Trump Calls NATO "Cowards" Over Lack of Support in Iran War

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Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump assailed NATO allies on Friday over their lack of support for ​the U.S.-Israel war against Iran, calling the longtime U.S. ‌allies "cowards."
"Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER!" Trump said in a social media post.

Trump has been calling for major U.S. allies and others, ​none of which were consulted or advised on the war, ​to help secure the safety of shipping through the Iran-controlled ⁠Strait of Hormuz. The conflict has roiled global markets, killed thousands ​and displaced millions since U.S.-Israel strikes began on Feb. 28.

The U.S. ​president complained NATO countries did not want to join the fight against Iran, yet still complain about high oil prices.
"Now that fight is Militarily WON, ​with very little danger for them, they complain about the high ​oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open ‌the ⁠Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk," he wrote.
"COWARDS, and we will ​REMEMBER!"

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-calls-nato-cowards-over-lack-support-iran-war-2026-03-20/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Trump is totally losing

And he’s losing the war, in part, because he failed to build a coalition.
That and his war is a completely idiotic idea.

[Botany]

2. Donny Bone Spurs calling other people cowards is a bit much.

The U.S. ​president complained NATO countries did not want to join the fight against Iran, yet still complain about high oil prices.
"Now that fight is Militarily WON, ​with very little danger for them, they complain about the high ​oil prices they are forced to pay, but don’t want to help open ‌the ⁠Strait of Hormuz, a simple military maneuver that is the single reason for the high oil prices. So easy for them to do, with so little risk," he wrote.
"COWARDS, and we will ​REMEMBER!"

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

3. He's conveniently forgotten

How many nations joined in the fight after 9 1 1.

[Ocelot II]

4. If it's such "a simple military maneuver," why hasn't Kegbreath sent the Marines to take care of it?

If the war is "militarily won, with very little danger," why do we need help at all? Hey, Piggy, if you're telling our (now former) allies that the war is already won and opening up the Strait of Hormuz is a simple military maneuver with very little danger, aren't they going to respond that it's your war, you started it, and if it's so easy to open the strait why don't you do it yourself?

[melm00se]

5. After a lifetime of being schmoozed

You'd figure he'd've learned HOW to schmooze people.

I guess not.

[Whip-poor-will]

6. Epstein Epstein Epstein

Cowards have their way with little girls

When has big mouth put um up ? Against who ?

[efhmc]

7. Some nations are lucky enough to have intelligent and thoughtful leaders to "lead" them. We chose a TV personality

who is also a felon.

[jls4561]

8. Let us not forget that this is a man who is too lazy to cheat at golf himself, but has his caddy drop the ball

nearer to the hole after he’s hit it in the water or the sand trap or wherever.

He knows if he starts killing US troops that he can not blame it on Obama, however much he tries. It will hurt his “numbers”. So he wants our allies to get their people killed, so he can have his precious oil, after his pal Putin has made enough money to salvage his disastrous, illegal war.

[BeyondGeography]

9. Says the guy who got the Strait of Hormuz closed

He should be privately apologizing to them and thanking them for not requesting reparations.

With that, if you were asked to design the worst possible ally in the world it would be hard to beat the ignorant, self-serving, conniving, lying, backstabbing, destructive Trump.

[BlueWavePsych]

10. LOL

[surfered]

11. He screws up and demand others fix his mistake.

[pat_k]

12. You'd think by now, even the Neocons would have figured out there is no "winning militarily" in the gulf.

First, as a defensive alliance, it should be unsurprising to anyone that NATO allies are saying NO to joining the fray in the U.S. / Israel criminal war of aggression.

If any do decide to help keep the strait "open," it will certainly not be out of any commitments made as a member of NATO.

And further, tragically, there is no "winning" by bombing the shit out of a country. Just as Israel has never "won" the war against Lebanon it launched in 1982. Just as no one has won a war on Afghanistan, and on and on.

