King 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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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…
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 …
Trump managed to evade Vietnam's convocation through machinations and protection. Now he insults allied fighters. Refusal of military service Trump insults the deployment of Allied soldiers in Afghanistan with reproach. Many Americans who belonged to the generation of Donald Trump were called for the war in South Vietnam (1965-73). 58,000 young Americans were killed in this war. Thousands returned severely injured in [...]
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