Prince Harry Hits Out at Trump over Afghanistan Slur

THE TELEGRAPH: Sacrifices of British soldiers and their families should be spoken about ‘truthfully’, says Duke

The Duke of Sussex has hit back at Donald Trump, saying the “sacrifices” of British soldiers who served and died in Afghanistan “deserve to be spoken about truthfully and with respect”.

Prince Harry, who served on two front-line tours in Afghanistan and spent 10 years in the British Army, said he had “lost friends” in the conflict and that “thousands of lives were changed forever”.

His intervention came after the Prime Minister denounced the US president for saying Nato troops had “stayed a little back” during two decades of fighting against the Taliban, adding that he would apologise if he had said the words used by Mr Trump. » | Victoria Ward Deputy Royal Editor. Dominic Penna Senior Political Correspondent. Robert White. Benedict Smith | Friday, January 23, 2026

Draft-dodger Trump should keep his mouth shut. — © Mark Alexander

Trump-Aussage über Nato-Truppen in Afghanistan löst Empörung in Großbritannien aus

BERLINER ZEITUNG: Der US-Präsident behauptet, die Verbündeten hätten sich von der Frontlinie in Afghanistan ferngehalten. Britische Politiker und Veteranen widersprechen scharf.

US-Präsident Donald Trump hat mit Äußerungen über den Einsatz von Nato-Truppen in Afghanistan heftige Kritik aus Großbritannien auf sich gezogen. In einem Interview mit Fox News erklärte Trump, er sei sich nicht sicher, ob das Militärbündnis die USA unterstützen würde, falls diese jemals Hilfe benötigten. Die Nato-Partner hätten zwar Truppen nach Afghanistan geschickt, diese seien jedoch „etwas zurückgeblieben, etwas abseits der Frontlinien“ gewesen.

Der britische Streitkräfteminister Al Carns, selbst Afghanistan-Veteran, bezeichnete die Aussagen als „völlig lächerlich“. Die Welt habe sich nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 hinter die USA gestellt, erklärte er in einem auf X veröffentlichten Video. Oppositionsführerin Kemi Badenoch von den Konservativen nannte Trumps Behauptung „kompletten Unsinn“. Britische, kanadische und Nato-Truppen hätten 20 Jahre lang an der Seite der USA gekämpft und seien gefallen. » | Sophie Barkey | Freitag, 23. Januar 2026

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'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton Warns about the "Dangerous" Future of AI

Jan 20, 2026 | Geoffrey Hinton, regarded as the 'Godfather of AI' and the co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2024, speaks to Newsnight about the future of AI, his concerns over safety and regulation and the potential for humans to "coexist" with the technology. Interview by Paddy O'Connell.

Trump Has ‘No Strategy’ on Greenland | Anne Applebaum

Jan 20, 2026 | “We're beyond strategy, where we now have to talk about one man's obsession and maybe madness.”

Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland reflect “one man’s obsession” rather than any coherent foreign-policy strategy, and risk distracting from Russia’s intensifying war in Ukraine, says Pulitzer Prize winning American journalist and historian Anne Applebaum.

Politicians React as Trump Claims NATO Troops Avoided Front Lines | BBC Question Time

Jan 23, 2026 | Following a tense week for European nations over Donald Trump’s threats to Greenland, fresh outrage has been sparked as the US President claimed NATO troops avoided Afghanistan's front line.

Trump told Fox News on Thursday: "They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan... and they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines.”

The UK was among several allies to join the US in Afghanistan from 2001, and a total of 457 British service personnel were killed in the conflict.

Krause : Trump ist "eine gestörte Persönlichkeit" | ntv

Jan 21, 2026 | Trumps Rede in Davos steht in der Kritik. Politikwissenschaftler Joachim Krause ordnet die bisherigen und zukünftigen Amtshandlungen Trumps in Bezug auf die NATO, die Ansprüche auf Grönland und Kanada, sowie auf den Russland-Ukraine-Konflikt ein.

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Groenland : pourquoi la souveraineté de l’île n’est pas négociable, et surtout pas par l’Otan

LE FIGARO : DÉCRYPTAGE - Donald Trump, qui veut s’approprier le Groenland, avait annoncé un «accord-cadre» après un échange avec le secrétaire général de l’Otan. Un non-sens au regard du droit international, comme l’a rappelé la première ministre danoise, qui a toutefois annoncé des discussions entre Nuuk, Copenhague et Washington.

Mette Frederiksen n’a pas volé son surnom de dame de fer danoise. Mercredi, Donald Trump annonçait que ses discussions avec le secrétaire général de l’Otan, Mark Rutte, avaient permis de déboucher sur un «accord-cadre» sur le Groenland. Dans la foulée, la presse a rivalisé d’hypothèses sur le contenu possible de ce «deal» : révision de l’accord de 1951, octroi de bases militaires souveraines à Washington, «Dôme d’or» ? Jusqu’à ce que la première ministre danoise ne rappelle fermement l’essentiel : l’Otan ne peut en aucun cas négocier au nom du Danemark ou du Groenland sur la souveraineté de l’île arctique.

