"Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Spain is ready to deploy peacekeeping troops to both Ukraine and Gaza 'when the time comes', speaking at the 10th Conference of Ambassadors in Madrid on Thursday. "We will be present as we have been from the beginning with the Ukrainians, ensuring that their needs, that their security is fully met, supporting their access to the European Union, participating, as I said before, with peacekeeping troops when the time comes," the Spanish PM said. "We also want to be, as I said before, in Ukraine. And we do not forget, logically, Palestine and the Gaza Strip. Spain must actively participate in the reconstruction of that hope in Palestine, but peace obviously cannot be a parenthesis in a land martyred by war. There, the situation remains intolerable," he added. The Spanish PM also warned that the international landscape has become increasingly 'hostile' and 'more disordered', pointing to US intervention in Venezuela and threats to Greenland's sovereignty as signals of a collapse in the 'rules-based international order'. "It is important for the clear voice of Spain to be heard when denouncing the threat to the territorial integrity of a European state, of a state that is an ally of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance, as is the case of Denmark," Sanchez said. "We must not remain silent in the face of such explicit or implicit threats." "Earlier, I mentioned Venezuela," he continued. "The violation of international law always is a defeat [...] it is a dangerous precedent for global peace and security, and therefore the response to illegitimacy cannot be to commit an illegality." His remarks follow a dramatic escalation earlier this month, when US forces conducted deadly strikes on Venezuelan territory and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, flying them to New York to face drug and weapons-related charges. Several countries in Latin America, along with members of the BRICS group and nations across the Global South, criticised Washington’s actions. European Union officials and European governments called for respect for international law but stopped short of directly condemning the operation."