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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 2.

Hello, America.

Welcome, it is Eric Erickson here.

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If you want to be on the program, you can text Eric E R-I-C-K to 33-777-7 as well. Happy to have you. I will get to your phone calls here in just a few minutes. Chris standby. I do want to talk to you. And before I get to Chris, though, we got a problem. We have a Spanish problem. The President of the United States is not happy with the Spanish. In fact, a lot of the Europeans aren't happy with the Spanish. And the Portuguese who have simmering rivalries with the Spanish have filled the gap. The Spanish Prime Minister has told the United States, we're not allowed to use air bases in Spain for our mid-air refuelers, many of which were stationed in Spain.

And the president has decided that it is time to impose sanctions on Spain, including a trade embargo.

He can't tariff Spain, according to the Supreme Court, but the Supreme Court noted

their decision that a restricting trade is possible. The president intends to restrict trade.

He was with the Chancellor of Germany yesterday, and the German Chancellor said this.

The answer on that is quite simple. We are trying to convince Spain to catch up with the 3% or 3.5% which we agreed on in NATO.

And as the president said, it's correct. Spain is the only one who is not willing to accept that.

And we are trying to convince them that this is a part of our common security that we all have to comply

with this numbers. And this is 3.5 for military and another 1.5 for our military infrastructure.

So Spain has to comply with them.

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