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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Mohamad Bazzi

Trump is using a tragic shooting to demonize millions

people walk and cycle past the former US embassy in Kabul
‘Trump and Miller’s grandstanding obscures an inconvenient reality: it was the US that largely broke Afghanistan.’ Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

After two national guard members were ambushed in Washington DC last week, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition, Donald Trump went on a hate-filled social media rant and vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World countries”.

Trump’s late night Thanksgiving posts devolved into a fury, evidently because the suspected gunman is an Afghan national. He had worked with the US government, including the CIA, and was evacuated to the US in 2021 after the American military withdrew from Afghanistan.

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