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Spain

Finance

When Spain denied the United States the use of its military bases to attack Iran, Trump responded with threats to cut off all trade with Spain. The Pentagon leaked that it is studying "suspending" Spain from NATO. Never in the history of the Alliance has any member been expelled. The bilateral tension with Washington is the greatest since the arrival of democracy.

Controversy

Finance

The Trump family has created a crypto platform called World Liberty Financial, issued a stablecoin ($1), received $500 million from a sovereign fund in the Arab Emirates, and is now applying for a banking license from the federal regulator that his own administration controls. Elizabeth Warren calls it "the largest financial corruption we have ever seen."

Controversy

Technology

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in February applied to Anthropic the same classification typically used for companies with ties to foreign adversaries. Anthropic's crime: refusing to remove safeguards that prevented its AI from being used in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons without human supervision.