The US president had claimed that allied soldiers stayed “off the front lines” in Afghanistan
US President Donald Trump should apologize for downplaying the role of America’s allies in the war in Afghanistan, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.
In 2001, the US invoked NATO’s Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks, and requested that member states support the invasion of Afghanistan. Trump, however, has repeatedly accused the bloc’s European members of neglecting their commitments to Washington.
Speaking to Fox News in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, Trump argued that the US “never needed” any help and that America’s NATO allies had “stayed…
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