re: No Countries Answer Trump’s Call For Help In Strait Of Hormuz—Oil Tops $103

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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told reporters he did not see a role for the NATO in the matter.

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Iran fired missiles at Turkey, a member nation of NATO.

An attack on one member is an attack on all. They may be drawn into this regardless of their current intentions based on article 5 alone.

Moreover, their interests in having the strait open is likely significantly greater than ours.

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It's amazing that all those European countries don't give a flying frick about what goes on in their neck of the woods.

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They live in mortal dread of the Muslims, who they brought in and who are pledged to kill all infidels.

Not nearly as dumb as your political takes

Since the US has been attacked by Iran, isn't NATO obligated to help?

Great time to exit stage left from NATO and cut all funding to other countries.

Cold turkey.

They making a big mistake.....seriously, TRUMP will make them pay.

So American taxpayers once again are taking an arse-reaming for playing world globa-cop?

Here’s another big issue with the strait closed that no one is talking about.

The consensus assumption is that the Hormuz crisis is just a transit problem. Reopen the strait, restart the flow.

Even if the strait reopened tomorrow, would commercial operators trust that the facilities loading their cargo are safe from the next drone? Would insurers underwrite a vessel loading at Fujairah when a fuel tank at Dubai airport was struck this morning?

Meanwhile the fertilizer arithmetic grows worse by the hour.

One-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade passes through Hormuz per UNCTAD. Transit down 97 percent.

Nearly 49 percent of traded urea tied to conflict-exposed Gulf exporters.

Bangladesh has shut four to five of its six major urea factories. India is running plants at 60 percent capacity and has formally asked China for emergency urea.

China has banned phosphate exports through August. Egypt faces $28 billion in debt repayments while feeding 69 million people on bread subsidies hemorrhaging at prices nobody budgeted. 318 million were at crisis-level hunger before February 28.

The Corn Belt needs nitrogen by mid-April. India needs Kharif prep by May. Australia needs urea by June.

Every drone that hits Gulf infrastructure is not just an act of aggression against a sovereign state. It is an extension of the same siege that is strangling the food system sustaining four billion people.

The planting calendar does not distinguish between a blocked strait and a burning fuel depot. Both produce the same outcome: molecules that do not arrive in time.

The window is not just closing because the strait is blocked.

It is closing because the crisis has expanded beyond it.

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So American taxpayers once again are taking an arse-reaming for playing world globa-cop?

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Why not? Our national motto at this point: "BOHICA."

American taxpayers have financed the US military and NATO as Police Enforcers of the International Banks, Global Corporations, Israel and Davos Empires. Period.