Washington DC:
Donald Trump has made a brand new announcement with regard to Afghanistan – that the US is planning to return. “Joe Biden gave it up…I feel we must always get it again”, he mentioned, speaking about armoured automobiles and the strategic Bagram Airbase. President Trump’s remarks got here at a press briefing after his first Cupboard assembly since he took over commander-and-chief of the US armed forces.
Being extra particular about what he meant, President Trump mentioned “What has bothered me very a lot is that we gave billions and billions of {dollars} to Afghanistan, no person is aware of that, and but, we left behind all of that tools, which might not have occurred had I been president on the time.”
“We (US) had been getting out below my presidency. I’m the one who acquired our army presence to below 5,000, however we had been going to maintain Bagram (air base) – not due to Afghanistan, however due to China, as a result of the air base is precisely one hour from the place China makes its nuclear missiles. So, we had been going to maintain Bagram,” President Trump mentioned.
He went on to say that “Bagraom airbase is the one of many greatest airbases on the earth. It has one of many greatest and strongest runways. Very heavy concrete and metal was used (to strengthen) it. Something may very well be carried on it. And we gave it up – and you already know who’s occupying it in the meanwhile? China. As a result of Biden gave it up. So, we will hold that.”
Making it clear that the US solely appears to be like to maintain a small troops presence in Afghanistan (particularly Bagram), President Trump additional famous that “America is now going to maintain that (Bagram)”. He added that the US army will carry out a “withdrawal of all of the tools left behind – about 40,000 armoured and army heavy automobiles” at present within the palms of the Taliban authorities within the nation.
Almost calling the way through which the US withdrew from Afghanistan “disgraceful”, President Trump claimed that “In all equity to Putin – When he noticed that, he determined ‘Properly, that is our time to enter Ukraine, as a result of the timing appeared excellent.”
Saying that Afghanistan is having the ability to keep afloat due to “billions of {dollars} of assist” by the US, which “no person talked about”, and that, with him as President, “All of America appears to find out about now”, President Trump mentioned that “since we’re sending assist, they (Afghan authorities) ought to give it again.”
In August 2021, amid deepening disaster in Afghanistan, then US President Joe Biden had defended his transfer for an entire withdrawal of troops from the war-torn nation, saying that historical past will file this as a “logical, rational, and proper determination”. Joe Biden’s determination had come twenty years after the US invasion of Afghanistan following the 9/11 terror assault in the US.
Conservative estimates recommend that tens of 1000’s of lives had been misplaced within the twenty-year battle in Afghanistan.
There was no official response, both from the Afghan Taliban or from China, which President Trump accused of getting a army presence in Afghanistan.
The Bagram airbase was initially constructed by USSR through the Chilly Conflict, after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, when US too tried to develop its affect in Afghanistan. A few years after the Soviet withdrawal, and the autumn of the erstwhile Soviet Union, the US returned to Afghanistan to wage a battle on Osama bin Laden. It was then that the US took over Bagram airbase and strengthened it.