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Asked to specify the help he needed, Trump said “whatever it takes”. He added that allies should send minesweepers, of which Europe possesses many more than the US.
He also wanted “people who are going to knock out some bad actors that are along the [Iranian] shore”. Trump implied he wanted European commando teams or other military help to eliminate Iranians making “a nuisance” in the Gulf with drones and naval mines.
“We’re hitting them very hard,” Trump said. “They’ve got nothing left but to make a little trouble in the Strait but these people are beneficiaries and they ought to help us police it. We’ll help them. But they should also be there. You sort of need a lot of people to watch over a few.”
Trump said he was also expecting China to help unblock the strait before he travels to Beijing at the end of this month for a summit with Xi Jinping, his first trip to China in his second term.
“I think China should help too because China gets 90 per cent of its oil from the Straits [sic],” Trump said. Waiting until the summit would be too late, he said.
“We’d like to know before that. It’s [two weeks is] a long time.” He added that his trip to China might also be put back. “We may delay,” Trump said. He did not say for how long.
The US president’s comments came as his Treasury secretary Scott Bessent met his Chinese counterpart He Lifeng in Paris for talks about the planned summit in Beijing in late March.
Xi invited Trump to visit China when the two leaders met in South Korea at the end of October and reached a truce in the US-China trade and technology war. Beijing has shown no sign of wanting to delay the summit despite the war in Iran, which is a major oil supplier to China.

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Having spoken earlier on Sunday to Britain’s prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, Trump expressed particular frustration with Britain’s response so far.
“The UK might be considered the number one ally, the longest serving et cetera and when I asked for them to come, they didn’t want to come,” he said. “And as soon as we basically wiped out the danger capacity from Iran, they said, ‘oh well we’ll send two ships’, and I said, ‘we need these ships before we win, not after we win’. I’ve long said that Nato is a one-way street.”
He claimed any danger to allies moving assets into the Gulf would be minimal since the US and Israel had destroyed Iran’s military capacity in the past two weeks.
“We’ve essentially decimated Iran,” Trump said. “They have no navy, no anti-aircraft, no air force, everything is gone. The only thing they can do is make a little trouble by putting a mine in the water — a nuisance, but the nuisance can cause problems.”
However, European allies have already been harmed in the war. A French soldier was killed on Thursday in an Iranian drone strike in Iraq. An Italian aircraft was destroyed on Sunday at a base in Kuwait.
Trump also warned that the US was prepared to launch new strikes on Kharg Island, Iran’s oil export hub, and could target its oil infrastructure.
“You saw we hit Kharg Island, everything but the pipes yesterday,” he said, referring to a bombing raid he announced on Friday. “We can hit that in five minutes. And there’s not a thing they can do about it.”
Asked whether Russia was helping Iran with satellite data to target US and Israeli anti-missile shields, Trump said: “I don’t know one way or the other. But you could also make the case that we helped Ukraine to an extent. It’s hard to say: ‘you’re targeting us, but we’ve been helping Ukraine’.”

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Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden had given Ukraine $350bn in cash and equipment, the president claimed. “So it’s hard to say: ‘Gee what are you doing?’ when we’ve been doing the same thing.”

>>1497748
Fucking hell, make your mind up Donald, you were saying last week you didnt want any help from NATO nations. Tell your doc to up your memory pills you gibbering retard.

DONALD SAYS ITS TRUE SO IT MUST BE TRUE

if you don't unblock the suez canal then you don't respect britain

oops i meant hormuz and america

I thought the war was already over. Why do we need help?

can we skip to the part where trump throws hegseth under the bus for the war

>>1497757
He still hasn't really backed down on invading Greenland (which is a NATO ally) either, even if it's a lower priority at this point. I know that his base on /pol/ still wants Greenland for reasons.

