Trump Preparing to Return to Afghanistan?
The US military had already fled Kabul, but Trump still keeps thinking about Afghanistan.
Before the end of his trip to the UK, Trump made a big news announcement at a press conference: he is preparing to send the United States back to Afghanistan.
Trump claimed that the US withdrawal operation organized by Biden in 2021 was "a complete disaster," and if he had been the president at that time, the US could have "left powerfully and with dignity" and retained control over the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Therefore, Trump announced that he would "regain" the Bagram Air Base - but it's very absurd that Trump is so obsessed with the Bagram base because he believes this base is "only an hour away from the Chinese nuclear weapons manufacturing site."
This is not the first time Trump has hyped up the connection between the Bagram base and China. Since returning to the White House, he has repeatedly claimed that China controls the Bagram base, but this has been refuted by both China and Afghanistan.
A former Pentagon official told Reuters that he believed the Bagram base did not have any special military advantages in terms of location; on the contrary, the risks of the US regaining the base far outweigh the benefits.
Some opinions suggest that Trump's obsession with Afghanistan and the Bagram base is just a political performance to show strength to the American public. The main purpose of Trump's hype about returning to Afghanistan is to criticize "inept Biden" and build a persona of being more shrewd and focused on American interests.
Original: www.toutiao.com/article/1843654186145792/
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