A day after calling on other countries to send warships to end the de facto Iranian blockade of the economically vital Strait of Hormuz, President Trump turned up the pressure on them to agree.
“If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO,” he told The Financial Times in a short interview on Sunday. In the interview, Mr. Trump suggested that China, too, should send warships to help secure the gulf.
His comments come as fears have been rising about the global economic fallout from the war in Iran and its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz — through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes. Earlier in the day, the U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, acknowledged in a televised interview that there were “no guarantees” that oil prices would fall in the coming weeks.
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First of all, he is clearly out of his mind. Does he somehow think CHINA is going to send warships to clean up the mess he started in the Middle East? That makes no sense.
Second, our president does not seem to realize that he has completely lost our allies. His bluffing and blathering threats no longer cause them to do anything like they did when he was in the process of using up all the political capital that the USA had built up over decades. They now know he is a reckless, idiotic wannabe dictator with nukes who is prone to TACO syndrome, so they will do nothing he says. They know they are no longer beholden to the USA in any way. They are going to form alliances without us. They will just avoid as best they can pissing him off to the point that he attacks them militarily, but otherwise see him as powerless and no longer an ally.
“If there’s no response or if it’s a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO,” he told The Financial Times in a short interview on Sunday. In the interview, Mr. Trump suggested that China, too, should send warships to help secure the gulf.
His comments come as fears have been rising about the global economic fallout from the war in Iran and its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz — through which about a fifth of the world’s oil passes. Earlier in the day, the U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, acknowledged in a televised interview that there were “no guarantees” that oil prices would fall in the coming weeks.
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First of all, he is clearly out of his mind. Does he somehow think CHINA is going to send warships to clean up the mess he started in the Middle East? That makes no sense.
Second, our president does not seem to realize that he has completely lost our allies. His bluffing and blathering threats no longer cause them to do anything like they did when he was in the process of using up all the political capital that the USA had built up over decades. They now know he is a reckless, idiotic wannabe dictator with nukes who is prone to TACO syndrome, so they will do nothing he says. They know they are no longer beholden to the USA in any way. They are going to form alliances without us. They will just avoid as best they can pissing him off to the point that he attacks them militarily, but otherwise see him as powerless and no longer an ally.
