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their prices are not going down

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Trump’s tariff war has put the world economy in check and the first victim of that crossfire It has been oil. This situation has caused a fall in raw barrel prices, being below $ 60. However, unlike other similar events this was muddy to a relief in the supplier. This time, it has not been so. The pressure in the barrel. In these four months that we have been the price of oil for the year, it has had a downward trend due to excessive overproduction so much by the United States as by the members of the OPEC+but the fall was not very steep for the closure of some refineries. However, the perfect storm He arrived with the tariffs that made the barrels of Brent and WTI fall to a level that was not seen since 2020. Recently, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has cut its forecast for world demand for oil for this year in a third, from 1.03 to 730,000 million barrels per day, mainly by the commercial war between the USA and China, According to The Guardian. Besides, In a recent statementeight OPEC+ countries have begun to partially reverse their production cuts, which has increased pressure on prices. But there is no decrease in gasoline. It is one thing to talk about the fall in the price of raw barrel and a very different one is of its refinement. In this case, refining margins (refining margins) have also decreased by various factors. First, refining and distribution costs, the price of the barrel is only part of the final cost of the liter of gasoline. According to the Petroleum Bulletin of the European Commissionrefined margins have decreased, but transport, taxes and commercial margins have increased. On the other hand, like has detailed The energy analyst Javier Blas, the market still remains. In other words, there is no drastic and sustained drop that force a massive prices. The energy expert has clarified: “The market is, for the moment, discounting a slowdown, but not a total recession or a 2020 type price war”. Finally, it has shown that a good part of the oil consumed today was bought weeks or months ago at higher prices through term contracts. Will there be a real decline in the supplier? The short answer is: not immediately. There is a very present volatility factor: geopolitics. As has pointed out Blas, the market has not yet discounted events as an open price war Between OPEC+ members either A worsening of the Ukraine War. If any of these shocks occurs, prices could rise again. The case of Spain. The average price of the liter of gasoline has risen slightly in the last week despite the fall of the Brent, but how is that possible? According to Business Insidermany gas stations tend to raise the price in times where demand will be greater, as is the case of Holy Week. However, it is also given that importers have bought oil in advance, so what reaches the suppliers was acquired at a higher price. Forecasts According to the energy analyst Liam Denningwhile IEA is reviewing its demand projections and The commercial war between the United States and China It continues to generate uncertainty, the global oil scene becomes increasingly unstable. Although crude oil prices have fallen, the pressure on OPEC+ and the production decisions of the United States can prolong this volatility, maintaining high refining margins and making a real reduction in the final price of gasoline. Image | Pexels Xataka | The perfect oil storm has arrived: tariffs, refinery and overproduction closure

Before panic for US tariffs there are technological ones doing something uncommon: product collection

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The scenario of Commercial War between the United States and China is generating an uncomfortable emotion in some of the technological giants: absolute panic by what may happen in the coming months. The supply chain is intended to change, and manufacturers live an uncertainty that increases for weeks. Some of them have begun to move, from Apple to Nintendo, with a clear objective. The collection of as many product units is possible to avoid a greater impact. Standby, not a real pause. The current status of tariffs is that of a ninety -day pause. With the numbers that are right now on the table, the products imported from China to the United States suffer a 145%tariff. The global is set at 10%. They are numbers that are of little use since, since the beginning of the month, they have suffered a practically weekly dance. The situation at the time we write this piece is from standby, but could change completely in a matter of time. Apple, the first to move file. According to sources of Reuters, Apple fought 600 tons of iPhones in airplanes from India to the United States. A total of six commercial flights with a million and a half devices in total. A decision that would be accompanied by An increase in India production of 20%in order to mitigate the impact of tariffs. They are still ridiculous figures compared to the bulk global sales of the iPhone, which exceeds 100 million annually. Nintendo and Switch 2. The Gaming Estrella product in this first half of the year was the new Nintendo Switch 2a device that started from 469.99 euros, but for which price increases are not ruled out. Just a few days after its launch, Nintendo announced The postponement of reservations in the United States. According to sources of Bloombergthe Japanese company is sending thousands of consoles From Vietnam to the United States. The objective is simple: introduce in American territory as many consoles made of China as possible. Consumers begin to answer. The fear of future price increases is not affecting only manufacturers, consumers too They begin to answer. Sources of Bloomberg They ensure that in just a weekend the influx to the American app store has been similar to that of the Christmas campaign, one of the most powerful for Apple. “Sales of networks in North America grew very strong when benefiting from the awarded contracts and the accelerated investment of customers, partly reflecting the uncertainty of tariffs” Manufacturers such as Ericsson have triggered their sales in the first quarter in American territory by 64%, to some extent due to an acceleration in investments in networks infrastructure caused by uncertainty. It is not enough. The world is beginning to respond to the possible stage of a 145%tariff, but neither charting airplanes nor increase production in other countries will be sufficient. The industry is condemned to raise prices to survive, as well as to look for alternative routes for a production chain that has been optimizing for more than two decades. Image | Xataka and Pixabay In Xataka | If the question is “who will win if prices for tariffs up” the answer is: “Second -hand mobiles”

