UK Defence Secretary Slams 'Rotten' US-Taliban Deal, Says NATO Shunned Calls to Stay in Afghanistan - Sputnik International

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has claimed that "nearly all of" NATO's member states "were not interested" in Britain's call to stay on in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal from the country.

    "We tried a number of like-minded nations. Some said they were keen, but their parliaments weren't. It became apparent pretty quickly that without the United States as the framework nation it had been, these options were closed off", Wallace told the Daily Mail on Sunday.

He said the UK government was "saddened […] about all the blood and treasure that had been spent, that this was how it was ending [in Afghanistan]"...