>>1497748
>Spend literally the entirety of his second term either threatening or insulting US miliary allies
>"Help me in the war I started!"
>"No lol."
>"How could you do this???"

he's not gonna stop, the sad thing is i actually used to liked trump

>>1497748
what a dumb bitch lmao

>>1497773
Sure, sure.

So now trump is throwing yet another tantrum over everyone else not bailing him out for his latest massive fuck up.

>Repeatedly falsely claim NATO has never done anything for the US
>Repeatedly threaten to pull out of NATO
>Repeatedly claim the US doesn't need NATO
>Refuse to join the coalition of the willing for Ukraine
>Why won't they help us?
Trump voters don't get enough shit. We need to bring back segregation for these tubers.

>Trump says jump
>Nato says how high
America runs the world and Trump runs America. Seethe all you want it changes nothing lol

>>1497773
Well at least you realized your mistake. Better than most.

>>1497791
Why is Trump asking, why doesn’t Trump simply tell the NATO countries to send troops and ships?

>>1497748
>i know i'll tariff my friends and allies, that's a neat trick!
>i hate my allies, i think i'll publicly insult them and their leaders
>haha look funny meme annex land from my allies lmao
>WTF Y U NO HALP OUR INVASION ;_;
what did the retard-in-chief expect? he was going to draw in the entirety of NATO into a conflict nobody outside of Israel was asking for?

No country is willing to allow irans tantrum to continue they have all had enough and want gas prices to go back down I predict iran will bomb some of the weaker navies and make even more enemies

>>1497793
Because NATO is an alliance and that's how an alliance works? You're a dumbass

>>1497795
Is this what republicans actually believe?

>>1497797
you're projecting esl shill have a rupee

>>1497796
NATO is a defensive alliance, contrary to all the shrieking that comes out of Moscow

>>1497803
best defense is to obey america that's why they all do esl shill

>>1497748
He's just a sleepy joe 2.0 at this point. Demented old fart.

>>1497748
We're in for a bad future no matter what because kikes want to end the world on their terms. Either what they're doing doesn't go according to plan and life will go on and be much shittier for everyone (like covid) or it does go to plan and that's just the end.

>>1497798
This Russian bot is broken

>>1497795
Not surrendering to an expansionist foreign empire is a tantrum?

Trump's handlers don't care if he goes to prison. He has to do everything they order him to do or he will spend the rest of his life in a cell.

He is the perfect patsy and they own him.

>>1497803
American is being attacked by Iran and needs NATO help urgently

>>1497803
>>1497796
More than that, NATO is an alliance for the defense of a territory. Not for defense of political or economical interests.

NATO was not consulted by the US and Israel before this war, and Washington stated multiple times that EU's help was not necessary nor desired in this action.

Nothing in this clusterfuck of a situation should prompt Europeans or other military powers to get involved in any military action in Iran. The best course of action, both strategically and morally, is to wait and pick up the scraps.

>>1497824
This answer >>1497827 is also for you <3

>>1497824
We shot first. Defensive alliances don't cover that. Not to mention Trump has been explicitly telling everyone in NATO to fuck off and didn't consult them at all in the leadup to this. Now suddenly he wants their help and he expects them to just ignore that and all the insults and outright threats he's been throwing their way? lmao good luck with that

>>1497827
help us or we will nuke you

>>1497832
>Won't help us in the war we started? Well we'll start even more wars at the same time!

>>1497748
Does the constant swinging between boasting and pleading just have no effect on his supporters?

>>1497832
I know it's a troll but living in France, a country that possesses nuclear weapons and maintains an ambiguous stance on nuclear doctrine, really puts my mind at ease when it comes to threats like this.

>>1497831
you will never be american esl shill

>>1497836
>France
Where the national pasttime is waving a white flag? Your leader has mommy issues bigly
No one cares about france you haven't been important for centuries

>>1497835
the whole point of Republicunt propaganda is to make sure they don't see that swinging.
They just see the sanitized version saying everything is going great until it goes to shit, then they go back and play the pleading clips to show that Trump was actually trying to stop it the whole time and got tricked into supporting the shitty war

>>1497837
>you will never be american
You're saying that like it's a bad thing.

