Trump calls NATO allies ‘cowards, paper tigers’ for staying out of Iran fight as Hormuz crisis chokes oil flows
US President Donald Trump on Friday branded NATO allies “cowards” for failing to provide the military assistance he requested against Iran to help control the vital Strait of Hormuz oil shipping route . Trump, who has alternated between saying Washington needs no help in the waterway and criticising others for staying on the sidelines, wrote on Truth Social that “without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER!” . He accused allies of refusing to join the fight to stop a nuclear powered Iran, yet complaining about soaring oil prices while declining to help reopen Hormuz, which he described as a “simple military maneuver” with “so little risk” for them . “So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!” Trump declared, in one of a series of recent diatribes against the Western alliance . […]