Luis Tomás Sola

Abogado Tributario. Contable ECA®.@asociacionAECA @AEDAF. Tempus fugit, sicut nubes, quasi naves, velut umbra.

[Luis Tomás Sola @luistomas246]

@fiscalrespir @grok Ni que el TEARM te notifique resoluciones con estimaciones parciales que parecen desestimaciones de plano.

[Alán Barroso @AlanBarrosoA]

ESTO ES INCREÍBLE. Israel detiene durante una hora a un soldado ESPAÑOL y sale esta payasa del PP a decir que ella ha estado más tiempo en algún atasco. ¿Pero alguien ve esto normal? ¿¿Pero qué cojones le debe el PP a Israel??

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

For the past year, most of Europe has walked on eggshells with Trump. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has been trialing an alternative tactic: the “Just Say No” theory of Trump diplomacy. https://t.co/CBt75zNfEi

[Ignasi Guardans @iguardans]

Como una puta cabra. (Con perdón).

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

[Luis Tomás Sola @luistomas246]

@alejandrocampo Es vergonzoso.

[Tjeerd Royaards @Royaards]

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.

#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran

[Luis Tomás Sola @luistomas246]

@RealAirPower1 https://t.co/ySwO83tcYx

[𝕱𝖊𝖑𝖎𝖕𝖊  @farga360]

@NunezFeijoo Feijóo acaba de publicar un tweet con tres insultos personales al presidente del Gobierno para criticar una herramienta que mide el discurso de odio.
La ironía se escribe sola.
Gracias por el material de prueba, Alberto.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

IS 👏 IT 👏 WAR 👏

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

The Contrarian

[Luis Tomás Sola @luistomas246]

@NunezFeijoo Alberto: la soberanía se ejerce o se pierde.

[CELESSON @chemapizca]

Los influencers españoles rescatados de Dubai llegan al aeropuerto de Madrid y son recibidos entre aplausos por inspectores de Hacienda.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

Only one EU leader has dared to directly challenge U.S. President Donald Trump over a war against Iran, calling it unjustified, dangerous and illegal:

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.

https://t.co/YIaqVpsLSJ

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't know if people understand just how insanely egregious this is.

First of all, 1) not only are NATO spending targets NOT legally binding (nothing in any NATO-related legal text mandates a specific GDP-based threshold for defense spending), but on top of this 2) Spain requested AND RECEIVED an exemption from the 5% target at the 2025 Hague Summit - NATO changed the declaration's language specifically to allow Spain to sign while publicly declaring it would not comply (https://t.co/q3VE2Je3TS)

This means that, legally speaking and according to NATO's own rules, Spain is doubly within its rights: there is no binding obligation to begin with, and Spain was excused from even this non-binding obligation.

That's the first point: Germany's chancellor just endorsed - from the Oval Office - the U.S. punishing a fellow EU nation for refusing to comply with an obligation that doesn't exist in law, under a political pledge Spain was excused from at a NATO summit.

The second point is that this 5% target has nothing to do with "defense", quite the contrary in fact: it is pretty explicitly an imperial tribute to the U.S. that will actually **weaken** European defense.

That was Spain's main argument for refusing to comply: Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that "committing to 5% would not make us any safer" because it "would only reinforce our dependence" on the U.S. (https://t.co/QUMDyfvWDP)

That's the insane thing about EU defense spending: in recent years, the more it has spent on defense, the more that spending has flowed to American contractors as opposed to European ones, making the EU defense industry weaker (https://t.co/XHGLW71tX0). Increasing spending to 5% doesn't strengthen European defense: it accelerates exactly this transfer.

All the more insane given the well-documented production backlogs in the U.S. defense industry and its inability to produce at scale: US defense analysts - including from Trump-adjacent think tanks like AEI (https://t.co/c3DobMYpru) - openly acknowledge that European customers would be deprioritized behind U.S. ones in any real conflict.

AND, critically, a defense industry from a country that's increasingly hostile to Europe - explicitly so in its National Security Strategy - and whose weaponry has "kill switches" that allows for remote disabling.

I mean, the sheer madness of it: anyone with an ounce of common sense can see that DOUBLING your defense spending to enrich a foreign arms industry that has kill switches on your weapons, can't meet its own military's needs, and increasingly treats you as an adversary, is not even remotely a defense strategy - it's suicide.

That's why having Merz - in the oval office, sitting next to Trump - endorse economic coercion against the one EU country that's still sane enough to see through this madness is so egregious, and frankly straight-up traitorous.

For those who know Asterix and Obelix, Spain is the "one small village still holding out against the invaders" and Merz is Cassius Ceramix, the self-described "gallo-roman" Gaul village chief who's the incarnation of all sycophants after his tribe were conquered by the Romans.

I'm with Asterix, and all Europeans should be too.

[Catalina @CatalinaBe_]

“Los estadounidenses son muy afortunados, porque dondequiera que van para exportar la libertad… encuentran petróleo.”

Michele Serra, periodista italiano.

[Luis Tomás Sola @luistomas246]

@LindseyGrahamSC https://t.co/mLVetwcYBV so sad...

[Roderick Kutch @Satyrnine]

@marlene4719