Hegseth calls on US allies to ‘step up’ over Strait of Hormuz

Over the last three weeks, as Iran took control of the Strait, the Trump administration has whipsawed from asking Nato and European allies for help, to saying it doesn’t need any help, to accusing them of disloyalty, to saying the requests for help were a “test”, to now increasingly angrily demanding that allies go and reopen the Strait themselves – implying that it is not America’s problem.