The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has warned that NATO faces “a very bad future” if they allied countries do not provide their help to allow ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz closed by Iran in response to American attacks.
“It is appropriate that the people who are beneficiaries of the strait help ensure that nothing bad happens there,” he said in an interview with the ‘Financial Times’, pointing out that Europa y China They depend on Gulf oil. “If there is no response or if it is a negative response, I think it will be very bad for the future of NATO,” he added.
Trump On Saturday he asked some countries for their collaboration by sending “warships” to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it “open and safe” following the announcement by the new Iranian supreme leader, Mojatba Khamenei, that the strategic passage would remain closed.
“We had to help them with Ukraine”
“Let’s hope that China, France, Japan, South Korea, the United Kingdom and others, who are affected by this artificial restriction, send ships to the area so that the Strait of Hormuz stops being a threat to a totally beheaded nation,” he wrote on the Truth social network. He Strait of Hormuz It is a strategic step by which Every day 20% of the world’s oil circulates.
Despite the public plea for help launched by Trumpthe allied response has been lukewarm, so the president referred to the war in Ukraine and said: “We didn’t have to help them with Ukraine. Ukraine is thousands of kilometers away from us. But we helped them.” “Now we will see if they help us. Because I have said for a long time that we will be there for them, but they will not be there for us. And I am not sure that they will be there,” he said in the FT interview.
The president also referred to his planned visit to China at the end of this month to announce that it could be delayed and that the meeting with Xi Jinping would have to wait. Trump has also appealed to China to unblock the Strait of Hormuz and noted that he hoped Chinese help would arrive before that visit, the first to Beijing of his second term, took place.
“I think China should also help because it gets 90 percent of its oil from the strait,” he concluded.
