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Trump dag 461: Trump annuleert gesprekken met Iran nadat Iran vertrekt, wordt geëvacueerd van WHCD na schoten in hal, ICE wil detentiecentrum op PFAS-vervuilde plek, leden Science Board ontslagen, alle zwarte Republikeinse Huisleden stoppen in november: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-461-…
Right. Let’s flip this entirely. So Washington wants to punish Britain and Spain. For what, exactly? For declining to participate in a war nobody asked for, nobody voted for, and nobody outside Mar-a-Lago particularly wanted. A war that has shut the Strait of Hormuz, torched the global economy, and handed Vladimir Putin the geopolitical equivalent of a winning lottery ticket. The Pentagon, in its infinite wisdom, has been circulating an internal email proposing to reward European restraint by suspending Spain from NATO and revisiting America’s support for Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands.  The Falklands. A conflict that was settled in 1982 with 900 dead and has not been in dispute since. Trump’s new diplomatic weapon of choice is apparently a forty-year-old war. It is time to stop asking why Europe won’t sanction America and start asking why Europe hasn’t already. While Washington was dragging its allies into an illegal war in the Middle East, it was simultaneously shipping goodwill to Moscow, abandoning Ukraine, and threatening to pull out of the very alliance it now demands sacrifice in service of.  Trump called NATO countries cowards. He called British aircraft carriers toys. He called Keir Starmer “no Winston Churchill,”  which is rich coming from a man who can’t spell Churchill and whose only military instinct is to bomb things and then ask Pete Hegseth why it didn’t work. Spain has been completely clear: no bases, no airspace, no participation in what Prime Minister Sanchez has repeatedly called an illegal war. Good for Spain. That is not betrayal. That is a functioning democratic government with a spine. The betrayal is Washington’s. The betrayal is two years of gutting Ukraine aid, cosying up to the Kremlin, treating Article 5 as optional and European security as a bargaining chip. If Brussels wants to send a signal, here is what it looks like: targeted sanctions on American officials who have actively undermined European security. Asset freezes. Travel bans. A formal review of all bilateral defence agreements that assume American good faith, because that assumption is no longer supportable. NATO has confirmed that no mechanism exists to suspend or expel a member state.  Which means Washington cannot throw Spain out. What Washington can do is sulk, threaten and bluster, which is, come to think of it, the entire foreign policy of this administration in capsule form. Britain and Spain didn’t fail America. America failed the alliance. And the sooner Europe stops waiting for Washington to remember what side it’s on, the better. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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