Trump Baselessly Claims NATO Troops Stayed ‘Off The Frontlines’ In Afghanistan | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed the U.S. ought to have triggered NATO’s mutual protection clause to advance his home agenda on immigration after scary outrage along with his feedback that NATO troops “stayed off the frontlines” in Afghanistan.

“Maybe we should have put NATO to the test: Invoked Article 5, and forced NATO to come here and protect our Southern Border from further Invasions of Illegal Immigrants, thus freeing up large numbers of Border Patrol Agents for other tasks,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Thursday evening.

Trump has certainly already examined the NATO alliance along with his push to accumulate Greenland, the Arctic island managed by Denmark, a fellow NATO member.

Article 5 states that if one NATO member is attacked, all members ought to come to its help. The clause has solely been invoked as soon as — on behalf of the U.S. after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist assaults. NATO troops fought in Afghanistan alongside U.S. troopers towards al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Earlier on Thursday, in an interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo, Trump questioned the sacrifice of NATO troops, claiming they stayed off the frontline.

“We get along very well with NATO, I think, but I’ve always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? And that’s really the ultimate test,” Trump stated. “I’m not sure of that. I know that we would have been there or we would be there, but will they be there?”

Trump added, “We’ve never needed them. We have never really asked anything of them. You know, they’ll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan or this or that, and they did. They stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines.”

Trump left out the fact that NATO troops put their lives at stake to support the U.S. Britain lost 457 soldiers, while Denmark lost over 40 service members, one of NATO’s highest per capita death rates, to name a few.

Ed Davey, a member of Britain’s parliament, slammed Trump’s comments, noting that the U.S. president has never done military service.

“How dare he question their sacrifice?” Davey asked.

Trump received five military deferments, four because of education and another for being diagnosed with bone spurs in his heels.

A British veteran who was injured in Afghanistan also skewered the president. Ben McBean lost his left arm and his right leg was amputated after stepping on a landmine while on foot patrol.

McBean wrote on X, formerly Twitter, “As I sit here with 2 limbs missing, friends gone, trying to keep it all together for my family, it’s infuriating to hear this come out of @realDonaldTrump mouth.”