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Trump's Nato Words 'Picks the Scab Off Unhealed Wounds', Bromyard Mother Says
Trump said the US never needed NATO and claimed allies stayed back in Afghanistan, drawing criticism over 457 British deaths and coalition sacrifices.
- In a Fox News interview, President Donald Trump said `We've never needed them` about NATO and asserted allies "stayed a little back" from Afghanistan front lines.
- Official tallies record 3,486 Nato troops died in the 20-year Afghanistan conflict, with the United States accounting for 2,461 deaths and allies suffering 1,160 fatalities.
- Families of British servicemen pointed to 457 deaths to contest the claim, while Diane Dernie, mother of Ben Parkinson, called the comments `the ultimate insult` and urged Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer to `make a stand`.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was urged to respond and is expected to speak to President Donald Trump, while UK government ministers warned the row risks straining the transatlantic relationship.
- Some commentators noted Nato troops had varied roles, with Ian Sadler insisting British units 'were in the hot spots' and highlighting 457 deaths; critics recalled Mr Trump's draft-avoidance past.
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Polemica against the words of the US president on the NATO contingents in Afghanistan after 11 September
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The Age‘Profound insult’: Australian veterans wounded by Trump’s war claims
The US president claimed allied troops stayed back off the front line in Afghanistan, where dozens of Australians were killed in combat and hundreds more were injured.
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US President Donald Trump has again questioned whether NATO allies “would be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” claiming without evidence that the alliance's troops “held back a little…”
Trump continues to oppose the transnational alliance. NATO soldiers, including 457 British soldiers, had only fought "off the front lines" in Afghanistan.
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