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.
Further to that, they all recognize the folly of the whole thing and don’t want to get mired in the disaster that Trump has triggered.
Oh I wouldn’t be so sure about that. I mean I doubt NATO will get involved, but some individual countries might – there are a lot of reich-wing governments over on this side of the pond.
Maybe his buddies Orban and Kim Jong Un will give him a hand.
Maybe, but how many of them have fired all their military strategists and historians?
It should be obvious to most moderately intelligent people that this is a no win situation, unless they’re prepared to genocide an entire country. And if they go down that route, they’ll become a pariah nation.
This already disqualifies eg. the entire government of Finland, and we are absolutely not alone in this.
The EU is already mulling expanding an existing Red Sea mission into the Gulf: https://apnews.com/article/eu-iran-shipping-hormuz-brussels-6360165465e302cbe05d2f27eafff145
Conservatives (including literal neofascists) are in the majority in the European Parliament. Don’t underestimate their capacity for stupidity and evil
I am glad we took some lessons from 01.