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Trump angers allies with claim NATO troops ‘stayed a little back’ from frontlines in Afghanistan

23rd January, 2026 · admin

Donald Trump

CNN: US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” baselessly claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the frontlines in Afghanistan. “We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan, or this or that. And they did – they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,” he said. Click here to read more (external link).

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