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Refusal to allow use of bases in Rota and Morón follows Pedro Sánchez’s condemnation of US-Israeli action

Spain has denied the US permission to use jointly operated military bases on its territory to attack Iran as Madrid stepped up its criticism of the “unjustified and dangerous military intervention”.

Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has explicitly condemned the US and Israel’s “unilateral military action” against Iran, warning that it is contributing to “a more hostile and uncertain international order”. The rebukes have been reinforced by his government’s refusal to allow the US to use bases in Rota and Morón for the continuing strikes against Iran.

José Manuel Albares, Spain’s foreign minister, said on Monday that while the government wanted “democracy, freedom and fundamental rights for the Iranian people”, it would on no account allow its bases to be used in the ongoing military action.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 121 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Respect to Spain on this. This is illegal and wrong.

Britain even allowed this but Trump is still throwing a hissy fit that they asked if it was legal before letting them do it anyways.

So yeah, the Trump regime shows once again that even if you cooperate you’ll get shit on. The only answer is to never play their games.

[–] Ansis100@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"oi, you got a loicense for waging war?"

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 27 points 2 days ago

You can't war there mate.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

🍊😡🍊

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 125 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only country in EU with spine and sovereignty

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Guess now we know which government in Europe doesn't have politicians who are being blackmailed by Israel and/or the US with proof of some crime or other (including pedophilia, which judging by who supported Epstein is a specialty of both the MOSSAD and the CIA)

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just wait until PP or vox gains power. Which will probably happen since now the cia+mossad will work together to get them into power.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think American support for the Far-Right all over Europe has been ongoing and pretty openly so for a while now: some years ago Steve Bannon even came to Europe with money to - as he himself said - grow the Far-Right in Europe.

Israel being an ethno-Fascist country are also very interested in the growth of the Far-Right in Europe as plenty of warm welcome of European Fascists in Israel attest to, including some who have often openly made anti-semitic statements.

I suspect the horse of CIA + MOSSAD support for Far-Right parties in Spain (and the rest of Europe) has long bolted from the stable, in which case it won't be any worse if leftwing and even centrist European leaders cut off support for those nations, maybe even the opposite since those nations are already actively supporting their political adversaries.

PS: Whilst I'm not in Spain, I am in next door Portugal, and you can be pretty damn sure that America as a nation are total buddy-buddies specifically with the mainstream Portuguese supposedly center-right party (only not really center anything, plus they have been drifitting even further rightwards in the last decade or two) which is the equivalent of the PP and is currently in government in Portugal (which is why Portugal has been supporting both the US and Israel, including in the slanted coverage - very much using the same tricks as the BBC and NYT - of the Genocide and the this war in the local Media aligned with that side of politics).

[–] anzo@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

You didn't mention kremlin, they were already into it

[–] Janx@piefed.social 50 points 2 days ago

Finally. Someone stands up to our Mad King...

[–] prex@aussie.zone 44 points 3 days ago
[–] Mihies@programming.dev 31 points 3 days ago

I'm with Spain on this

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 22 points 2 days ago

Immensely based, respect.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)
[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"El pedofilo naranja". Since you are referring to it as a male thing, you need to adapt the article to the male form (la is for female, while el is for male). 

Yes, I used "it". I don't think trump deserves human treatment. 

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not a spanish speaker in any way but I wonder: shouldn't the adjective "naranja" follow as well?

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

That's a funny case: some adjectives do, and even some colours used as adjectives (roja/rojo, amarilla/amarillo), so your thinking makes sense, but naranja never changes its ending: it's the same for masculine as for feminine.

Note: the word naranjo exists, but it's never an adjective, it is a noun which means orange tree.

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 1 points 2 days ago

Thanks for the explanation!!

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You'd use anaranjado though, not naranja. Y cuando se trata del femenino, anaranjada.

[–] nshibj@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Naranja is an adjective which was used correctly in the original sentence, and that's what we are discussing. Anaranjado exists too, but that's not the word we're discussing here.

Also, at least in some countries, the adjective naranja is much more common than anaranjado, so your suggestion would be the odd choice.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Naranja, anaranjado/a, naranjado/a are all accepted adjectives by RAE

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I will be surprised if he finds out about it.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump you mean ? He's already said he's cutting off all trade with Spain because of it.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 day ago

I wrote this before he said anything. I thought US will just ignore this but they are really butthurt about it. Trump doesn't seam to understand that he can't just cut ties with Spain without cutting ties with whole Europe. Merz could explain this to him today but he proffered to sit quiet. I'm tired of being disappointed in EU leaders. Sanchez is a nice exception but his days are counted.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine telling the russian government that they cannot use their military bases in YOUR country to invade ukraine. There shouldn't be any US military base in Spain to begin with but it seem the Spanish government has a different opinion.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 1 day ago

NATO. US has bases everywhere.