>>1497838
Dude, I get that you don't really have any other arguments besides trying to rile me off by insulting my country to derail the conversation, but seriously, it's obvious from a kilometer away and it's completely pathetic.

>>1497831
Help Trump or America annexes Greenland

>>1497842
>France is deploying a significant naval force, including the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, eight frigates, and two amphibious assault ships, to the Eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea to protect commercial shipping routes amid rising tensions in the region. This deployment aims to ensure maritime security and support allies affected by the ongoing conflict involving Iran.

ooh la la cucked again smelly frog

>>1497748
The US uses 3x as much oil as the entire EU + UK combined. There's no reason for these countries to stick their neck out to help because the pain is being borne primarily by the US consumer. China and India are already getting oil from Russia (thanks for removing those sanctions!) so they don't need to help, either.

Sorry - America on their own here.

>>1497843
>Guys we can't handle fighting one enemy on one front
>What, you won't help with that? Well then we'll just have to fight you on another front at the same time!
yeah good luck with that lol

>>1497845
youre projecting again esl shill we will kill putin next

>>1497844
France already said they're sending nothing to Trump's call to reopen the strait lmao

>>1497838
>America
National pastime is getting fat. Your leader is an uneducated, uncultured hedonist who eats his steak well done with ketchup and compromised by the Mossad.
No one likes you

>>1497846
No one would fight America over Greenland.

>>1497844
LMAO you're so mad It reeks of disappointment all the way across the Atlantic hahahaha

>>1497850
If that were true then Trump wouldn’t have backed off

>>1497849
you don't have to like us you live in america's world and that won't change until long after you're dead this is the only reality you will ever know and it is an american led reality esl shill have another ruble

>>1497853
>You live in our world! This is our reality! You bow down to us!
>Also please please please please help us unfuck the clusterfuck we caused in Iran please please please

>>1497850
No one would fight America over anything. We take what we want and the rest of the world shuts up and takes it like a good bitch.

>>1497855
You are literally on a thread about America begging for help because a country they bombed is holding oil prices hostage in response and they can't do anything about it on their own

>>1497851
that smell is your unwashed body take a bath you're not actually french so it won't kill you

>>1497853
People are boycotting America companies now. I haven’t had a McDonald’s in over a year and didn’t watch any NFL games this past season

>>1497857
Shhhh now, you don't have any arguments and it shows :)

>>1497856
Yawn. We already converted their entire navy to submarines. This war is won, now it's just a matter of deciding how hard we want to win it and if some temporary gas hikes and dead civvies is worth killing Krispmeini Jr.

Spoiler alert, it is...

>>1497860
Holy cope lmao

>>1497859
>Mouthy Frenchman
Which days are you allowed to drive your car on, Mon-Weds-Fri or Tue-Thur-Sat?

>>1497863
Again: shhhh

>>1497861
Hes right tho. Iran got their teeth smashed in and really now it's just a question of how long we are going to hit them while their down.

>>1497863
NTA and not even european but this is just sad

>>1497863
Wait what why would you only be allowed to drive half the week this isn't communist Russia

>>1497858
>I haven’t had a McDonald’s in over a year and didn’t watch any NFL games this past season
Shit happens when you live behind a Starbucks and smoke fentanyl

>>1497868
Damn guess McDonald's and the NFL are gna go bankrupt now

>>1497860
>>1497865
Stop samefagging, it's pathetic

>>1497870
you're projecting again, esl shill

>>1497869
I don’t want any of my money going to America lest it find its way to Israel and pays for another dead Palestinian child

>>1497871
What a faggot thing to say

America said "help us fight another war"

And all of NATO came running like the whipped dog they are

This shows that NATO countries really are the true cucks

And this shows that Trump really is the greatest leader of all time

Who else could rally every nation like Trump

I'm so glad we have a leader like Trump to protect the world

Kamala would never have killed Khameini she is related to him

Trump saw an angle and he took it he even told his son to buy a bunch of oil before the war because Trump knows how to win

People who hate Trump winning are going to be mad for a very long time haha

>>1497874
Why are you

writting like

a faggot?

