There was a time not so long ago when Germany was US president Donald Trump’s favourite punching bag in Europe. During his first term in office, Trump had a penchant for biting Berlin’s ear off, blasting its political leadership as grossly incompetent, blaming the country for destroying itself by accepting a million refugees and wagging his finger at the Germans’ unwillingness to take more responsibility for their own defence.

Trump hasn’t forgotten what happened in the lead-up to the Nato summit over the summer

Yet those days are over. Trump, now in his second term, has a new European target in his crosshairs: Spain.

The land of Tempranillo and Jamón Serrano is the latest subject of Trumpian rage, and the issues at hand – inadequate defence spending and insufficient commitment to Europ

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