Olive Press columnist Charlie Mullins finally agrees with the Spanish president on something.
TAKING a stand against Donald Trump’s illegal war makes me proud to call Spain my home, insists Charlie Mullins.
You must admire Pedro Sánchez for having the cojones to stand up to Donald Trump over his crazy war in Iran rather than sitting on the fence like his European counterparts, and especially the UK’s Keir Starmer.
Global politics isn’t really my thing but if it was, I think I’d do a bit more due diligence before I pushed the button on a war that will impact every country on the planet and kill thousands of people.
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There’s clearly something not right about a world leader who, after accepting the ridiculous FIFA Peace Prize, changed the US Dept of Defence to the Dept of War, and then bombed the hell out of Iran.
And yet Trump’s supporters in the US, senior Republican politicians, military leaders, and major media organisations are still cheering him on.
European leaders are hardly any better, trying their best not to tell Emperor Trump the naked truth that he’s out of control and shouldn’t be slaughtering innocent civilians with his buddy Bibi (aka PM Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel).
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So, Senor Sánchez has gone up massively in my estimation for shouting out loud what everyone is thinking.
While I’m not a huge fan of his politics, per se, I tip my hat to his bravery.
Stay strong Pedro and keep Spain’s air bases out of Trump’s war… and in any case who needs F-35s when European manufactured fighter jets are better and cheaper.
The bottom line is the way wars like this hit everyone in the pocket.
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(Did I say everyone? I mean most people, as those who have stock in munitions companies are likely more than happy).
Anyway, fuel prices have gone ballistic at the local pumps I use around Marbella, and it’s going to get worse.
At the beginning of the month it was about €1.55 a litre and this morning it was around the €1.80 mark, and that spells a whole lot of everything will be going up in price very soon.
It’s times like this that plenty of unscrupulous retailers use a war as an excuse to fleece their punters for a whole load more than just passing on their increased costs, and the rest gets trousered.
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Profiteering, price gouging… call it what you will, it’s not on and anyone caught taking the piss needs exposing, a stiff fine and maybe for repeat offenders a little time behind bars.
So please Pedro, while you’re in a combative mood can you please make it very clear that making huge profits in troubled times is not on!
Do that and I might even consider the PSOE come election time.
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You have that mullins as a columnist? Are you crazy? Who next? Farage? Trump? Shocking from you!
Nothing wrong with a range of comments and viewpoints … suffice to say many not our own..
Charlie, don’t you realize that great journalism avoids political opinions? Can’t you see how the only interest of Sanchez is purely electoral? You bring down the normally high standards of a great newspaper!
Disagree with this silly comment. Every aspect of life is affected by politics so reporting on it is a service to us all, except maybe the ones with their heads in the sand. Personally Pedro is my hero for this stance, and I wish the naranja moron monster & his buddy naziyahu would get the hell out of my life!
A Greta Thunberg clone-
Iran exports terror. Some has to stand up to them…
This is not how you end terrorism. It’s how you get more of it.
Easy to say that Charlie, when you and your country are not being threatened, eh. What about all those Iranians killed by the regime, sounds like you support the murder of Iranian protesters? Have you asked them what they think of Trump? I’m pretty sure most are in favor of his actions. Keep your liberal ideas out of Spain, we don’t want it turning into the mess you’ve made in Englandistan.
Now they’re being killed by American/Israeli bombs..and that’s better??
Sir, with all due respect: you are driving outside your lane. Worse still, your attitude and body language are totally polemical. In my opinion, a serious journalist would (calmly) state his/her opinion, then back it up with something other than pure emotion. As a previous commenter said, you are certainly entitled to your opinion. I, for one, would be more interested in reading if it were framed more “collegially.” The wording of your column reminds me of the screeching of chalk on a blackboard.
Very respectfully,
Steve
PhD
Not too sure you will still be saying Bravo if Iran ever threatened Europe with a nuclear device.
They weren’t even close to having a nuclear device. Somewhere in Trump’s garbled, dementia-addled speech, he’s even admitted that.
He in fact TORE UP the agreement Obama had signed with the Iranians simply because he hates Obama. I’m an American. I know more than most the damage the orange psychopath is doing to my country.
My daughter lives in Spain and she and her friends constantly complain about Sanchez. My husband and I, looking from the outside, consider him to be the best thing that happened to Spain in years.
I suspect Mr. Mullins likes anything that puts Starmer in a poor light and wasn’t he the man who advocated the killing of London mayor Sadiq Khan which meant he nearly lost his OBE. But his occasional columns are a lively and interesting take on his move to Spain.
If it’s true that this guy advocated murder, then I will have to complain about Olive Press airing his views. Might as well be a Fox News site.
What a horrible comment.
The politics of the Sanchez government are with no exceptions the politics of a cowardly and selfish nation.
The country should be expelled from both NATO and the EU.
If this is the spirit of Olive Press I’m out of the door.
Hello, Vox? Is that you?
And no, I’m not supporting the Iran attack nor the more of less insane Trump
Sure, sure. /sarcasm
Trumps(US) & Israel’s war on Iran was their decision alone without any of the legally required ratification (domestically or via UN) taken or asked. There can be few who could argue that Iran’s leadership and political stance required change. But you don’t achieve that via tactics that are plainly ‘bullying’.
My view is that Trump wanted this war in order to enhance is control of the worlds oil. He would not have shown ANY interest in Venezuela if they did not have the oil reserves they do.
People need to call out these two leaders (Trump & Netanyahu) for what they are bullies and driven only by their selfish desires. Bullies are cowards and to for any leader to blindly side with them makes them equally cowardly. On that point Pedro Sánchez is doing the right thing and I applaud him. Trump & Netanyahu Started this, expecting it (naively) to be a walk in the park and now are looking for others to get them out of the hole they alone have dug. Sorry ‘chaps’ it doesn’t happen like that
Easy to see which comments are written by those who get their news from western press and those who look further afield for the whole truth
You sound like a learned man, Tim.
We welcome those at the OP.
Believe nobody and think outside the box.
As an American, I would like to point out that a majority of Americans agree with Pedro Sanchez. Trump violated the Constitution. Only Congress has the power to wage war.
This war helps no one but Vladimir Putin, since Trump removed the sanctions against Russia, and Putin is now allowed to take advantage of stratospheric oil prices that fund his illegal and immoral war against Ukraine.
Sane intelligent Americans understand that Trump is Putin’s useful idiot, and Putin probably encouraged him to help Netanyahu despite prior Presidents’ more sensible, intelligent refusal to go to war with him.