Trump Started this Illegal War, Alienated Our Allies, and Now He’s Mad No One Will Help

An isolated man running an increasingly isolated country.

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This morning I woke up to the news that NATO and our European allies are refusing to get entangled in Donald Trump’s reckless war by providing military assistance in the Strait of Hormuz. NATO exists so that allies defend each other when attacked. But NATO isn’t designed to support a unilateral war launched in the middle of the night on Truth Social.

And the reaction from Trump, MAGA influencers, and the same corrupt, war-mongering Republican politicians who spent years attacking our allies? They’re whining that Europe won’t help.

And honestly, I had to laugh.

Because it raises a pretty obvious question: What the hell did they expect?

The president of the United States launched an illegal war in the middle of the night with no authorization from Congress and announced it on social media. He didn’t bother to explain it to the American people, let alone to our allies overseas, or lay out why it was supposedly in our national interest.

And this didn’t happen in a vacuum. For years, Donald Trump has done everything he possibly can to antagonize the rest of the world and isolate the United States in ways we haven’t seen in generations.

Let’s remember that we’re only a few weeks removed from Donald Trump attempting to steal Greenland from Denmark—something that was universally condemned across Europe. It got so bad that multiple European countries deployed military personnel to Greenland just to scare him off.

At the same time, Trump has angered basically every ally we have on the planet with these idiotic tariffs that are driving up prices—not just for Americans, but for consumers all around the world.

The world is moving on without us.

China no longer takes American beef from American ranchers and has instead gone to Australia and Argentina.

Canada is signing trade deals with China. Europe is rearming and coordinating more closely with each other because they no longer trust the United States to be a stable partner.

These are all self-inflicted wounds.

Now let’s assume—just for the sake of argument—that there actually is some morally justifiable reason for the United States to be involved in a war with Iran. I don’t believe there is—but let’s pretend there was.

If you were going to take on something that serious, you’d start by building a coalition. You’d strengthen relationships with allies. Right?

You would not want to be shitting and pissing all over them for months prior—threatening to take their land, slapping tariffs on their economies, and insulting them every chance you get. Right?

And let’s be honest about something else: virtually every opportunity Donald Trump gets to side with NATO, Ukraine, and our democratic allies, he sides with Vladimir Putin instead.

His entire 2024 campaign was built around the promise that there would be “no new wars,” and he blamed Joe Biden for the war in Ukraine—when in reality the United States was helping defend Ukraine from being swallowed by Russia.

So what goodwill exactly does Trump have on the world stage?

Why would anyone lift a finger for a man who has attacked them, hurt their economies, and threatened their sovereignty?

Why would they?

Instead, Trump has dragged the United States into a conflict he appears to have been pushed into by the Israeli government. American troops are now in harm’s way, while Benjamin Netanyahu effectively dictates the tempo of U.S. policy in the region.

It’s been widely reported that Trump would like to find an off-ramp in Iran—but Israel won’t let him.

So again: why would the rest of the world help?

For Europe, this war offers nothing: no security benefit, no economic benefit, and no political justification.

This is not how the leader of the free world behaves.

It’s not how the country that’s supposed to be the greatest force for good on the planet is supposed to act.

And say what you will about George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, and the rest of that crew—they lied to the American people about the war in Iraq.

Even George W. Bush—who dragged us into one of the worst foreign policy disasters in American history—understood something Trump apparently doesn’t: wars are easier to fight when at least some of your allies trust you.

They went through the motions of trying to build alliances. They tried to get our allies on the same page. They laid out a case to the American people.

It was a bad plan built on lies, but at least they attempted to justify it.

Donald Trump didn’t even bother with that.

And now he wonders why nobody will help him.

He wonders why the media is reporting that the war isn’t going as well as he claims.

Then he threatens the media and calls them treasonous for not reporting the facts the way he wants.

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Brendan Carr—his little attack dog at the FCC—is abusing the power of that agency to try to bring ABC, NBC, and CBS to heel so they’ll report the war the way the administration wants them to.

They’ve already gone after Jimmy Kimmel, The View, Don Lemon, and basically anyone who speaks out against them.

That’s what they do. They lash out. They refuse to take responsibility for the mess they created.

Donald Trump launched an illegal war that was poorly thought out and poorly conceived. There is no exit strategy.

And because of that, American service members are dead.

Oil prices are skyrocketing. The average American family is paying far more for gasoline than they were just a few weeks ago.

In fact, today alone Americans spent about $300 million more on gasoline than they did just weeks ago.

Think about that.

And who’s benefiting from all this?

Defense contractors. Oil companies. And corrupt politicians like Donald Trump.

Trump is literally making money off this war while his kids invest in drone-strike companies. Meanwhile, he’s out there whining because the people who have nothing to gain from this conflict won’t help him.

The media isn’t going to carry water for him.

Independent journalists are exposing what’s actually happening. They’re doing their damn jobs.

And our European allies—who gain absolutely nothing from supporting this war—aren’t going to step up when we’ve spent years undermining those alliances and proving ourselves to be an unreliable partner.

But instead of taking responsibility, these people still want to lecture everyone.

They insult our allies.

They attack the media.

They patronize and criticize young men who don’t want to fight in another forever war.

But here’s the reality: the American people, including young men, don’t want another forever war.

They want good jobs.

They want a chance to build a life.

To start a family.

To buy a house.

To retire with dignity.

And maybe take a goddamn vacation every once in a while.

Instead, this administration has created a situation where the economy is shaky, America is increasingly isolated on the world stage, and our country is starting to look less like the stabilizing force in global politics—and more like the primary source of chaos.

Think about that for a second.

The United States is supposed to be the country our allies trust.

The one that stabilizes the world—not the one creating chaos.

Instead, we’re increasingly viewed as the problem.

And when your allies start seeing you that way, they stop showing up when you need them.

Because a country without allies is a dangerous place to be.

And that’s exactly where Donald Trump is taking us.

Sure, Trump can surround himself with sycophants in the White House—people who flatter him and tell him everything is going perfectly.

But the rest of the world isn’t playing along.

Donald Trump is a profoundly isolated man.

And now he’s turning the United States into a profoundly isolated country too.

But this isn’t who we, the American people, are. We’re stronger than that.

We’ll stand up for our alliances.

We’ll end this reckless war.

We’ll hold the people responsible accountable.

And we’ll take this country back in November.