Global NewsUK PM calls Trump comments on NATO’s role in Afghanistan “appalling”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that NATO troops “stayed off the front line” in Afghanistan were “insulting and frankly appalling,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Friday.

Trump said on Thursday the United States had “never needed” NATO, criticizing its involvement in Afghanistan, and questioned whether the alliance would come to Washington’s aid if required.

Stuart Tootle, a retired British colonel who commanded the first British battle group sent into the Helmand province in 2006, said Trump “needed to remember the contribution of British and other NATO nations fighting on the front line in Afghanistan, which they absolutely did and he’s completely wrong on that.”

British armed forces minister Al Carns said claims NATO troops stayed off the front line in Afghanistan were “utterly ridiculous.” Carns did not refer to Trump directly, said in a social media post that the only time the alliance invoked Article 5 was after the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, when “the world rallied to the support of the U.S.”

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