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0 pointsseanmcdirmid1y ago0 comments

Again, Trump left Biden with a token force, there was no way that was going to work out for him, you just can’t drop more troops in when the security situations degrades but you are leaving. And Trump didn’t care about those soldiers deaths, his disdain for the military is well documented, this was a political win for him, it makes sense why he invited the taliban to 9/11 remembrance ceremony. The guy is just the worst kind of life form.

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theultdev1y ago· 2 in thread

Why leave the base that has more security and airfields just to use the local airfield and rely on terrorists to run security because you pulled the troops out first?

It's not that he was pulling them out. It's HOW he pulled them out.

If it were a Republican you would have criticized that shit show too.

seanmcdirmidOP1y ago

Because you didn’t have the troops to secure it. Isn’t t obvious? You don’t have the troops to secure your own base, and you have to rely on the party Trump made his deal with that was binding to Biden. It was lose lose for Biden and win win for trump.

theultdev1y ago

???

The final 2500 were pulled out of Bagram by Biden.

THEN the evacuation was done by 500 troops at the local airfield by flying in.

If you knew it would collapse, why not fly everyone out when the 2500 troops were there and the airbase was still functional.

They even acted like they trusted the Afghan government for the 1 week it was still there.

It's not about losing or winning. Biden got 300 people killed.

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