Trump's Allies Balk at Hormuz Strait Lifeline

Picture this: the world's oil lifeline, the Strait of Hormuz, choked shut by Iran in the heat of an escalating war. Twenty percent of global crude can't get through. Gas pumps across America are pricing people out of road trips, and factories from Tokyo to Texas are sweating supply shortages. President Trump steps up, megaphone in hand, begging—no, demanding—his allies pitch in with warships and muscle to blast the strait open again. Crickets. Or worse, polite nos from London to Berlin.

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