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muriel_volestrangler

(106,503 posts) Fri Apr 24, 2026, 06:36 AM Apr 24

Nato says US cannot suspend Spain from alliance, after reported Pentagon email [View all]

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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Nato says US cannot suspend Spain from alliance, after reported Pentagon email [View all] muriel_volestrangler Apr 24 OP

Fuck using NATO to go after Spain,.. magicarpet Apr 24 #1

Trump's hero Hitler bombed Spain and only then could the pseudo general Franco proclaim victory. GreenWave Apr 24 #5

Guernica Aviation Pro Apr 24 #6

Trump owns the whole country. We are going to have to pry it from his cold, dead hands. Walleye Apr 24 #2

And, we are waiting for......? OldBaldy1701E Apr 24 #3

First Americans have to be honest and acknowledge they've been taken over by a tyrant Walleye Apr 24 #4

True. OldBaldy1701E Apr 24 #7

Not the system. We are being held hostage by Maga morons Walleye Apr 24 #8

I think we need a social revolution. OldBaldy1701E Apr 25 #23

Capitalism is the most successful religion in world history. At this point all major world religions are secondary... Ol Janx Spirit Apr 24 #14

"does not foresee any provision for suspension....." JohnnyRingo Apr 24 #9

And I think they just gave away their strategy for getting (the utterly hated) Milei re-elected next year: peppertree Apr 24 #10

Didn't hurt the GOP at all the first time he bailed out that autocrat. travelingthrulife Apr 24 #13

You mean the one last October? peppertree Apr 24 #16

Trying really hard to undo NATO Pompoy Apr 24 #11

Which is impossible but fatso is the Idiot dave99 Apr 24 #17

Absolutely disgusting. NATO should really have a priority as high as any potus, even the "office" itself. Maybe more. ck4829 Apr 27 #25

The Falklands and other European "imperial possessions" - really? Eugene Apr 24 #12

only if Krasnov can be suspended from being on the earth. Wonder Why Apr 24 #15

Nice piece of lead dave99 Apr 24 #18

He thinks he can just wave his magic gold wand, Bayard Apr 24 #19

Don't be surprised if he tries to withdraw us from the NATO alliance in the near future kimbutgar Apr 24 #20

Republicans think they control the world and shithole thinks everything belongs to him..... Lovie777 Apr 24 #21

Wait! This was from an "internal Pentagon email" l Grins Apr 24 #22

Another day just showing how disgraceful he is ck4829 Apr 27 #24

but trump's feelings were hurt LetMyPeopleVote Apr 27 #26