RASC News Agency: Donald Trump, the newly elected President of the United States, who will be inaugurated today as the 47th President and assume office in the White House, has pledged to retrieve U.S. military equipment that fell into the hands of the Taliban. Speaking at the “Make America Great Again Rally” held at the Capital One Arena in the Congress building, Trump indirectly criticized senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration, including Biden himself, referring to them as “incompetent and foolish” for allowing American military assets to be seized by the Taliban. During his address, Trump declared: “Do you realize that we pay billions of dollars to Afghanistan every year? Does anyone even know this? And I say, if we’re going to pay billions annually, tell them (the Taliban) they’re not getting another penny unless they return the military equipment that these incompetent and foolish individuals allowed to fall into their hands. We’ll offer them some money, but we’re taking our equipment back.”
Trump also labeled the Taliban as “the enemy” and condemned the Biden administration for diverting billions of dollars from U.S. military rebuilding efforts to the Taliban. He remarked: “We will rebuild and modernize our military once again. We’ve done it before. We rebuilt our entire military from the ground up. (But) they under Biden’s leadership handed billions upon billions of dollars to the Taliban. They gave our military equipment to them. A significant portion of it ended up in the hands of the enemy.” This statement comes on a pivotal day for the United States, as the nation Monday, January 20, marks the inauguration of its newly elected president in one of the most consequential political events in its history. Donald Trump, now sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, will lead the country for the next four years.
President Trump, who previously served a four-year term in the White House, now faces pressing foreign policy challenges, including the ongoing war in Ukraine and countering China’s rapid ascent as a global economic superpower. However, he has yet to outline a clear strategy for Afghanistan, leaving the nation’s policy toward the region uncertain as his administration begins.
