UK's Starmer urges Trump to apologize for 'insulting and frankly appalling' NATO remark
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has urged U. S. President Donald Trump to apologize for his false assertion that troops from NATO countries — other than Americans — stayed away from the front line during the war in Afghanistan. Trump said that he wasn't sure NATO would be there to support the United States if and when requested, provoking outrage and distress among many in the United Kingdom on Friday. “We’ve never needed them, we have never really asked anything of...
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