President Donald Trump said Monday that several nations will send warships to join the United States Navy in escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz but expressed disappointment that several key NATO “big boys,” notably the United Kingdom and Germany, have not responded to his call for a joint operation.
“Numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” he said at a Trump-Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts luncheon. ”Some are very enthusiastic about it. Some are in countries that we’ve helped for many, many years.”
The president said UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer denied his request for the British to send two aircraft carriers to the Arabian Sea or eastern Mediterranean….
Trump Says Some Countries ‘On the Way’ to Help Open Hormuz Strait