has bought Freeow for 175 million euros

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Lyft He has announced today The definitive agreement for the acquisition of Freeow, belonging to BMW and Mercedes-Benz, for 175 million euros in cash. This marks the definitive landing of this company in Europe, where until now it did not operate. Freeow does not disappear. The German company will continue to operate independently, and according to the Lyft statement it will maintain its current management team and all its employees. The objective, those responsible highlights, is to continue promoting their growth in 9 countries and more than 150 cities in Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, France and Austria. Your market is doubled. The operation represents the most relevant international expansion of Lyft out of North America, and assumes that it practically doubles its total market. The annual projection will exceed 300,000 million journeys, and it is estimated that gross reserves reach 1,000 million euros per year, thus doubling the income that the company had so far. From Mytaxi to Freeow and Lyft. Mytaxi was founded in 2009 by two German entrepreneurs. In September 2014, the Daimler Group bought the parent company of MyTaxi, Intelligent Apps, and in 2016 the platform merged with the British Hailo. BMW would form a joint-venture with Mercedes-Benz in February 2019, and a few months later Mytaxi would definitely become Freeow. The border between taxis and uber/cabify/Lyft is blurred. The controversy that surrounded the arrival of the VTC and that threatened the taxi sector It ended up solving and today both types of private transport live together and in fact they have intermingled. Uber or Cabify applications have allowed for years they allow Reserve paths both in conventional and VTC taxis transparently for the user. In recent years, yes, the sector was regulated and for example licenses to the VTC were limitedalthough the Speculation with licenses Not having a brake. More competitors. Lyft will despite a tough competition in Europe, not only by Uber, but also by companies such as Cabify in Spain or Bolt, another of the platforms that It has been operating for a few years also in our country and is growing in the old continent. In Xataka | Barcelona taxi drivers will not cover one of the most tourist points in the city. They don’t want problems with their neighbors

Starship flight 9 includes such a risky maneuver that will be tested at sea, not to destroy the tower

