Trump Sends Bizarre Warning To 'Non-Responsive' Allies Over Iran War
Donald Trump has issued a bizarre threat to his “non-responsive” allies who are not supporting the US’s war against Iran.
The president has called for Nato members to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz, the major oil shipping lane which Iranian forces have effectively closed by targeting all vessels which pass through there.
But allies, including Britain, have refused to get drawn into the wider war even as the cost of oil continues to climb.
So the president fumed on TruthSocial: “I wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror State, and let the Countries that use it, we don’t, be responsible for the so called ‘Strait?’
“That would get some of our non-responsive ‘Allies’ in gear, and fast!!!”
Trump also attacked Nato on Tuesday, claiming the defensive alliance had abandoned the US “in its time of need”.
Speaking from the Oval Office, he insisted “we don’t need any help” from Nato, before adding: “But they should’ve been there.”
The president has also lashed out repeatedly at the UK in particular for not backing the US’s strikes.
Keir Starmer rejected America’s first request to use British military sites to attack Iran before granting permission to a second query, asking to use the bases for “defensive” and “limited” strikes.
Trump has raged about this decision, claiming this week that the UK-US relationship was “always the best” until “Keir came along”.
He said the war a “great test” of the so-called “special relationship” with America.