The United States has in the spotlight to Spain. The Trump administration is demonstrating that the Spanish government has opposed 5% of GDP in military spending in defense, and does not stop showing it. And this Wednesday, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, has returned to the load in an interview with Politicus. “It is a problem, it is a big problem,” he said about the agreement between the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, so that the commitment in Spain's spending is with the objectives and capacities instead of with a fixed percentage of GDP. According to Sánchez, Spain would reach 2.1%; According to Rutte, it will end up being 3.5% of GDP – the remaining 1.5% has to do with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and is not traditional military hard expense.
Meanwhile, during the family photo, Pedro Sánchez and Donald Trump have avoided all contact.
Because? “They claim that they can do it for less, but Spain now has deep internal political challenges. They have a center -left government that basically wants to which Spain has arrived is sustainable and, frankly, puts them in a very difficult situation with respect to their other allies and partners. ”
“NATO has the opportunity to be, if everyone fulfills its commitment, a much stronger alliance with more capable partners and, frankly, allow the United States to remain a dynamic and strong member of it, the biggest member, but also reallocate resources to other parts of the world without subtracting strength from the alliance,” said Rubio.
Thus, Rubio argues about the European social model: “They have these vast social security network programs, so every dollar spent in the army is money that is removed from education, health and all the things that people benefit in their government. So they are difficult decisions, but look where we are only a few years later. The combination of the pressure of President Trump in his first administration and then Vladimir Putin has now led to practically all countries, all members of the Atlantic Alliance, commit to reaching that 5 %figure, with the exception, unfortunately, from Spain. ”
