The sea lanes were open until Trump attacked Iran at the behest of Israel. He did not consult NATO colleagues before doing so. It’s all his fault. Own it.
Hans Mahncke@HansMahncke
It’s genuinely hard to understand why this is so difficult for people to grasp, other than sheer Trump derangement. Trump wasn’t invoking NATO’s legal obligations. He was testing whether European countries that the U.S. has protected for over 80 years would do the bare minimum to help secure global sea lanes, which American taxpayers have also been underwriting for decades at no cost to them. In this case, those sea lanes benefit Europe far more than the U.S. and Europe failed the test.
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