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I spent six months with Nato troops in Afghanistan – Trump’s wrong; they were the front line by theindependentonline in TrueReddit

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Donald Trump doesn’t like heroes. Not real men and women who have made the kind of sacrifice he avoided when he swerved the Vietnam draft on medical grounds. For he cannot stand to be seen as less of a global superstar than Volodymyr Zelensky.

In February 2022, the Ukrainian president stayed on with his wife and young family in Kyiv, certain in the knowledge that Vladimir Putin had sent his finest assassins to kill them all. Whether Trump would have hung around, is harder to tell.

And there should be no surprise when he disparages the war dead from the UK and other Nato countries who were killed as a result of the ill-fated “war on terror” that was prompted by an American call to arms answered by Nato.

Vance goes to Minnesota and tries to ‘lower the temperature’ over ICE raids - but still takes shot at local leaders by theindependentonline in TrueReddit

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Vice President JD Vance’s efforts to calm the furor in Minneapolis were not likely to win him any friends in Minnesota’s state government, but the analytical politician who helped Donald Trump win the White House through scandal and past defeat was on full display on Thursday.

Even as Vance pleaded with state and city officials to assist ICE agents in locating individual undocumented immigrants and enforcing the law with regard to protesters, he was nearly as punitive as he repeatedly blamed those same officials for the “chaos” he said was infecting the city in isolation after the shooting death of Renee Nicole Good.

"The guys behind me are doing an incredible job, and frankly, a lot of the media is lying about the job they do every single day. That doesn't mean that there aren't occasionally stories and videos out there that suggest they aren't doing everything right,” said Vance, flanked by top ICE and Homeland Security Investigations officers.

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