When he justified his about-face with the amnesty, Sánchez already made clear one of his mottos: "making a virtue out of necessity." And that's exactly what he did at the NATO summit. It's not, therefore, that he sought out the clash to use as a smokescreen for the corruption scandals affecting the PSOE, but rather that he found it and, once inside, decided to do what he always does: extract maximum political benefit.

Donald Trump's man in Europe continues to spread his militaristic rhetoric. Two weeks before the NATO summit in The Hague, Secretary General Mark Rutte issued a resounding warning from London to all members of the Alliance. In a world where "hope is not a strategy," the allies must commit to making NATO a "stronger, fairer, and more lethal" entity, capable of guaranteeing the security of one billion people on both sides of the Atlantic. Among other reasons, because the Kremlin "could be prepared to use military force against NATO within five years," Rutte said from Chatham House, hours after meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.