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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.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

There isn't a lot of reason for any world leaders to help Trump at the moment. Our strategic oil reserves had some oil in them, it's always a good idea to make sure you have lots of reserve oil before attacking an petrostate, so we can just sit it out for a couple of months.

Also it takes time to ready a naval fleet they're not just sitting around on the off chance that some despotic old fart causes an international incident for literally no reason at all.

So between taking the time to equip and it being strategically advantageous to hold off for a while no one's coming to help any time soon. Also the war is extremely unpopular with the public so there's not a lot of reason for international politicians to damage their reputations, it's not like Trump would be grateful.

If Trump doesn't TACO in the next 6 months then maybe there will be some ships.

[–] fizzle@quokk.au 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think Trump really can TACO on this one. I'm certain that he would like to turn this one off but Iran will continue attacking US allies in the region.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 3 hours ago

The economic situation will force Trump to negotiate with Iran or the general public will lynch him. Iran's big problem is that the Americans are attacking them so if they stopped doing that and went away Iran could spin it as a victory and Trump can just lie about it and claim that Iran gave massive concessions which never happened. It's not like MAGAs will fact check.