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After Two consecutive flights in which the Starship ship exploded shortly from separating from the propeller, a conservative approach could be expected by Spacex for the ninth launch. Nothing is further from reality. Double Tirabuzón without a network for the Super Heavy. Elon Musk’s company knows how to maintain emotion for flight 9, and the riskiest plans focus on The largest part of the rocket: The Super Heavy propeller. Spacex will not only reuse for the first time one of the three super heavy who have successfully landed in the arms of the launch tower. At the same time, plan to test With only two available engines For braking and landing maneuver. It is a deliberate resistance test to verify what would happen if a propellant engine fails during the reentry. Straight to the Gulf of Mexico. In this case, Spacex will not try to catch the propeller for the second time. The landing maneuver is so extreme (first super heavy used, with only two lit engines and without failure tolerance) that the rocket will discard. Instead of returning to the tower, he will make an essay of the maneuver in the Atlantic Ocean, finishing his mission with a shocking. Spacex already has a second Mechazilla tower in Starbase Able to catch rockets with his robotic armsbut he needs both for when, in addition to the 70 -meter Super Heavy propeller, the 50 -meter Starship ship begins to land in the other tower. Something that Spacex would have tried for the first time on this flight 9 if it had not been for the catastrophic failures of flights 7 and 8, which have delayed those plans. Even so, we are going to have fun. 29 used engines. Spacex has already done a proof of the propeller which will launch the Starship in this ninth launch: the Booster 14. He took off for the first time on January 16 and was successfully captured by the tower a few minutes later, while the starship lost control. The first time Spacex reused a falcon 9 propeller A year had passed Since its launch. With the Super Heavy just three months have passed. In addition, there is no trap or cardboard: 29 of the 33 engines that wears the booster 14 are used. Of course, Spacex is still far from rapid reuse type “Zero-Touch reflight“(land, load propellants and take off again) to which he aspires. Especially with the ship and its thermal shield. All eyes put on the ship. To land a used rocket of 70 meters high with a less engine is impressive, but the super heavy will not be the protagonist of this flight. It must necessarily be the Starship 35 because it is the third ship of version 2 that will launch Spacex. His two predecessors had an abrupt ending for excessive vibrations near the engineswhich led to leaks, fires and explosions. The S35 ship completed its cryogenic tests in mid -March, but has not made a long ignition like the S34, and there are doubts about how Spacex will face its launch, because the flight profile has not yet been published. Nor the results of the investigation on flight 8, nor the flight license of the Federal Aviation Administration, so it seems unlikely that Spacex takes off at the date initially scheduled (April 18). Mars does not expect. Yes, on the other hand, the investigation of flight 7 is closed, whose 11 corrective actions were implemented before flight 8. Without much success, since it failed again. Flight 9 is not expected to require a modification of the flight license, but the approval of the FAA is indispensable to schedule the launch. Spacex needs to accelerate the step to meet Elon Musk’s goal of an unmanned mission to Mars (with Robots Tesla Optimus) By the end of next year. The earth-marte transfer windows occur every two years, and Musk does not want to waste time. But Starship is already pushing the limits of technology and the last thing he needs is a third explosion about the Caribbean. Image | Spacex In Xataka | Elon Musk has revealed the plan after Starship explosions: v3 earlier than expected, but with half a capacity

This offer leaves the PS5 Slim at an unbeatable price and will surely run out quickly

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Although Sony’s last launch of his star console was the PS5 Pro, it is true that the price can be abusive to many. If you don’t want to spend a pasture in a game console, now in Aliexpress you have PS5 Slim Digital by 349.99 eurosapplying the code ‘MES40‘. PlayStation 5 standard Slim model console * Some price may have changed from the last review A supervantant console at a price that you will not believe This PS5 Slim It is an still perfect purchase in full 2025 if you had not yet made the leap to the current generation of Sony consoles (which even exhausted itself in its launch). This is the standard PlayStation 5, The most economical What will you find. It comes with a Dualsense command And without a record reader, but don’t worry because you have Physical gamesyou can buy the reader apart, because there is already stock of this accessory in several stores. Regarding its original version, this PS5 Slim has reduced its volume by 30% and includes a black strip on the sides that confers a design somewhat different from its predecessor. Has a unit of 1TB SSD storage And it has Ray Tracing HDR technology and allows you to enjoy 4K at 120 fps graphics on screens HDMI 2.1. You may also interest these accessories for PS5 Disco Unit for PS5 Digital Edition (thin) * Some price may have changed from the last review WIGEARSS VERTICAL SUPPORT FOR PS5/PS5 SLIM/PS5 PRO * Some price may have changed from the last review Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | John Tones and Juan Carlos López (Xataka) and Sony In Xataka | PlayStation 5 Pro vs PlayStation 5: These are all the differences between the two Sony consoles In Xataka | Two years ago I bought a PS5. I wish someone would have told me that I also needed these accessories

In full protectionist withdrawal, Xiaomi wants to be the new huawei and knows where to start: with its own chips

