By Christian Edwards, CNN
Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images via CNN Newsource
US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would "be there" if the United States "ever needed them", baselessly claiming that the alliance's troops "stayed a little back" from the frontlines in Afghanistan.
"I've always said, 'Will they be there, if we ever needed them?' And that's really the ultimate test. And I'm not sure of that. I know that we would have been there, or we would be there, but will they be there?" Trump said Thursday in an interview with Fox News in Davos, Switzerland.
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the US became the first and so far only NATO mem
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