re: #250 Nyet
Just to be sure, I do think he means American soldiers in a sort of joking way (humor, Trump-style). It’s kinda evident from how he says it in both instances, if you watch them both. I don’t think he would be saying this about the Iraqi soldiers in this particular way. But there is enough “plausible deniability” there for him to claim he didn’t mean your soldiers.
Even more puzzling: why did he bring it up at all?