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Trump brands NATO allies “cowards” for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz
US President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against NATO allies on Friday, lambasting them as “cowards” for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic waterway that has remained effectively closed since the start of the war with Iran. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump declared that without the US military, NATO amounts to nothing more than “a paper tiger,” and warned that Washington would not forget the alliance's stance. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesBut Donald when you went in you claimed that the USA would do the job alone.
Mar 21st, 2026 - 02:10 pm - Link - Report abuse +1We are all letting you do just that.
Be as big as your words.
Oh btw you have gone beyond your first timeline for this conflict.
Just thought you should know.
Donny. you said you did not need anyone else , you also said the war is over.
Mar 21st, 2026 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse +1are those 2 little Porkies ? . you made your own bed now lie in it.
may be if you had not declared economic war on your allies then you might have got help,
you reap what you sow Donny , you did not even have the decency to tell your Allies what you where going to do. NATO is not your puppet.
Cowards? You mean like when “Cadet Bonespurs” got a doctor to give him a letter stating that he had bone spurs (he did not) and was unable to be drafted? Yeah, he's a chicken...
Mar 21st, 2026 - 04:42 pm - Link - Report abuse +1‘may be if you had not declared economic war on your allies’, quite.
Mar 21st, 2026 - 11:43 pm - Link - Report abuse +1And hadn’t spent the last year insulting them, and hadn’t stopped supporting Ukraine, critical to them, oh and hadn’t threatened to invade Greenland, the territory of a NATO ally, or even consulted them about launching a war that could seriously the disrupt the world’s economy.
The response might well have been different.
Another ‘back of a fag packet’ plan after a night’s heavy drinking, only this one isn’t going quite as well as Venezuela did.
Impressive though the US military Campaign has been, it is apparent that if the Iranians blocking the straits of Hormuz was even considered, they were not prepared for it.
And to ‘declare victory’ now and walk away, leaving the Iranians in effective control of the straits of Hormuz, allowing their oil and gas out but not the Gulf states, Americas allies, and demanding reparations from them to do so, would be to hand Iran a big strategic victory.
A tactical victory but a complete fu*k up strategically.
Still a win for the Israelis though.
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