United States President Donald Trump has praised British soldiers a day after receiving a rare public rebuke from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer over comments suggesting European troops stayed “a little off the front lines” during the war in Afghanistan.
In an apparent attempt to ease tensions, Trump posted a message on social media on Saturday acknowledging the scale of the UK’s losses in the conflict. He noted that 457 British soldiers had been killed, with many more wounded, describing them as “among the greatest of all warriors”.
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