Is Trump planning a ground invasion of Iran on Good Friday?

President Trump has suggested he could walk away from Iran and leave other nations to police the Strait of Hormuz, threatening that America “won’t be there to help you anymore”.

Traditional allies of the US, told one day that he does not need them, another day taunted as “cowards” and then told they should hurry up and “go to the Strait”, are wondering how best to respond — or whether Trump is playing a different game altogether.

Ever since the start of the conflict, Trump has been sending out a blizzard of conflicting messages: the war is won; it is not a war but an “excursion”; Iran has ten more days to stop fighting and make a deal; shipping companies should “show some guts”; Iran should “open up the Strait of Trump, I mean Hormuz”; and “we don’t need” it anyway.