP in 2024. This “jumped” to 2% in 2025.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/sanchez-blocks-us-logistical-support-from-spanish-bases/
Bottom line, another lopsided relationship between a host and a parasite. Sanchez did us a favor. Let the games begin!
Our bases in these countries contribute significantly to the local economies, and provide decent paying jobs to locals as well. Shut them down.
If we aren’t allowed to utilize them as needed, what good are they to us?
Now that, is asking one of the “right questions”!
I traveled to Iceland several times in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. While we had a base in Keflavik, there were constant protests against our presence there. After we pulled the base in ’06 — gifting them with a two mile reinforced airport runway — the same people protested the closure because of the economic loss. At the time, the locals in nearby Rekjavik were absolutely *indignant* about the closure, claiming that the US *owed* the Icelanders because they had allowed us to have a base there for many years.
My experience was a little different. I sailed with the 6th Fleet in the Med and northern Europe during and shortly after the Vietnam war. To most of the locals our bases were economic gold mines. Spain will reconsider I’m sure.
I too spent some time in the Med with Uncle Sam’s Yacht Club during the mid-Seventies.
I enjoyed Spain and was particularly impressed with Spaniards and Italians who treated us like welcomed guests.
Boy howdy, that’s been a while..
Farewell and adeu to you fair Spanish ladies… ->
Who knows…perhaps we were shipmates? I have the same great memories about both places.
But the events today remind me of scary times back then in the Med for Navy when Israel and Egypt were preparing to go at it, and the Russians were threatening to intervene. Scary times then too wondering about the American response to Russian intervention.
Now it appears that President Trump and our fighters are about to change the area and its entire political outlook for the better. And to think he’s only 408 days into this term.
CVA-66 was my duty station for my Med cruises.
Yep.
I recall the Greeks and Turks fussing about Cypress, circa 1974-ish?, alert birds locked, loaded, and queued up on the cats and so on. But looking back on the whole shebang, I’d not have missed it for the world
There doesn’t seem to be any shortage of people around the world that think we owe them something. Spit.
FAFO!
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump and Sec. Scott Bessent confirm 47 has the full right to ABOLISH trade with Spain thanks to SCOTUS
Spain blocked us from using military bases, now they’re FAFOing!
“The right was GIVEN to us by the Supreme Court! I can, tomorrow, or today, even better, stop EVERYTHING with Spain…what do you think, [Sec. Scott Bessent?]”
BESSENT: “SCOTUS reaffirmed your ability to impose an embargo!”
Cont…
I actually expect the SC to quietly go NUTS that they have, in a move to thwart Trump, made him more powerful!
Not their job to feel good or bad about the law. They only get to pass judgment on the Constitutionality and precedence of the law as duly passed by Congress and approved by the President or the rare Congress 2/3 vote do over.
yet being such, why do they not agree? Seems somewhere someone isn’t so smart.
“Seems somewhere someone isn’t so smart.”
Well, when one is unable to define what makes a “woman”, that should have registered in everyone’s brain that the candidate is too stupid to serve on that bench (or any bench other than a park bench)
I agree 99.99%, but I hate the wording, “The right was GIVEN to us by the Supreme Court!” The SC does not have the authority to GIVE or Take rights. At best the SC can confirm or affirm that President Trump has the right/authority, but it’s not their constitutional duty to GIVE people (and presidents) rights.
The SC does not have the authority to GIVE or Take rights.
Huzzah!
Absolutely right. The wording gives credence to the ridiculous idea that the SCOTUS can create rights.
That’s just the Supreme Court.
Bozoberg hasn’t made his ruling yet.
Spain is run by another idiot.
Just adding more bullet-points for withdrawing from NATO.
Spain’s Far Left government (lead by the Socialist Party / POSE) is currently polling at 31%. The Right Coalition is currently polling at 51% but the dominate People’s Party / PP at 32% is at odds with VOX 19% regarding immigration. Also the election is not until August 2027. There is a chance for a snap election but probably not going to happen.
