UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route.

The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices.

However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    26 days ago

    This seems to suggest that shitting on our allies, behaving erratically, and stabbing them in the back (and front) isn’t the best way to build a broad coalition devoted to mutual interests, to say nothing of a narrow coalition devoted to obvious imperialism. I look forward to learning more about this hypothesis in The Art of the Deal 2.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    25 days ago

    Once again, the USA being the only NATO member to ask ‘allies’ for help, only to later call all of them freeloaders.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    26 days ago

    Why should any sane country even respond? This is an American-Israeli undertaking. They started it out of folly, they deal with it.

    Maybe he should ask his “Board of Peace” for support. There are more than enough bootlickers.

    Or the ships should simply follow the law of the seas: the country responsible for the ships’ security in such cases is the one they are sailing under. Let’s see how Panama, Nigeria, Philippines (or whatever is the cheapest flag of fancy at the moment) run to help.

  • Mark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    25 days ago

    Calling us is lovely, but what exactly would you like us to do?

    We warned you that they would close the strait and that the world would be powerless. Now you went and did it anyway.

    So… Exactly WHAT would you like us to do?

    There are mines in that narrow gap now. We need to clear them while Iran is taking potshots at us. Clearing mines takes weeks. Even when NOT being shot at.

    No Trump. You break it, you own it.

  • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    26 days ago

    There’s a very simple solution to it. The US fucks off. They’ve made things a lot worse for themselves and everyone else as it is, so pull out now and we’ll all try figure out how to clean this mess up over the next year or two.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    25 days ago

    The strategy has been to turn allies against us in every way possible. Gee I wonder why they’re not clamoring to risk life and limb for trump now. And lol, his first instinct is to threaten them to get their help.

    He simply cannot fathom how to handle a situation where he doesn’t hold all the cards. He was born rich and through his entire life he’s only had any success because of combining that unearned wealth with psychopathy. He holds no cards right now.

  • JM⭐@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    26 days ago

    I thought he had already won the war? Why does he need help again? We wouldn’t be any help any way. We wouldn’t be anywhere near the front lines according to him.