https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5703206-trump-nato-afghanistan-remarks-criticized/
President Trump has set off a firestorm in the United Kingdom and among NATO allies whose troops fought in Afghanistan by claiming NATO forces “stayed a little back” from the front lines. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and leaders across the political spectrum, along with former soldiers and the parents of fallen military members, slammed Trump for dismissing the sacrifice allies made in the more than 20-year war.
Kemi Badenoch, the opposition leader in Britain, called Trump’s comments “a disgrace,” according to the BBC “We mustn’t have these sort of throwaway comments that actually weaken the strong relationship between those countries in the alliance,” she said. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey called Trump’s comments a “huge insult to our brave soldiers” and said the prime minister should demand an apology from Trump.
They seem to be pushing the same "Trump is disrespecting our soldiers who fell in Afganistan" story here in Canada also.
Yes, I was watching the Canadian news earlier. The narrative from the BBC is the same. We now have two fake news stories in the cycle, including the one about the so-called detained 5-year-old boy.
Is there a death by soldier # ratio? This is territory, only Soldiers should be commenting. IMHO.
The BBC is finding plenty of soldiers to comment, each one of them a Trump hater. In my opinion it's not even an issue and Trump was making a comment about NATO's contribution not that of soldiers. They did have a background role and the front lines were predominantly occupied by American soldiers.
We are entering territory that it will be hard to walk back from. It is one thing to attack a corrupt Government, but to attack the integrity of the Soldiers of an Ally Nation. The War in Afghanistan was all about Drugs and selling Weapons. A proxy war, not worth the dying.
The full omitted context is he acknowledged that although Europe sent Troops. Often enough they were operating in comparatively safer. For Afghanistan and Iraq at least areas. When compared to U.S Troops. Or in the case of several countries. Almost exclusively operated as auxiliary and support troops who rarely if ever left the wire of their compounds. Which is largely true.
So the U.S bore the brunt of the costs both financially and in blood. As we have before in previous conflicts the U.S and Europe have embarked on together in the post WW2 era.
He albeit was very blunt and not exceptionally diplomatic. Which gave the media plenty to clip and post out of context.
I expect Trump wanted them to post out of context.
You know he always has them on a string. They think they are opposing him, but they're doing what he wants.
They can eat a bag of dicks
Reminds me of Montgomery taking credit for the Battle of the Bulge win. That didn't go over well.
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US casualties were double all other nations involved combined.