An internal Pentagon email outlines options for the United States to punish NATO allies it believes failed to support U.S. operations in the war with Iran, including suspending Spain from the alliance and reviewing the U.S. position on Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, a U.S. official told Reuters.
The policy options are detailed in a note expressing frustration at some allies’ perceived reluctance or refusal to grant the United States access, basing and overflight rights - known as ABO - for the Iran war, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the email.
The email stated that ABO is “just the absolute baseline for NATO,” according to the official, who added that the options were circulating at high levels in the Pentagon.
I’m sure Spain wouldn’t mind. At the same time they can leave all their bases in Spain. Frankly at this point NATO would be better off without the US.
It’s time Europe stood in it’s own, but for US that means leaving all bases in Europe and Europe no longer sharing intelligence or purchasing US military hardware.
Good luck being a pariah state.
EU is also reducing and disconnecting financial systems, infrastructure, software, critical trade and a bunch of other dependencies. The US and their businesses are less happy about that part.
I pity any country that is slugged with buying food from the US. For a country obsessed with meat, they sure are bad at producing any worth a damn.
Well, that’s because you seem to think the same thing makes good “meat” regardless of the cut or even animal…
American beef is shit for steaks, but is the best hamburger meat. Most of our beef that’s exported is ground to be mixed with “local” beef in other countries for hamburgers due to the higher fat content in American beef.
Anyways, it was just weird to see someone mention all those big issues, and then someone to chime in with something that really doesn’t matter and they clearly don’t understand
And they can kick NASA out of the Madrid station on the Deep Space Network.