President Donald Trump has made some pretty huge claims about the United States’ efforts to regain control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan. He dropped the news during a joint press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, calling it “a little breaking news”. The statement came as he was criticizing the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which he called a “total disaster,” a move he says he would have done with “strength and dignity”.
He glossed over the fact that, to get this base, the U.S. has to basically work with the Taliban. Yes, after decades of fighting them, the U.S. is going to be friendly with the Taliban. The Washington Post claims that there have been meetings in Kabul between Adam Boehler, the U.S. special envoy for hostage response, and the Taliban’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi.
