UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

Countries including the UK, Japan, China and South Korea have said they are still considering their options but without making commitments after the US president, Donald Trump, urged them to send warships to the strait of Hormuz to secure the vital shipping route.

The effective closure of the strait of Hormuz by Tehran, in retaliation for airstrikes by the US and Israel, has proved catastrophic for global energy and trade flows, causing the largest oil supply disruption in history and soaring global oil prices.

However, the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant, with countries unwilling to commit to a military response that could prove treacherous for their navies.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    16 days ago

    As it should. NATO is a defense alliance, not a pedoking/kingbibi distraction gone bad. I hope the EU can keep holding on, because the influx into far right parties and EU election tampering has become noticeable enough to possibly change this in the future.

        • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
          41·
          16 days ago

          Don’t you laugh, damn you.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

          “NATO framed its bombing as a humanitarian intervention”

          A purely defensive humanitarian bombing, mind you, according to astute international affairs observer TheObviousSolution.

          Now, let me tell you about a country called Russia. They don’t do humanitarian bombings. That’s quite silly of them since all they needed to do is “frame” it as such.

          But what can you expect from a country that can apparently invade all of Europe with a single washing machine CPU.

          • bobzer@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            Let’s ask one related question so everyone can decide whether any argument here will be handled in good faith or not.

            Do you believe Bosnian Serbs were commiting genocide?

            • HugeNerd@lemmy.caEnglish
              11·
              16 days ago

              WHAT!! It was “ethnic cleansing”. And what does NATO have to do with this? They have these humanity-loving impulses only in certain cases, it seems.

    • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      I dislike increasingly elaborate insult names, absolutely no one who cares about it really needs convincing, they just make it unnecessarily long and random nonsensical jibberish. And I like mangos.