Wary allies show there's no quick fix to Trump's Iran crisis

[Jilly_in_VA]

Throughout his two terms in office, Donald Trump hasn't been shy to criticise – even to attack – Washington's Nato allies.

But his latest suggestion – that failing to secure the Strait of Hormuz would be "very bad for the future of Nato" – implies an understanding of the alliance's purpose that has already raised eyebrows.

"Nato was created as a…defensive alliance," Gen Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff, told the BBC on Monday.

"It was not an alliance that was designed for one of the allies to go on a war of choice and then oblige everybody else to follow," he said. "I'm not sure that's the sort of Nato that any of us wanted to belong to."

Coming from a president who only two months ago was making strident claims to Greenland, the sovereign territory of a fellow Nato member, there's more than a little irony in his latest remarks.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8r17plnvy3o

Ya think? Bully starts a fight he can't finish, and NOW he want some others to help? Yeah, no.

[Keepthesoulalive]

1. The beauty of his arrogance

Is that, if the leaders wanted to give in and send in escort ships,he has enraged the electorate and they have told him to get bent. If they offer him any assistance they will pay for it with no confidence votes.

[pat_k]

2. The word "Defense" has no meaning to the regime.

When they created the fictional Department of War, it demonstrated a pattern of thought. Like big brother's doublethink, "defense" equals "waging war."

So, it should be no surprise that the felon and the whole bunch of them literally have NO CLUE what a mutual defence pact even means.

[City Lights]

3. Anyone with even a partially-functioning brain could have

predicted this. But our Full-Diaper Very Stable Genius knew better than everyone else combined.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

I suspect that as a boy, he would punch someone and then expect his buds to protect him. Between them, he and Netanyahu have made the US more hated, and Israel at much greater risk.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. Both countries

Are run by criminals who belong in prison.