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Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic
- On Tuesday, Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez refused US requests to use two Spanish bases and described the operation as 'unjustified and dangerous military intervention' after Trump threatened to cut off trade.
- Domestic polling and coalition dynamics, including pressure from the Sumar platform, help explain Madrid's stance amid 77 percent of Spaniards holding a negative view of Trump and 23 percent supporting the offensive, as per a Friday poll.
- Referencing history, Sánchez recalled the 2003 Iraq decision by José María Aznar as a caution while addressing Spaniards on Wednesday.
- European capitals issued a joint statement on Wednesday, while Emmanuel Macron, French president, called Sánchez to express backing; the consequences are impossible to predict as the Spanish public awaits potential economic reprisals.
- For Sánchez, the dispute offers a chance to mobilise the left and may capitalise on his anti-Trump credentials, including talk of a potential snap election before the summer.
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A position that can also change the eyes of the Spaniards on a government in difficulty. ...
Pedro Sánchez’s lone stance against Trump may look risky, but it is cannily pragmatic
The Spanish PM’s defiant foreign policy line may seem outspoken. The truth is that he is a sound strategist at home and abroad Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called his 2019 political memoir A Manual for Resistance: a fitting title for a centre-left leader known for his survival skills and…
The Spanish Prime Minister told the U.S. President what no other European leader dares to say: “No”. It is a position based on the ideology of the left Spanish, the oldest or most recent history of the country, but also on the difficult electoral context of Sánchez, who tries to write points through the struggle with a ...
Last weekend was chaotic, according to government sources. News coming from across the Atlantic were ambiguous, if not contradictory. US President Donald Trump was waging a war that has set fire to the Middle East from his private residence in Mar-a-Lago, with a small group of collaborators, while the Pentagon’s senior staff and senior officials were awaiting instructions in Washington. The Spanish government was not warned of the imminence of t…
What is happening in the world is so serious and complex that it will never enter Sánchez's "no war." It is impossible for him to fit.
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