>Tldr

>>1497875
First time encountering a troll on /news/?

>>1497876
Still a fag

>>1497874
>And all of NATO came running like the whipped dog they are
no they didn't lmao. This entire thread is about how they aren't doing that and Trump throwing a fit over it.

Trump has played this masterfully

Now the strait is full of allied navies

If Iran attacks them they will declare war on Iran

Checkmate iran.

The Gulf states really should take more pride in their neighborhood

Instead of making Israel and America clean up their mess the saudis should do it

The saudis are just cowards

They can't fight a modern war they have no tanks

>>1497874
>>1497879
are you on opposite day?

>>1497824
>American is being attacked by Iran
GEE, It's almost like you're withholding specific information as to why that happened.
Is it because the US bombed the fuck out of the country, killing a bunch of school girls and their leaders first?

>>1497881
Palestine 1948 Nakba is a great starting point to understanding how Iran became belligerent to Israel

>>1497880
esl shill we don't say "on" days in english

>>1497831
>We
It was Israel. Israel shot first. And Israel isn't a part of NATO.

>>1497923
Then why is nato joining the war?

>>1497926
They're not, but Trump is demanding someone step in and solve the mess that he created trying to weasel out of pedophilia charges
Unfortunately those people will end up being elected to impeach him this fall, so we're going to see a lot more desperate whining

>>1497882
That doesn't exonerate trump started a war to steal their oil.

>>1497928
>Trumps a pedophile
Wow that's wild, proof?

We bombed Iran because we wanted to take out terrorists. That's our right as Americans.

>>1497932
Oh, I didn't know Israeli's were on this board

>>1497936
you're projecting again, esl shill

>>1497926
Trump is trying to rally NATO against Iran because the strait shutting would result in a global recession.
Iran has said that they don't want to shut the strait for anybody other than Israel and America though. So Canada, Australia etc and a few others like China are distancing themselves from the war.
For the rest of NATO nothing has changed. For the US this means prices are about to increase due to the tap being shut off.
To make matters worse, Israel went double retarded because they bombed 30+ refineries and storage locations for the gulf, threatening the flow of oil to the western world. So NATO sans America wants nothing to do with that shit.

>>1497942
Nato likes cheap gas too they are going to bomb Iran back to the stone age

>>1497773
You never liked Trump if you are getting cold feet now. We voted for him because he trolls and shitposts, and now you're upset that he maybe trolling and shitposting the world to death? No man, this is hilarious. You should be laughing with us as everything crumbles. That's why we sent Trump to the white horse.

>>1497946
>The world to death
The world will be fine but trump is pissing his golden mushroom all over American power

>>1497946
Ah yes the White Horse very correct fellow american

>>1497942
>For the US this means prices are about to increase due to the tap being shut off.
Prices increase for everyone. The US is a major producer of oil so we actually are affected less than other countries like China, India, Australia and Japan who were buying oil that came through the straight of hormuz. Export restrictions would lower US gas prices and raise world gas prices.

>>1497949
There will not be higher gas prices for the rest of NATO, China, India et al. because Iran has intimated a willingness to let ships to/from those places pass through and is already doing so.
Insofar as America is concerned, even though we can become energy independent, that takes lots of time. Also, oil and natural gas aren't the only things which flow through the Strait. It's a vital shipping lane for consumer goods and industrial resources like aluminum.
Not even the advisors of the Bush jr. admin wanted to fuck with Iran because it could cause serious problems for the rest of the world.
The only saving grace for the US is that Hamas has said that they fear an escalation from the US, so they're on their heels for the moment.

