{"id":15114,"date":"2026-01-23T20:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15114"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:32:31","slug":"starmer-reacts-to-trumps-comments-on-nato-troops-in-afghanistan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=15114","title":{"rendered":"Starmer reacts to Trump&#8217;s comments on Nato troops in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks about British troops in Afghanistan were &#8220;insulting and frankly appalling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Donald Trump&#8217;s claimed that Nato troops stayed &#8220;a little off the front lines&#8221; during the war in Afghanistan, provoking anger among UK politicians and veterans&#8217; families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The UK was among several allies to join the US in Afghanistan from 2001, after it invoked Nato&#8217;s collective security clause following the 9\/11 terror attacks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Four-hundred and fifty-seven British service personnel were killed in the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cdxjjwjvkkzt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Starmer #reacts #Trumps #comments #Nato #troops #Afghanistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}