Anonymousabout 2 hours ago
Fifty-one countries gathered at the Élysée Palace on April 17, 2026, as France and the United Kingdom launched a "strictly defensive" multinational naval mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz — deliberately excluding the United States, which President Trump demanded they stay away from unless they "just want to load up their ships with oil." The initiative, born from Europe's refusal to join Trump's blockade of Iranian ports, represents the most significant independent European military operation in the Middle East in decades and has exposed the deepest rift in the transatlantic alliance since NATO's founding.