Donalt Trump wants to return troops to Afghanistan.
Yes, I know, it's just an airbase, but Tonkin is just a gulf.
The United States is working to regain control of Bagram air base from the Taliban in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said Thursday, describing it as “one of the biggest air bases in the world” and suggesting it is “an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”
“Okay, that could be a little breaking news,” Trump said during a news conference with Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a state visit to Britain. “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back.”
It was not immediately clear how far talks over the return of the base, which the U.S. military left four years ago, to American control have progressed or how they were conducted.
Such an outcome would signify a remarkable rapprochement. The United States ousted the Taliban from power after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and waged war against them for 20 years before a disastrous withdrawal in 2021 led to the collapse of the U.S.-backed government and the Taliban’s return to power. Relations between the two sides have been almost nonexistent since then amid the Taliban’s repressive rule.
The Taliban are not what one would call the most forward looking of people, but even some of them have to know the old Kissinger quote, "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Allowing an American presence at the airbase would allow it to be used as a launch pad for destabilizing the current regime in Kabul.
I think that this is just Trump's dementia driven ramblings once again.
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