Turns out America needs friends after all. Donald Trump has appealed via social media, specifically and “hopefully”, to “China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others” to send ships and help free the Strait of Hormuz. Indeed, President Trump has since extended his dubious invitation to all “the Countries of the World that receive Oil through the Hormuz Strait”. Presumably that would even mean welcoming the North Korean “People’s Navy” to help out by escorting oil tankers and other commercial maritime traffic.
Curiously, the US Navy hasn’t, as yet, placed itself in harm’s way in this mined, dangerous but vital waterway, and nor has Mr Trump tried to enlist the Russian navy, funnily enough.
