{"id":9184,"date":"2026-03-21T07:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/21\/trump-nato-paper-tiger-europe-hormuz-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:30:39","slug":"trump-nato-paper-tiger-europe-hormuz-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/03\/21\/trump-nato-paper-tiger-europe-hormuz-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls NATO a &#8216;Paper Tiger&#8217; Without US Amid European Hesitation on Hormuz Strait Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, President of the United States, described NATO as a &#8216;paper tiger&#8217; without America in response to the reluctance of several European countries to join a potential conflict in the Strait of Hormuz. He sharply criticized his European allies&#8217; stance.<\/p>\n<p>Trump stated that members of the military alliance have shown no willingness to go to war with Iran. Addressing the European countries, he added: &#8220;You are cowards, and we will remember this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These remarks come as many countries worldwide, especially in Europe, have openly opposed any military intervention in the Strait of Hormuz. This strait is one of the world&#8217;s most important energy transit routes, and any tensions there could impact global oil markets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Trump had called on European countries to cooperate with Washington to reduce oil prices affected by restrictions imposed on this strategic passage; however, the request was met with limited enthusiasm and cautious responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump labels NATO a &#8216;paper tiger&#8217; without the US amid European reluctance to join a potential conflict in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}