Donald Trump has turned to the very nations he spent years belittling, publicly urging China, the United Kingdom, France, Japan and South Korea to deploy warships to the Strait of Hormuz as Iran's blockade of the critical waterway pushes the global economy toward crisis. The appeal, posted on Truth Social on Saturday, laid bare the scale of Washington's predicament — and the cost of a foreign policy built on alienating allies.
'Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated,' Trump wrote on Truth Social. The appeal, framed as hopeful rather than commanding, stood in contrast to the muscular unilateralism Trump had championed since returning to office.
