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The former President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity in an exclusive interview on a Fox network show Thursday that the intensification of the crisis in Afghanistan under President Joe Biden is the result of “the dumbest move that has perhaps been made in the history of our country”, according to Fox News .
b added that Biden has surrounded himself with generals who have shifted their priorities from national security to liberal politics, a rating from the US military high command that Trump has often used when referring to himself.
Trump warned host Sean Hannity that Biden and his top generals as the chairman of the General Staff Mark set Milley are misinterpreting the power and leanings of rank-and-file military members and incoherently shuffling their priorities: “Biden and the generals just woke up. I was saying that even at the end of my time, I was seeing letters sent about equality and all these different things: soldiers, they want to fight, they want to be prepared to fight, they want to be soldiers, but generals have gotten into a level that no one else. He can’t even believe it, ”Trump said in the interview.
About Afghanistan, Trump said that Biden and the military command there sought to withdraw as Trump would have done, but that they did it in the exact reverse order: “They forgot one thing, they forgot to take people and merchandise with them, which means they forgot to take the best military equipment from anywhere in the world, and it’s hard to believe, actually, because a child would have understood. Take out the army at the end. A child would have understood. How could they have done this to our country? ”
That withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump said, constituted one of the worst decisions of a sitting president in the history of the United States, already that 13 service members are now dead and Kabul remains in turmoil.
“It’s so sad. It is probably from the point of view of military tactics and simply from shame, the most shameful thing that has happened to our country; we seem dumb all over the world, we are weak, we are pathetic, we are being led by people who have no idea what they are doing, ”said Trump.
“They take out the military and then they say that now we will take people out, and suddenly, the Taliban come in. We had the Taliban so under control that they would not have moved without our approval. We had an incredible agreement. They weren’t killing our soldiers. ”
Trump noted that Biden even made indirect reference to the success of his predecessor in that regard, pointing to the part of the president’s comments in which he acknowledged that the Taliban had not killed an American service member in 18 months due to the agreement reached in 2020.
“I want to tell you, I think our soldiers, even civilians, I think our soldiers are in a tremendous danger. I think the planes going in and out of the airport are in tremendous danger. They have the best equipment, the best rockets, the best tanks and helicopters, Apache helicopters, many of them, which are immensely valuable and, by the way, Russia wants them, because they want to examine them because we have much superior technology and China wants them, “he warned. Trump.
“This is the dumbest thing, I think it was the dumbest move anyone has made in the history of our country, allow this to happen, take out the military and then say ‘Oh, we hope to get people out.’ ”
Trump went on to tell show host Sean Hannity that on 1330461561 Personal discussions and negotiations with Taliban leader Abdul Baradar , made it clear to him that any wrongdoing would be greeted with a tenfold response from the US military, contrasting that stance with Biden’s deferential stance.
“We had them totally under control. Every time we saw movement, we would hit them with an F – 18 and the movement would stop “Said Trump.
Trump added that he would not have allowed the abandonment of the Soviet-era Bagram Air Force Base, underscoring its strategic location, near the Afghan borders with China, Pakistan and Tajikistan and not far from Russia.