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(DIR) Post #B2aITCnnEMYzJhf8N6 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:13:47Z
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#UK PM #KeirStarmer reacts to #Trump’s claim that allied troops stayed back behind the front lines in #Afghanistan to avoid combat: "457 of our armed services lost their lives, many more were injured. So I consider Trump's remarks to be insulting & apalling."#geopolitics #allies #NATO
(DIR) Post #B2aIq0mc5DnGhVz9qS by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:17:54Z
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#Trump was "wrong" to diminish the role of #NATO & British #troops in #Afghanistan, Downing Street has said, after the US president claimed #allies stayed away from the front line.Trump claimed that NATO sent "some troops" but "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines", sparking outrage from #veterans & their families.The mother of severely injured soldier Ben Parkinson deemed it the "ultimate insult".#geopolitics #allies https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr444j671vo
(DIR) Post #B2aIu8XDClaJtskTNg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:18:39Z
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The #UK was among several #allies to join the US in Afghanistan after NATO’s collective #security clause was invoked for the first & only time in its history by the #US following the 9/11 attacks. During the conflict, 457 British service personnel were killed.Article 5 of #NATO states that an attack on one member is considered an attack against all.#geopolitics #Trump
(DIR) Post #B2aJPaP9dPnNJZyZY8 by FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:24:18Z
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@Nonilex Trump is a draft dodger.He intended to invite the Talibans to Camp David.He called soldiers who died suckers.He called John McCain a looser for being held captive and torture.He was afraid of an eagle.He has no right to doubt anybody's courage but his own.And MAGA is bottomless pit of shamelessness for worshiping him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGxwn_N9DtE
(DIR) Post #B2aJRr4Sdo1RaENXN2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:24:45Z
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#Trump told FauxNews on Thursday that he was "not sure" the #military #alliance would be there for the #US "if we ever needed them"."We've never needed them," he said, adding: "We have never really asked anything of them."[Trump is an ignorant ass]"They'll say they sent some troops to #Afghanistan," he said, "& they did, they stayed a little back, a little off the front lines".#geopolitics #allies #NATO
(DIR) Post #B2aJZ4WF2WqNJpoXEO by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:26:03Z
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Responding on Friday, the prime minister's official spox said: "The president was wrong to diminish the role of NATO troops, including British forces."He added that #NATO troops made sacrifices "in the service of collective security & in response to an attack on our ally".#geopolitics #allies #Trump #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aJl39DxouSXbl90a by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:28:12Z
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Most of the 457 #British #troops who died serving in #Afghanistan over a period of nearly 20 years were killed in Helmand.Hundreds more suffered injuries & lost limbs - including Cpl Andy Reid who lost both his legs & his right arm after stepping on an improvised explosive device (IED) in Afghanistan."Not a day goes by when we're not in some kind of pain, physically or mentally reflecting on that conflict," he told BBC.#geopolitics #allies #NATO #Trump #InsensitivePrick #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aJvUojwZYRFj9w2q by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:30:06Z
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Reid recalled working with American soldiers during his time in #Afghanistan, adding: "If they were on the front line & I was stood next to them, clearly we were on the front line as well."…The #UK suffered the second-highest number of #military deaths in the conflict behind the #US, which saw 2,461 fatalities.#geopolitics #allies #NATO #Trump #InsensitivePrick #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aK6xRxpQndEyyHku by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:32:06Z
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Defence Secretary John Healey said the #UK & #NATO #allies had "answered the #US call" in 2001 & that British troops who were killed should be remembered as "heroes who gave their lives in service of our nation".Al Carns, minister for the armed forces who served several tours in #Afghanistan, said Trump's comments were "utterly ridiculous" & that "the world rallied to the support of the US".#geopolitics #Trump #InsensitivePrick #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aKBHlOFJZzOq7aF6 by Lizette603_23@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:32:51Z
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@Nonilex there is no hell equal to what the orange pustule had earned with word and Dec. He needs to be gotten rid of. Wrenched from our politics and tried and sentenced. He. Raped. Babies. The entire republican party needs to also be put on trial. There is no excuse for the damages be leads his minions in inflicting on people around the world. There is no excuse for his existence in our society. None. Likewise his entire family. Including his children. All of them.
(DIR) Post #B2aKCSA14i3jw4CGci by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:33:09Z
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Far from staying away from the front line, #Britain & #Canada placed #troops in the most dangerous provinces of all - the #Taliban heartlands of #Helmand & #Kandahar.In Helmand, the scene of the heaviest fighting, British troops were joined by Danish & Estonian soldiers. All suffered casualties in the heat of battle.#geopolitics #allies #NATO #Trump #InsensitivePrick #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aKLWZe2GUSEIVfay by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:34:48Z
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Diane Dernie, whose son Ben Parkinson suffered severe injuries when an Army Land Rover hit a mine near Musa Qala in 2006, said Trump's words were "so insulting" & hard to hear.The 41-yr-old is currently recuperating after another operation, but Dernie told the BBC that Trump's comments showed "a childish man trying to deflect from his own actions".#geopolitics #allies #NATO #Trump #InsensitivePrick #idiocracy
(DIR) Post #B2aKSYs9t6MZNyWbz6 by EthicalProfessor@mstdn.social
2026-01-23T18:36:02Z
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@Nonilex Dernie is 100% spot on correct.
(DIR) Post #B2aKWD2wyhHSqtJQBM by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:36:42Z
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…Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the sacrifice of #British & #NATO #troops deserved respect & she pushed for #Starmer to ask for an apology from #Trump ."It's complete nonsense," Badenoch said. "I spoke to parents of young men who have lost their lives. It is a disgrace to denigrate their memory like that."There is too much careless talk from President Trump. He clearly doesn't know the history of what happened. We mustn't have these sorts of throwaway remarks."#geopolitics #allies
(DIR) Post #B2aKnGa95QsujvyMAi by schwa@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:39:46Z
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@Nonilex Smart move there for Badenoch.