>>1497949
>Export restrictions would lower US gas prices and raise world gas prices.
I wish I was retarded enough to believe that Americans are going to be sold cheap gas instead of Oil execs already preparing to price gouge

>>1497930
Hezbollah exists because Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982.
This was the second time Israel had invaded Lebanon.
The reason for this 1982 invasion was due to increased border attacks by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) emanating from Southern Lebanon. The Palestinians were in Lebanon because they’d been forcibly removed from their homeland in 1948 by the Israelis

>>1497954
Hezbollah exists because Israel allows it to exist.

>>1497942
Iran are already allowing NATO member ships to pass through the strait, namely Turkey.
Trump clearly doesn’t understand what NATO is or who the members are or what it’s exact purpose is

>>1497956
>Iran are already allowing NATO member ships to pass through the strait, namely Turkey
Its crazy how thoroughly Iran is outplaying Trump

turkey isn't a real nato member just like turkey isn't s real eu member just like turkey isnt a real country it's just arabs and greeks playing both sides there's no such thing as a turk

>>1497954
Doesn't justify trump's war crimes and war mongering.

>>1497957
You people defy logic.
>Go Iran!!
>Get gRumpf.
You're like my MSNBC addicted boomer mom.
She literally just took advantage of the lower interest rates to refinance her house.
And cheered for the head of the fed winning a weird legal challenged who wouldn't push them lower.
Scorched earth is fine if it gets dRumpf.
That's why no one likes Democrats anymore.

>>1498052
You are willfully ignorant and as shameless as your cum-crusted mother walking down main street looking for a jon.

>>1498052
this man lives with his mother

>>1498052
All he had to do was not attack Iran and he couldn't do that.

>>1497748
help with what? Trump already said that the US won the war and Iran is defeated.

>>1498083
wait I forget; are we on "Iran is dead, we've won" or "We need help to defeat Iran"? He flipflops constantly.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-nato-iran_n_69b84420e4b09a39145de877
And everyone is telling trump to rightfully fuck off.

The one down side is now trump is going to suck off putin's dick more.

In addition to France, the U.K. and Greece, Italy and Pakistan have announced new deployments in response to the Iranian retaliation strikes.

Iran sure made a lot of enemies quickly lol

>>1498052
Americans only win if Israel loses this war

>>1498084
We don't need help to defeat Iran but we do demand help to protect the world's defenseless, flammable, and extremely expensive tanker fleets.

The era of America doing everything for you is over, now you must pitch in with the bare minimum or be left out in the cold.

The French obeyed like the good dogs they are they sent an aircraft carrier strike force that is already defending Israel

>>1498093
Not really. There's plenty of wins possible here.
MAD between Israel and Iran would be ideal.
End of Day, Israel has already won though.

>>1498091
Italy withdrew their military personnel from Erbil, you must’ve misread that. I haven’t seen anyone else sending anything to the Gulf. The French sent their carrier fleet to Lebanon because they like to protect Lebanon not Israel, they’ve been constantly telling the Israelis not to escalate bombing or invade

The US is clearly a crumbling empire.
Just like the UK 100 years ago, they thought they where the greatest in the world. Now they are known as toothless retards. Americans will soon be the same, probably worse since their culture is even less civilized.

>>1498119
>Amid this humanitarian catastrophe, French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed hosting direct talks between Lebanon and Israel in Paris, warning that “everything must be done to prevent Lebanon [from] descending into chaos”. To support the diplomatic push, Paris announced the delivery of 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid alongside armoured personnel carriers for the Lebanese forces.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/3/16/in-lebanon-israel-is-using-occupation-as-negotiating-tool-say-analysts

Defending Israel by providing the Lebanese army with military equipment

>>1498128
Don't link new articles in a thread this is off topic go make your own thread.

