“We have a lot of winners, but Spain is a loser and Britain has been a big disappointment. Spain is very hostile to NATO,” Trump said during a telephone interview with the New York Post. He noted that the Spanish were the only ones who did not want to agree to transfer 5%. GDP for defense.
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“We are not a team player and we do not intend to play a team player with Spain either,” added the US president. He also mentioned once again that he was disappointed in British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He again stated that “he is not Winston Churchill.”
Britain refused to participate in the initial US-Israeli attacks on Iran. On Thursday, Starmer said he stood by that decision. He explained that the British government's position has long been to strive for a negotiated solution, as a result of which Iran would give up its nuclear ambitions.
The British Prime Minister also explained that due to Iran's attacks on the allied countries of the Persian Gulf and on the British air base in Cyprus, the situation had changed and therefore he had decided to send additional forces to this region – four Typhoon fighters to Qatar and helicopters and anti-drone equipment to Cyprus. On Tuesday, Starmer announced the dispatch of the destroyer HMS Duncan to Cyprus, but as it turned out, it would not sail until next week.
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Foreign Minister José Manuel Alvarez, in an interview with the media, firmly rejected accusations of cooperation. — I categorically deny it. Spain's position on the war in the Middle East, the attack on Iran and the use of our bases has not changed, he said. He also added that Madrid does not intend to engage in military operations conducted in violation of international law.
