India, March 16 -- After days of claiming to "secure" the Strait of Hormuz, then asking for help from other countries and getting none, US President Donald Trump has now said that "maybe we (US) shouldn't be there at all".

"I am demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory... they should help us," he told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday night (US time), apparently using 'territory' to mean area of interest. "You could make the case that maybe we shouldn't be there at all, because we don't need it. We have a lot of oil," he argued.

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