Because you exclude all other meddling as an explanation. The Kremlin is the other big source of meddling (if you rate them by success in actually changing things, US is on top. Moscow is a distant second, and the third is so far behind it's barely worth mentioning, also it's unclear who that even is), so the assumption is you implicitly defend if you attack US meddling.
Compare to when 2 people are fighting in the playground and you complain only about ONE of them hitting things, without making any remark about the other, or taking any kind of measure to get the other to stop. People like to describe that as neutrality, but of course, it is anything but. Which then gets confusing because people who are badly informed might start to genuinely believe only one of them was hitting, and might even blame the first for all damages. Of course, this is exactly the point of one-sided reporting, even if the reporting itself is 100% true. Even the BBC is doing it these days, little to no reporting on what happens (imho, not because it's going well) in the UK, and "news in support of UK foreign policy" everywhere else. Oh and separate views for UK people and international viewers. And yes, that's in some ways the same Iran does, but there's no bullets or executions involved if you try to get around it, a pretty big difference.
In this conflict the US is defending, let's call it "international liberalism" (in the French revolution sense, ie. laissez-faire), or what the UN calls "freedom of navigation". Which is a euphemism for tax-free international trade over the seas. I get that there are name clashes with for example US politics, let's please not focus the discussion on whether those names are deserving, or who they (don't) match in US politics. And, yes, preventing Iran from getting a nuke falls under liberalism, as in Iran getting a nuke will definitely kill a freedom of navigation in that part of the world.
The other side, ie. Russia/China, if we're only counting UN SC members, is about locking down international trade behind political agreements (which is also a euphemism: these agreements were historically never agreements, but rather the outcomes of wars), ie. letting Russia and China, since they have nuclear weapons, decide who gets oil from the middle east and who doesn't. Through threats.
So you when you attack one side, getting criticized for supporting the other side, is fair. If you don't know the other side, that's called being badly informed, that's literally just dumb and then really you should shut up.
Utter nonsense - the majority of the world is well aware the Strait was open and free to navigate all the way up to the point the US stepped in.
The country directly responsible for the current lack of freedom to navigate is the US.
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/timeline-irans-recent-...
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/britain-says-iran-seiz...
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-navy-says-iran-seized-marsh...
https://www.reuters.com/world/second-oil-tanker-week-seized-...
By the way, I'm not going to provide references, but the same goes for the Bab El-Mandeb strait and the "East Coast of Africa" (in other words Iran is trying to tax ALL shipping between Asia/India and Europe, even if it goes around the Cape of Good Hope)
> The country directly responsible for the current lack of freedom to navigate is the US.
Did you really believe that when you wrote it? I mean you must realize that no matter the motivation or other circumstances, when push comes to shove the person pulling the trigger is responsible ...
(and obviously that's Iran)
>Tensions between Iran and the West have escalated since U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports took full effect in May and British naval forces seized an Iranian supertanker.
And I get their position: realistically Iran has much less weapons now than they had 3 weeks ago. The US has more weapons now than in the 12 days of war, and the Hormuz blocking ... doesn't matter at all for US combat power. Same for Israel. So Iran must be desperate. They're, let's call it "mostly, but not yet totally out of options". And the US + Israel should be at close to double their previous strength. The Iranian population hates both the Iranian government and their fighting force, so you can bet your firstborn Israel is receiving targeting information from inside Iran without even trying, with the exact location of every IRGC commander, every government official, half of it from their own mothers. The previous exchange was a disaster for the IRGC. They fired at least 10000 rockets plus drones. They actually hit 3 targets. Anyone the least bit higher up in the IRGC is terrified.
The previous kinetic exchange wasn't even using 2% of US combat power, now it looks like they're ready to double that. The US has been delivering weapons non-stop to middle eastern bases since before the ceasefire started, if you calculate it out it would have been about 800 tons per day, 13 days now, so let's round it to 10000 tons by the time the ceasefire ends.
But in general Iran has never been at peace since it's current rulers came to power, frankly, with anyone. Until their war with Israel they got away with literally everything by using proxy forces. Literally before the first month was over they were at war with Iraq, because they were doing back then what they are doing now: organizing militias in Iraq.
> when will you sign up for Ukraine's army
There is only room in your brain for extreme thoughts? There is a lot of space between not supporting Ukraine and going to the front lines. For example donating money (I sure do as a center-right wing):