{"id":2581441,"date":"2026-03-18T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-leaning-countries-dont-want-to-be-seen-as-helping-trump-guy-benson\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:12:47","slug":"left-leaning-countries-dont-want-to-be-seen-as-helping-trump-guy-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-leaning-countries-dont-want-to-be-seen-as-helping-trump-guy-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Left-leaning&#8217; countries don&#8217;t want to be seen as &#8216;helping&#8217; Trump: Guy Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleft-leaning-countries-dont-want-to-be-seen-as-helping-trump-guy-benson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2581441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Washington Examiner piece reports that Guy Benson argues left-leaning governments are reluctant to help President Trump in the Iran conflict as of internal politics and fear of their own bases\u2019 backlash. He says European countries view Trump\u2019s war decision as his alone and aren\u2019t eager to back him, even as Trump scolds NATO members for not assisting. benson also cites demographic and sectarian considerations-growing Muslim populations and politics aimed at not offending them-as part of the calculus not to aid the U.S.This, he suggests, signals trouble for future alliance cooperation and could reflect a broader push to reframe or even weaken NATO. The article notes France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron stated france would not help secure the Strait of Hormuz in the current context, despite earlier hints that French ships might join an international effort. the piece portrays growing tensions within the U.S.-led alliance and the potential for a realignment in Western security partnerships.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">&lsquo;Left-leaning&rsquo; countries don&rsquo;t want to be seen as &lsquo;helping&rsquo; Trump: Guy Benson<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2536736\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/guy-benson\/\">Guy Benson<\/a> said that other countries&rsquo; &ldquo;internal politics&rdquo; are likely at play for withholding help to the United States in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4492144\/news-coverage-distorting-success-guy-benson\/\">Operation Epic Fury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> scolded North Atlantic Treaty Organization members for not aiding the U.S. in the Iran war on Tuesday, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4492737\/trump-nato-allies-ran-war\/\">but added &ldquo;we don&rsquo;t need them&rdquo;<\/a> even though &ldquo;NATO is making a very foolish mistake.&rdquo; Benson said what some European countries would argue is that it was Trump&rsquo;s choice to enter into war with Iran, and &ldquo;they&rsquo;re not prepared to help.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4495766\/cuba-president-miguel-diaz-canel-resistance-leadership-change\/\">Cuban president warns of &#8216;impregnable resistance&#8217; after Rubio demands leadership change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/4494038\/mamdani-ties-palestinian-weeping-irish-oppression-st-patricks-day-event\/\">Mamdani ties Palestinian &#8216;weeping&#8217; to Irish &#8216;oppression&#8217; at St. Patrick&#8217;s Day event<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4493606\/trump-dismisses-allies-seeks-coalition-secure-strait-hormuz\/\">Trump dismisses allies as he seeks to secure the Strait of Hormuz: &#8216;We don&#8217;t need them&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;I think you can&rsquo;t escape the reality as well &hellip; you think about their internal politics in a lot of these countries, especially left-leaning or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-shellenberger-bidens-woke-green-energy-is-a-joke-that-makes-us-dependent-on-china\/\" title=\"Michael Shellenberger: Biden\u2019s \u201cWoke\u201d Green Energy Is a Joke That Makes Us Dependent on China\">left-wing governments<\/a>,&rdquo; Benson said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox &amp; Friends<\/em> Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t want to be seen by their base as helping Donald Trump on almost anything, let alone something like this,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3434220&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=a07b6e028fe2610ad35f2c751d93b94b\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Benson also said a lot of these countries have a growing population of Muslims, and that &ldquo;sectarian politics&rdquo; are driving decisions not to offend this group of people. He adds that this is &ldquo;inescapably part of the calculus,&rdquo; and this isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >great sign moving forward<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/4495321\/trump-lays-the-groundwork-to-finally-divorce-nato\/\"><strong>ACTING THE JILTED PARTNER, TRUMP LAYS THE GROUNDWORK TO FINALLY DIVORCE NATO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benson added he thinks the point Trump is making with NATO is &ldquo;questioning&rdquo; the U.S.&rsquo;s alliance, citing how the U.S. has already done &ldquo;a lot of the tough work&rdquo; in Iran. He said Trump is building &ldquo;pressure&rdquo; with some of the U.S.&rsquo;s allies, and that he doesn&rsquo;t believe the president has &ldquo;an unfair point.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that his country <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4494981\/france-strait-of-hormuz-iran-emmanuel-macron\/\">would not consider helping to secure the Strait of Hormuz<\/a> from Iranian influence in the &ldquo;current context.&rdquo; This comes after Macron <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4492645\/us-allies-tepid-after-trump-request-help-open-strait-of-hormuz\/\">suggested last week <\/a>that French warships deployed in the Middle East could join an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-will-not-aid-in-strait-of-hormuz-military-operations-macron\/\" title=\"France will not aid in Strait of Hormuz military operations: Macron\">international force seeking<\/a> to help reopen the strait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-leaning states wary of helping Trump, Benson says<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2581442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26077691284565-e1773861594718.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[4551,74475,69279,65902,3634],"class_list":["post-2581441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-foreign-policy","tag-guy-benson","tag-international-relations-2","tag-left-leaning-2","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26077691284565-e1773861594718.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581445,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581441\/revisions\/2581445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}