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We're going into what, the third week of this war, and there is no sign of any of this violence relenting.

It's very hard to see the temperature being kind of dialed down.

We're always there for NATO. We're helping them with Ukraine. It'd be hard to see the temperature being kind of dialed down. We're always there for NATO.

We're helping them with Ukraine.

It'd be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us.

It is in the interest of these NATO allies to find a way to secure and open the strait.

And it is just a question of whether or not countries actually want to send their navies into the firing line.

Donald Trump threatens the future of NATO as he pressures allies to send ships to the

strait of Hamoos. From the Guardians today and focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

I'm joined by Hannah Ellis Peterson, the Guardian South Asia correspondent, currently in Dubai for us.

Thanks so much for joining us, Hannah.

So over the weekend, Donald Trump, the US president, has been putting lots of pressure on NATO allies as well as other partners around the world to help him reopen the Strait of Hamuz, that vital crossing in the Gulf,

in the Persian Gulf that is responsible for so much of the world's oil trade. What exactly is he

asking of NATO and other partners? Well, he's got one very simple demand is that he wants them to send

their warships into the Strait of Hamos to accompany,

you know, the oil and gas tankers that are going through there that are currently being targeted

by Iranian missiles and drones and that are causing this major disruption to one of the world's

most important flows of energy in the world and causing oil to, you know to skyrocket to exorbitant prices.

And so he's essentially asking them to use their militaries to defend the oil and gas

tankers and send their navies into this very small and very critical strip of sea.

We'll come on to the response of NATO and others in a second, but it's worth also saying that he has issued quite a kind of stark threat to NATO in particular, saying it could be very bad for its future.

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