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This is the Michael Medved show.

And another great day in this greatest nation on God's Green Earth, a great day, despite the fact that there is a little bit of a problem with a foreign policy position being taken by the Trump administration.

The bulwark puts the problem, I think, in very precise and very brief and very effective terms.

They're doing a symposium on how to lose friends and alienate people.

And the subtitle is first insult them for years, then demand their help.

What does this have to do with the current situation and the current state of the war in Iran.

The Guardian asks a question in a headline. This is a British newspaper, of course.

Why ask NATO for help if the U.S. is winning in Iran? Now, that's a very solid question.

The headline for the dispatch is help in Hormuz.

NATO nations say no.

After claiming on Sunday that he would soon announce a coalition of countries prepared to

escort merchant vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, blocked two merchant shipping by Iranian

threats, the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, said at the White House yesterday

that he was receiving mixed responses from other

countries to the U.S. and our request for aid. Some are very enthusiastic about it. Okay, which

ones? Because that's kind of not been widely reported.

But the White House says some are very enthusiastic about it and some aren't.

That's what the president said.

Germany and Italy completely ruled out taking military action to reopen a passage through the Strait of Hormuz,

while Britain and France agreed only to conditional involvement.

British Prime Minister Kier-Starmer said the United Kingdom will not be drawn into the wider war,

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