LONDON: US President Donald Trump on Saturday (Jan 24) praised “courageous” British troopers, calling them warriors, a day after remarks he made about NATO troops in Afghanistan had been described as “insulting and appalling” by Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump provoked widespread anger in Britain and throughout Europe after he mentioned European troops had stayed off the entrance strains in Afghanistan.
Britain misplaced 457 service personnel killed in Afghanistan, its deadliest abroad battle for the reason that Nineteen Fifties. For a number of of the battle’s most intense years, it led the allied marketing campaign in Helmand, Afghanistan’s greatest and most violent province, whereas additionally combating as the primary U.S. battlefield ally in Iraq.
“The GREAT and really BRAVE troopers of the UK will at all times be with the USA of America!” Trump wrote on Reality Social. “In Afghanistan, 457 died, many had been badly injured, they usually had been among the many biggest of all warriors. It’s a bond too sturdy to ever be damaged.”
Trump’s preliminary feedback had provoked an unusually sturdy response from Starmer, who has tended to keep away from direct criticism of Trump in public.
