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A woman plays with her dog and a swimmer sinks to the Atlantic because the sun sinks on a quiet Spanish beach. However, the infiltration of Prashant Vista is a pair of US warships.
The 5-ton devastating is located in Rota out of five, once a poor peasant village, which is now the most important US naval base in Europe. The ships, which can detect and shoot enemy ballistic missiles, are the launch of the American Shield set up to protect Europe.
The base is waiting for the sixth warship committed in 2022, but with the US President Donald Trump All the bats are closed in the White House. His claim that Europe triggered the Angest that has begun to protect itself in the latest “freeling” and that Washington is about to reduce its defined military presence in Europe.
About 5 active US servicemen have spread across at least five European bases, some of them at the end of World War II. The Rotar base originated from an agreement between US President Dwight Eisenhwar and Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
It is now proud to be an airfield, three piare and the Pentagon as “Europe’s largest weapons and fuel facilities.” According to the Pentagon’s guide for the arrival workers, “Projecting military power in the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East” is important for the arrival workers.
New Yorker, who is co-founded in New York’s Pizza Chain, James Beam, said, “Rota, claiming that the world has the highest pizzarius per capita,” is one of the largest in the military tour. “” It is basically heaven. “
However, the regional standards and leisure options of rota will not necessarily protect its future. Local memories, which include Rock ‘N’ Roll coming out of the base and fascist fascist sensors of the past, more calculate.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegastath warned European allies earlier this year that US protection “will not last forever”. But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has rejected reports of potential reduction in US troops this month “Hysteria and Hyperbol”The
Former European Defense Secretary Jim Townsend says: “Anything can happen. There is a lot that can remove Trump.”
He said the potential triggers were revealed against Trump’s tariff, European support for Ukraine or the US President’s goal resistance to take charge of Greenland, he said. “Trump can say: ‘Look, I vs your sons now. Screw you. You protect yourself.’
Spanish politics can make the rotation weaken. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of the senior leftist leaders in the EU, has repeatedly opposed Trump on foreign policy.
Michael Walsh, a former campaign officer of the Democratic President’s foreign policy, says “Misselines create political risks in the United States” and have increased the chances of reducing the rotation.
Sanchez’s friendship towards China was a special friction, Premier Washington and Beijing last week to call on the tariff war during a visit to the Chinese capital. Is a second Spain spends less defense As a percentage of GDP compared to any other NATO member. The third is Sanchez’s criticism of Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
Rota itself is not easy to set up. This is officially a Spanish naval facility “jointly used” by Americans, which means that Madrid requires permission for certain things in Washington.
This base, which is currently in the sea, hoses 2,5 US troops, also gives examples of how far Europe is from being able to protect Europe.
NATO The ballistic missile is called Shield its own, but it is an ambiguous US product. Other NATO members can theoretically occupy its east side, launching sites in Poland and Romania, two lightly -operated USA. However, the warships that start to go to Rota in Barack Obama’s administration are another issue. They initially supply a mobile shield to protect the continent from Iran – and there is nothing like the European Navy.
One of the reasons that Europe wants to avoid withdrawal in Europe and will gradually prefer to take over the greater defense responsibility in the next decade.
Rota Mayor Javi Ruiz Arana said the city was shaken by rumors about the cut before. However, the base is consumed and about two-thirds of the local economic activities are powered, he said. Americans still run on their chevrolets and hammers on the narrow roads of Rota and have the state -owned Spanish Shippuber Navantia seven years € 822MN Maintenance agreement For the destructive.
Ruiz Arana said, “If anything happens, people feel that the base is growing.” “There is investment here, the hangers are being extended, there is a project to expand the port.”
Rotar Americans hoped to continue uncertainty. “Everyone has got his own opinion,” a service member is walking on a poach on the seaside. A military wife / wife in Midwest says they believe that America will end with a decreased security bill for Europe: “There is a slightly rough road at the beginning, but I think it’s going to be flat.”
An alternative to consideration is to send thousands of soldiers sent by biden to encourage the east edge of NATO in 2022.
Chief Executive and retired Rear Admiral Raymond Speaker of the US Naval Institute said the demand for workers outside Europe is increasing as the United States focuses on China. “The pivot of the Western Pacific is a big reason,” he said.
Even in the United States, even by reducing its presence in Europe, what is still left needs to be protected. This means a role for the destructive and special marines located in Rota, whose role is to respond to any attack on the US embassy or base.
Spain’s Defense Ministry says: “In the case of [US-Spain] Relationships and Rota, no change with Trump’s arrival. “Economy Minister Carlos Quirpo this week emphasized that US-Spain relationships were” one of their best moments “.
Walsh, however, said that a non-European country could give the United States equally good site on the other side of the Mediterranean: Morocco, which has previously proposed Rota alternative. Kingdom further strengthened his status as Trump’s ally in 2021 by normalizing relations with Israel.
“In the Trump administration’s view of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the risk of setting up US military bases in Morocco is much lower than Spain in the Trump administration’s view.”
If Sanchez considers how much rotor is needed in the United States, he warned that Trump’s chances of pushing were particularly high. “With Trump they have such a danger to raise their hands in political games and the issues are disconnected.”
Additional report by the carman fair in Madrid; Cartography by Ian Boat
