In the note, IU referred to the episode that occurred during the NATO summit in The Hague, when “the extremist American leader” openly displayed his role as an “imperial bully” by warning that “Spain will pay double” in future trade negotiations.

In this way, it qualified the refusal of Pedro Sanchez’s government to accept Trump’s demand that NATO members increase military spending to five percent of their GDP.

These threats are an insult to our sovereignty and expose NATO’s true nature: an instrument of domination at the service of the United States military-industrial complex, IU stated.

It turns “the rest of the member states of the Atlantic Alliance into vassals forced to pad their accounts,” it added.

However, Izquierda Unida also stated that it “also rejects Pedro Sanchez’s decision to increase defense spending to 2.1 percent of GDP. Although this figure is lower than that demanded by NATO, it does not meet the real needs of our people.”

This isn’t about debating a percentage; the essential thing is to end rearmament and allocate these resources to healthcare, education, and social policies, he added.

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