It is a fact that if anyone can make Europe regain confidence in itself again, it is Donald Trump. What great praise Pete Hegseth dedicated to us yesterday: "Instead of tanks and air defenses, the focus has been on gender equality, climate change, and defense austerity."

These statements by Pete Hegseth that woke countries that do not want virile missiles, even though they spend much more than any reasonable figure on them. that they do not want virile missiles, even if they spend much more than any reasonable figure.chiringuitos del catalán, Hegseth could pass for one of those individuals that Vox has as spokespeople. The original MAGA end up resembling their provincial copies of the empire. This is because they all navigate, and dive, and feed, within the same putrid waters. A government that plays at confusing the eighty years of a president who falls asleep at public events with the 250th anniversary of the proclamation of independence, and does so with a spectacle of punches, blood and guts, is the exact reflection of those who here want to prevail the hatred of some citizens against others, and the ugliness of their bad taste.

Criticism of the preliminary agreement signed between the United States and Iran has escalated since the pact became known, opening a rift not only between supporters of Israel, but also within the Republican Party. With the aim of curbing these attacks, the White House decided to share the text of the document, but this has not been enough. This Thursday, US Vice President J.D. Vance held a press conference in which he defended his government's work in Iran, called for listening to the opinions of the Gulf countries, and tried to convince that Tehran must maintain a certain capacity to defend itself.

Donald Trump appeared triumphantly on the stage of the G-7 summit in the French city of Évian. In the closing press conference, he stated that, with the memorandum of understanding agreed with Iran, the United States had achieved "everything they had set out to do and much more." As usual, he boasted that the U.S. military is the most powerful in the world and assured that they could have continued bombing Iran for weeks or even years, but that he stopped it to avoid "an economic catastrophe." Hours later, he signed the agreement in a solemn place: the Palace of Versailles. In front of the host, Emmanuel Macron, and some cameras, Trump stamped his signature on the document on the table of the state banquet that the French president had offered in his honor. In theory, the agreement was to be signed this Friday in Switzerland, but at this time it is unknown if Trump will do it, if his vice president Vance will go, and if Iran will send someone of importance. What is certain, however, is that Trump has already signed it.

In geopolitics, things change very quickly, and while a few weeks ago Vladimir Putin appeared to be one of the indirect winners of the Iran war, as the closure of Hormuz benefited his oil exports, now with the agreement to reopen the strait, the tables may have turned. At least that is what the European members of the G-7 intend, who plan to pressure Donald Trump to take advantage now to increase pressure on the Kremlin to desist from the occupation of Ukraine and agree to sign a peace deal. Trump himself has agreed, and he was seen in a friendly attitude chatting with Volodymyr Zelensky at the Evian summit in France.

Last Sunday, Donald Trump organized his big 80th birthday party. He disguised it as an event for the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence, but July 4th is still a few weeks away. The event surpassed the fanfare of any demented celebration, as it turned American institutions into a platform for entertainment and business. Trump christened the nightly boxing event UFC Freedom 250. They set up a thirty-meter-high stadium in the South Garden of the White House. The structure, which covered the building, housed an octagonal ring. It was the stage for several martial arts fights that were broadcast through the Paramount+ platform, not through a general television channel, as would be appropriate for an institutional event. Paramount+'s owner, David Ellison, is one of Trump's allied businessmen. The UFC is the world's leading mixed martial arts fighting organization. For years it was marginal and banned in much of the United States because it was considered excessively violent. It was Trump who hosted the events in his Atlantic City casinos. On Sunday, Trump treated Dana White, the president of the UFC, like a head of state. Both emerged from the Oval Office with puffed chests and paraded through the illuminated corridors and porches until they appeared on the White House balcony. As they waved, the Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels crossed the sky. Then they paraded like heroes down the red carpet to the front row of the show. The fighters exited the presidential building escorted by the honor guard, equipped with flags and rifles. The spectacle was obscene: fireworks, a parade of soldiers, the United States anthem accompanied by a military band, and a jumbotron projecting images of imperial eagles. Blue, red, white, and gold dominated that excessive display as if it were an oversized fair. A dramaturgy that exuded a lot of aggression, with a recalcitrant patriotism that mixed testosterone, muscle, weapons, and flags as the backdrop for a sports show loaded with violence.The White House became an advertising platform. As in any televised sports championship, the space was full of sponsor advertisements. Beer brands, casinos, betting houses, and a cryptocurrency business managed by the Trumps. One of the images from the broadcast, which later went viral through social networks, is allegorical: Justin Gaethje, son of mining Arizona and the great UFC champion, the man who smashed Ilia Topuria's face in the fight, contemplated the painting with the Declaration of Independence hanging on the living room wall. He did so dressed in boxing shorts and wrapped in the stars and stripes flag. A fusion of politics and violence that conveys barbarism. The spectacle confirms the degradation of American institutions, reduced to the scenography of an ultra circus for business.