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Huawei has become in recent years The best example to follow by Chinese manufacturers. It has been the first company to achieve full self -sufficiency (Understanding this as the manufacture of the product does not depend on companies outside of China), and marking a new line that the rest of the competitors want to follow. Chinese sources They point out that Xiaomi has just created a new department for Chips’s own development, with a former Qualcomm executive leading it. The intention is clear: Xiaomi wants to be the next Chinese manufacturer to mark the way. A new focus. According to Suehome Xiaomi sources, a new chips development department is establishing under the command of Qin Muyun, former product director at Qualcomm. The company would be allocating resources to meet something that Huawei has been chasing for years: its own manufacturing to reduce dependence with giants such as MediaTak or Qualcomm. Xiaomi already knows this path. In 2017 Xiaomi launched the Xiaomi Mi 5cthe company’s first phone with the chip S1 arises. It was the first time that Xiaomi, along with Pinecone Electronics, launched a phone with a chip of own development. The Mi 5C was the only phone to use it, comparable to a Snapdragon of the 626 series, and functioning as a strategic experiment rather than a model to follow. Beyond co-processors. Since 2017, Xiaomi has focused on the development of coprocessors. In 2021 the market was released Mix fold With the arise C1, an ISP (image processor) of Xiaomi. The arise P1 was the co-processor aimed at managing energy tasks during fast charge, trained in the Xiaomi 12 Pro. And models like the Xiaomi 13 Ultra They arrived with the G1 arise, also in charge of energy tasks. Since then, Xiaomi has not resumed the development of a complete chip. Something that could be looking for the new investment. The arduous task of developing its own processor. Developing chips is very expensive. So much, that TSMC has just announced increases of 30% due to the tariff war between the United States and China. With a lot of help from SMICthe main Chinese semiconductor giant, brands like Huawei have achieved the independence of TSMC. Xiaomi would need the help of the Chinese government (fiscal exemptions, bonuses and direct aid) to manufacture their own chips with the help of SMIC, something that would help him reduce dependence with the American TSMC. An example to follow. If Xiaomi manages to follow Huawei’s steps and become a company capable of producing its own chips, the Chinese industry will be hitting the table again. Hardware is not the only key, Xiaomi is committed to Hyperos with hardly any mentions of Android. He understands it as its own software, an ecosystem to be implemented in any consumption product. The tariff storm is torpedoing the Big Tech strategywith China seeking to reduce dependence on US companies and vice versa. Achieving this is not viable in the short term, but the door has been opened to a change in the consumer industry as we know it. Image | Xataka In Xataka | If the question is “how tariffs are going to affect the price of mobiles”, none of the answers is optimistic

How to translate a sign, sign or any text with chatgpt, even asking you to explain it to you

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Let’s tell you How to translate texts and posters with Chatgptand thus take advantage of its image recognition characteristics. This is something that better or worse you can also do with other alternatives, such as COPILOT, Gemini, Grok either Deepseekbut we are going to focus on Openai’s. We have done the tests in the mobile version, but you can also do it in chatgpt in the browser or in the computer application. In addition, it is a function that is available for both free and payment users, although perhaps payment receives more advanced summaries and explanations. In any case, now that artificial intelligence is becoming a tool that we get used to carrying with us, in this context it can be very useful when you travel. You can translate texts with a large amount of languages, and even ask for summaries of them. All you need is have Internet connection To be able to use it. Translate texts and signs with chatgpt The first thing you have to do is click on the option to attach content to the message you are going to write in Chatgpt. Here, you can Add the photo of a text or poster or use the camera To take it out in the event that the text is in front of you. When you add an image, do not send it directly to the chat. You have to accompany her from a petition Or prompt asking him to translate what he puts. Remember that you have to use natural language, you can ask you to translate what you put in the photo in several ways. When you ask him to tell you what he puts in the photo you have sent him, Chatgpt will explain everything. It will give you A translation of the textand depending on the version you use will give you context and will detail everything you see necessary for you to understand it well. You can also Ask him to make you a summary Fast or detailed what it puts in the text. Thus, in addition to translating it you can also summarize it in the event that it is a very broad text, and you will understand it well. In Xataka Basics | Seven tips to take advantage of the chatgpt photo editor

