WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump angrily suggested Wednesday that he could leave U.S. allies to secure the Hormuz strait on their own since they have refused to fight alongside U.S. forces against Iran in the crucial shipping lane. Saying the United States doesn’t need the strait — a major global oil shipping pathway — Trump wrote on his Truth Social site that he could “let the Countries that use it” find a solution. Traditional European and Asian partners have refused Trump’s repeated requests for mine sweepers and other military hardware to clear the strait, which Iran has effectively choked off in response to the nearly three-week U.S.-Israeli war. Trump has responded to the Hormuz crisis with a series of contradictory statements, saying both that allies must help the United States and then on Tuesday saying “we don’t need any help.” His latest statement on Truth Social suggested the United States could abandon the situation altogether, leaving other countries to deal with the aftermath. “I wonder what would happen if we ‘finished off’ what’s left of the Iranian Terror St
