President Donald Trump, who has been pressing allies to help safeguard the critical waterway, fumed on Tuesday that the U.S. is not getting support “despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot” be allowed to secure a nuclear weapon.
This reminds me of the Suez canal crisis in the 50s, if I recall correctly. That marked the end of the British and French empires.
One of the times we (uk) asked America for help and they refused.