Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez condemned “unilateral military action” and added “it’s unacceptable that some presidents use the fog of war to cover up their failures and in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles”.

Trump raged, threatening dire retribution to Spain, though you can be sure Britain and Spain are not the only European nations unimpressed with Trump’s dubious explanations for waging....