"This week, Sanchez did not wait for a joint EU statement to issue judgment on the US's illegal military intervention to capture the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro: he swiftly joined Latin American countries in condemning it. A few hours later he went even further, saying the operation in Caracas represented a terrible precedent and a very dangerous one [which] reminds us of past aggressions, and pushes the world toward a future of uncertainty and insecurity, similar to what we already experienced after other invasions driven by the thirst for oil."
"Indeed, he made the case that on Venezuela, Ukraine and Gaza he was applying the same reasoning in defence of an international order based on the observance of fair rules, not on the law of the jungle. He also pushed back against US sabre-rattling over Greenland: Spain, believing in peace, diplomacy and the United Nations, cannot, of course, accept this, just as we cannot accept the explicit threat to the territorial integrity of a European state, as is the case with Denmark."
Sanchez routinely avoids naming Donald Trump while delivering sharper criticism of US aggression than many European counterparts. He condemned the US operation to seize Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro without waiting for an EU statement and quickly joined Latin American countries in denunciation. He described the Caracas operation as a dangerous precedent that recalls past aggressions and risks global uncertainty and insecurity comparable to oil-driven invasions. Speaking after a Ukraine coalition meeting in Paris, he applied consistent reasoning across Venezuela, Ukraine and Gaza in defence of fair rules over force. Domestic far-left influence and wide Spanish consensus underpin his foreign-policy messaging.
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