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DOnald Trump threatened, in a message revealed on its Truth Social community this Saturday, September 20, Afghanistan of “bad things” if the nation didn’t make management of the Bagram air base within the United States. The American president assured that he didn’t exclude sending troops to take up this base now managed by the Taliban.
Donald Trump stated on Thursday, the United States had sought to regain management of the bottom utilized by American forces after the September 11, 2001 assaults, earlier than explaining, the following day, being in talks with Afghanistan on this topic. “We need to get better this base, as quickly as potential, instantly. And if they do not, if they do not do it, you will see what I’ll do, “he threatened.
But Afghan officials have already expressed their opposition to a return from the United States. The withdrawal of the American forces in 2021 led to the takeover of the American bases and to the reversal of the government supported by the United States in Kabul by the Islamist movement of the Taliban.
New invasion of the nation
However, present and former US officers warn, in non-public, that the reoccupation of Bagram air base in Afghanistan may finally resemble a brand new invasion of the nation, requiring greater than 10,000 troopers in addition to the deployment of superior air defenses. Because, based on specialists, this sprawling air base could be troublesome to safe at the beginning and requires important enrollment to operate and be protected.
Donald Trump, who has already declared that the United States has to accumulate territories and websites starting from the Panama Canal to Greenland, appears to be concentrating on Bagram for years.
But even when the Taliban accepted the American reoccupation of Bagram on the finish of the negotiations, it ought to be defended in opposition to a large number of threats, specifically these of the militants of the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. It may be weak to a complicated ballistic menace from Iran, which attacked an necessary American air base in Qatar in June after the United States struck Iranian nuclear websites.
This enormous aerodrome was the primary American forces base in Afghanistan in the course of the 20 years of warfare that adopted the September 11, 2001 assaults in New York and Washington perpetrated by Al-Qaeda. The base as soon as had quick meals eating places reminiscent of Burger King and Pizza Hut for American troops, in addition to shops promoting every thing, from digital gadgets to Afghan carpets. It additionally housed an enormous penitentiary complicated.
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