Trump Puts Words in the Mouths of Dead Soldiers – Mother Jones

There is no evidence that the service members killed, as Trump so confidently claimed, ever said or believed this. It conveniently happens to be one of the exceedingly few talking points Trump has had for continuing an increasingly unpopular war on all his own. And what better device for repeating his excuse than dead Americans who can’t speak for themselves?…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/trump-fallen-soldiers-iran-nuclear-weapon/

 

Fox News uses old clip of Trump after he wore hat while saluting slain US soldiers

Conservative outlet aired footage of president saluting at similar ceremony in December for at least three broadcasts…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/fox-news-trump-hat-salute-military

 

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians

Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary. 

 "If you want to shoot without restraint, you can," Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/10/israeli-soldiers-breaking-ranks-gaza-civilians-human-shields

 

Defectors offer insight into mindset of North Korean soldiers fighting in Ukraine

"When North Korean workers, who have lived their entire lives trapped in a restrictive system, experience life abroad, they come to see North Korea as nothing short of a prison," Ahn said. "Once they realize what freedom could mean, it's hard to imagine they wouldn't consider breaking free to live a freer life." 

In addition to finding freedom, they could provide the U.S. and others with valuable intelligence regarding the North Korean military's strategies and capabilities, which are often exaggerated by the North Korean government…

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-ukraine-soldiers-defectors-russia-rcna187547

 

Black WWII soldiers asked a White woman for donuts. They were shot. - The Washington Post

"They weren't breaking a law — unless there's a law against being a Negro soldier," a legal advocate for the slain Black soldiers wrote in 1946. "They were visiting a Red Cross tent — on the post on which they were stationed — and were shot down by trigger-happy guards who had prejudice[d] orders not to allow Negro soldiers to talk to French women."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/01/15/allen-leftridge-black-soldier-segregation/

‘They were furious’: the Russian soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine | Russia | The Guardian

…Benyash said "hundreds and hundreds" of soldiers had been in touch with his team for advice on how they could avoid being sent to fight. Among them were 12 national guardsmen from Russia's southern city of Krasnodar who were fired after refusing to go to Ukraine...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/12/they-were-furious-the-russian-soldiers-refusing-to-fight-in-ukraine

Armed Afghan women take to streets in show of defiance against Taliban

"There were some women who just wanted to inspire security forces, just symbolic, but many more were ready to go to the battlefields," said Halima Parastish, the head of the women's directorate in Ghor and one of the marchers. "That includes myself. I and some other women told the governor around a month ago that we're ready to go and fight."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/07/armed-afghan-women-take-to-streets-in-show-of-defiance-against-taliban

Pompeo overrules experts, keeps Saudi Arabia off US child soldiers list - CNN Politics

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided not to include Saudi Arabia on the State Department's list of countries that recruit child soldiers and overruled his own team of experts, who argued that there was sufficient evidence to do so, a source familiar with the issue told CNN.....
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/saudi-arabia-child-soldiers-report-pompeo/index.html

Soldiers told to clap for Mike Pence like they're at a strip club - Raw Story

On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence spoke with sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Pence is scheduled to tour the aircraft carrier and to meet with local business leaders about the U.S., Mexico, Canada trade agreement referred to as USMCA, according to his office. ....

Soldiers beat a blind Palestinian man bloody in dawn raid in occupied West Bank - Mondoweiss

Israeli soldiers assaulted, on Wednesday at dawn, a blind Palestinian man who also suffers from a kidney disease, after invading his home in Doha town, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. "We first thought that they were thieves, and they started beating me up while shouting at me 'we are the Israeli Defense Force'," Monther Mezher said.....
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/soldiers-palestinian-occupied/

The Art of Deception and Why Eastern European Soldiers Always Wear Ski Masks - In Military

I recently interviewed five Ukrainian soldiers who are fighting against Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. During my interview, I jokingly asked one young soldier, who calls himself Myhalych, “Why do Russian and Ukrainian soldiers always wear balaclavas?”....

https://inmilitary.com/art-deception-eastern-european-soldiers-always-wear-ski-masks/

Rick Wiles Says The US Has Secretly Created Super Soldiers 'Without A Soul' - YouTube - RWW News

Rick Wiles warns that the US government has created a race of "soulless" super soldiers, which will lead to the End Times and the elimination of humanity.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yRcjT1ECOo

This massacre of black soldiers during the Civil War is reason enough to bring down the Confederate statues - Raw Story

April 12 is the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle and massacre at Fort Pillow, located on the Mississippi River near Henning, Tennessee. It was a strategic location, held by United States (Union) forces just north of Memphis and controlling river access to and from St. Louis and the Ohio River Valley. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/massacre-black-soldiers-civil-war-reason-enough-bring-confederate-statues/