Renfe aspired to win 5,000 million euros with an AVE in the US copying Japan. His government has just kill him

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Unite the cities of Dallas and Fortworth with Houston. That is the project with which Renfe hoped to continue growing in his international projects. The construction of a high -speed line for just 386 kilometers that allows these cities to be connected in just 90 minutes. The project allows to connect the two most important Texas cities with a train that travels to 386 km/h, according to You can read on the Renfe website. The Spanish company has presented this project as Texas Advisor Central Railroadoffering their experience in “the stages of development, design and construction and in the commercial operation (operations, maintenance, promotion and sale of tickets)”, according to the company’s own words. Renfe went up to the train of this project in 2018 and his involvement grew in 2021 when he signed the contract to become an infrastructure operator. With this new high -speed line I expected to win more than 5,000 million euros from here to 2042, when the contract expired. However, the United States government has withdrawn all funds. A dead point project “I am pleased to announce that Fra and Amtrak agree that the financing of this project is a waste of taxpayers’ funds and a distraction of Amtrak’s main mission to improve their existing deficient services,” The statement indicates Sent by the United States Department of Transport. The words are from Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation of the country that has withdrawn the 63.9 million dollars of subsidy that the Federal Railway Administration (FR) dedicated to the high -speed railway corridor of Amtrak Texas, previously known as the Texas Central Railroad project. In the published information, Duffy emphasizes that the project was born with an exclusively private spirit but that with delays and unforeseen costs increased significantly. So much that they estimate that you can go to the 40,000 million dollars “What makes the construction unrealistic and a risky company for the taxpayer”, in words expressed in the statement. The high speed project to join these two cities re -enters the dead and is a setback for the Spanish company. They explain in Five days that Renfe became part of it in 2018, first with a job of Advice and Line Design. In 2021, The contract was extended and made the Spanish company a future operator of the same with which he hoped to win 5.3 billion euros before 2042. However, the issues With this high -speed line they had been accumulating long before. The creation of this line has its origin in 2009 under the company Lone Star High-Speed ​​Rail LLC. Three years later, the company changed its name to Texas Central Railway. After verifying that the costs were fired, it was accepted that public capital supported the project. In spite of everything, the calendar has breached again and again. Environmental and security permissions should have been achieved in 2020 but delays have been added to which the colon of the coronavirus crisis and an expropriation of land that follows in the courts have been added. In 2017, the United States government with Donald Trump to the head included the project as “a national transport infrastructure priority,” they point out in Five daysand with Joe Biden in command of the country State funds from the Infrastructure Plan were allocated To keep the project alive. Now, in Trump’s second term, the Department of Transportation has canceled it. Until now, the plan went to implement a small -scale replica of the famous rail system of Japanese high speed tokaido shinkansenoperated by Central Japan Railway Company (JRC). Thus, the train It could reach 386 km/h peak speed and join Dallas and Fortworth (separated by about 50 kilometers) with Houston in 90 minutes. You wanted to establish a regular service with a train every 30 minutes. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Japan has just discovered one of the most lucrative businesses of your bullet train: the sale of food carts

