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发布时间：2026年3月16日，美国东部时间下午3:09
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿特区白宫东厅与肯尼迪中心董事会成员共进午餐时发表讲话，2026年3月16日。
（乔纳森·恩斯特/路透社）
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普一直坚称与伊朗的战争进展顺利。但他请求盟友及其他国家协助解决霍尔木兹海峡危机的决定，是最新质疑这一说法的证据。
事实上，特朗普多次表示他不需要其他国家的帮助——包括就在最近——而且多年来他一直疏远盟友。
但这位美国总统从周日开始加大了求助呼吁。
“如果其他国家能和我们一起维护（海峡安全）就好了，”特朗普在空军一号上表示，他指出中国进口的大量石油都要经过该海峡。
特朗普还坚称北大西洋公约组织（北约）应该介入。
“我们一直支持北约，我们在帮助他们应对乌克兰问题，”特朗普说，“这并不影响我们，但我们确实帮了他们。很有意思的是，看看哪个国家会不愿意在这么小的事情上帮助我们——也就是保持海峡畅通。”
周一，在白宫的一次会议上，特朗普强烈批评了那些他认为对提供帮助不够积极的长期盟友。
“有些国家我们帮助了很多很多年，我们保护他们免受可怕的外部势力侵害，但他们的积极性不够，”特朗普说，“而积极性对我来说很重要。”
特朗普声称，在联系相关国家后他得到了“一些积极回应”，但他经常夸大或歪曲这类情况。他拒绝透露任何具体承诺提供援助的盟友，也没有任何国家公开表示计划介入。
这里有几个关键点。
一是这与特朗普近期关于需要他国帮助的言论难以自洽——他此前的言论常常带有不屑。
3月3日，在西班牙拒绝允许美国使用其空军基地后，特朗普坚称不需要该国的帮助。
“所以我告诉他，我们不需要——西班牙绝对没有我们需要的东西，”特朗普说，“除了优秀的人民。他们有很棒的人，但领导能力不行。”
3月7日，当英国考虑派遣航空母舰前往该地区时，特朗普坚称这种帮助完全没有必要，因为胜利已经取得。
“没关系，首相（基尔）·斯塔默，我们不再需要他们了，”特朗普在社交媒体上发文，“但我们会记住的。我们不需要别人在我们已经获胜后才加入战争！”
3月9日，特朗普称“能为确保霍尔木兹海峡安全而努力是我的荣幸”，坚称这条战略水道的石油供应主要是对中国等其他国家有利。
（阿联酋哈伊马角，2026年3月11日，从这里可以看到阿联酋海军舰艇与货船在霍尔木兹海峡航行。）
（阿尔塔夫·卡德里/美联社）
周五，针对乌克兰提出帮助应对伊朗无人机的提议，特朗普告诉福克斯新闻电台主持人布莱恩·基尔梅德“我们在无人机防御方面不需要帮助”。周六，特朗普在接受美国全国广播公司新闻采访时也表达了类似观点，坚称“我们不需要帮助”。
这些都是一个似乎从未预料到需要帮助的人的言论。特别是他关于英国的“我们不需要他们”的评论——这一立场他现在显然已经转变。周一，他表示对斯塔默没有立即承诺协助美军在海峡的行动“不高兴”。
“我说，‘你不需要和团队会面。你是首相。你可以自己做决定——为什么还要和团队开会来决定是否要派扫雷艇给我们或派些船只过来？’”特朗普告诉记者。
这就引出了另一个关键点：如果特朗普认为自己可能需要其他国家的帮助，那么首先应该先缓和与这些国家的关系，这显然是更明智的做法。
特朗普在两届任期内，大部分时间都在疏远那些似乎能在美国需要援助时伸出援手的盟友，而在他的第二个任期内，这种疏远程度可能还在加剧。
毕竟，不到两个月前，特朗普还在考虑对北约盟友格陵兰岛发动军事入侵的可能性。尽管入侵似乎不太可能发生，但特朗普显然在试图强迫丹麦交出该领土。
他还曾以将加拿大列为第51个州的方式行事，这在加拿大和许多其他国家看来是相当挑衅性的，甚至是公然冒犯。
他曾用关税政策针对大量盟友，有时对他们的强硬态度甚至超过了对某些对手的态度。
他经常在国际聚会上发表煽动性言论，表现得更像是在欺凌美国盟友，而不是与他们相处融洽。这导致加拿大总理马克·卡尼和其他一些人最近发表了一些不同寻常的评论，暗示他们最好的前进方向可能是与美国脱钩。
还有一些特别贴切——考虑到当前局势显得非常欠考虑——的评论，是特朗普在1月底关于北约的言论。
“我们从来不需要他们。我们从未真正向他们要求过任何东西，”特朗普说，“你知道，他们会说他们向阿富汗派遣了一些部队，或者其他什么。但他们只是在后面待着，离前线远远的。”
即使单独看这些言论，也极具冒犯性——尤其是考虑到许多北约成员国在阿富汗战争中付出了大量牺牲，超过1000名联军士兵阵亡。
但这些评论在当下看来尤为刺眼。特朗普多次声称不需要长期盟友，却在不到两个月后要求他们在自己挑起的战争中提供帮助。他侮辱了盟友的牺牲，却又要求他们再次牺牲。
至少，这表明特朗普没有预料到自己会处于这种需要求助的境地。
尽管特朗普过去的言论如此，考虑到霍尔木兹海峡航运瓶颈可能对全球经济造成长期损害，这些国家可能仍会感到压力而提供某种形式的帮助。
不过，特朗普的立场转变似乎进一步证明，这位美国总统可能已经“咬下了超出自己想象的任务”。
Trump insisted he didn’t need allies’ help in Iran. Now he’s demanding they step in
Analysis by Aaron Blake
20 min ago
PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2026, 3:09 PM ET
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with the Kennedy Center board members in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 16, 2026.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
President Donald Trump has consistently asserted that the war with Iran is going well. But his decision to ask for help from allies and other countries to resolve the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is the latest evidence that calls that into question.
