{"id":80192,"date":"2026-10-19T10:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/hegseth-wrong-to-say-most-non-us-nato-forces-in-afghanistan-did-not-fight-says-no-10\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:55:21","slug":"hegseth-wrong-to-say-most-non-us-nato-forces-in-afghanistan-did-not-fight-says-no-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/hegseth-wrong-to-say-most-non-us-nato-forces-in-afghanistan-did-not-fight-says-no-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth wrong to say most non-US Nato forces in Afghanistan did not fight, says No 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street emphasises sacrifices of UK troops and reasserts \u2018unwavering\u2019 support for Ukraine amid softening US policy towards Russia<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/oct\/19\/andy-burnham-labour-children-welfare-neets-kemi-badenoch-conservatives-nigel-farage-reform-latest-news-updates\">UK politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Downing Street has criticised Pete Hegseth for downplaying the role of Nato allies in helping the US with combat operations in Afghanistan, saying Donald Trump\u2019s defence secretary had been wrong to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The direct condemnation came as No 10 more carefully distanced itself from Trump\u2019s increasing willingness to engage with Russia, saying the UK\u2019s backing for Ukraine was \u201cunwavering\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/19\/pete-hegseth-nato-afghanistan-downing-street\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downing Street emphasises sacrifices of UK troops and reasserts \u2018unwavering\u2019 support for Ukraine amid softening US policy towards Russia UK politics live \u2013 latest updates Downing Street has criticised Pete Hegseth for downplaying the role of Nato allies in helping the US with combat operations in Afghanistan, saying Donald Trump\u2019s defence secretary had been wrong &#8230; <a title=\"Hegseth wrong to say most non-US Nato forces in Afghanistan did not fight, says No 10\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/19\/hegseth-wrong-to-say-most-non-us-nato-forces-in-afghanistan-did-not-fight-says-no-10\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hegseth wrong to say most non-US Nato forces in Afghanistan did not fight, says No 10\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}