La raison est simple et évidente : l’Otan est une organisation internationale, pas un État souverain. Ses compétences, qui lui ont été attribuées en 1949 dans le traité de l’Atlantique nord par les États signataires, ne permettent en aucun cas à son secrétaire général de passer un accord bilatéral avec le président américain au sujet de la souveraineté d’un territoire. «Si le Secrétaire général (de l’Otan - NDLR) peut exercer une fonction de médiation (...), ses déclarations n’ont qu’une valeur politique» et «ne sauraient produire d’effets juridiques contraignants», rappelle sur X Céline de Roany, professeur de droit international. En d’autres termes, le prétendu «accord-cadre» annoncé par Donald Trump (dont le contenu n’a jamais été révélé), s’il avait jamais existé, serait nul et non avenu. » | Par Eloi Passot | vendredi 23 janvier 2026

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"Europa endgültig klar: Können USA nicht mehr trauen" - Navidi zieht Lehren aus Davos

Jan 23, 2026 | Finanz- und USA-Expertin Sandra Navidi schätzt die Schachzüge der politischen Player in Davos ein. Mit Europas bewiesener Stärke gegenüber den Grönland-Vorstößen von Donald Trump habe man die US-Delegation "in Verlegenheit gebracht". Sie sieht einen Bruch in den transatlantischen Beziehungen.

America Is ‘No Longer an Ally’ | Historian Sir Simon Schama

Jan 23, 2026 | Sir Keir Starmer must recognise the “stiff dose of reality” that Trump has “set has marks on destroying the European Union”, says historian Sir Simon Schama.

Sir Simon Schama was speaking to Chloe Tilley and Calum Macdonald on Times Radio.


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Europe’s Trust in America Is Fundamentally Damaged | Mark Urban

Jan 22, 2026 | “The Belgian prime minister… was saying ‘we don’t want to live like slaves.’”

The deeper realisation following the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos and Donald Trump’s Greenland manoeuvring is that the US President marks a turning point in Europe’s ability to trust America, says Sunday Times columnist Mark Urban.


Americans are no longer our friends. Period. A friend who cannot be trusted is real no friend at all! — © Mark Alexander

'We Cannot Trust the Americans' | Troops Stay in Greenland as Danes Rethink Alliance with Trump

Jan 23, 2026 | "The level of trust that we had before is not coming back."

Denmark may consider a full rearmament and their alliance with the even after Trump's climbdown as trust in the US as a stable ally has been damaged, Say Rasmus Jarlov, chair of the Danish Defence Committee

Trump at Davos: The Nazi Echoes Hidden in Plain Sight Send Shockwaves through Europe.

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Denmark Bristles at Idea of Giving Up Any Sovereignty in Greenland

THE NEW YORK TIMES: American and NATO officials have discussed giving the United States sovereignty over U.S. military bases in Greenland. The Danes don’t seem to like that.

Danish officials pushed back on Thursday against any talk of compromising on the sovereignty of Greenland amid confusion over what kind of deal NATO leaders may have struck with President Trump over the future of the Arctic island.

“We can negotiate on everything political; security, investments, economy. But we cannot negotiate on our sovereignty,” Mette Frederiksen, Denmark’s prime minister, said in a statement on Thursday about Greenland.

Greenland has been part of the Danish kingdom for more than 300 years, and “only Denmark and Greenland themselves can make decisions on issues concerning Denmark and Greenland,” Ms. Frederiksen said. It is not clear whether Denmark’s position could scuttle any possible agreement over Greenland that Mr. Trump said he had reached with Mark Rutte, NATO’s secretary general, on Wednesday evening.

Mr. Trump had been insisting that the United States take over the island, despite resistance from Denmark and Greenland. He did not reveal the details of a possible breakthrough though he called it “the ultimate long term deal.” » | Jeffrey Gettleman, Maya Tekeli and Amelia Nierenberg | Jeffrey Gettleman and Amelia Nierenberg reported from London, and Maya Tekeli from Copenhagen. | Thursday, January 22, 2026

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“An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order

Jan 22, 2026 | We speak to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis about the United States under Donald Trump and its attempts to reshape the post-World War II international consensus. “Trump has all his work done for him by placid European centrists who went along with the policy of trashing international law and creating the circumstances for him to create his private company and say, 'Right, I'm taking over the world,’” laments Varoufakis as he draws a connection between Trump’s pay-to-play diplomacy and the mercantalist policies of European colonial powers. Varoufakis comments on plans for the reoccupation of Gaza by the U.S.-led “Board of Peace,” which signed its founding charter this week; Trump’s designs on the Danish territory of Greenland; and European leaders’ ineffectual, largely symbolic resistance to Trump’s assertion of U.S. supremacy on the world stage.

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Steve Schmidt: Trump Is Not Bluffing

Jan 22, 2026 | Donald Trump claims he will not pursue military action against Greenland even as his Gestapo continues its assault on American citizens in Minneapolis. Steve Schmidt exposes the personal motives driving Trump’s threats and warns that dismissing them now invites far greater danger.