Final Up so far:
Trump praised UK troopers after backlash over his remarks on NATO’s role in Afghanistan, prompting responses from Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch defending British troops.
The US President’s put up on social media used to be allegedly after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Trump on Saturday. (AFP)
After going by backlash over remarks on UK and NATO allies’s stand in the end of the “conflict on fright” in Afghanistan after 9/11 attack, US President Donald Trump on Saturday offered an olive branch to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Trump had sparked widespread outrage across Europe after he suggested that NATO stayed “a little off the front lines” in the end of the conflict in Afghanistan.
On Saturday, Trump acknowledged in a put up on Reality Social: “The GREAT and in point of reality BRAVE troopers of the UK will always be with the US of The United States! In Afghanistan, 457 died, many had been badly injured, they most regularly had been among the supreme of all warriors. It’s a bond too trusty to ever be broken. The U.Okay. Militia, with immense Heart and Soul, is 2d to none (rather than for the usA.!). We like you all, and always will!”
Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, Trump said the United States had “never needed” the transatlantic alliance and accused allies of staying “a bit off the front traces” in Afghanistan. “They’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,” he acknowledged.
This used to be in dissimilarity to the reality that following the 9/11 assaults, the UK and other allies joined the US from 2001 in Afghanistan after it invoked NATO’s collective security clause. Loads of worldwide locations persevered to cope with a presence even after that, at essential financial and human price. It used to be for the first time within the alliance’s historical previous, Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty used to be invoked, declaring that an assault on one member might perchance be handled as an assault on all.
Loads of politicians across Europe called Trump’s remarks “disgraceful”, “wrong” and an “insult” to the contributions of NATO soldiers.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said Trump had been “wrong to diminish the role of NATO troops” in the end of two a long time of conflict, whereas Conservative Occasion chief Kemi Badenoch called his remarks “flat-out nonsense.”
“I consider President Trump’s remarks to be insulting and frankly appalling, and I’m not surprised they’ve caused such hurt to the loved ones of those who were killed or injured,” Starmer acknowledged, adding that had he misspoken in this sort of manner that “I’d really apologise.”
According to Sky News, the UK PM likely spoke to Trump shortly before the US president’s TruthSocial post on Saturday.
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January 24, 2026, 23:48 IST
News world After Backlash Over Afghan Taunt, Trump Shares ‘Love You’ Post For UK Soldiers
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