To help understand what is happening in Spain:

1. This government is a a very precarious situation, even before the ongoing genocide. It is form by a delicate coalition. Now, Spain has traditionally been very sympathetic for the Palestinian cause, and the majority of parties reflect that sentiment.

2. Spain is a NATO country so as such it needs mainly US weaponry that US, oddly, to say the least, assigns Israel to be the distributor of critical parts.

3. Spain has an army military elite and a Police force (Guardia Civil) that is very linked to the Franco dictatorship so these tend to quietly push their weight for the Israel’s side of things.

4. Grande-Marlaska is the Interior minister in this coalition. He is from the ruling Socialist Party, but he is well known for years to be very right-wing on many aspects, among them, to side with Israel and working to undermine Spanish position on Gaza. He is the ultimate person to authorize purchases many of these purchases we hear about. The president should had fired him long ago, but, I presume, would severely risk the coalition and cause votes to leave to the Right.

5. Since a decade, there is a very right-wing political that, like in most on Europe, is disrupting the political panorama. Nothing bad, per se, but this political party (VOX) was very, very strangely was finance early on by the “People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran”, a anti-Iranian organization… why are anti-Iranial organizations doing financing extreme-right wing parties in Europe should been raising some eyebrows but did not. What I do highly suspect is that these groups are not being financed by disgruntled Iranians but some other entity with deeper pockets and with even more eager to see a regime change in Iran.

6. Spain police forces, like in most of the world, tend to exaggerate claims of terrorism arrest. Let’s not even go that most these terrorist groups have actually links to some western intelligence groups, but overwhelming majority of arrest are for " distributing terrorist links", aka to pass links of joining Al-Qaeda in Syria (oh, the irony!) or passing videos that you would have found on Twitter anyways… it is a bit like when peer-to-peer file sharing was deemed as clear copyright violation and sent to prison but that you find exact music now in YouTube and composers still get nothing but this is now legal and YouTube lauded as a success story.

7. Now there is a case of an attempt of assassination of right-wing politician (Vidal-Quadras) that very early on was blamed on an Iranian agent… there is no proof at all that Iran is behind, probably the only intel on the individual was provided by the CIA or Mossad and happily the Guardia Civil takes it without any further question. Of course, the Cui Bono here never applies in these cases… why would Iran attack politicians of the country in Europe more sympathetic to Palestine and even Iran is never asked… same as why “Islamist” ISIS never attacks Israel but only to countries that Tel-Avid has in the bull-eye at the moment and the occasional attack to Europe to make them remember how bad Islam (ironically, to blame the countries that ISIS is actually attacking!!!).

8. In Spain, awkward things are happening since Spain position on Gaza. In spite economically performing good in an ailing Europe, nation-wide blackouts happen for first time, bullet trains cannot run because someone “steals” copper lines, private calls gets release (always in only one side, that is!), etc.

So yeah, that is why Spain says one thing, but them a contract with Israel gets signed, and Spain gets shunned for not wanted to spend more in military… Lets be frank, the overwhelming majority to purchase US weaponry… I would love to Spain dedicate that extra defense spending in diversifying its weaponry on Chinese J-35 (1/2 operating costs of F-35 anyways) and you will see if increase defense is actually Europe’ s rational or the facade behind a massive Money Laundering.

From ElMundo:

Regarding the information published by the newspaper El Mundo under the title “The Government recedes and authorizes Defense to buy technology from Israel for its rearmament plan”, the Ministry of Industry clarifies: 1. That the Royal Decree referred to in the information has not been approved today in the Council of Ministers, as the media assures. This Royal Decree is in the phase of hearing and public information, whose term to present allegations covers from Thursday, July 3, 2025 until Wednesday, July 23, 2025, which in itself prevents its approval in the Council of Ministers. It can be consulted at https://industria.gob.es/eses/participacion_publica/Paginas/DetalleParticipacionPublica.aspx?k=73

1.2. The purpose of this Royal Decree is to initiate a process of granting loans for programs in which the Ministry of Defense has not yet identified the contractor. The information in El Mundo deliberately ignores the part of the text of the Royal Decree in which it is stated that “The Ministry of Defense is currently finalizing the process of determining the companies that will develop the programs object of this Royal Decree” (sic).

3. Regarding the SCRT Program, the statement in the Royal Decree that “the national industry does not currently have sufficient capacity for the manufacture and supply of the required systems” does not imply, in any case, that this material will be purchased from Israel. In this regard, the Government of Spain reiterates its commitment not to make arms purchases from Israel.

4. Likewise, it is also not true, as the news claims, that in order to acquire this capability it is necessary “to make a transfer of technology from the Israeli Elbit System to Spain”. This interpretation is totally unfounded. In any case, it will be up to the Ministry of Defense to determine, with funding from the Ministry of Industry and Tourism, the contractor to provide this equipment.

radio communication systems

from Israel

Yeah, right, that can’t get wrong.

This is just working. Spain is no demand for military tech and could easily spend time shopping around for years.