Trump says NATO has refused to have him join most allies in the mission to secure the vital Strait of Hormuz

US President Donald Trump said his appeal to NATO and other allies to help secure the Strait of Hormuz was widely rejected.

Trump, who has been pressing allies to help protect the vital waterway, fumed on Tuesday that the United States was not getting support “despite the fact that almost every country has strongly agreed to what we are doing, and that it cannot” be allowed to get a nuclear weapon.

He watches: Trump “strongly” encourages other countries to help the United States protect the Strait of Hormuz

Trump added in a post on social media: “But I am not surprised by their actions, because I have always viewed NATO, where we spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually to protect these same countries, as a one-way street.” “We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, especially in our time of need.”