It seems newsworthy that the frontrunner for 2024, who ran in 2016 and 2020 promising to end all the forever wars, is now saying that he would re-invade Afghanistan.
I must have written a hundred pieces about the fatuousness of Trump’s stated position. He only took the position he did because he thought it was popular and it compared him favorably with other Republicans. It was inevitable that he would take the opposite position once his rival successfully carried out his plan.
By the way: Most of the equipment he’s talking about was held by the Afghan military, not the US. He’s on record saying that he knew the Taliban would win power. What did he think would happen to the military equipment?
Also, it’s typically braindead:
[W]eapons cannot simply be used in perpetuity by their new owners. In general, the more complex a weapons system is, the more onerous its maintenance requirements are. Simple weapons, like rifles, can last decades (or longer) in rough conditions and with minimal maintenance. Likewise, basic vehicles – pickup trucks, for example, which are the building blocks of armed mobility for many irregular forces worldwide – can be kept running with ingenuity and a degree of mechanical knowledge. But systems such as aircraft, computerized sensor systems, modern armored vehicles and so on all require specialized parts, complex maintenance procedures and – increasingly – regular software updates to keep them effective, or even functional.
Apparently, the US did destroy a lot of computer equipment and electronics and took much of it back to the US so Trump is, as usual, full of shit.
As usual, Trump is totally ignorant. He spent that last year of his administration trying to get re-elected and his already miniscule interest in anything but himself waned to zero. He’s watching OAN now and that’s where he’s getting his information.