The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said this Tuesday, March 3, at the White House that the US “is going to cut off all trade with Spain”, after the Government of Pedro Sánchez has denied the use of the joint bases of Rota and Morón for the military attack operation against Iran.
“Some nations have been cooperative, others have not. NATO director Mark Rutte It’s fantastic. But Spain has been terrible. I have told Scott [[BessentSecretary of the Treasury to cut off all negotiations with Spain. Spain has said that we cannot use its bases. We could just fly and use them, no one is going to tell us not to use them. But we don’t have to. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need, apart from a great people. “They don’t have great leadership.”
Spain was not the only one reviled by Trump. “I’m not happy with the UK either. It took us three, four days to figure out where we could land on the British island of Diego Garcia. It would have been much more convenient to land there than to fly a lot of overtime. It’s not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with here.”
Within the Treasury Secretariat there is a department called Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which is in charge of designing operations against countries that do not submit to the dictates of Trump. On January 15th, Bessentbroadcast a message explaining the action taken to cause the collapse of the Iranian economy.
“Last March we projected the president’s maximum pressure campaign Trump against the Iranian regime that would accelerate an economic collapse. Since then, our sanctions have had the effect of blocking oil exports and shutting off revenues. Currency and life conditions in Iran are in free fall. “These are the first signs of collapse,” he warned. Bessent.
And he added: “The Central Bank of Iran is bankrupt and printing money. Next is hyperinflation. Instead of seeking prosperity, the Government has chosen to squander what remains of oil resources to build nuclear weapons, missiles and support terrorist groups around the world. Civilians are rightly protesting the disorder and economic collapse. The president Trump He is with the people and has ordered the sanctioning of leaders who have responded brutally with violence to the demonstrations. Today we sanctioned 18 individuals and entities that the regime uses to avoid sanctions over its control of Iranian oil. “The oil resources belong to the people of Iran and not to their brutal dictators…”
BessentPrecisely, he had previously designed a plan to get the president Javier Miley could win the legislative elections on October 26, 2025. The polls showed serious possibilities of defeat for the ruling party La Libertad Avanza. The Secretary of the Treasury proposed a plan to the Government.
“The United States Treasury is prepared, immediately, to take any exceptional measures necessary to stabilize the markets,” said the head of finance of the world’s largest economy.
Bessent argued that Argentina required immediate help to face its serious liquidity problem, that is, its shortage of dollars. For this reason, a credit line or financial swap (‘swap’) was provided for a value of 20,000 million dollars with a high profitability for the United States Treasury.
On October 14, twelve days before the elections of the 26th, Trump He warned after holding an interview with the Argentine president: “If Milei does not win, we will not be as generous.” Milei, in fact, won the legislative elections.
Bessent will now prepare the plan for Spain. It doesn’t seem to be a ‘bluff’. Most of the nations in which there are US military bases, or military bases over which these countries grant the US Army the right to use, have declared, in the Security Council meeting last Monday the 2nd dedicated to Iran, that responsibility for the war lies with Iran, the attacked country. Even Denmark has joined despite being the country that suffers a direct threat from Trumpwhich aspires to keep the island of Greenland.
In this display of vassalage, the Government of Pedro Sánchez, by denying the use of the joint bases of Rota and Morón, has been an exception, which has activated Trump’s rage against the Spanish authorities.
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