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What a disgrace.
The Kingdom of Denmark lost 52 soldiers fighting side by side with the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This is the Monument for Denmark's International Effort Since 1948 in Copenhagen, where their names are inscribed, and where American shame burns white hot:
This is from a March 8, 2025, article written by Nick Beake for BBC News, entitled “They lost 52 soldiers fighting alongside the US. Now they feel threatened by Trump:”
All his adult life, Colonel Soren Knudsen stepped forward when his country called. And when its allies did.
He fought alongside US troops, notably in Afghanistan, and for a time was Denmark’s most senior officer there. He counted 58 rocket attacks during his duty.
“I was awarded a Bronze Star Medal by the United States and they gave me the Stars and Stripes. They have been hanging on my wall in our house ever since and I have proudly shown them to everybody.”
Then something changed.
Here is what changed for Colonel Knudsen and his American wife.
“After JD Vance’s statement on Greenland, the president’s disrespect for internationally acknowledged borders, I took the Stars and Stripes down and the medal has been put away,” Soren says, his voice breaking a little.
This week before Congress, the US president doubled down on his desire to seize the world’s biggest island: Greenland, an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark.
General Colin Powell once made this observation about the United States of America:
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.
This is the American cemetery in Normandy above Omaha Beach:
All of the graves face west, towards home.
Quite the change.
Since Donald Trump has inaugurated an era of corporate sponsorship at the White House it seems only appropriate that America’s next generation of fallen should rest under the logos of the oil companies and Trump brand for which they died.
Trump says the United States will “run” Venezuela, but Marco Rubio says we will not run Venezuela, which raises a rather elementary question with an obvious answer.
What was the point of capturing Maduro?
Donald Trump risked the lives of hundreds of US forces, including the lives of America’s most highly trained commandos. At the same time, he killed at least 80 people to make an arrest on the one-month anniversary of his pardoning the former president of Honduras, a convicted drug trafficker serving time in US prison.
How can it be that Maduro gets cuffed, but the speed boats in the southern Caribbean are obliterated and the survivors murdered?
Perhaps the answer is as simple as “we need Greenland from the standpoint of national security:”
I wrote the following about 2026 and war just nine days ago:
The beginning of something — not the end
Judd Legum is a journalist in the old school sense. He’s ethical, diligent, tireless and fearless in making sure that powerful people are held accountable for their conduct by informing the American people about it.
Donald Trump risked the lives of a great many Americans for what exactly?
The answer is politics, money and attention.
Thankfully, there is no American child who has to grow up knowing that their dad was killed for a news conference and a Tony Dokoupil exclusive.
Trust me, the luck will run out.
It always does.
There is a magnificent quote etched in marble at the World War II memorial in Washington, DC, by one of the greatest Americans who ever lived — General George C. Marshall, chief of staff, secretary of state and secretary of defense:
We are determined that before the sun sets on this terrible struggle, Our Flag will be recognized throughout the World as a symbol of Freedom on the one hand and of overwhelming force on the other.
What does that flag stand for today?
A republic?
Freedom?
Justice?
Goodness?
Donald Trump and his team are incompetent, corrupt and untrustworthy. Don’t believe a word they say. Never confuse the competence, daring and valor of the men whom they ordered into harm’s way with the selfish man who gave the order.
Once again, the United States has sent its young men into the fire on orders from men with no plan for what comes next.
The world of Donald Trump is one where might makes right, and that is about as un-American a sentiment as there possibly could be.
Abraham Lincoln left us a beacon for what we must oppose and why:
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.
Fascists have always claimed that they stand for prosperity and peace.
They bring misery and war.
Donald Trump is a fascist, and little Marco is a clown.
Any American who watched the Trump stumblebums trip all over themselves on the Sunday morning shows defending the great Venezuelan invasion improv appreciated that there is no plan, but hey, it’s reality TV, so who needs one?
I knew these obnoxious thugs would post something about invading Greenland next, and it turns out it was Mrs. Eichmann. My family’s history includes hard and bloody military service in the defeat of Nazi’s, but I never expected they would return to rule the United States.
'Run Venezuela until such time......"? They can't even 'run' the U.S. correctly.