Protesters in Copenhagen rally for Danish vets
Hundreds of Danes gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen in support of veterans who said they had been insulted by US President Donald Trump's comment that European allies had kept "off the front lines" in the Afghanistan war.
Denmark, with a population less than 2% the size of the United States, was one of the major combat allies in the U.S.-led war inAfghanistan, losing 44 service members killed, a per capita death toll on par with that of the Americans themselves.
Trump had already antagonised Danes by demanding the annexation of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of the Danish kingdom, when he made the remarks last week questioning the role of NATO allies during the conflict.
The remarks sparked widespread backlash from Europeans, with Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling them "insulting and frankly appalling".
Trump subsequently singled out British troops for praise, but stopped short of apologising or addressing the role of European troops more broadly.
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