That’s only 134%! Sounds about like a Democrat General Election.
How is it 134%? The Right Coalition is 3 parties. PP and VOX are 2 of the parties. All 3 parties together are 51%.
You did not make clear the distinction between “coalition” and “parties” , and those unfamiliar with Spain’s or any European country’s various internal political factions (those = most of us in America who are only vaguely familiar with our own govt.’s factions) don’t even know how to break down / add up the numbers you quoted.
I assumed that people posting here know that most EU governments are Coalitions.
Bad assumption.
Most Americans aren’t aware of European government structures.
For that matter, most Americans aren’t even fully aware of their own government’s structure.
Now you know. 😎
The question is not how long our operation will take, but how long before the Iranian people, with no organized domestic security apparatus left to stop them (we eliminated it), rise up and take over. We may have a two week plan, but it may be over even sooner than that. Three weeks TOPS if a bunch of stuff goes wrong. But no longer than that. And we will leave Iran largely intact other than the military and missile factory targets.
And that last sentence is where the opposition comes from. I’ll just leave it at that.
Aloha Rioja!
When I heard Trump’s response to Spain, I laughed out loud. FAFO.
TAW.
notice he doesn’t even mention Canada anymore. We are so cooked…..S.O.S
Hey Democrats when are you going to start paying the Americans, working for the Department of Homeland Security?
Well, I’ve never been to Spain and I don’t even kinda like the music.
Three Dog Knight pun fully intended.
But I’ve been to Oklahoma, they tell me I was born there, I really don’t remember.
Hat tip to Hoyt Axton
Soon to be, “Nobody goes there anymore!”
“… It’s always crowded!” — Yogi Berra
The US Supreme Court strikes down tariffs. Our very stable genius says hold my diet coke..
And the ENEmedia naturally decries any leverage our President may hold over their globalist overlords.
It’s what I’ve been saying since the beginning of the tariffs battle. Visually and chemically inspect with DHS every box, bolt, and screw coming into the country. Could take a year to pass through customs. They’ll be begging to pay the tariffs in a month. And DHS will be fully funded.
Correction, scotus did not strike down tarries – just the cited statute of “emergency” used initially.
Letting our fake allies know that we aren’t in a suicide pact with them. Good.
The UK must have their knickers in a twist right now..
Ask yourself why Spain never took back the key shipping choke point of Gibraltar from the UK.
As far as I know, the Spaniards never even tried.
The King of Spain and the King of England are literally cousins…. you act as if they are not one in the same.
Ahhh, the long – running inbreeding of the European monarchies.
Why just Spain?
What about the Mother country?
Because Spain didn’t let the US use its bases. The United Kingdom is too far from the action and I am sure they are cooperating in other ways. Notice that Portugal did allow the use of the Laje base in Açores.
F.A.F.O.
President Trump was being very diplomatic with Merz, whose energy and immigration policies are just as bad as Starmer’s. Germany is just as much under the sway of the green new scam as Britain is, and Merz must have winced as Trump criticized the British windmills, as they’ve got plenty in Germany also.
Merz has already acknowledged that the green energy plan was a mistake.
Thank goodness that SCOTUS affirmed last week that PDJT has the Presidential power to embargo foreign countries under EEIP (or whatever its called). He can’t charge them money but he can cut them off from the USA economy.
Now, everyone else should learn that PDJT will punish them swiftly and solidly and it won’t just be a tariff increase.
Rest assured that the US Chamber of Greed & their paid for shills in CONgress will most certainly have lawsuits & impeachments at the ready.
I am filled with deep admiration and appreciation for President Trump and his Administration doing the right thing…doing the brave thing…doing the gentle thing…doing the hard. G-d IS guiding him and his Administration. Thank you, Mr. President.
Dang!
I won’t be able to get any more ….
… hmmm…. 🤔
Oh yeah, there’s NOTHING I need from Spain.
Spain – I have never been there but my stepdad’s parents were from Spain and they were wonderful people as were their seven children, including Dad who were all born here (1912-1934).
