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littlemissmartypants

(33,013 posts) Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:12 PM 16 hrs ago

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

🇫🇷 France: REJECTED
🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED
🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED
🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED
🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED
🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED
🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED
🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED
🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED
🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE
🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16):

ðŸ‡«ðŸ‡· France: REJECTED
ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡§ UK: REJECTED
ðŸ‡®ðŸ‡¹ Italy: REJECTED
ðŸ‡ªðŸ‡¸ Spain: REJECTED
ðŸ‡¯ðŸ‡µ Japan: REJECTED
ðŸ‡³ðŸ‡´ Norway: REJECTED
ðŸ‡¨ðŸ‡¦ Canada: REJECTED
ðŸ‡¦ðŸ‡º Australia: REJECTED
ðŸ‡©ðŸ‡ª Germany: REJECTED
ðŸ‡¨ðŸ‡³ China: NO RESPONSE
ðŸ‡³ðŸ‡± Netherlands: NO RESPONSE
ðŸ‡°ðŸ‡· South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION
— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 2026-03-16T09:01:44.009Z

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UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): (Original Post) littlemissmartypants 16 hrs ago OP

winning dweller 16 hrs ago #1

Looks like they agree with Trump leftstreet 16 hrs ago #2

Are we at risk of him actually trying to bring on Putin and Kim Jong Un next? hlthe2b 16 hrs ago #3

Kinda hard to bang the drums when Mr. trump can't find any drummers Torchlight 16 hrs ago #4

Is Israel's navy there? IcyPeas 16 hrs ago #5

Bingo. littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #9

What??? Trump couldn't find any other world leaders stupid enough to offer their ships and people highplainsdem 16 hrs ago #6

MaddowBlog-After alienating allies and declaring victory, Trump 'demands' foreign help in war LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #7

That Ugly Bag of Shit is his own Cha 15 hrs ago #8

dweller

(28,285 posts)

1. winning

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:18 PM

16 hrs ago

✌🏻

leftstreet

(40,318 posts)

2. Looks like they agree with Trump

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:21 PM

16 hrs ago

"You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all..."

hlthe2b

(113,735 posts)

3. Are we at risk of him actually trying to bring on Putin and Kim Jong Un next?

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:28 PM

16 hrs ago

Torchlight

(6,747 posts)

4. Kinda hard to bang the drums when Mr. trump can't find any drummers

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:29 PM

16 hrs ago

He's gonna have a tough time blaming someone else for his failure on this one... but I almost absolute confidence he and his trolls will find someone to point their fingers at while cheering on purposeless death and meritless waste at the expense of duty to the nation.

IcyPeas

(25,369 posts)

5. Is Israel's navy there?

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:31 PM

16 hrs ago

I'm assuming they are.

They have a good navy apparently.

littlemissmartypants

(33,013 posts)

9. Bingo.

Reply to IcyPeas (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 03:26 PM

14 hrs ago

highplainsdem

(61,731 posts)

6. What??? Trump couldn't find any other world leaders stupid enough to offer their ships and people

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 01:32 PM

16 hrs ago

as targets?

I suggest Trump and Netanyahu lead the way. They could even use yachts. Show courage, boys. This "excursion" was your idea.

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,049 posts)

7. MaddowBlog-After alienating allies and declaring victory, Trump 'demands' foreign help in war

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:05 PM

15 hrs ago

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer the American president’s call for assistance. Imagine that.

So to sum up:
1. Trump alienates/insults allies
2. he launches an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy
3. he declares war â€œover,â€ dismisses need for alliesâ€™ help
4. he sees the war go sideways
5. he â€œdemandsâ€ allies help us solve a problem he said doesnâ€™t exist
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-16T13:42:17.264Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/after-alienating-allies-and-declaring-victory-trump-demands-foreign-help-in-war

During the first week of the war in Iran, multiple British news outlets reported that the HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier was preparing for possible deployment to the Middle East to assist the United States and Israel. Seven days into the conflict, however, Donald Trump, who has a habit of insulting and alienating our closest allies, used his social media platform to deliver a message to leaders in the U.K.: Don’t bother.

“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” the American president wrote. “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”...

After claiming in an NBC News interview that unnamed countries had already committed to helping secure the strait — a dubious assertion, given the circumstances and available information — the Republican “demanded” that foreign nations step up and provide the U.S. with the kind of security assistance he recently said was unnecessary.

Trump on Strait of Hormuz: "Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory ... they should help us. You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2026-03-16T01:05:29.715Z

.....Indeed, the series of events seems preposterous. After spending the last year alienating U.S. allies, Trump launched an unnecessary war with no international legitimacy. He then prematurely declared victory, while simultaneously dismissing the need for international assistance, all while characterizing the Strait of Hormuz as a problem that’s already been solved.

It was at this point that the same American president, without explanation, turned on a dime and started demanding assistance from the same countries he’s insulted to address a problem he’s claimed doesn’t exist.

Foreign countries haven’t exactly rushed to answer Trump’s call for help, and Australian and Chinese officials have already rejected U.S. outreach. Imagine that.

Cha

(318,691 posts)

8. That Ugly Bag of Shit is his own

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #7)

Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:44 PM

15 hrs ago

Worst Enemy.

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