US EditionKing backs Dutch troops in wake of Trump's Afghanistan slur - DutchNews.nl
President Trump retracted his criticism of NATO troops after allied leaders disputed his remarks and casualty data showed nearly one-third of combat deaths were non-U.S. forces.
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What are the Europeans waiting for us to review our relations with NATO? Because of article 5 of NATO invoked by American President George W. Bush, our soldiers have (unhappily) gone to war in Afghanistan to fight against terrorism. However, today Afghanistan is in the hands of the Taliban and the current American President Donald Trump has even mocked and insulted the European troops who valiantly fought in the war wanted by the United States: …
One in three soldiers who died in the Afghanistan war were non-US military
In another instance of backtracking, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday retracted his statements attacking and belittling the work of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021): “They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,” the U.S. president had stated last Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. His words even angered British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who is generally more measured in his responses to the Rep…
The surprising message King Charles sent to Trump after his slur against Britain
King Charles reportedly sent a surprising message to Donald Trump after his slur against British troops. Speaking at last week’s World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Trump angered the UK after claiming the US's Nato allies did not pull their weight during two decades of the war in Afghanistan.The President said at the time: "We’ve never needed them. We’ve never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some tro…
Sometimes words can be far more painful than a blow or even sharper forms of violence. At least that's how veteran soldier Gert Sloth Bertelsen feels. He felt it especially when he recently heard US President Donald Trump say that the US has never needed the Danish soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan in the years 2001 to 2021 to help the US with the war in the country. A war that cost the lives of more than 44 Danish soldiers. - It's like …
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