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 have been described as “insulting and appalling” by Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump provoked widespread anger in Britain and throughout Europe after he stated European troops had stayed off the entrance traces in Afghanistan.
Britain misplaced 457 service personnel killed in Afghanistan, its deadliest abroad struggle because the Fifties. For a number of of the struggle’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 US of America!” Trump wrote on Fact Social. “In Afghanistan, 457 died, many have been badly injured, they usually have been among the many biggest of all warriors. It’s a bond too robust to ever be damaged.”
Trump’s preliminary feedback had provoked an unusually robust response from Starmer, who has tended to keep away from direct criticism of Trump in public.