>>1498130
It’s just a quote with a source link you smouldering retard

>>1498128
al jazeera is qatari state news we only use actual sources here esl shill

>>1497846
/pol/ president following in funny mustache man's footsteps. Israel will probably use nukes once it runs out of arms, and once that Pandora's box has been fully opened, all bets are off.

>>1497748
Maybe all of this should have been hashed out before we started bombing? I am surprised that we are getting a major crisis this early. It took until year 3 in Trump's last term for a crisis (Covid) to manifest. Unlike Covid, this one was completely under Trump's control. I guess you could say that Covid would have been a layup for reelection had Trump not bungled it with mixed messaging.

>>1498166
Hitler almost conquered the world by himself. That is why he is respected on /pol/.

>>1498173
Biden would have never asked for help back then. He would have surrendered after the first bomb. Would you rather have Biden leading the war instead of Trump?

>>1498127
Crumbling because of the democraps.

>>1498174
>Biden would have never asked for help back then. He would have surrendered after the first bomb.
he wouldn't have bombed in the first place you retard.

>>1498175
Their three main fallbacks whenever Trump does something unambiguously retarded are always
>Trump troll u
>Biden forced him
>Biden would have done this bad thing worse

https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/159377740569645056?sort_replies=recency

>@BarackObama will attack Iran in order to get re-elected.
-@realDonaldTrump

He seriously thinks that that's how this works. That you declare war on other states and just magically get a popularity boost. My bets are that he continues attacking other "weak" nations (Cuba, Greenland) in a bid to boost his numbers for the midterms and distract from all the bullshit happening on the homefront.

>>1498174
Haha silly nazi your philosophy and phenotype is dying
I would definitely prefer anyone competent to trump, he keeps waffling like a pussy

>>1497748
Probably would've worked a little better if he hadn't spent the past year doing everything in his power to piss those countries off.

>>1498174
>domestic failures lead to foreign adventurism
>appeasement and easy victories lead to fascist biting off more than he can chew
>bungle into a world war (what's happening right now is a world war, even if people won't call it such)

And history repeats. Everyone likes to make the Hitler comparisons, but Hitler was an exceptional fascist, and Germany an exceptional fascist state. Most fascist run their countries into the ground before they become a threat to the global order. Most populations never rally around the fascist leader, becoming at best, ambivalent or dispirited. Though, if Hitler were the fascist paragon, Trump would be on the other end of the bell curve. It takes a lot of stupidity to be handed the most economically dominant country in the world, with a military that has the best technology, spying capabilities, logistical networks, and personnel in the world, and fuck up so bad you're having to beg your frenemies for help, and to do all of this in just slightly over a year. At least with Putin, Orbán, and Erdoğan, it took them a few years before the enshittification really seeped in.

>>1498174
Hitler almost conquered Europe

>>1497748
Australia here.

GET FUCKED. America has what, the world's biggest, second biggest navy? You can do it yourself. And if you need help, go ask Israel.

>>1498177
>Biden would have done this bad thing worse
I love this one combined with Trump insisting that nobody but him would ever do this. Because he's so brave and strong and smart you see.

>>1498188
>so bad you're having to beg your frenemies for help,
To be fair, it doesn't sound like a beg. It sounds like a threat aimed at fucking euro welfare queens.

>>1498192
What’s the threat?

>>1498190
Based pozztralian
>>1497748
>America is WINNING so much
>um ackshully! Pls help us?!?

>>1498189
He was never close to beating Britain. The moment he pissed off the 2 strongest world super powers, he was irreversibly fucked

NATO only wants to send strongly worded letters to dictators. The only time it believes in intervention is when white people don't allow Africans free access to gay muppet television

>>1498213
NATO is mostly for preventing Euros from going back to killing each other every couple of years like it was before WW2
It doesn’t actually stop fascist dictators, it’s just so Europe doesn’t cause WW3

>>1498213
>Defensive alliance doesn't want to go on the offensive against regimes that have yet to threaten them
What a shock.