Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur complained that the US administration is not clearly explaining what assistance it wants from its allies in the Middle East.
“Even today, in the morning, I had a meeting with the chief of defence and there is no clarity from the US CENTCOM or other institutions, also on the political level, on what (the United States) requests from the allies,” Pevkur said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday.
In mid-March, Pevkur met with senior US defence officials in Washington and expressed a willingness to discuss how Estonia could help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the report read.
Pevkur reportedly stated that he has not received any further instructions regarding the specific assistance Washington seeks since then.
Тrump had first “said that (NATO) should do something together with them (the US) together in the Middle East, then he said we don’t need the allies, and then he said that the allies should do it themselves … So in just three days you have three different direction messages,” the defence minister noted.
On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that he was seriously considering withdrawing the US from NATO after the alliance refused to assist in the operation against Iran.
