{"id":69029,"date":"2026-03-15T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/trump-news-at-a-glance-call-for-allied-protection-of-strait-of-hormuz-in-doubt-as-allies-appear-sceptical\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T21:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T02:55:43","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-call-for-allied-protection-of-strait-of-hormuz-in-doubt-as-allies-appear-sceptical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/trump-news-at-a-glance-call-for-allied-protection-of-strait-of-hormuz-in-doubt-as-allies-appear-sceptical\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: call for allied protection of strait of Hormuz in doubt as allies appear sceptical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s call for coalition to protect commercial ships gets muted response \u2013 key US politics stories from 15 March at a glance<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump\u2019s call for allies to send ships to the strait of Hormuz to protect commercial shipping vessels and unblock global oil supplies has met a muted response.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump called on the UK, China, France, Japan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a> and other countries to send ships to the waterway, the world\u2019s busiest shipping route, which is being violently blockaded by Iran.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/16\/trump-news-at-a-glance-call-for-allied-protection-of-strait-of-hormuz-in-doubt-as-allies-appear-sceptical\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president\u2019s call for coalition to protect commercial ships gets muted response \u2013 key US politics stories from 15 March at a glance Donald Trump\u2019s call for allies to send ships to the strait of Hormuz to protect commercial shipping vessels and unblock global oil supplies has met a muted response. In a post on &#8230; <a title=\"Trump news at a glance: call for allied protection of strait of Hormuz in doubt as allies appear sceptical\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/trump-news-at-a-glance-call-for-allied-protection-of-strait-of-hormuz-in-doubt-as-allies-appear-sceptical\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump news at a glance: call for allied protection of strait of Hormuz in doubt as allies appear sceptical\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}