Trump claimed NATO troops avoided the front lines in Afghanistan. Veterans from Canada, U.K. have this to say

Seems strange we haven’t had strong Canadian statements on this given the ire it has raised in the UK and Europe. I guess there is a backlog of insanity to process still for the week, or perhaps the bar has been lowered to the point it barely registers.

But Canada lost 158 soldiers, 7 civilians, over 2000 injuries, being THE frontline from Kandahar to many other places in Afghanistan. Can we even count the lives forever impacted by the effect our support of the US had on families? What has been said is a disgrace, and terrifying in the context of why this came up – NATO being a touch firmer than usual on his demand to simply have Greenland. We’re staring down the barrel of a new reality that is eventually going to come to confrontation. It’s beyond insult. It’s an assault on democracy and a threat in the realization that nothing in the relationship and history of Canada-US relations is going to matter.