Amoxtli@thelemmy.club to Conservative@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 days agoBiden left Taliban $7B in weapons, fingerprint scanners used to hunt US allies: damning reportnypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up19
arrow-up19external-linkBiden left Taliban $7B in weapons, fingerprint scanners used to hunt US allies: damning reportnypost.comAmoxtli@thelemmy.club to Conservative@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 10 days agomessage-square5fedilink
minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-29 days ago Trump also ordered the Pentagon, against Mattis’s recommendation, to come up with a plan to withdraw approximately half of the American troops deployed to Afghanistan, a move that military officials have warned could plunge the nation into chaos. via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-announces-mattis-will-leave-as-defense-secretary-at-the-end-of-february/2018/12/20/e1a846ee-e147-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html Mattis even resigned due to not being able to comply with Trump’s idiotic plans. I guess it’s possible that Biden could have just scrapped the whole plan and do something else. But most of the damage was already done by then.
via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-announces-mattis-will-leave-as-defense-secretary-at-the-end-of-february/2018/12/20/e1a846ee-e147-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html
Mattis even resigned due to not being able to comply with Trump’s idiotic plans.
I guess it’s possible that Biden could have just scrapped the whole plan and do something else. But most of the damage was already done by then.