(DIR) Post #B2aKnuUAj3sEUzU9Pk by mikemcrae@mstdn.social
2026-01-23T18:39:51Z
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@Nonilex per Wikipedia:The CAF had the highest per-capita casualty rate among coalition members. 159 Canadian soldiers died on missions in theatre and another 22 died in non-combat circumstances. Public opposition to the war grew over time, and the financial cost of Canada's contribution to the war was estimated as high as $18.5 billion by 2011. The last CAF soldiers left Afghanistan in March 2014.
(DIR) Post #B2aKpODLgH56zSK0xs by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:40:12Z
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Elsewhere, there has been a swathe of political reaction from across Westminster, including Foreign Affairs Cmte chair & Labour MP Emily Thornberry.She told BBC on Thursday that #Trump "has deliberately been trying to undermine us, which has been trying to undermine #NATO".Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey criticised the US president's remarks & said: "Trump avoided #military service five times. How dare he question their sacrifice."#geopolitics #allies
(DIR) Post #B2aKwWhQX1lnKjnHDE by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:41:29Z
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@Nonilex Trump is a Russian asset
(DIR) Post #B2aL6EIlmxkDAat5MG by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:43:15Z
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#Trump received 5 deferments from a #military draft during the #VietnamWar - 4 for “academic” reasons [though we all know he bought his degree] & one for “#BoneSpurs”, a calcium build-up in the heels.A Reform #UK spox said: "Donald Trump's comments are plain wrong. For 20 years our armed forces fought bravely alongside America's in #Afghanistan... Those men & women deserve our undying respect."#geopolitics #allies #NATO
(DIR) Post #B2aLIale5TzCJyHxiK by darwinwoodka@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:45:27Z
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@Nonilex He is such a fucking idiot
(DIR) Post #B2aLgEi7kIEyrZuqky by Finitum@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:49:42Z
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@Nonilex the guy never misses a chance to spit on the graves of dead soldiers. Thats 457 dead in service to their country while the Trump kids & their spouses- all of age to serve- did not. The city they grew up in got attacked & their collective reaction was welp, got to go "work" for daddy at the hotel/golf course & do some money laundering/fraud.
(DIR) Post #B2aM6q5tNU3mKoicF6 by Kierkegaanks@beige.party
2026-01-23T18:54:30Z
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@Nonilex Dobby speaks
(DIR) Post #B2aMFJjl38tWaUPMlk by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:52:51Z
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@Finitum Agree. He hates soldiers.
(DIR) Post #B2aMFL0SKXqUWZEDR2 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2026-01-23T18:56:05Z
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@jmcrookston @Finitum He hates anyone with honor
(DIR) Post #B2aMNciqLZAPmmwPLM by jmcrookston@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T18:57:35Z
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@Nonilex he literally told us what he thinks of soldiers. He thinks they're losers and rubes because they got conned into doing service.
(DIR) Post #B2aMf7C4JAddDKx3OS by uc@mastodon.scot
2026-01-23T19:00:43Z
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@Nonilex Probably the first true statement to come out of a ReformUK Limited person's mouth.
(DIR) Post #B2aMvUpsAwZbAiNfqy by WackyIdeas@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T19:03:39Z
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@Nonilex Meanwhile, #Epstein?
(DIR) Post #B2aNfY1ceJMYNups2a by grammasaurus@mastodon.social
2026-01-23T19:12:00Z
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@Nonilex Came here to say this too! If anyone knows about “staying back”, it’s the coward-in-chief. One of my cousins had CO status during Viet Nam, took a lot of flack for it (“why aren’t you in uniform, young man?”) but worked in a hospital, which is a vital service as well. donnie knows nothing about service to anyone or anything
(DIR) Post #B2aNrqPk6ZQKtNytQe by UweHalfHand@norcal.social
2026-01-23T19:14:14Z
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@Nonilex It seems like they are starting to be more blunt in calling him out, presumably after PM Carney’s speech. Good! The emperor has no clothes (and is falling apart mentally and physically)!
(DIR) Post #B2aRjJeIRPtQlxyetU by Kimota94@mas.to
2026-01-23T19:57:31Z
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@Nonilex It’s ALWAYS projection with Trump. He’s projecting on to brave military personnel what his cowardly bone-spurred ass would do if he ever got within a mile of combat. Every accusation is a confession with him.
(DIR) Post #B2aThHBiosFCTAlcDw by ArmyGirl@mastodon.world
2026-01-23T20:19:31Z
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@Nonilex As someone who was THERE in 2002, standing next to Canadians and later Romanians, I have to say the President is full of shit. By the way, I learned a great insult from those Canadians: they say someone they dislike is "a STAIN", ie., something nasty you can't get rid of.
(DIR) Post #B2acmtdGDBNyjmP1ai by TheNovemberMan@bookstodon.com
2026-01-23T22:01:24Z
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@Nonilex Truth #WorstPresidentEver #Trump #DraftDodger #Liar #Asshole
(DIR) Post #B2bB0pJaSOIZqL0y24 by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T04:24:53Z
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@Nonilex It's getting closer and closer to Luigi trial ..any chance of a Mission Impossible outcome?If you accept this mission etc etc etc.
(DIR) Post #B2bBOtcI7BmS8PEyKO by ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social
2026-01-24T04:29:15Z
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@Nonilex But he 'll still circle jerk with him😬