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(NewsNation) — The United States is attempting to reestablish a subject beingness astatine Bagram Airfield successful Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
At a bilateral gathering with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump slammed erstwhile President Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan and lamented that his predecessor gave the aerial basal up "for nothing."
"We're trying to get it back, by the way," helium said, adding that the basal is located "an hr distant from wherever China makes its atomic weapons."
Trump called the thought "breaking news" connected Thursday, though helium has antecedently raised the idea, according to the Associated Press.
Bagram, located successful Afghanistan's Parwan Province, was a U.S. stronghold for 2 decades until troops withdrew from the portion successful a widely criticized operation successful 2020.
Hal Kempfer, a retired Marine Corps quality serviceman and nationalist information analyst, told NewsNation it would instrumentality "an unthinkable effort" to retake the airfield, arsenic determination are nary authoritative diplomatic ties betwixt the U.S. and Afghanistan.
Calling it a "big shift" successful thinking, Kempfer formed uncertainty connected whether Trump's program would beryllium feasible: "When I heard that, I was trying to think, however would we adjacent statesman negotiations with the Taliban government?"
The determination could lone beryllium accomplished done negotiations, Kempfer said, not by force.
"There would person to beryllium immoderate unthinkable carrot for the Taliban authorities to judge america backmost in," helium said. "Because that truly goes against the full governmental outlook and ideology. To let the U.S. backmost successful there, it would beryllium a immense deed connected them domestically."
