Trump: ‘We Were Going to Keep Bagram, Not Because of Afghanistan but Because of China’ The US president says Bagram Air Base is a critical asset for countering China, as experts debate the feasibility of reclaiming abandoned US military equipment in Afghanistan By Arshad Mehmood/ The Media Line [Islamabad] President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his […]
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Trump: ‘We Were Going to Keep Bagram, Not Because of Afghanistan but Because of China’
The US president says Bagram Air Base is a critical asset for countering China, as experts debate the feasibility of reclaiming abandoned US military equipment in Afghanistan
By Arshad Mehmood/ The Media Line
[Islamabad] President Donald Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to retrieving US military equipment left behind at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of US troops four years ago.
During his new cabinet’s first meeting on Wednesday, President Trump claimed that the US abandoned billions of dollars in military hardware, including 777,000 rifles and 70,000 armored vehicles, and asserted that Afghanistan is now one of the world’s largest sellers of military gear. He criticized previous US leadership for leaving these assets behind, stating, “Do you know we give billions of dollars to Afghanistan? And yet we left behind all of that equipment.”