When you look back at what has been happening in Spain and how it has been changing direction, I recall 2006 being quite a shock after the train bombing just before a major election and I thought – hoped – that it would only make the Spaniards more determined.
Fast forward to present times – a young lady, Isabel Peralta, jailed in Spain for speaking up about the invasion.
Spanish priest Father Custodio Ballester and another priest and a journalist went to court over “hate crimes” of speech –
Below, an excerpt from EWTN about that.
So, the Reconquista was what they called it when the Spaniards took back their country –
what are they going to call THIS, the Re-Re-Conquista?
What happened to the gallant descendants of El Cid?
https://res.cloudinary.com/ewtn/image/upload/c_thumb,g_face,h_200,w_200/authors/dGJq8H9c5O7gGEMlzXPn4FUEHoP3CZYKScZr8Tgy
By Nicolás de Cárdenas
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October 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM ET
Two priests and a journalist who were tried for criticizing radical Islam have been acquitted by the Provincial Court of Malaga in Spain.
The priests, Custodio Ballester and Jesús Calvo, along with the director of a digital media outlet, Armando Robles, were accused of committing hate crimes on a talk show in 2017.
The public prosecutorʼs office had requested a four-year prison sentence for Robles, along with a 10-year ban from teaching and a €3,000 ($3,500) fine. In the case of the priests, the prosecutor sought a three-year sentence.
According to Europa Press, the ruling, after verifying that the defendants had not retracted their words and writings, which were treated as proven facts, focused its analysis on whether the spoken and written words were crimes.
Spain AND U.K. refuse to support the U.S. but only Spain gets whacked. What am I missing here?
What was Marco talking about earlier??
Do you think we should send a bill for this service to the nations that can afford it? What about tankers headed for China? Will they be escorted too? I know, too many questions. 😉
Our President is the ultimate problem solver.
Since his announcement, crude oil proces down, stock market rebounding.
Historic Insurer, Lloyd’s of London, decided to cancel the insurance of all commercial vessels trapped or otherwise in the Strait of Hormuz area!
This Strait provides the ONLY sea passage from The Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is one of the world’s most strategically important chokepoints! It provides a way for oil to be shipped!
I guess Lloyd’s decided to bail out on their customers, because they were in harm’s way! Way to go, UK!
CCP applied pressure on UK’s Insurance Companies and PM, Starmer complied with them to appease CCP.
Hah,… PDJ Trump just stole their Persian Gulf insurance biz. Trump never fails to WIN for America First. He should now remind NATO that it has some Unreliable members.
The UK and Spain are not our allies. They are vassal states of China.
So was Iran……….. Not an ally of course, but a vassal state.
Playing the part of Zelenskyy’s bitch this week: Chancellor Merz, fellow cocaine bro.
Stammer has become persona non grata, rightly so.
The EU and the UK still don’t seem to comprehend that their NWO game has ended. Ya know, that’s what these countries get for hoisting up their country club dullards to their highest offices.
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Europe seeks suicide by Islam.
It is being reported that “Israeli forces struck the Iranian Supreme Council as they gathered to choose a successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei” with about 250 bombs.
It’s not yet reported if the 3-member interim council (President Masoud Pezeshkian, Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, and cleric Alireza Arafi) were present or not. If so, I imagine that Iran will need a new interim council.
Although with much of the Iranian Supreme Council buried under a few tons of concrete and rebar, finding someone to vote in a new interim council could be complicated.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-air-force-struck-irans-leadership-complex-including-presidential-bureau-in-tehran-overnight
Spain still does not pay 5% of their GDP to NATO. They have committed to 2.1%.
Anyone can beat up on Spain. Do the UK next.
The Spaniards can thank the supreme court for Spain’s boycott/embargo. Now they can argue which is worse tariffs or embargos.
Drop back 70 years and watch the movie El Cid with Heston and Loren starring. The Moors at play, note the century, etc. the argument presented.
