{"id":240368,"date":"2026-03-04T15:16:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=240368"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:26:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:26:31","slug":"you-cannot-play-russian-roulette-with-the-destiny-of-millions-spains-pm-tell-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/240368\/","title":{"rendered":"You cannot play \u200bRussian roulette with the destiny of millions: Spain\u2019s PM tell Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro &zwnj;Sanchez warned on Wednesday that the conflict in th eMiddle East risked triggering a major global disaster, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/spains-sanchez-trump-you-cannot-play-russian-roulette-with-destiny-millions-2026-03-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was responding after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut &#8203;trade with Madrid over its position on the conflict and its refusal to allow US &#8203;aircraft to use jointly operated naval and air bases in southern Spain for &#8288;the offensive against Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to be complicit in something that&rsquo;s bad for the &#8203;world, nor contrary to our values and interests simply to avoid reprisals from someone,&rdquo; the Spanish PM said in &#8203;a televised address to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, among the most outspoken critics of both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said governments existed to improve people&rsquo;s lives and lashed out at leaders who &ldquo;use the fog of war &#8203;to hide their failure&rdquo; at home.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is how humanity&rsquo;s great disasters start &hellip; You cannot play &#8203;Russian roulette with the destiny of millions,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish Prime Minister Pedro &zwnj;Sanchez warned on Wednesday that the conflict in th eMiddle East risked triggering a major global disaster, Reuters writes. Sanchez was responding after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut &#8203;trade with Madrid over its position on the conflict and its refusal to allow US &#8203;aircraft to use jointly operated naval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":240363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240370,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240368\/revisions\/240370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}