It has not required advanced training in detecting nuance or reading between the lines in recent days to understand that Donald Trump is annoyed. A man who wears his demands, if not quite his heart, on his sleeve, he has made it abundantly clear that he wants America’s allies, especially but not exclusively the leading members of Nato, to provide additional resources and assets for a US-led effort to maintain maritime commerce through the Strait of Hormuz. The President is angry and disappointed that such help has not been immediately forthcoming.

Trump took to his Truth Social platform, as always, to air his feelings earlier this week:

The United States has been informed by most of our Nato ‘Allies’ that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot… be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered Nato, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one-way street – We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.

The United States has been informed by most of our Nato ‘Allies’ that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every........

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