A relative of the suspect told NBC News that the 29-year-old had served in the army for 10 years and served alongside US troops. The relative, who allegedly served alongside Lakanwal, said of their time in the military: “We were the ones that were targeted by the Taliban in Afghanistan.”
In his Truth Social post, Trump didn’t explicitly detail which third world countries he’d ‘permanently’ be pausing migration on, nor did he state exactly when this freeze would come into place.
As per the Borgen project, the term ‘third world’ first originated during the Cold War and was used to describe nations that did not align with either of the two major power blocs: The US and NATO (first world) or the Soviet Union (second world).
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