President Donald Trump, who has been pressing allies to help safeguard the critical waterway, fumed on Tuesday that the U.S. is not getting support “despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot” be allowed to secure a nuclear weapon.
Remember the European discourse during the Greenland tantrum - they were trying to leverage peace, sovereignty through saying …but, but allies. My assumption is that the current tantrum is a response to that, conscious or not