"We really decided to learn nothing from history."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/israel-us-iran-strategy-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.a3o3.RdQVqIImHfaJ&smid=nytcore-android-share

While President Trump and other top U.S. officials repeatedly boast that Iran’s air force is extinct and its navy sits at the bottom of the sea, analysts noted that the country was never expected to take on the United States in a direct confrontation using a conventional military.

Instead, it relies on asymmetrical warfare, tactics designed to extend the war indefinitely until, it hopes, the cost saps the will of the Trump administration and Israel...

In the Gulf, for example, the naval wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps has long used smaller craft to lay mines and deploys speedboats to mount lightning attacks. On land, Iran dispersed its forces to avoid their being vanquished in one fell swoop...

Externally, drone and missile attacks strike targets that include military bases, oil infrastructure and airports in nearby Gulf countries not directly involved — all meant to stretch the battlefield as far as possible. “The main idea of their response is to expand the pain and inconvenience of this war for as many countries in the world as possible,” said Afshon Ostovar, the author of “Wars of Ambition: The United States, Iran and the Struggle for the Middle East.”
...
The regime has long put its own welfare above that of the population, analysts noted. “If it survives, it can claim victory, no matter how much destruction the country suffers,” Saeid Golkar, a military expert and a political science professor at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, wrote in an online essay...

Wars intended to reshape the Middle East in recent history have instead taken ever more violent detours.

In August 1982, after Israel invaded Lebanon, Ariel Sharon, the Israeli minister of defense, predicted that by driving out the Palestine Liberation Organization, “the whole infrastructure of violence and revolution has been broken.”

Within months, a nascent Hezbollah dispatched suicide bombers against Israeli troops with devastating effect. Israeli forces have returned to Lebanon repeatedly in a conflict that ebbs and flows but never really ended. The latest incursion came this month after Hezbollah opened a second front in the war in support of Iran...

Mr. Milstein noted. “I really don’t like all these engineering ideas that we will redesign the Middle East and will change the hearts and minds of the people,” he said. “We really decided to learn nothing from history.”

[Hey Joe]

13. The Piece ( of shit ) President

Trying to turn all countries into casualties over a war he didn’t need to start.
Oh, but he really doesn’t need any other countries help, right? Just send us your targets, er, ships to guard the precious oil!

[bsiebs]

14. What is the difference between Vietnam and Iran?

Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam…

Stolen from Bluesky.

[Ray Bruns]

15. For draft dodger Mango Mussolini to call anyone a coward is the height of hypocrisy.

[paleotn]

16. If it were "won", whatever the hell that means, wouldn't the strait be open?

And oil flowing freely?

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. No matter how bad a situation is you can

Can trust him to make it 10x worse.

[Ponietz]

18. Cadet Bonespurs and his cadre of nobs

Unfathomable moral depravity and utter degenerate stupidity to start this war. Operation Epstein Clusterfuck. I’ve been against capital punishment my whole life. No longer.

It must be absolutely miserable to live like they do.

[Mysterian]

19. They live in luxury and revel in gaining power and wealth, no matter how much pain, death and destruction they cause

They are certainly not miserable.

Bring back the guillotine.

[0rganism]

20. F47 is the worst American ever, literally the "worst of the worst"

Given the large number of immense assholes littered throughout our sordid history, I previously thought it unlikely, but this guy is just ... the worst. I don't just mean evil, although he's loaded up with metric tons of the stuff; there's a lot of competition in that lane. Also, I mean he does what he does so incredibly poorly, that it causes a special kind of cringe. Unbelievable cruelty mixed with terminal ignorance, incredible carelessness crossed with superhuman incompetence, impossible greed meeting hyper-advanced self-promotion, all backed by an insufferably petty ego somehow granted unlimited power to kill and destroy. I find myself flabbergasted on a daily basis. It still seems impossible, yet here we are.

[wolfie001]

21. Commander Chickenshit said what??!!!

[oasis]

22. "Send your losers and suckers to fight MY war"