{"id":81540,"date":"2026-03-18T12:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=81540"},"modified":"2026-03-18T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:57:13","slug":"trump-slams-nato-we-dont-need-anyones-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-slams-nato-we-dont-need-anyones-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump slams NATO allies: \u201cWe don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s help\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <a title=\"Countries buying oil should secure Strait of Hormuz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/trump-buying-oil-strait-of-hormuz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> delivered striking remarks targeting NATO allies over their stance on military operations against Iran. Stating that allied countries did not want to participate, Trump criticized their position while underlining the military strength of the United States and its ability to operate without external support.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cAllies refused to participate\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In a post on his social media account, Trump said NATO countries had informed them they did not want to be involved in operations in the Middle East:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis situation occurred despite the fact that nearly every country strongly agrees with our actions and the reality that Iran must not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons in any way\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Trump: \u201cNATO is a one-way street\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Trump said he was not surprised by the allies\u2019 stance and criticized NATO with the following words:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was not surprised by their actions because I have always viewed NATO, for which we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year to protect these same countries, as a one-way street. We protect them, but they will do nothing for us, especially when we need it\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Claims about Iran\u2019s military<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Trump claimed that Iran\u2019s military capacity had been severely weakened, stating:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, we have destroyed Iran\u2019s military. Their navy is gone, their air force is gone, their air defenses and radars are gone. Perhaps most importantly, their leaders at almost every level are gone and can no longer threaten us, our allies in the Middle East, or the world\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u201cWe don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s help\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Emphasizing US military power, Trump concluded:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, we never did. The same goes for Japan, Australia, or South Korea. As the President of the most powerful country in the world, I am saying this \u2014 we don\u2019t need anyone\u2019s help\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting, Mar. 17, 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HbTMgtskUNo\" width=\"951\" height=\"535\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump delivered striking remarks targeting NATO allies over their stance on military operations against Iran. Stating that allied countries did not want to participate, Trump criticized their position while underlining the military strength of the United States and its ability to operate without external support. \u201cAllies refused to participate\u201d In a post &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9192199,"featured_media":81541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25,37],"tags":[77263,1134,77159,591,77170,77647,2057,77150],"class_list":["post-81540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-america","category-middle-east","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9192199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81542,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81540\/revisions\/81542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}