Sanchez, who also serves as the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, warned Trump directly in a televised speech on Wednesday that he was gambling with civilian lives by launching the conflict and rebuked him for violating international law.

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“This is how humanity’s great disasters start,” the prime minister said in the address. “You cannot play Russian roulette with destiny of millions.”

“The position of the Spanish government can be summarized in four words: ‘No to the war,’” Sanchez continued. “We’re not going to be complicit in something that’s bad for the world nor contrary to our values and interests simply to avoid reprisals from someone.”

European allies have circled the wagons around Spain, beginning with Merz. The German chancellor told reporters following his awkward silence on the issue during the Oval Office conference that he expressed to Trump in private that embargoing Spain is not possible.

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“I said that Spain is a member of the European Union and we negotiate about tariffs with the United States only together or not at all,” Merz explained. “There is no way to treat Spain particularly badly.”

The European Commission released a statement on Wednesday affirming its position that Spain cannot be singled out for punishment.

“We stand in full solidarity with all member states and all its citizens and, through our common trade policy, stand ready to act if necessary to safeguard EU interests,” Commission spokesman Olof Gill said.

French President Emmanuel Macron has positioned himself at the front of European opposition against the U.S. and Israel on the strikes, with the French government decrying the operations as “outside international law.”

Macron reached out to Sanchez personally to “express France’s European solidarity in response to the recent threats of economic coercion targeting Spain,” according to the president’s office.

Breaking from their Spanish neighbors, Portugal swooped in to allow U.S. planes use of its Lajes air base for ongoing operations.

Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel acknowledged to reporters in Brussels on Monday that there has been “a more intensive use of the Lajes base in recent weeks” by U.S. planes. Rangel dismissed objections to the arrangement by citing Portugal’s 1951 treaty with the U.S.

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“[Escalated use of the base] does not need to be authorized, nor known, by Portugal,” Rangel told reporters. “Look at the past 50 or 60 years, and you will see it has always been this way […] and that is how it will continue. We fulfill our obligations.”

He added: “Portugal has always defended its alliance with the U.S. and its membership of NATO, and that has not changed with geopolitical shifts.”