Trump called alliance members \u2018cowards\u2019 for not wanting \u2018to help open\u2019 the strait of Hormuz; more than a dozen nations later made vague offer to help \u2013 key US politics stories from 20 March at a glance<\/p>\n
Several Nato members and other US allied nations pledged on Thursday to join \u201cappropriate efforts to ensure safe passage\u201d through the strait of Hormuz. But the joint statement<\/a> from the leaders of more than a dozen nations \u2013 including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Bahrain \u2013 did not provide details on how they would do this.<\/p>\n That followed a recent bashing by Donald Trump<\/a>, who called alliance members \u201ccowards\u201d for not wanting \u201cto help open\u201d the strait of Hormuz. Iran has effectively closed the strait with periodic attacks on oil tankers and other shipping.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trump called alliance members \u2018cowards\u2019 for not wanting \u2018to help open\u2019 the strait of Hormuz; more than a dozen nations later made vague offer to help \u2013 key US politics stories from 20 March at a glance Several Nato members and other US allied nations pledged on Thursday to join \u201cappropriate efforts to ensure safe … 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-69599","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\/69599","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=69599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}