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@ErikJonker @geopolitics Trump is vile. He knows nothing, cares for nothing but himself. We all need to stop working with Trumpistan. Make America Go Away!

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fortunately the UK learned from this and... just kidding

moreover, its been buying up US treasuries as the Chinese abandon them certain the US is about to implode

if ever there was anyone to sell a bridge you don't own, the UK is your guy

after WW2 and the US replaced the UK as the global hegemon we positioned ourselves as the smart one whispering into their ear

instead we are the suck up to the school bully, except now he's an adult and just shot someone, and we're still locked in out of pure instinct

@ErikJonker @geopolitics@a.gup.pe insufferable treacherous non-entities, backstabbing cowards incapable of rational thought. And it's not just Trump, the US will need new prisons when this is over, god let it be soon.

@ErikJonker @geopolitics@a.gup.pe Why do people still place stock in anything that comes out of his wordhole. So much energy goes into countering the lies and presenting the truth that the truth ends up looking like just an alternative narrative.

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Maybe a side by side comparison with Trump Family military service (not eve deaths, just service)

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Feel free to add this to the alt text.

United Kingdom 636
Canada 160+
France 90
Italy 86
Poland 74
Germany 62
Denmark 50
Spain 46
Netherlands 27
Czech Republic 15
Estonia 11
Norway 10

Source: NATO mission casualty records, Afghanistan & post-9/11 operations

@david_chisnall @ErikJonker @geopolitics

In the Gulf War I, British tanks were marked on top for the first time, so that the American fighter pilots might recognise them as friendly.

IIRC one friendly fire incident took out seven Brits.

@CosminOprescu and that's "just" the dead, not the injured. Portugal didn't have a big military presence (much more policing and training programmes through GNR, our paramilitary police, working mostly side by side with the Italian Carabinieri, and some got seriously hurt on ambushes and attacks). Still, 2 dead in Afghanistan, 1 in Iraq.
Robert Gates, in 2011, had a word or two to say about the (then) 850 non-US NATO troops that "made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan". https://web.archive.org/web/20110615172649/http://www.securitydefenceagenda.org/Contentnavigation/Activities/Activitiesoverview/tabid/1292/EventType/EventView/EventId/1070/EventDateID/1087/PageID/5141/Reflectionsonthestatusandfutureofthetransatlanticalliance.aspx
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@UlrikNyman there's some discussion around the number (some sources say 159, some 160, so there's always the need to put an "asterisk" because of it). The worst part is that at least 5 Canadian soldiers died because of US "friendly-fire" in different moments, 4 of them were the first casualties in the war, and more than 30 were wounded.
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