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THE WORLD> “WILL PREVAIL our values: democracy, freedom and open markets”

In a visit that had to be shortened by racist violence unleashed in his country, US President had time to equalize terrorism of ISIS and Russian aggression against Ukraine, and defending open markets.

in the middle of negotiations of the Transatlantic Treaty trade and Investment (TTIP), a deal that threatens to transform definitively relations between Europe and the United States and bury forever what remains of the welfare state, Barack Obama yesterday dismissed his Spanish allies with a warning: values that make them strong, such as democracy, pluralism and freedom, he said, also include “open markets”.

the American President closed at the military base of Rota-a strength of 22 square kilometers southern Spain, a short distance from the Strait of Gibraltar and looking out to Africa European tour that began with the NATO summit in Warsaw, where he was surprised by the events in Dallas, and finished with a sawed agenda Spain that included visit to the base, theoretical Spanish sovereignty but where the US military decide on the minutest details of security.

in these facilities, a strategic point for military policy of the United States in the Mediterranean, Obama had prepared cataclysmic farewell yesterday. Delivered before an audience made up of about 2,500 soldiers, many of them accompanied by their families, who received him like a rock star, the US president gave the warning to his European allies. First he reeled off what the security challenges facing the Western world, terrorism ISIS and “aggression from Russia to Ukraine”, surprisingly placed on the same level, are then warned that NATO will face them from their status as the most powerful military alliance ever known to history. Immediately after he released the warning laden intention: “We will prevail our military power and our values: democracy, pluralism, freedom and open markets”

Obama, returning from one. NATO summit in Warsaw-all a metaphor for the eastward expansion of the military alliance headed by Washington insisted however in condemning the “aggressiveness” of Russia and pledged to “defend Ukraine” with those defined as its ” European friends “.

the opportunity to launch the warning to Putin seemed carefully chosen. Obama had communicated while his intention to visit, before concluding his mandate, the base of Rota, where the weapon system known as “missile shield” installed on four destroyers based in that port and raising blisters distrust settles Moscow. According to Spanish diplomatic sources, only the pressure from the government of Rajoy allowed Obama included in his tour, shortened after the killing of five policemen in Dallas, a few hours in Madrid, where he met with Rajoy himself and chatted briefly with the three leaders opposition to another military base of Torrejon De Ardoz.

Yesterday, the base of Rota had dressed up to welcome the US president. The security measures were extreme and would blanch at the most guarded airports in the world. The journalists were summoned five hours before the act and subject to rigorous controls that have been removed, until water bottles bearing to endure the wait and confined to the hangar where the event would take place four hours before its start.

attendees military, many accompanied by their families and young children, fared no better. Cited in the hangar, under the summer heat of southern Spain, three hours before the arrival of the president, they endured stoic. The speech lasted only 15 minutes, but to the delight of the attendees included repeated thanks to those who, according to US President give their lives to make the world a safer place. The intervention, as expected, concluded in the classical manner and with a nod to the hosts. “God bless America, God bless Spain”.