{"id":21892,"date":"2025-11-28T02:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=21892"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T01:25:15","slug":"ein-schuss-aus-naechster-naehe-die-erst-20-jaehrige-soldatin-sarah-beckstrom-ist-verstorben-und-ein-praesident-der-den-moment-fuer-sich-nutzt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/ein-schuss-aus-naechster-naehe-die-erst-20-jaehrige-soldatin-sarah-beckstrom-ist-verstorben-und-ein-praesident-der-den-moment-fuer-sich-nutzt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shot at Close Range - 20-year-old soldier Sarah Beckstrom has died and a president who uses the moment for himself"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a few hundred meters from the White House, something happened on Wednesday afternoon that plunged Washington into a mix of shock, grief and political calculation. Two National Guard soldiers from West Virginia, recently deployed to the capital to support the government, were shot on the open street. On Thursday evening, Donald Trump announced during a Thanksgiving call with troops that one of the two wounded, twenty-year-old Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, had died. His sentence came without preparation, without visible restraint: \"She just died. She is no longer with us. Her parents are with her.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sarah Beckstrom together with her father<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Alongside her, her fellow soldier, 24-year-old Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, continues to fight for his life. Investigators describe the act as a targeted attack. The shooter - Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29 - was himself injured, but not critically. According to officials, he came to the United States in 2021 as part of Operation Allies Welcome, one of the Afghan partners evacuated after the fall of Kabul. He is said to have worked with the CIA in his home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trump used these few known facts immediately as political ammunition. In his remarks, he called the attacker a \"brutal traitor,\" spoke of a \"terrorist attack\" and turned a tragic message into an indictment against the Biden administration. The president, who has deployed tens of thousands of National Guard soldiers to support his mass deportation campaigns, portrayed the admission of Afghan local partners as a disastrous mistake - even before investigators had released a single indication of motive, background or context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n