Spain closes off its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war
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Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war after earlier saying the U.S. couldn't use jointly operated military bases there for operations related to the conflict.

Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in the Iran war, Defense Minister Margarita Robles said Monday, marking another step in the country’s opposition to the U.S. and Israel’s conflict in the Middle East.

Spain had already said the U.S. could not use jointly operated military bases in the Iran conflict, which Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has described as illegal, reckless and unjust.

Defense Minister Robles said Monday the same logic applied to the use of Spanish airspace in the conflict.

  • badgermurphy@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    The rest of the west seems to be more like “WTF are you doing?” regarding the attack on Iran. There was little perceptible build up or any information disseminated about the attacks; just all of a sudden we were attacking Iran and it was very unclear why.

    Now that some time has passed, it seems clear that the attack was more of a stunt than a mission, with any correlation between the attack and any grievances we may have with them being mostly a coincidence. It still seems to many of us in the USA that the president up and decided to attack a nation at random for no reason, then came up with a rationale for that baseless action afterwards.

    Many of us have a number of pretty good ideas of what the actual reasons for the attack might have been, but none of them are those being stated, nor do they have to do with any nuclear armament they may or may not be doing.