The US president has “threatened to stop” supplying weapons for Ukraine to pressure European allies to join a “coalition of the willing” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Financial Times reports, quoting people briefed on the discussions.
According to the report, Trump threatened to stop supplies to NATO’s weapons procurement initiative for Ukraine, which is funded by European countries.
On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Al Jazeera it was “very disappointing” that NATO allies such as Spain blocked the use of their airspace and bases for the US-Israel war on Iran. He warned that Washington will re-examine the value of NATO after the war is over.
Coalition of the threatened.
Trump reeks of flop sweat at present. The desperation is notable even from my vantage point in Australia.
Just imagine what he will do as soon as he thinks that this lever will work!
Wait a minute…
Driving the news: A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday how he planned to bring oil prices down
“All I have to do is leave Iran, and we’ll be doing that very soon,” Trump said, predicting prices would come “tumbling down.”
Why would trump care about a coalition to reopen the strait, if oil prices are going to come “tumbling down” regardless? What an idiot.
Imagine if Iran just kept the strait closed lmao
That’s what they’re doing. It’s not actually closed the iraniana just demand a bribe to be let through. Their peace offer is for everyone to accept a toll to go through. China russia and india dont care they just buy the cheap iranian oil with a bribe and it’s still cheaper than what us and Europe are paying for gas from SA
a bribe
Hahahahahahahahaahaahahahahahahh its a toll, and guess why the price jumped lmao
look at how much you have to “bribe” the europeans to pass through their country
Well it’s not through iran, it’s through international waters, hence why they didn’t charge a toll before and now it can be called a bribe
It’s shared territorial waters, which is not the same as international waters. Learn what a word means before lecturing others on it.
Okay sorry reading a comment is like a lecture for you
huh??? Are you saying Iran doesn’t have control over it’s half of the strait of hormuz?? Are you perhaps confused with territorial waters??
It’s a two-tier system. Friendly countries - China, Russia, Malaysia and Bangladesh - don’t even need to pay the toll. ‘Neutral’ countries like India, Indonesia, etc. can transport oil after paying the toll. US and its allies don’t get oil, toll or no toll.
US and its allies don’t get oil, toll or no toll.
the allies also don’t need to pay a toll if they kick out the us bases from their countries.
Yes, but then the US army will pay you a visit instead of Iran, and unless you’ve been spending the last decade building tunnels and drones it probably won’t work out as well for you.
definately true for the global south, but i wonder if it’s the same for the uk or france or germany
Hopefully us military will be decimated after Iran is done with them.
Seems fair to me.
Watch, their response is gonna be “Don’t let the front door hit you where the Good Lord split you.”
i’d expect some “ok daddy” as always, but i can hope eu leaders are not dumb enough to take part in the iran clusterfuck trump made for himself.
As an American, I hope they stonewall him. Let him and Bibi humiliate themselves.
