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muriel_volestrangler

(106,404 posts)
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 06:36 AM 3 hrs ago

Nato says US cannot suspend Spain from alliance, after reported Pentagon email

Source: BBC

Nato says there is no provision for member states to be suspended or expelled from the military alliance after a report said the US could seek to suspend Spain over its Iran war stance.

Reuters quoted a US official who said an internal Pentagon email had suggested measures for the US to punish allies it believed had failed to support its campaign.

The email also suggested reviewing the US position on the UK's claim to the Falklands islands in the south Atlantic, which are also claimed by Argentina.

A Nato official told the BBC that the organisation's founding treaty "does not foresee any provision for suspension of Nato membership, or expulsion".



Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz78x703lrvo



Trump and his cronies don't bother finding out what reality is - they just imagine what they'd like to do, and assume everyone will let them.
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magicarpet

(19,006 posts)
1. Fuck using NATO to go after Spain,..
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 07:44 AM
2 hrs ago

Let's just have our Secretary of War & Lethality bomb them and hit the Spanish with every missile and munitions from our available stock.

We will teach thems Spanish not to mess with alpha macho American he men.

GreenWave

(12,704 posts)
5. Trump's hero Hitler bombed Spain and only then could the pseudo general Franco proclaim victory.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 08:09 AM
1 hr ago

OldBaldy1701E

(11,339 posts)
3. And, we are waiting for......?
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 07:53 AM
1 hr ago

He does not have to be 'dead' to have the power removed from him.

He does not have to be a 'former' President.

We just will not break that programming that says we have to just sit and take all of this, and maybe one day hundreds of years from now someone will denounce his regime.

I am not willing to wait that long. I wish others were as resolute.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,339 posts)
7. True.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 08:33 AM
1 hr ago

But, first we have to understand and acknowledge that our current 'unfettered capitalism and worship of the green god' is why we are here in the first place.

It is this system that gave us that tyrant. It is that system that gives us the inequity and bias in our very fabric.

It is a failed system, but the people who profit from it are going to prop it up and let us all die rather than allow it to change.

And, we are letting them.

Walleye

(45,137 posts)
8. Not the system. We are being held hostage by Maga morons
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 09:03 AM
46 min ago

The system certainly isn’t gonna work if people can’t be honest. Do you think we need a revolution? I think we just need to get rid of this monster, one way or another. After that, we can have our revolution

JohnnyRingo

(20,939 posts)
9. "does not foresee any provision for suspension....."
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 09:04 AM
45 min ago

The NATO Pact never dreamed some unstable Jackass in an oversized blue suit and red tie would try to boot another member over petty disputes.

We never did either.

peppertree

(23,409 posts)
10. And I think they just gave away their strategy for getting (the utterly hated) Milei re-elected next year:
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 09:24 AM
25 min ago

Cheeto no doubt intends to emit some meaningless brain fart - ahem, "Truth Social" post - about the U.S. "now supporting Argentina's claim to the Falklands - Make Argentina Great Again!"

With Argentina's economy in an outright depression, that would be Milei's only hope - since another massive bailout would be bad timing to-say-the-least for the GOPee's own chances in '28.

Eugene

(67,184 posts)
12. The Falklands and other European "imperial possessions" - really?
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 09:41 AM
8 min ago

Aside from this being a thuggish threat to America's NATO allies, this shows jaw-dropping hypocrisy, even by MF47's standards.

Emperor tRump obviously wants Greenland. Does he also want to grab the British, Dutch and French dependencies in the Americas as well? Even the Monroe Doctrine left them alone.

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