BlindBoo
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All they needed was 2500 to run the air base. They would act in support for the Afghan Army and do flight missions and drone strikes from Bagram Air Base.....but Biden pulled everyone from Bagram without telling the Afghan government in June.....essentially scrapping the agreement that Trump made with them. The primary advantage they had was their air assets....and Biden ended that advantage.
2500 regular troops was all that was left for the incoming president. The Generals testified there was no plan for the complete evacuation either. While Trump was still president the Taliban only met one of the conditions set out in the surrender agreement. While the US and our allied met all of ours. Yet he still reduced our number of troops to less than a third of what was agreed to. The Afghan Army and Government felt betrayed by Trump since all the support contractors who kept their military machine running were leaving as per the surrender agreement, and we forced them to release 5,000 Taliban fighters for 1,000 Afghan Army regs.
So he fucked over the US military, the Afghan military and the Afghan government.