The US is moving to reclaim the Bagram airbase from the Taliban after losing it during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced.
“We’re trying to get it back, by the way,” Mr Trump told reporters during a joint press conference with Sir Keir Starmer in Aylesbury on Thursday.
The Bagram base was the largest operated by the US in Afghanistan and is strategically important in countering China’s growing influence in the region.
Mr Trump suggested that he was negotiating with the Taliban to retake ownership, adding: “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us. We want that base back.”
Take it up with your government. The US doesn’t own that land. Your government leases it out. They’re there on behalf of your citizens.
(Sure, there is some coercion, but that’s always true. At the end of the day it’s up to you, not Americans, if things aren’t the way you want.)
I’m entitled to tell Americans how we feel and that we don’t want them here.
Americans have their heads so far up their arses they think the world is there’s