Spain opens the door to joining the purchase of arms for Ukraine from the United States.

Spain could join the group of countries willing to acquire US-made weapons to deliver to Ukraine, thereby collaborating in its defense. Minister Margarita Robles, who participated in a NATO summit in Brussels yesterday, left the door open to this option, which countries such as Germany, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Portugal have already advocated. So far, only Great Britain has rejected the idea.

At this meeting in Brussels, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth pressured the allies to increase investment in this program, which has replaced US donations to Kyiv.

Albares reiterates that the commitment to the allies is beyond doubt and recalls the deployment in the east

According to Robles, "Spain will always be helping Ukraine, and if it's necessary to join that initiative to help Ukraine, Ukraine is the priority," said the minister, who spoke with the Secretary of War. Hegseth invited the minister to attend the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence in California.

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump's threats to expel Spain from NATO over its reluctance to assume 5% of military spending crept into the summit yesterday. However, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte neither defended Spain nor disavowed Trump. Instead, he chose to remain low-key and avoid commenting on the controversy, which for now consists solely of the magnate's statements.

Asked about the matter during the summit press conference, Rutte began by praising Trump's work during the summit in The Hague, where this new 5% commitment was adopted, split between 3.5% for pure military spending and another 1.5% for related matters. "President Trump was extremely important in making the NATO summit a success. I've said it before, without him we would never have reached this 5% result," Rutte began, who has already been heavily criticized for his constant flattery of the US president.

"The good thing is that we had unanimity in The Hague," NATO Secretary General emphasizes regarding the 5% commitment.

“So he's pushing hard for this to happen. I'm pushing for that to happen. The good thing is that we had unanimity in The Hague. All 32 countries fully agreed, and Spain fully accepted the capacity targets. I think it's important to point this out,” concluded Rutte, who had not yet commented publicly on the matter.

Robles also had to weigh in on Trump's threats and attempted to tone things down, stating that what Trump did wasn't an "attack" on Spain, but rather an "expression." "They can't be taken out of context. Sometimes there's a certain desire to take them out of context, because what's truly important, and everyone knows, is that Spain has a firm commitment to the Atlantic Alliance."

Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares expressed a similar sentiment, stating in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, after a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, that Spain "is a reliable ally."

In Brussels, the Minister of Defense also appeared to open the door to Spain achieving the 5% spending target in ten years. "I can say that by 2025, Spain is fulfilling the obligation it assumed in 2014. I think absolutely no one can know what will happen in 2030 or 2035," she told the press. These statements contrast with those made the day before by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who indicated that the commitment to 2% of Spanish military spending is, for now, unshakeable.