Miura 5 of Pld Space

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After the flight of Isar Aospace flight and a sudden change of CEO in RFA, the Spanish company PLD Space cuts distances in The race to put in orbit The first European private rocket. From Miura 1 to Miura 5. Founded by the Ilicitanos Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú in 2011, PLD Space successfully launched The suborbital rocket Miura 1 from Huelva In 2023. The 12.5 meter pitcher served as a test bench to validate many of the technologies that PLD Space has now been able to apply directly to his older brother, Miura 5. Miura 5 is A two -stage orbital rocket and 35.7 meters high Designed to put up to 540 kg in polar orbit or 1,080 kg in the low terrestrial orbit. Your heart is five trell-c engines of liquid oxygen and oxygen, internally developed with a total thrust of 950 kN. The second stage uses an optimized version for the emptiness of the same engine. First tests in Teruel. The new PLD Space headquarters is a 12,500 square meter factory located in Elche. It can produce up to six and 60 treprel-C per year. However, the engines’s trial center and the Spanish rocket is located at Teruel airport. At the end of 2024, PLD raised a 20 -meter test tower in its Teruel facilities to submit tanks and other structural components to pressure tests at cryogenic temperatures. In addition, he adapted the Miura 1 test banks to validate components of the new engines, and is building a new bank capable of trying three of these engines at the same time. With the height of a person, Treprel-C engines have the largest liquid propellant combustion chamber that has developed a commercial company with private capital in Europe. Worse funded, but growing. Unlike the German Isar Aerospace, which has a financing of 400 million euros, PLD Space has raised 170 million With the support of the aerospace belonging (40.5 million in the second phase), syndicated loans (31.2 million Santander, EBN and ICO), public financing (11 million co -confisses) and ESA contracts, Like the Boost program! to launch before 2027. PLD Space also has the client portfolio almost full. The Spanish company claims to have covered more than 80% of its launch holes up to 2027, which translates into an income forecast of 596 million euros. Just a few days ago, PLD closed an agreement With the D-AORIT space logistics company to launch its Ion Orbital Transfer vehicle and other satellites to equatorial orbits. In addition, they have exceeded 300 employees and grow at a rate of 15 hiring per month, especially in technical and business profiles. Two space ports. The main base of Miura 5 will be the European Space Puerto of Kouroou, in the French Guiana. PLD Space reached an agreement with the French Space Agency CNES for the construction of the complex. On the other hand, in February 2025 he announced his Second launch base In the Etlaq Space Puerto, in Oman. This movement will give PLD Space direct access to the Middle East market from 2027. The company also raises a third base to reach 30 launches a year from 2030. When will Miura 5 and its rivals fly? Although Raúl Torres, the PLD Space CEO, He opted money to Miura 5 would fly in 2025the inaugural flight of the rocket is scheduled for the first quarter of 2026. Miura 5 will not be alone, although the last months have been moved for some of the main rivals. Isar Aerospace made his Spectrum rocket take off from Andøyain Norway, on March 30, but joy lasted little: at 20-25 seconds, the rocket lost control, He turned around and activated his self -destruction systemfalling to the sea near the platform. There is still no new date for the second attempt. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), another heavyweight based in Germany, suffered a capital reverse in August 2024: The explosion of your first stagewhich has delayed its first flight to not before the third quarter of 2025. Just a few days ago, Stefan Tweraser, signed in 2021 as CEO, It was replaced by Indulis Kalninsa veteran of the aerospace industry. Maiaspace, A spinoff of the French group Arianegroupit is also in the race, with the advantage of belonging to the company that has maintained the coheretes of Europe next to Avio for decades. The other two great competitors of PLD Space host in the United Kingdom: Orbex, with their little prime rocket (180 kg to orbit Heliosíncrona) plans its first flight by 2025. Skyorora and its Skyorra XL rocket (315 kg capacity) also point to this same year. Image | PLD Space In Xataka | PLD Space does not conform to the first Spanish rocket: it has been secretly developing a spacecraft a year

In 1953 the United States decided to put a naval base in Rota. Now the installation looks at your future with uncertainty

