Biden’s Afghan withdrawal left America ‘humiliated’: Trump

ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Former US president Donald Trump again slams Biden’s Afghan withdrawal, says he would have kept Bagram Air Base to monitor China’s nuke testing.

Biden’s Afghan withdrawal left America ‘humiliated’ and allies emboldened, former president warns, according to Fox news.

In a speech on Thursday Donald Trump warned that President Biden had made America more vulnerable to its enemies, including by withdrawing U.S. troops from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, which Trump said he would have kept in order to monitor China’s nuclear program.

“China no longer respects us, Iran no longer fears us, and with their monstrous invasion of Ukraine, Russia showed just how weak they think our leaders are,” Trump said at a Heritage Foundation event in Florida. “They would never have done that under the Trump administration. Never, not even a possibility.”

“This is the most dangerous period in the history of our country right now,” he said.

Trump noted that he, too, planned to withdraw from Afghanistan, but he said the way Biden carried out the withdrawal left America “humiliated.”

“Our nation has been humiliated in Afghanistan, where we had soldiers killed, left American hostages behind and left … American military hardware,” the former president said. “We surrendered.”

He noted that during an 18-month span, no American soldiers died in combat against the Taliban.

Trump also claimed that he would have kept the U.S. presence in Bagram Air Base, formerly the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan. He claimed that the base, just north of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, is relatively close to the location China uses to make its nuclear weapons.

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Biden’s Afghan withdrawal left America ‘humiliated’: Trump