Trump Threatens to Cut Off Trade After Spain Denies Air Base Use
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The reason why Trump thinks that it might be effective is that the economic consequences might be negative and that will politically harm politicians. But if Trump is hated, telling him to fuck off is politically beneficial.
I suppose there are also security concerns. Could he put a lot of pressure on NATO and Spain's membership which would certainly cause a lot of pain. I know Spain is far from Russia and all but he could refuse to sell them any parts and weapon systems.
Just saying, why poke a pile of shit and then get it all over you. Trump is temporary and best to just quietly wait it out, unless you want to smell like shit.
You mean many of the same people in the Epstein files? Yea, the system seems to be protecting itself against prosecution.
I'm sure losing their jobs bothers anyone, but my might is they won't assign it to Trump.
If Trump behaves badly threatens Europe and then countries don't let him use bases, who's at fault? Trump.
In fact people might lose their jobs and assign it to the chaos created by Trump. He doesn't care, of course, my point is if people don't assign it to their own politicians, then the trade thread isn't effective.
Everything is temporary in this life. All the harm that Trump could do, too. So I don't think we the Spaniards should get involved in this "Epstein Coalition" illegal wars. Remember, all Trump's threats are temporary, as you said.
That's what an abuser expects of their victims.
The disproportionate retaliation against Spain, I think, is out of fear that the US face consequences. The Trump-Epstein cabal would be quickly over if a united European Union actually put some resistance or threat that affected the bottom line of American companies: "push the petty dictator out, or we stop trade with the US"... billionaires would suddenly start funding progressive think tanks.
But I digress... It's nice to fantasize about having elected leaders finally find their balls.