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When Europe spoke weeks ago of rearme There were a series of news that attest to the situation. First it was Germany through the Almighty Rheinmetall and With Volkswagen In the “helping” equation, then even Spain with a component factory in the Basque Country. In France, a Cold War Plan to “diversify” your nuclear umbrella. And if none of these proposals went ahead, Europe would always have the Naval Rota base in Spain. Until now. Uncertainty at a key point. The story was told this morning The Financial Times. In the quiet coastal town of Rota, to the south of Spain, the imposing presence of American destroyers breaks the idyllic postcard. This old agricultural town houses today The naval base most important in the United States in Europe, the key piece of the antimile shield that protects the continent. It happens that something seems to have changed this part for a while. He had promised a sixth boat in 2022, but Donald Trump’s re -election has fired the alarms about an imminent American troops cutin line with its narrative that Europe must stop depending from Washington for your safety. In numbers, this “restlessness” reaches the close ones 84,000 deployed soldiers In at least 38 European bases, all inheritance of World War II, but whose continuity is now questioned. Broken, symbol and vulnerability. Rota’s base was the fruit of A signed pact In 1953 between Dwight Eisenhower and Franco. That agreement today is a complex of strategic dimensions that includes air track, three docks and the largest weapons and fuel installation of the pentagon in Europe. Its location, near the Strait of Gibraltar, makes it a fundamental node for Project military power towards the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Middle East. In addition, its official status as a Spanish naval installation “Joint use” It forces the United States to coordinate certain movements with Madrid, which adds a layer of complexity to its operation. However, the FT said that for many US military, broken is considered little less than A dream destination Due to its high quality of life and a local economy deeply influenced by the base: two thirds of the city’s economic activity depend on it, and Spanish companies such as Navantia maintain millionaire contracts With the United States Navy. The aircraft carrier of the Spanish Navy Dedal The Trump factor. But as we said, the idyllic postcard seems to be living an era of uncertainty with Trump’s re -election. The contradictory signals from Washington have sown restlessness. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio described as “hysteria” Rumors about possible cuts, Defense Secretary Pete Heghseth warned that American protection It would not be eternal. Worry. The concern is that, before any disagreement (here the fan is broad, from commercial reprisals, European support to Ukraine or the rejection of geopolitical proposals such as the Acquisition of Greenland), Trump can decide to drastically reduce military deployment in Europe, even unilaterally. The tycoon now He has shown disdain for the historical commitments of NATO and has frequently folvado the Scarce spending in defense of its European partners, being Spain One of the most lagging. In addition, President Pedro Sánchez has confronted Trump on various fronts, since his recent Posture about China until His sentence to the Israeli offensive in Gaza, which raises the political risk for the base of rota. Europe without shield. If we stick to numbers, Rota base currently houses 2,800 American soldiersincluding units at sea, and its fleet of destroyers (endowed with these systems to intercept ballistic missiles) represents a mobile capacity without equivalent in Europe. Although fixed pitchers from Poland and Romania could assume part of the Antimisile shield, the European Navy lacks A real alternative to the power of US ships parked in Spain. Hence NATO, although nominally owner of the system, depends largely on Military infrastructure of the United States for collective defense. The European strategy, for now, has consisted of gaining military independence gradually, but is still far from being able to fill the void that would leave an abrupt American replication. Again, That rearme acquires more importance. Alternatives: Morocco. In the face of the possibility of a break, The FT had that some voices suggest that the United States could transfer part of its operations To Moroccocountry that reinforced its link with the Trump administration by normalizing relations with Israel in 2020. With less politically compromised facilities and greater diplomatic harmony, Morocco would be outlined as a possible logistical replacement for Rota. Moreover, apparently, from The Foreign Policy Research Institute They warn that, if the Spanish government overestimates its strategic value or underestimate the level of irritation which can generate in Trump, the consequences could be immediate and deep. Uncertain future. So things, and although for now the base It continues to expand and receiving investments, the rumors of cuts fly over the installation. The American media commented that American residents in rota try Keep calm And, meanwhile, Europe observes with restlessness a situation that transcends local geopolitics and raises an existential dilemma for the continental defense itself. The transition to a greater self -sufficiency European defensive, now, it seems more pronounced than ever, but while that mature or becomes effective transformation, the shadow of an unexpected turn under Trump’s second presidency looms over the Cadiz coast. At stake, the key piece of the antimile shield that protects the old continent. Image | Navy, Us Defenseimagery In Xataka | In the middle of the Cold War, France designed a nuclear rearme plan for Europe. Now sound strongly In Xataka | Europe before its time of truth: we have entered the era of “rearme” and the EU has a plan not to be behind

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