Trump Remains Unresolved about the Afganist
President Trump this time tries to shrouded the answers asked by news agents about what the US reactions would be like following the just announced rejection by the Talibans. Trump had earlier said on Saturday that if Afghanistan does not give back control of the Bagram air base to the United States, "bad things" will happen.
When asked whether the US military will send soldiers to reclaim the base, Trump answered that "We won't talk about that, but we're talking now to Afghanistan, and we want it back and we want it back soon, right away. And if they don't do it, you're going to find out what I'm going to do.""If Afghanistan doesn’t give Bagram Airbase back to those that built it, the United States of America, BAD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN," Trump said in a Truth Social post.
Trump expressed interest in reclaiming the Bagram Air Base from the Taliban to use in counterterrorism operations during a press conference in the UK on Thursday.
The airbase, located in Afghanistan, could be a strategically advantageous location for counterterrorism operations against ISIS, a US official familiar with the discussions told The Wall Street Journal.
CNN reported that the US administration may seek to regain the base for improved access to rare earth minerals as well as to potentially reopen a diplomatic facility.
In August 2024, the Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of their takeover of the air base with a military display of US material left behind in 2021, during an operation conducted by the Biden administration, which Trump has repeatedly accused of "gross incompetence" for the way the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan was conducted.
Meanwhile, the Taliban said that they reached an agreement with US envoys on a prisoner exchange as part of an effort to normalize relations, AP reported, noting that the Islamist group did not give details, and the White House did not issue any comments on the matter, but that the Taliban released photographs of talks between Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, and the Trump administration's special envoy for hostage response Adam Boehler
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