Donald Trump celebrated his 80th birthday with the White House gardens transformed into a Roman circus with martial arts fighters and seven fights to honor the emperor. A birthday rounded off, moreover, with a preliminary agreement in Iran, which Israel's bombings of Lebanon made falter until the last minute.

The f-word (“the efa word”) is the euphemism with which in English they refer to the word fuck, which undoubtedly is the most popular curse word —or swear word, or blasphemy— in this language and the touchstone of all its vulgar registers. It can be translated as merda, collons, puta (the variant puto, very widespread lately, is a Hispanism) and still a series of other possibilities, depending on the context of the sentence.Trump likes to use the f-word and its derivativeswhen he wants to act tough and politically incorrect. This Sunday he used it against Netanyahu, because the Israeli prime minister was once again on the verge of derailing, with a new bombing of Beirut, the agreement between the US and Iran to stop the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. Trump lamented this in a telephone interview with the digital Axios: “Why did Bibi have to do a fucking attack? I was so pissed off. I let him know. He has no fucking judgement” (“Why did Bibi have to carry out a shit attack? I got very angry. I let him know. He has no sense, damn it”). Trump calls Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu because deep down there is an affection. The degradation of language, the normalization of crude language within politics, is, do not doubt it, another tactic and tool of the far-right: they pass off as a sign of supposed “authenticity” what is nothing more than an impoverishment and coarsening of public debate. This suits populists, never democrats.The fact is that Trump's agreement with the ayatollah regime —still pending signature, on Friday in Switzerland— hangs by a thread of Israel's intentions and maneuvers against Lebanon, which the chief of staff of the Israeli army, Eyal Zamir, confirms as the country's “main strategic priority”, as you can read in the information by Ethel Bonet and Núria Vila Masclans in this newspaper. Trump had announced this agreement as imminent on numerous occasions and, in the end, has achieved a preliminary agreement in which he must present as a great triumph having managed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which would not have been closed if he and Netanyahu had not started an illegal war (one more) against Iran. They have managed to return to the point where things were before February 28, when they launched the first attack against Tehran. Of course: with a toll of thousands of deaths and with a global energy, economic, and financial crisis about to be unleashed as a consequence of the brilliant maneuver of these geopolitics speculators.Trump, however, has to present it as a success, and for that he celebrated it with a tweet on his network, Truth Social, which said: "Let the oil flow!"(“Let the oil flow!”). Trump's presidency, in effect, is becoming a succession of invasions, wars, and coups d'état with the purpose of stealing the oil reserves of other countries. Or perhaps he was referring to the oil with which the wrestlers who performed at the White House to celebrate its eightieth anniversary are greased. Be that as it may, a very oily president.

“Don't come near me!”, Ilia Topuria shouted at the North American Justin Gaethje on Friday in front of thousands of people. "Why, are you going to hit me? Come on, do it! I'm quite close!" Before he knew it, the lightweight champion had already given his opponent a surprise shove. It was during the presentation of the fight that the two fighters staged this Sunday at the White House, which coincided with Donald Trump's 80th birthday.

From threatening to erase Iran from the map to announcing an agreement within hours… which then doesn't materialize. From stating (about 40 times) that the war is about to end to assuring that he is in no hurry to end the conflict. And from making rising prices his main campaign objective to saying he "loves" inflation and that the latest figures don't worry him; in fact, they are "great".

A few months ago, this March, Donald Trump received a delegation from the North American Football Federation and asked the coach, the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, if the United States can win the World Cup. "I told him that we can win it," said the former Espanyol player. Pochettino has a challenge ahead: achieve good results and get the team to excite a country that arrives very divided at the event. The debut will be against the Paraguay team on Saturday at three in the morning.

The decision to start a war with Iran, led by Israel on February 28, is proving to be a real trap for Donald Trump, who more than 100 days later has still not found a way out. Far from the speed and military success of the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, the ayatollahs' regime has proven to be a much more formidable adversary, capable of regenerating itself from the blows it has received.

A few hours before the start of the World Cup this Thursday, the United States government has communicated that it will not allow one of the referees chosen by FIFA to officiate matches into its country. This is Omar Artan, who was to be the first referee from Somalia to officiate matches in the World Cup. FIFA, the organizer of the tournament, had defended in recent months that everyone would be "welcome at the World Cup" in the words of its president, Gianni Infantino, but Donald Trump's government sees it differently. In recent weeks, it has been denying visas to many fans, but also to journalists, members of team delegations, and finally, one of the referees chosen to officiate matches.