Side note: Pay attention to the hair dos of Heston. Loren et al…fabulous to say the least, somebody deserved an Oscar just for the hairstyles!
Sophia… Grrrrrrrr! 👀😜
Sad it has to come to this. I’m quite sure there were meetings to try to persuade them otherwise. However, its not surprising considering how their government turned tail and exited the Iraq war effort after the terrorist train bombings in 2004.
The whole world wants the Iran menace eliminated, this would have been a layup for them to go along. Spain has been fighting socialist / communist uprisings for over a century. Unfortunately, the communists have the power at this point in time.
Fear not. Most of the olives we use come from Kalifornia. The Spanish are scrooging themselves on their own by flattening thousands of acres of their own trees to install solar panels.
I was curious. I looked up which countries supply olives/oil to the US:
Leading Import Sources
The following table outlines the primary countries from which the U.S. imports olive oil, along with the corresponding import values and quantities:
$$ value / (Kg)
Italy $612,760,450 87,925,800
Spain $457,919,830 70,137,500
Tunisia $181,173,770 31,685,100
Turkey $105,050,900 19,447,500
Greece $88,100,730 13,044,300
The Tunisia amounts were a surprise to me……
Sooo … “the pain in Spain falls mainly in the … trade boycott”, perhaps … ??? (to shamelessly plagiarize and borrow from the musical ‘My Fair Lady’) …
But no matter what or where “the rain” may or may not fall … this is how you do it when a NATO country will not support us … but yet they are always at the table w/ their hats-in-hand when it comes time for “UNCLE” to support (and protect) them … ???
Good for the goose; good for the gander. I’m just full of cliche’s today, yes ??
Well played, Mr. Trump.
Don’t forget that Trump hasn’t forgotten about Barcelona-based election software company Scytl’s role in the 2020 theft.
Scytl is still used as a vendor in U.S. elections. Not after today.
What exactly is an economic embargo of trade? Does that mean by law all trade between the us and spain ends. If so, thats a lot harsher than a tariff. I guess spain has roberts to blame.
I doubt the 5% contribution to NATO will come for all given that contribution level starts at the end of Trump’s term in office. I think some are playing him, and us.
Fred Murz? Really?
Just a note that the UK relented last night and will allow US Bombers and other supporting aircraft to stage through and use our facilities in the UK.
The major US facilities in Spain is Rota Airbase .. Moron Airbase … and there is also a Naval Base in Rota.
Major facilities for logistical support as well as a means to shorten air travel time from the US.
Spain, Italy, France and Germany pulled this same crap when President Reagan launched strikes vs Libya in 1986 .. when they closed their airspace. This caused a major issue with the strike plan and forced the F-111’s conducting the strike to fly a more exposed and longer route … we lost an F-111.
Did the UK remove their prohibition to use Diego Garcia??
From news I have seen … only the RAF base on Cyprus is not open to US usage.
Yet, the RAF is participating in “defensive operations”, intercepting drones as far afield as Jordan and Lebanon from their base on Cyprus.
My take, the UK is playing the pretend game ….. look like they are part of the operation by defending airspace and allowing use of bases in the UK … then in the same breath saying in the media and parliament, “the UK is defending itself and NATO lands ONLY and NOT attacking”.
The double speak games they play.
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Franco”
Is the bumper sticker I’d have on my car if I had to live in Spain.
He still dead. (Old joke 😁)
I guess the 7th century invasion of Spain, while it lasted a few hundred years, ended. This time they just rotted the country from the inside out.
Stock up on olive oil now. It’s only going to get more expensive.
Good olive oil today comes from more places than ever now. Not to worry.
Get it from the Queen Creek Olive Mill in Queen Creek (Phoenix), AZ. It’s as good as or better than any olive oil coming from Europe.
And I just bought some from The Gruene Olive in (Gruene) New Braunfels, TX. It is also just as good as European oil.
Having lived in Europe, Italian is the best, bar none.
Buy Italian olive oil. Problem solved.