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":389619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1641,140,21129,141,87218,105445,19605,59,57,58,6232,420,3714,151,105446,50,1351,224,156,34123,30299,56,157,54,158,55,636],"class_list":["post-389618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-afghanistan","tag-defense","tag-defense-budgets","tag-donald-trump","tag-european-defense","tag-european-defense-policy","tag-european-politics","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-greenland","tag-keir-starmer","tag-media","tag-military","tag-multinational-defense-programs","tag-news","tag-security","tag-social-media","tag-tariffs","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-u-s-politics","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}