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| UK may send hundreds more troops to Afghanistan |
| 2018-05-20 |
| [PRESSTV] Britannia’s military is reportedly considering to substantially increase the number of its troops in Afghanistan following demands by US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... for NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... members to "pay their fair share" for the US-led military alliance. British daily The Times reported Friday that UK’s Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson is believed to have asked Prime Minister Theresa May for deployment of 400 additional military forces to purportedly assist in the battle against the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... Death Eaters, on top of the 600 British soldiers already in the war-torn Afghanistan. Trump declared last August that the US will deploy 3,500 more troops to the Asian nation in efforts to secure areas that had fallen into Taliban control, after repeatedly warning that NATO members need to fulfill their commitments for funding the Western military alliance. "Twenty-three of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they're supposed to be paying for their defense," Trump said during leaders summit of NATO member countries last year at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels. According to the report, May is scheduled to make an announcement about the additional troop deployment at a NATO summit next July, where it is expected Trump will press members even further for more contributions. Britannia's Ministry of Defense (MoD), meanwhile, declared that it remained "committed to NATO's ...mission, in which we play an important role, and keep our contribution under constant review." |
| Posted by:Fred |