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Was this base the one that trimp had us pull out of right after Biden took office and everyone blamed Biden for the messy withdrawal?
Yes, that is the exact airbase that Epstein's close friend Donald Trump created a hasty withdrawl plan for that occured entirely in Biden's administration.
That Epstein's close friend Donald Trump now apparently wants back. Like the Chinese haven't paid the Taliban for every single piece of US hardware left behind.
Yep, and I don't know how he's planning on getting the Taliban to give that base back.
You fucking dipshit nonce, you're the one who ordered it abandoned in the first place!
(Addressing Trump, not OP, obviously.)
What bad things will happen? Trump will continue to drive the U.S. to fascism? He’ll continue to not release the pedophiles here’s names in? He’ll continue to breathe?
Saudi Arabia has an alliance with Pakistan, including using nuclear weapons as a response in Saudi Arabia’s defense.
If Israel attacks Saudi Arabia, Pakistan responds. Bagram airport is only a couple hundred miles from the Pakistan border and an excellent place for the US to intercept any response from Pakistan headed towards Israel.
Almost like a complete and total withdrawal form Afghanistan was a terrible idea.
What? No. We shouldn't have been there in the first place. We don't need to return. We're not the worlds police.
Yes, the USA should never have been there, but the withdrawal was still shit and the way it was done did only harm. Ask the afghan women how they like their new government.
Not saying the withdrawal was a complete shit show, but it's not our job to fix nations. We shouldn't be telling anyone how to live. They want to oppress themselves that's on them, because at the end of the day, you can't kill citizens of a nation and expect them to want to keep you in place.
In the current situation with Israel if the US wasn’t propping up Israel than I doubt Israel would be brazen enough to attack Saudi Arabia which would mean we also wouldn’t have the need to reclaim Bagram airport in Israel’s defense.
The current situation with Afghanistan is the result of another US effort to externally support a country in a military campaign back in the 80s.
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USA. Global defence and offense just for Israel. Weird.
All of it sounds horrible, stop it! 😭
Born too early to fight in Afghanistan
Born too late to fight in Afghanistan
Born just in time to fight in Afghanistan
Which side?
Does it even matter? Bible thumping Y'all-Qaeda vs quran-thumping Al-Qaeda.
What would the US even want it for? Staging?
I posted this as a response to a different comment here but figured I’d copy/paste it in response to your question too;
Saudi Arabia has an alliance with Pakistan, including using nuclear weapons as a response in Saudi Arabia’s defense.
If Israel attacks Saudi Arabia, Pakistan responds. Bagram airport is only a couple hundred miles from the Pakistan border and an excellent place for the US to intercept any response from Pakistan headed towards Israel.
i wonder if china will get involved indirectly, since china and pakistan also are friends, and helped developed thier nukes.
I hope all this never gets far enough for us to find out.
It’s a pretty good place to launch planes and stuff to keep an eye on China.
Yes, REALLY BAD THINGS will happen! I'll impose a TWO WEEK DEADLINE! To another TWO WEEK DEADLINE, extended indefinitely!! Or I'll make the locals pay more for their food! (Our locals that is, not yours.) THAT'LL SHOW YOU!!!!!
We're going back boys!
Not this shit again!