Juan Carlos I left Spain to take fiscal refuge in United Arab Emirates (EAU) thanks to his friendship with Mohamed El Sayed, current president of UAE. And look where, at the pace of the war in Iran, which has rebounded to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, the emeritus will have to find an air-raid shelter. Who would have imagined it: from tax shelter to air raid shelter.
The metaphor is valid to point out that Trump is already aware that accompanying Netanyahu in this unilateral war requires him to send more troops to the area and, if necessary, introduce them into Iranian territory.
Accompany Netanyahu?
As it emerged a week ago, last Tuesday, in a briefing of the Group of Eight (the leaders of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the intelligence committees of each chamber), the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, indicated to the legislators that the timing and objectives of the mission depended on the fact that Israel was going to attack with or without the United States.
‘The Washington Post’, a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, and a friend of Trump, headlined in a cover article on Monday, March 2, that the president of the United States “has embarked on the decapitation of the Iranian regime without a plan for the day after.”
That only on the third day of war, Trump said this Monday in the White House that although presidents usually rule out sending troops to the battlefield, he contemplates the possibility of being forced to do so, tells us that something is wrong.
The risk of a prolonged war
In effect, believing that the US can erect a puppet regime with an air campaign, as it did in 1953, when together with the United Kingdom it mounted a coup d’état to overthrow the prime minister elected in democratic elections. Mohammad Mosaddeq (he nationalized oil in 1951) and placed the shah Mohammad Reza Pahlaviit seems like a chimera. Now the risk of a protracted war is no less.
Iran’s population, of 93 million inhabitants, more than quadruples that of Syria, which with 22 million suffered a civil war and caused the massive arrival of 2.3 million refugees to Turkey, Greece and the European Union. We already know that the open door policy of Angela Merkel It meant a before and after for both the conservative chancellor and German politics.
The rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), precisely, was based on exploiting the anti-immigration sentiments of German voters, suspicious of the use of social services by foreigners.
Refugee crisis
The AfD did not reach 5% to enter the Bundestag in the 2013 elections, but the refugee crisis led the party to obtain 94 deputies in the 2017 elections, becoming the third largest party in the country, as well as the largest opposition party. Since 2023, polls showed the AfD as the second most popular party in the country and in the 2025 elections it obtained 20.8% of the votes and 152 seats.
These types of consequences Trump They don’t care. In reality, they can advance their MAGA movement, which supports far-right parties throughout Europe, including, of course, its Spanish affiliate Vox.
There do not seem to be consequences to be taken into account by the leader of the Popular Party, Alberto Núñez Feijóowho is asking, according to the statement released last Sunday, for “unqualified” support for the war.
But how are you going to support “without nuances” a Trump that has unleashed a war of these proportions without asking authorization from the US Congress?
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