{"id":4896,"date":"2026-03-21T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:04:11","slug":"nato-is-a-paper-tiger-trump-slams-allies-for-not-supporting-us-in-war-against-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=4896","title":{"rendered":"&#039;NATO is a paper tiger&#039;: Trump slams allies for not supporting US in war against Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>US President Donald Trump on Friday went on a tirade against NATO countries for their reluctance to support the US in its ongoing war against Iran. Calling the alliance a &#8220;paper tiger,&#8221; he wrote in a post on Truth Social that these countries did not want to join the fight to stop a &#8220;Nuclear Powered Iran.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p> <p>Towards the end of his post, Trump made another vitriolic jibe at NATO. He wrote,\u00a0&#8220;So easy for them to do, with so little risk. COWARDS, and we will REMEMBER!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p> <p><strong>Read Trump&#8217;s full post here<\/strong><\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Without the U.S.A., NATO IS A PAPER TIGER! They didn\u2019t want to join the fight to stop a Nuclear Powered Iran. 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\u2019t want to help open the Strait\u2026<\/p> <p>\u2014 Commentary: Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/2034991959228784973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>His post comes after French President Emmanuel Macron said in a social media post that &#8220;the war involving Iran will not deflect France from its support for Ukraine, where Russia&#8217;s war of aggression continues unabated.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p> <p>Macron further said, &#8220;These vessels, which evade international sanctions and violate the law of the sea, are profiteers of war. They line their pockets while helping finance Russia\u2019s war effort. We will not allow it.&#8221;<\/p> <div class=\"embedcode\"> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">We remain resolute.<\/p> <p>This morning in the Mediterranean, the French Navy intercepted and boarded another vessel from the shadow fleet, the Deyna.<\/p> <p>The war involving Iran will not deflect France from its support for Ukraine, where Russia\u2019s war of aggression continues unabated.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SYCPKblacb\">pic.twitter.com\/SYCPKblacb<\/a><\/p> <p>\u2014 Emmanuel Macron (@EmmanuelMacron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/2034966586390368464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote> <\/div> <p>Moreover, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands and Canada pledged in a joint statement on Thursday to join &#8220;appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait.&#8221; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, however, hinted that these efforts would depend on an end to active combat that has disrupted movement at the strategically vital waterway.\u00a0<\/p> <p>This, however, is not the first time that Trump has targeted NATO over their non-participation in the ongoing US military operation against Iran. On Tuesday, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that Washington was told that NATO nations did not want to get involved in the campaign against Iran&#8217;s &#8220;terrorist regime.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p> <p>&#8220;The United States has been informed by most of our NATO \u2018Allies\u2019 that they don\u2019t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran in the Middle East,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p> <p>Furthermore, he said that the position came despite a broad agreement among Western governments on Iran&#8217;s nuclear programme.\u00a0<\/p> <p>&#8220;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 &#8211; We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Trump demanded that countries like China, France, Japan, South Korea, Britain and others to send their naval forces to help police the Strait of Hormuz.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is their territory. It&#8217;s the place from which they get their energy,\u201d he had said.\u00a0<\/p> <\/div> <p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Donald Trump NATO remarks, NATO paper tiger comment, Trump Iran war statement, US Iran conflict news, NATO allies response, Trump NATO criticism, Strait of Hormuz crisis, Middle East war 2026, US Israel Iran war, global oil prices surge, NATO vs US tensions, Iran conflict latest news, Trump foreign policy news, NATO military support debate, global security crisis 2026, oil supply disruption Hormuz, US allies reaction Iran war, geopolitical tensions West Asia, NATO defence controversy, breaking world news Trump#039NATO #paper #tiger039 #Trump #slams #allies #supporting #war #Iran1774044251<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump on Friday went on a tirade against NATO countries for their reluctance to support the US in its ongoing war against Iran. Calling the alliance a &#8220;paper tiger,&#8221; he wrote in a post on Truth Social that these countries did not want to join the fight to stop a &#8220;Nuclear Powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[18032,18035,18031,18015,18029,18021,18026,968,18023,18020,18018,18030,18025,18016,18022,18027,18033,7682,15554,18036,18034,378,18024,15867,18019,18028,18017,15153,1975],"class_list":["post-4896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-039nato","tag-allies","tag-breaking-world-news-trump","tag-donald-trump-nato-remarks","tag-geopolitical-tensions-west-asia","tag-global-oil-prices-surge","tag-global-security-crisis-2026","tag-iran","tag-iran-conflict-latest-news","tag-middle-east-war-2026","tag-nato-allies-response","tag-nato-defence-controversy","tag-nato-military-support-debate","tag-nato-paper-tiger-comment","tag-nato-vs-us-tensions","tag-oil-supply-disruption-hormuz","tag-paper","tag-slams","tag-strait-of-hormuz-crisis","tag-supporting","tag-tiger039","tag-trump","tag-trump-foreign-policy-news","tag-trump-iran-war-statement","tag-trump-nato-criticism","tag-us-allies-reaction-iran-war","tag-us-iran-conflict-news","tag-us-israel-iran-war","tag-war"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}