In fact, Trump repeatedly said he didn’t need help from other countries — including very recently — and he’s spent years alienating allies.
But the US president began ramping up his calls for help on Sunday.
“It’d be nice to have other countries police it with us,” Trump said aboard Air Force One, noting much of the oil that China imports comes through the strait.
Trump also insisted that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization should get involved.
“We’re always there for NATO. We’re helping them with Ukraine,” Trump said, adding: “Doesn’t affect us, but we’ve helped them. It’d be interesting to see what country wouldn’t help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping the strait open.”
On Monday, at a meeting in the White House, Trump strongly criticized longtime allies that he said were not enthusiastic enough about helping.
“Some are countries that we’ve helped for many, many years. We’ve protected them from horrible outside sources, and they weren’t that enthusiastic,” Trump said. “And the level of enthusiasm matters to me.”
Trump claimed he has gotten “some positive response” after reaching out to countries, but he has often exaggerated and misstated such things. He declined to name any specific allies who have committed to sending aid and no countries have indicated publicly that they plan to intervene.
There are a couple of key points here.
One is that this is very difficult to square with Trump’s recent commentary about getting help from other countries, which has often been dismissive.
On March 3, after Spain declined to allow the United States to use its air bases, Trump insisted he didn’t need the country’s help.
“And so, I told him we don’t want — Spain has absolutely nothing that we need,” Trump said. “Other than great people. They have great people, but they don’t have great leadership.”
On March 7, as the United Kingdom considered dispatching an aircraft carrier to the region, Trump insisted such help was wholly unnecessary because victory had already been achieved.
“That’s OK, Prime Minister (Keir) Starmer, we don’t need them any longer,” Trump posted on social media. “But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”
On March 9, Trump said it was “my honor to” work to secure the Strait of Hormuz, insisting the oil supply that crosses that strategic waterway was mostly helpful to other countries like China.
A UAE navy ship sails next to a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, March 11, 2026.
Altaf Qadri/AP
On Friday, Trump responded to Ukraine’s offer to help counter Iranian drones by telling Fox News radio host Brian Kilmeade that “we don’t need the help in drone defense.” And Trump told NBC News something similar Saturday, insisting “we don’t need help.”
These are all the comments of a man who didn’t seem to foresee needing help. Especially given his “we don’t need people” comments about the UK — a position he’s certainly flipped on now. He said Monday he was “not happy” with Starmer for not immediately committing to help US forces in the strait.
“I said, ‘You don’t need to meet up with the team. You’re the prime minister. You can make your own — why do you have to meet with your team to find out whether or not you’re going to send some minesweepers to us or to send some boats?’” Trump told reporters.
Which brings us to the other key point: To the extent Trump thought he might need help from other countries, it sure would have seemed wise to start smoothing things over first.
Trump has spent much of his two terms alienating the kinds of allies that could seemingly come to the United States’ aid. And that’s arguably ramped up in his second term.
It was less than two months ago, after all, that Trump was still leaving open the possibility of a military invasion of a NATO ally in Greenland. Even given doubts that invasion would ever happen, Trump was clearly trying to coerce Denmark to hand over the territory.
He’s also talked about making Canada the 51st state in ways that country and many others regard as rather provocative, if not downright offensive.
He has targeted lots of allies with his tariffs, sometimes seeming to play rougher with them than he does with some adversaries.
He has regularly made incendiary remarks at international get-togethers and acted as if he were trying to bully US allies rather than get along with them. This led to some extraordinary comments from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and others recently, in which they suggested perhaps their best course forward was a decoupling from the United States.
And then there are some particularly pertinent — and rather ill-considered, in light of where we are — comments that Trump made in late January about NATO.
“We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them,” Trump said. “You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did — they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”
Even in a vacuum, those comments were highly offensive to allies — especially since many of them suffered significant deaths in Afghanistan. Coalition soldiers did fight on the front lines, and more than 1,000 of them died.
But those comments loom particularly large now. Trump repeatedly said he didn’t need longtime US allies and then turned around less than two months later and demanded help in a war he started. He insulted the sacrifices of allies and then asked them to sacrifice again.
At the very least, it would suggest Trump didn’t imagine himself in this position.
Despite Trump’s past comments, those countries might still feel pressured to help in some way, given how a bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz could cause long-term harm to the global economy.
Still, Trump’s about-face on this seems to reinforce that the US president has bitten off more than he thought he might have to chew.
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