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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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[–] Paragone@piefed.social 67 points 2 days ago (5 children)

NO country should side with Trump unless Trump is open to negotiated-ceasefire/settlement.

Otherwise, they're just backing baldfaced imperialism.

& the minute that Trump decides that negotiated isn't on the table anymore?

Withdraw support.

Principles are what no political-gov't can have the spine to have, though.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I have to respectfully disagree. There is no such thing as "negotiation" with Trump and his admin. Serial bad faith actors with no checks and balances from courts or congress. They have no rule of law. It's a tin pot dictatorship where no deals are ever honoured.

It is pointless to engage at any level. They act and react, everyone else acts and reacts. That's it. When Trump is dead, the same rules apply because the courts and congress are still populated with the same people that enabled him.

We can save a lot of time and money and just eject US embassies worldwide for at least the next 20 years. US Diplomacy is dead.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

US Diplomacy is dead.

Its not dead, its just resting

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago

He blew it with the Norwegians over the peace prize.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

NO country should side with Trump. Doesn’t need to be more reason.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 15 points 2 days ago

Nobody should trust anything Trump says he will do, much less anything he would be 'open to'.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

Ummm... no country should do this unless they have super effective defenses against USV (naval drones)

afaik, no country on this planet has that ability.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

The price of energy means that some countries are very much incentivised to do that. Iran is targeting them by intercepting/blocking shipments.

Does just mean that it's much more complicated than being a clear no.