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Let's talk about the US removing memorials for Afghanistan veterans....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about the US removing memorials for Afghanistan veterans....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it's fell again. So today, we're going to talk about the

0:09.3

U.S. removing memorials for Afghanistan veterans. The flower boxes outside a U.S. government

0:17.1

building had 44 flags placed in them. The city maintains jurisdiction over the street,

0:24.2

but the flower boxes were under the jurisdiction of the federal government. Residents of the city

0:30.5

attach the names of people from their community, who were soldiers, and were lost fighting between

0:36.6

2002 and 2014 in America's long conflict in Afghanistan,

0:42.8

to the flags and put them neatly in the flower boxes.

0:47.4

Memorializing the fallen seems like it was just a bit too much for this administration.

0:53.1

So the flags were removed. I'm sure most

0:57.2

Americans hearing this are probably pretty upset by this move. Here's the twist. The flags were put up

1:04.9

in the city of Copenhagen, outside the U.S. Embassy, and they honored Danish troops lost fighting in our war.

1:13.5

It makes sense.

1:15.2

Denmark had a higher per capita casualty rate than the U.S. did in our war.

1:22.2

This happened with the backdrop of Trump saying that NATO allies, quote, stayed a little back, a little off the

1:29.8

front lines. I have a whole video on Trump's claim, but just for the sake of clarification,

1:37.4

this did not happen. NATO troops did not avoid frontline service. After Trump's remark, he tried to walk the comment back with a half-hearted apology, but it was only aimed at the UK.

1:52.0

I said at the time, that wasn't going to satisfy our allies.

1:57.0

Copenhagen's mayor for environmental affairs, and if I don't have that title right, I apologize.

2:05.1

There's not a lot of English coverage on this yet, said quote.

2:10.2

The flags marked in a very nice and quiet manner, the tremendous effort that the Danish soldiers

2:16.4

deployed there made over several years.

2:19.3

She went on to call their removal disrespectful.

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