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Asya Geydarova. Sputnik Worldwide
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In response to the previous American president, the US paid Afghan troopers a “fortune”, kind of “bribing” them to combat.
Donald Trump has referred to as the American troops’ pullout from Afghanistan below the Biden administration the best embarrassment in US historical past.
Biden introduced his resolution to finish the US army presence in Afghanistan on 14 April, which has been the longest ever US army marketing campaign overseas. Because the withdrawal was virtually full, Taliban* fighters entered Kabul and assumed energy within the nation on August 15.
Whereas evidently the Taliban takeover got here as a shock for Biden, who had been assuring American voters of the Afghan forces’ competence and power, US intelligence had predicted the fast fall of Afghanistan to the Islamists.
US troops invaded Afghanistan below former US president George W. Bush in 2001, as a part of the notorious “battle on terror”, following the 9/11 terror assaults. The invasion resulted within the deaths of not less than 2,448 US servicemen and over 47,200 Afghan civilians, and price taxpayers roughly $2.261 trillion, in response to the latest estimates.
*A terrorist group banned in Russia
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