Liberal Forum

"Joining Trump in the Strait of Hormuz is like buying a ticket for the Titanic after hitting the iceberg." French NATO General Yakovleff

Speaking calmly but with unmistakable finality, Yakovleff listed five explicit reasons France (and Europe) must refuse:

1) NATO operation requires NATO command not a U.S. directed ad-hoc mission.

2) Washington is asking allies to share the political risk and cost of what he called America’s “fiascos,” not genuine military burden sharing.

3) The strategic endgame remains dangerously vague “beyond forcing the strait open, what then?”

4) The U.S. has a history of abandoning partners when it suits them.

5) Most damning: “You do not reinforce failure.” (A lesson, he noted, learned at the U.S. Army War College.)