Trump Dumps on NATO Dead in Afghanistan

Friday, January 23, 2026

Donald Trump has again disparaged America's Nato allies, claiming that troops from allied nations "stayed a little back, a little off the frontlines" while fighting in Afghanistan in support of the US campaign against the Taliban. The only time Nato has ever invoked its mutual defence clause " stating that an attack on one member represents an attack on all " came after the terrorist attacks of September 11, when member states deployed thousands of troops to Afghanistan.

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A total of 3,486 Nato troops died in the 20-year conflict, of which the majority, 2,461, were US service members.

Four hundred and fifty-seven British troops died, while another 2,000 military and civilian personnel were wounded in action.

Canada, long the US's closest ally and largest trading partner, suffered 165 deaths, including civilians. Canada's 12-year deployment was the country's longest combat mission, with more than 40,000 personnel, and the deadliest since the Korean war in the 1950s.

Other Nato allies, including Italy, Germany and France, also had soldiers who died.

Trump has singled out Denmark, which controls Greenland " a territory the US president has said Washington "must" take over" " as being "ungrateful" for US protection during the second world war. Denmark suffering 44 combat deaths iin Afghanistan, the most per capita outside the US.

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#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-23 06:35 AM | Reply

Check out WW1 and WW2 casualties and timelines if you want them as a measure to identify a country that came very late to the conflict.

For perspective's sake, Google "Trump family military service."

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-01-23 06:41 AM | Reply

Hi Doc Sarvis:

The US got off light in WWI. COVID was almost as deadly. Approximately 45,000 American soldiers died from influenza and related pneumonia, whereas combat deaths totaled about 53,402. BTW: Of all the Allied and Central Powers, the UK suffered the least amount of COVID deaths.

The Confederate Army killed more US soldiers than the Kaiser's legions.

We lost a bit more than the British in WWII, but not like the Russians, Germans, or Japanese.

BTW: I just received Virginia Guiffre's book Nobody's Girl.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 07:29 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Trump Dumps on NATO Dead in Afghanistan"

Well, he thinks our own troops who died in combat are "suckers and losers."

Why should he hold foreign troops who died in defense of the U.S. in higher esteem?

#4 | Posted by censored at 2026-01-23 07:32 AM | Reply