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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by impossiblefork on Sunday December 10, 2023 @05:53PM (#38595862)
A lot.

There are many countries to which the US is actually hostile, and which are much weaker than Spain. Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Places like Russia and China also of course exist.

Spain could start trying to compete with the US in South America, they could push some kind of EU South America expansion, some kind of EU analogue of BRICS-for-South-America-but-not-BRICS; and of course, if it truly became a problem they could decide to go much further than that and start being actually hostile themselves, joining with the whole RIC part of the thing.

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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by brabel on Monday December 11, 2023 @03:04AM (#38598573)
> some kind of EU analogue of BRICS-for-South-America-but-not-BRICS;

I suppose you don't know this already exits (and has for decades), it's called Mercosul[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercosur

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Re:Spain expels two US spies for infiltrating secret service by impossiblefork on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @04:37PM (#38618964)
Spain is not involved in Mercosur. It's something South American.
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