U.S. President Donald Trump said British troops \u201cwere among the greatest of all warriors\u201d in the Afghan war, a day after U.K. officials vented outrage at him saying NATO allied troops stayed \u201ca little off the front lines\u201d in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!\u201d Trump said in a post on his social media<\/a> Saturday evening. \u201cIt\u2019s a bond too strong to ever be broken. The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!).\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s latest comments came after NATO allies<\/a> pushed back strongly against his earlier remarks, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling the characterization of U.K. troops in Afghanistan\u00a0\u201cinsulting and frankly appalling.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump said British troops \u201cwere among the greatest of all warriors\u201d in the Afghan war,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2881,748,473,7057,32,393,7058,12336,2816,4884,366,807,2452,2597,54490,1144,712,811,182,479,1771,1772,16,657,15,49,1764,771],"class_list":{"0":"post-719556","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-afghanistan","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defense-budgets","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-european-defense","16":"tag-european-defense-policy","17":"tag-european-politics","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-greenland","20":"tag-keir-starmer","21":"tag-media","22":"tag-military","23":"tag-multinational-defense-programs","24":"tag-northern-ireland","25":"tag-scotland","26":"tag-security","27":"tag-social-media","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","30":"tag-u-s-politics","31":"tag-uk","32":"tag-ukraine","33":"tag-united-kingdom","34":"tag-united-states","35":"tag-wales","36":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115955289477912614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}