Trump Fumes As Allies Snub Call To Join Hormuz Mission, US Will Go Solo In Strait Of Hormuz : US President Donald Trump

New Delhi : A day after his call for US allies to help reopen the war-hit Strait of Hormuz was met with silence or outright rejection, a visibly miffed US President Donald Trump on Tuesday. The strait has been under siege by Iran since the outbreak of the West Asia conflict, disrupting global oil supplies and driving crude prices sharply higher. We don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world, Trump said.

Just two days earlier, Trump had urged countries to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, he stepped up the appeal, warning allies that a negative response could lead to “very bad future” for Nato, as a unified defence alliance. However, several key US partners, including Germany, Spain and Italy, declined the request, saying they had no immediate plans to send naval forces.

When asked about allies’ responses, and specifically, whether he expected support from France, Trump initially said, Sure, I think he’s going to help, but quickly added that the US did not require any assistance for the mission. I don’t do a hard sell on them because my attitude is. We don’t need anybody. We’re the strongest nation in the world. We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don’t need them, but it’s interesting, he said.

I’m almost doing it in some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to find out how they react. Because I’ve been saying for years that if we ever did need them, they won’t be there, not all of them, but they won’t be there,” he said, adding that the US has been securing the allies, spending a lot of money. The US President also singled out the United Kingdom, claiming it had initially declined a request to deploy two aircraft carriers at the start of the conflict.

“I think, I think it’s terrible. No, I, I was very surprised. I told him, you know, we requested two aircraft carriers which they had. And he didn’t really want to do it. And then right after the war essentially ended, you know, meaning they were obliterated, he said. I would like to send the aircraft carriers, I said. I don’t need them after the war has ended and won. I needed it before the war, so I was very upset with it. Not upset, I was, I was not happy with the UK,” the US President added.

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