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This is a bullshit without context.
Cutting off trade with Spain would mean cutting off trade with the whole EU.
So this is embarrassing non-news.
Only thing I saw in a German headline article at all about this topic was a comment about how Merz did not tell Trump that fact (again...🙄) directly at the mentioned meeting.
I only respect Spain more for having standards.
canada:
Good job on the Republican Party for being complicit in our current president continuing to absolutely wreck the global image of the U.S. on top of everything else.
Main exports:
USA to Spain: Petroleum
Spain to USA: Refined Petroleum
Now, I'm sure this is bad business for both parts, but it's a helluva lot worse practically for USA to be without refined petroleum than it is for Spain not to have petroleum to refine.
Anyway, I'll make sure to eat double the amount of Spanish tomatoes this week.
The US company I work for is a massive multinational manufacturing corporation with factories all over the world, including Spain. What the fuck are supposed to do, cut ties with our own facilities, because the orange pig is throwing a tantrum?
Trade will continue on as normal. He can't actually unilaterally stop trade by decree but the fucking news media will never tell you that.
The shame I have for my country is only matched by my admiration for Spain and any other country that tells President Pedo to eat shit.
They aren't even telling him to eat shit out of spite or dislike. Just being congruent in their foreign policy.
Good. This needs to happen more. Have them come back to the table begging for the resources they need and don't/can't produce. It would be so lovely. Have the day you voted for!
Ah Spain, can we interest you in some Canadian products instead?
Good job on Spain for having a spine
The next President is going to have so much work to do repair country relations. This man thinks he is king of the world and can do whatever he wants.
The problem is that we know what’s to blame, so I’m not sure if the next president will alter the view now in many peoples eyes.
The problem is the people. They aren’t willing to do their national duty when it’s required, including now. They’ve mouthed off for years about how they and their second amendment right stops this kind of shit happening and have always been quick to criticise other democracies about their policing, control and lack of freedom.
Still, now, the only thing that can stop this, stop it all, are the citizens of the US. They won’t do it, though, and we’ll get a heap of excuses as to why.
So no, the next president won’t make any difference to me, what will is what the American people, whose feet this squarely lies at, do about it. I don’t think I’m alone.
I suspect you're significantly more screwed than just one next president.
The sooner the US realizes there is no coming back from this, no matter who is elected in future - the better.
There is no coming back from this because US dollar dominance is waning. Internal American decay is either secondary to that, or a symptom of that, or both. That's what's really behind the scenes in all of this (that and Israel's dreams of their own Zionazi Lebensraum, Eretz Israel).
The US used to be able to exert soft power to control the world, which lends itself much more towards moral superiority and an air of legitimacy than "do what I say or I bomb you or kidnap your president". BRICS, mostly-failed Russian sanctions, and the slow death of the petrodollar are changing that ability. That they're so desperate to maintain dominance that they now resort to borderline-world-war levels of violence is not an indicator of their strength to the world, it's the desperate death throes of the old world order.
The important thing is that the US Empire (so Israel as well) is stopped before they can reach a fully automated army and/or police force, because that's violence that obeys without compunction. If it reaches that point, it's a whole different game.
More like the next five. All this damage is gonna take at least a generation to undo.
As an Spaniard, this is the bare minimum I expect from my government. Better yet would be to evict the US from the Rota and Morón bases.
Spain is jumping a sinking ship. Kudos for being first.
Hope you like screw cap wine
I prefer my wine in a 3L juicebox.
And shitty imitation Spanish Ham from Texas
Spain has finally left behind its era of servility towards the US and is beginning to act with sovereignty and in accordance with international law. It is a pity that the political opposition in Spain is siding with the country that threatens Spain and not with the legitimate government of Spain. Patriotism means defending the interests of your country's citizens, not the interests of the country that threatens yours.
Misleading title as nothing happened yet and AFAIK he can't. EU is a single economic zone.
This is the only comment here that matters. Nothing has happened. Nothing will happen, because Trump is going to piss his pants and scream and moan, and then all of his advisors are going to explain to him for the sixteenth time that the only want to cut off trade with Spain is to cut off trade with the entire EU. No more Ferraris and Lambos. No more guns for their Abrams tanks. No more French cheese and wine. No more US trade to a market of 450 million comparatively wealthy people.
Even the actual headline of the article reads "Trump to cut off all US trade with Spain over refusal to use military bases in Iran war". Because it hasn't happened yet. And it won't. It's just another empty threat from a pathetic, brainless coward.
Oh something did happen: he managed to piss off more people or piss them off even more than they were.
US products boycott can only gets worse.
Well, I'll grant you that.
Oh well. Fuck the US. I’d literally take anything from Spain over anything from the USA any day.
USA is a tyrant country
Always has been
FUCK USA, FUCK ISRAEL AND FUCK IRAN regime! go fuck your selfs! People are dying for you to play games! fuck off. FUCK USA.
I stand with Spain and the rest of Europe.
Fuck the Iranian government for what they did to protestors for sure, but they did nothing to start this war. We all know US / Israel doesn't give a shit about Iranian protestors so that's not related. It's just another step on the path to their Zionazi Lebensraum, "Eretz Israel".
I have bad news for you about the rest of Europe
Hey Spain, please make a brand of Cava called "he is dead!". I'll buy a bottle and open it the day Trump dies. I'll buy one for Putin as well, and maybe one for Orban too..