With Germany having formally ruled out joining a US-led naval operation in the Persian Gulf, the Trump Administration is continuing to find little interest in the plan, with few nations seeing the merits of the idea, and many seeing getting involved as potentially making matters worse.
That is a concern that’s been reiterated across a lot of the nations the
US has courted. With Iran chiefly a problem for the US and Britain,
which is starting its own fleet, the other nations rightly believe
they’re not involved now unless they choose to involve themselves.
NATO didn’t comment directly on the matter of this fleet, with
Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg saying the alliance has yet to even receive a formal request to launch such a mission. The US envisions this as a US-led plan.
Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Admiral Michael
Gilday, who is nominated to be the top admiral in the Navy, said that the idea of the fleet is that the US would be in charge,
and foreign ships would do 80% to 90% of the work for them. It’s
understandable why that sounds good for the US, and also understandable
why no one else wants to be involved.
USA has no “allies”, but only puppets, poodles & parasites.
You’ve got that right, buddy .. The US – just like Israel – has no allies, only puppets, poodles and parasites.
the US wants to ‘outsource’ all the heavy lifting…. what a lazy ass it has become… Obama used that strategy to destroy Libya, what did he call it something like lead from begin….using nato and the western power.. The war mongering US trying to shield themselves from consequences, and all the blowback, as if they could
The bolton-pompeo-bibi strategy is to eventually drag those other nations into a war with Iran, which none of the world but the stupid UK and the belligerent US want (sorry, and of course it criminal israelis and the camel herding Saudis)
Irrelevant. Doesn’t matter.