Spain’s Sánchez derides craven ‘leaders’ praising “those who set world on fire”

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez has derided ‘leaders’ who are feting Donald Trump over the two-week ‘ceasefire’ after weeks of Israel and US bases taking a pounding from Iran and torching the global economy.

While craven politicians have praised Trump as if the US had not dressed up surrender as victory, Sánchez said Trump had “set the world on fire” and would receive no plaudits from Spain. In a post on X, Sánchez wrote that while the temporary ceasefire was welcome:

The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What’s needed now: diplomacy, international legality, and PEACE.

Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares added that:

Diplomacy, negotiation, and international law are the only paths to the lasting peace that the citizens of the Middle East deserve. All parties must show responsibility and commitment to ceasing attacks and de-escalating, which Spain will continue to support.

But Albares warned on Spanish radio that it is too early to know whether any real progress toward peace is being made – and pointed the finger at the colony of ‘Israel’ and its refusal to stop its invasion of Lebanon as part of the ‘ceasefire’:

We are still far from peace; this step is not the final one, but it is absolutely necessary … it is unacceptable that Israel’s invasion of a sovereign country … and the indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population in Beirut continue.

Both men are correct. Trump’s ‘deal’ means the world now has temporary access to a maritime passage that was freely available to everyone before the US and Israel spent billions committing war crimes and getting themselves blown up. While Iran, by contrast, appears to have achieved the war aims of its retaliation — as analyst @gandalv pointed out:

So here are Iran’s peace terms, published in the Wall Street Journal.

Non-aggression guarantee. Control of the Strait. Uranium enrichment rights. All sanctions lifted. UN resolutions scrapped. IAEA resolutions scrapped. Compensation payments for war damage. US forces out of the… pic.twitter.com/Yr1bUI9y7w

— Gandalv (@Microinteracti1) April 8, 2026

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