British Prime Minister Keir Starmer then said he found Trump’s comments “insulting and truly frightening” and hurtful to everyone whose relatives had been killed or injured in Afghanistan. He suggested that the US President apologize to those affected. According to the Ministry of Defense, Great Britain had sent a total of 150,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, making it the second largest troop contingent after the USA. According to reports, US forces had more than 2,400 deaths in Afghanistan. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) also clearly rejected Trump’s criticism on Saturday.
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US President Donald Trump has insulted Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney and is threatening the neighboring country with 100 percent tariffs on all products. “If Governor Carney thinks he can turn Canada into a transit point for Chinese goods heading to the United States, he is sorely mistaken,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Saturday.
Trump had repeatedly threatened Canada to annex the country and make it the 51st US state. Trump alludes to this threat when he addresses the prime minister as governor, as the heads of government of the US states are called. The background to Trump’s comments is a trade agreement that Canada and China agreed to last week. The agreement calls for the lifting of triple-digit tariffs on both sides. After his visit to Beijing on January 16, Carney spoke of a “new strategic partnership” between the two countries.
Trump, on the other hand, is now threatening Canada with new tariffs if the trade agreement with China comes into force. “China will eat Canada alive, swallow it whole, and destroy Canada’s economy, society and the overall way of life,” Trump said. The US President may also have been annoyed by Carney’s speech at the World Economic Summit in Davos. There, Carney called on his European NATO partners to break away from the illusion of a rules-based world order under US dominance and to organize their own security independently of the US in the future.
