Trump wants to involve the generals in the withdrawal of Afghanistan

President Trump said, “Every one” of the military generals participating in the American withdrawal from Afghanistan must be launched, and he sits next to Defense Minister Beit Higseth during the cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Trump was interrogated if his administration would shoot or reduce the duty of the military officers involved in the withdrawal of August 2021.

“I will not tell this man what to do, but I will say that if I have his place, I will shoot at each of them,” Trump said, hinting at Higseth.

Higseth replied that the Pentagon “performs a full review of each aspect of what happened” with the withdrawal of the deadly and chaotic August and intends to provide “full accountability.”

Trump was strongly criticizing the chaotic and deadly departure in the United States, which occurred during the era of President Biden, but was in Trump when he negotiated in 2020 and signed a deal with the Taliban to adhere to a former schedule to pick up American forces in Afghanistan.

After Trump’s loss in the elections in 2020, he ordered the rapid withdrawal of all American forces from Afghanistan, although senior officials did not follow, according to a certificate issued by the Congress Committee on January 6 in October 2022.

Under the leadership of Biden, which led to the planned clouds by a few months, 13 US service members and more than 170 Afghans were killed by a suicide bombing outside the Deir Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul with the exit of the forces.

In the weeks before the United States left completely, the country soon fell to the Taliban, which seized the deserted American military equipment.

On Tuesday, Trump called on the Taliban to return the American equipment that he left behind.

“I think they should return our equipment. I said to a house to study it. But we left billions, tens of billions of dollars from the equipment behind. New brand new trucks. You see them displaying them every year, on their small roads.”

He claimed that the Taliban was selling military weapons and equipment, making Afghanistan to tell Trump, “one of the largest military equipment sellers in the world.”

“They sell 777,000 rifles, 70,000 plated shields.. Trucks and vehicles.” I think we should return them. “

He also stressed that the United States should have been controlling the Bagram Air Force Base, which was once the largest American military base in Afghanistan now.

Trump has claimed that the People’s People’s Liberation Army has since controlled the former American base, which has repeatedly denied China.

It is not customary for the US military to leave behind heavy equipment when leaving the combat areas, because the cost of removing this equipment from a country is more than the dollars that it will take to replace. But to ensure that sensitive technical information does not fall into the hands of the enemies, stop the operation of the forces or destroy things such as aircraft, communications equipment, bombs and missiles.

Over a decade of the Afghanistan war, Washington has transferred $ 18.6 billion of military equipment to the US -backed Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, according to the Ministry of Defense report for 2022.

From this amount, about $ 7 billion was left when the American forces withdrew. Soon the Taliban managed to seize the equipment after the collapse of the Afghan National Army.