JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump responded to the refusal of most of his allied countries to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz.
The Strait of Hormuz, which is a fifth of the world's oil supply, is closed to international shipping following the US-Israeli attack on Iran.
"It takes two parties to dance. We have to ask people to bring their multibillion-dollar ships and, you know, drive them here [the Strait of Hormuz]," Trump said at a White House press conference on Tuesday, March 17 WIB, quoted from The Guardian.
So far, the US allies invited by Trump to send their warships have stated their refusal. It is recorded that France, Australia, Britain and Japan do not want to join the US in deploying their naval alutsista to control the Strait of Hormuz.
Even China, which is generally not close bilaterally with the US, was invited by Trump to firmly reject it.
"These boats are very expensive," Trump claimed.
"They don't want to take any risks," he continued.
Trump then argued that a number of companies supplying the world's oil and gas energy sources were stuck and could not pass through the Strait of Hormuz due to Iran's harsh policy without a trigger.
"We don't know if they even put mines in. But the assumption that they might have done so, is enough to make people say, 'we don't need it'," he said.
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