The Spanish Prime Minister is not speaking from theory. Europe has seen this movie before.
In 2003, Spain itself was part of the small circle that stood beside Washington at the Azores Summit alongside the United States and the United Kingdom to push the invasion of Iraq. That decision was taken without clear UN authorization and eventually led to one of the most destabilizing episodes of the modern Middle East.
What followed did not produce the democracy, security, or stability that were promised. Instead, Iraq descended into insurgency and civil war, and the ripple effects created one of the most serious waves of insecurity Europe had faced since the Cold War era.
And Europe paid a price for it.
The Iraq war fractured the Western alliance itself. It created deep political divisions inside the European Union and between Europe and the United States. Even analysts at the time described the war as causing lasting rifts between Washington, Europe, and the broader Islamic world.
Then came the security consequences on European soil. The Madrid train bombings in 2004, which killed 193 people, were widely interpreted as part of the backlash tied to Spain’s involvement in the Iraq war. Politically, that war also contributed to the collapse of the government that supported the invasion.
Economically and strategically, Europe bore many of the shocks. War-driven instability in the Middle East repeatedly pushed oil prices higher and threatened recession risks globally.
Meanwhile, the American system kept doing what it always does during conflict: mobilizing its vast military-industrial ecosystem. Wars expand defense spending, stimulate weapons production, and channel enormous government expenditure into U.S. industry and contractors.
So when Sánchez says “No to war”, it is not merely a moral slogan.
It is a memory.
A memory of a war sold with grand narratives about weapons of mass destruction and democracy that were never found, a war that destabilized an entire region, fractured alliances, radicalized movements, and produced decades of insecurity that Europe had to live with.
And if you step back and observe the pattern, you will notice something unsettling.
When these wars end, it is rarely Washington that carries the long-term social consequences.
It is Europe that receives the refugee waves.
It is Europe that absorbs the political radicalization.
It is Europe that sits geographically closer to the instability that follows.
So when the Spanish Prime Minister says “No to repeating the mistakes of the past”, he is essentially reminding the world of a lesson Europe learned the hard way:
The men who start wars in Washington rarely live next door to the chaos that follows.
Europe does.
Me fascina lo de "Veremos las consecuencias de que España obligue a EEUU a cumplir las condiciones que firmaron para tener bases en España".Hay gente que no recuerda las consecuencias de que Aznar se hiciera una foto poniendo los pies en una mesa con Bush.
Perdón, pero este es el mejor vídeo musical de 2025 y ha sido emitido el último día.
Un plano secuencia maravilloso. Leiva cantando en homenaje a Robe. Dirección de Fernando León de Aranoa. Ese micrófono vacío.
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Hoy ese país amanece más solo. Su agencia de comunicación lo confirmó en la madrugada del 10 de diciembre. No detallaron la causa. No hacía falta.
El país entendió automáticamente que se había ido Robe, alguien que no encajaba en los moldes, alguien que nunca quiso ser ídolo pero terminó siéndolo por insistencia de quienes necesitábamos una voz que no mintiera.
Toda una generación encontramos en sus letras un modo de explicarse el mundo, por lo que sabemos que lo que se pierde no es solo a un artista. Se pierde una forma de nombrar la vida sin maquillaje.
Robe hablaba de amor, de sexo sin subterfugios, de autoestima que se construye desde el barro, de las derrotas de las y los de abajo. Hacía poesía sin pedir permiso a la RAE. Era académico de un país que nunca entró en el aula.
Sus conciertos eran rituales: miles de personas cantando sobre el dolor como si hacerlo lo convirtiera en una herramienta de supervivencia.
Hoy, el rock español queda huérfano de su figura central.
Y quienes aprendieron a sostenerse con Ama, ama, ama y ensancha el alma saben que hay silencios que duelen más que el ruido.
Hasta siempre, Robe.
Hasta siempre, siempre, siempre.
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I'd like to say how shocked, saddened, and horrified I am by the savage murder of baby-raping ubernonce Ian Watkins. But as we both know, this would be an utter lie.....
Rot in Hell you evil cunt, I hope it was slow and painful.
Y las únicas opciones que me dan son esa o devuelven el paquete el día 24. Les escribí para decirles que el error era por su culpa, porque no se podía cambiar la dirección o elegir un punto de entrega, hace una semana y nunca me contestaron. Si no se resuelve, voy a ir a Consumo
@CttExpressATC son unos estafadores. La página donde se cambia la dirección de entrega no funciona ninguna opción, intentaron hacerme la entrega dos veces a la dirección equivocada, ahora quieren que vaya a un polígono industrial inaccesible sin coche y no contestan a los emails