The Government does not want to make blood of the Donald Trump’s geopolitical slip. He had barely begun his term, the 47th president of the United States surprised the world with .
When asked by the press, Donald Trump assured that the Spain’s defense spending “is very low”. “Is it a BRICS nation? It is. Do you know what a BRICS nation is? You’ll find out,” the president snapped at the journalist inside the Oval Office.
“If the BRICS nations want to do that, that’s fine but let’s put at least a 100% tariff on business what they want to do with the US,” Trump added in a kind of commercial threat, although the reality is that Spain is not one of the members of the BRICS group of countries.
Initially there were five, from whose initials the collective takes its name, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, although it has recently expanded with four other full members, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran.
A day later, the official responsein the voice of the Foreign Minister. Jose Manuel Albares has stated that there could be a “confusion” in the question made to Trump, so “I would leave it in the terrain of anecdote“.
“Spain is a fundamental country in the European Union, whose leadership in the EU is indisputable and knownso I would leave it as an anecdote,” he told reporters upon leaving the World Economic Forum held in Davos (Switzerland).
Regarding the other block of Trump’s comment, the one related to “low defense spending”, Albares did specify that “there is a debate within NATO” of which “Spain actively participates.”
“Each NATO member is entitled to its own opinion, but decisions are made jointly and in the last one a 2% target that Spain also has set for 2029 publicly. We have increased our defense spending and we will continue to do so,” he continued.
Likewise, he wanted to take advantage of the fact that “We meet and exceed other objectives marked and we are in all areas where NATO and Euro-Atlantic security is at risk and with all types of weapons.
Outside of the ‘response’ to Trump, Albares has also emphasized the global weight of Spainto the point of asserting that “Spain is a country at this time with, literally, the greatest international weight in the European Union in our history“Thus, the Foreign Minister has not hesitated to boast that “Spain’s voice is not only heard internationally, but sought.”