“You are crazy”, “if it weren’t for me, you would be in prison”, “everyone hates you”. These were some of the words that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, addressed to the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, last week. He told them directly in a phone call, and then he himself confirmed it to the media.

The Iranian national team will be one of the main protagonists of this World Cup. The team of a state at war with the United States will play precisely in the United States. Two clashing governments, enmities, with bombings every so often, have finally agreed to prevent the Iranian team from making a sports boycott. Never in the history of the World Cups has a qualified team boycotted. There had been boycotts in the qualifying rounds, such as when the Soviet Union withdrew from the play-off prior to the 1974 World Cup in protest of Pinochet's coup d'état in Chile, but never has a qualified team renounced the championship for political reasons. Nor will Iran do so.

It has gone around the world, like everything related to the toxic twins of international politics, the row that a few days ago Trump gave Netanyahu over the phone: "You are a son of a bitch," he told him. "You would be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass." A possible subject of study is the identification between leaderships that claim to be strong and the brothel language that floods Western politics and media.In any case, for once, Trump fell short. When it came to Netanyahu, he could have continued to hurl insults and curses, and whatever he said would have been justified: on the condition, of course, of also reversing the insults against himself. Trump blamed Netanyahu and the attacks by the Israeli army against Lebanon for Trump's repeated failures in negotiations with Iran, and with good reason. But he could also blame himself and his administration, which insist on pursuing the productive strategy of combining negotiations with bombings over Tehran. Trump has been announcing an agreement for weeks that, in his words, is always imminent and desired by the ayatollahs' regime with a desperation that, for now, is only evident in Trump himself (the latest announcement, quite doubtful, is for this coming weekend; Netanyahu, meanwhile, says he has agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon, but his ceasefires are so elastic that they include massacres of civilians, as in Gaza). Let's remember that Trump announced the supposed victory of the US and Israel over Iran eleven days after the first unannounced attack: "Our army has practically destroyed Iran. Its air forces are finished." Almost three months later, Iranian aviation, drones, and missiles continue to torture American armed forces that are short of resources. The warlike fury of the Trump administration generates profits in the form of spoils obtained in piratical actions against international law (for example, Venezuelan oil, which the US is now plundering with the collaboration of Delcy Rodríguez and the same elites who already parasitized the country with Maduro; there has been no regime change, nor anything similar), but it also depletes budgets and armaments.

Cuba has been immersed in a severe economic and energy crisis for months, and tourism is one of the casualties. The fuel shortage that the island has been suffering for some time due to the United States' oil strangulation has led some airlines to cancel flights to Havana. This is the case of Iberia, which since this Monday no longer operates the route between Madrid and the Cuban capital. Now, the threat of sanctions also from the United States is added regarding foreign hotels that manage assets owned by Gaesa, the Cuban army's conglomerate. Pressure that has already led different hotel firms to withdraw from the island. This Wednesday, Meliá, the hotel chain of Mallorcan origin, announced that it was ceasing operations at 15 hotels on the island, while on Tuesday the Spanish firm Iberostar did the same with 12 of its 18 establishments. The decision of both means the partial withdrawal of the most important Spanish hotel chains in Cuba.

Tensions in the Persian Gulf have flared up again this Wednesday, following a bombing of Kuwait International Airport, with one person dead and at least 63 injured, according to health sources, seven of whom required surgical interventions. The United States has attributed authorship to Iran, accusing it of a "deliberate, calculated, and unjustified attack." But Tehran insists that the detonation was a consequence of the impact of an American missile interceptor on the airport. This is the deadliest attack exchanged between the US and Iran in recent days, and moreover, it occurred at a civilian infrastructure, further jeopardizing Donald Trump's attempt to reach a new ceasefire agreement with Tehran to save face.

We often say that politics seems like a schoolyard, and we say it to indicate childish attitudes on the part of leaders, who precisely if they have to seem like anything to us, it should be "parents", not "children". We've said it lightly and we've said it more times than we should. But here it is, today I open the ARA and I come across the words that leader Trump dedicates to leader Netanyahu. And I tell myself yes, that the phrase to define him had never made so much sense. He told him this (we translate as best we can): "You are a fucking crazy person. If it weren't for me, you'd be in jail. I'm saving your ass. Everyone hates you. Everyone hates Israel for what you're doing".

Despite de-escalation promises from Washington, in southern Lebanon nothing seems to have changed this Tuesday. The inhabitants of Nabatiyeh have barely had time to process the ceasefire announcements when sirens, evacuation orders, and Israeli bombings have once again imposed themselves over any expectation of calm.