00:00No, NATO troops did not stay away from the front line in Afghanistan.
00:05We have never really asked anything of them.
00:08You know, they'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that.
00:11And they did. They stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.
00:15Keir Starmer's official spokesperson condemned Trump's remarks
00:19and said that UK forces had served alongside the US and NATO in sustained combat operations.
00:27Now, Trump said that the US never needed NATO, but here are the undisputable facts.
00:34Around 1,061 non-American NATO troops died in the conflict that began in 2001.
00:41That's according to Help for Heroes.
00:44457 of them were British service personnel.
00:48Around 2,300 members of the US armed forces were also killed.
00:52Now, a wave of veterans who served in Afghanistan condemned Trump's comments today,
00:58saying that his remarks bear no resemblance to the reality experienced by those who served there.
01:05So they rejected his completely unfounded claim
01:09that only US armed forces face the front lines in Afghanistan.
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