US seeking to regain control of Afghanistan’s Bagram airbase, says Trump
The question is why? Could it be that the U.S. plans to use Bagram as a base for operations against Iran, or China?
The question is why? Could it be that the U.S. plans to use Bagram as a base for operations against Iran, or China?
According to InfoMigrants, there are around 400,000 Afghans currently living in Germany. Around 33,000 of those have entered the country since the Taliban’s takeover in 2021
A retired U.S. general says he tried to warn the White House that things could get “very bad, very fast” if they attempted a rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan. But they didn’t seem to understand the risks involved
Prior to NATO intervention, the Taliban had outlawed poppy cultivation. Having retaken Afghanistan they re-imposed the ban resulting in opium production falling by nearly 95 percent
A day of reckoning is due for the decades-long criminal U.S.-led warmongering via its NATO war machine. That day may be sooner than realized.
After years of occupation, during which the opium trade flourished, Afghanistan’s new rulers have done what the US and its allies failed to do. In little more than a year, the Taliban have all but eradicated Afghanistan’s illegal narcotics trade
While its domestic infrastructure fails through lack of funding, America will spend more money in Ukraine in one year than it spent in about 12 years in Afghanistan
It marked a new low point in America’s standing in the world and it happened on Biden’s watch. But that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from blaming their predecessors for the disastrous US withdrawal from Afghanistan
The West, in particular America, tends to drop allies when it no longer needs them. That’s what it did when it abandoned 30,000 Afghan Special Forces for the Taliban. Now Russia ie reportedly recruiting them to fight in Ukraine
American economist Michael Hudson on how the same people who were behind the emergence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, were also behind the rise of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis
America’s former top general in the Middle East also says that it is “merely a matter of time” before U.S. troops go back to Afghanistan
Americans are still paying for President Biden’s catastrophic retreat from Afghanistan