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Why Won’t Europe Help Trump in Iran? Let’s Count the Reasons
European leaders cite past wariness and economic concerns while rejecting U.S. demands to send naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz, avoiding escalation with Iran.
- European leaders this week largely resisted President Donald Trump's call to send navies to reopen the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S. campaign with Iran entered its third week.
- Over the weekend, Trump issued interviews and social-media posts saying 'we don't need them any longer', urging allies to join his effort in the Strait of Hormuz.
- Germany's Boris Pistorius argued Monday 'This is not our war' and emphasized diplomatic solutions over sending warships, rejecting military involvement in Brussels.
- European officials face economic backlash as spiking gasoline and heating oil prices pressure voters, while they try to avoid irreparably damaging relations with the United States.
- Many leaders invoke the 2003 Iraq invasion as a costly precedent shaping caution, while the French Foreign Ministry says its navy's posture remains defensive amid Operation Aspides.
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Victor Davis Hanson: What Is It With the Fickle Europeans?
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. What is it with the fickle Europeans? I know that they have different interests than ours, but we’re both Western entities. You’d think that we’d be more collaborative on the effort to disarm and denucleari…
Last Monday Donald Trump received, perhaps, the worst news in the midst of the U.S. war against Iran, Europe turned its back on an alliance to demine the Strait of Ormuz, so his country was basically left alone. In just over a year of management, Trump has led several disagreements with his European allies, with whom the U.S. nation had built the post-Second War world order, based on NATO. Read also...
Trump calls for support from NATO in securing the Strait of Hormus. The Merz government is blocking a Bundeswehr operation. Now your opinion is in demand.
‘This is not our war’: Europe and UK push back against Trump’s demands
LONDON — As President Donald Trump’s war with Iran enters its third week, European leaders are caught between his bellicose demands for help in reopening the Strait of Hormuz and their deep reluctance to be drawn into a war of America’s choosing.
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