Spain has been terrible. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain. I have asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to cut off all dealings with Spain. I could tomorrow stop -- or today, even better -- stop everything having to do with Spain, all business. I have the right to... do anything I want with it.
Defending the countries of Nato's eastern flank in the event of a potential Russian aggression would cost at least twelve hundred billion euros - twenty-four times more than the Polish defence budget. A free Ukraine, as part of the West, is our chance to render Russian imperialism toothless.
Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Spain if it fails to comply with the 5% of GDP defense spending agreed within the NATO framework has run into Brussels. The European Commission reiterated this Wednesdayonce againthat trade is its exclusive jurisdiction, and that an attack of this type against a member country is something to which the EU should respond as a bloc. And it will do so if necessary.
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