At a huge rally in COVID-19 hit Alabama, former US President Donald Trump ripped into his successor Joe Biden for the Kabul crisis, saying that current developments in Afghanistan are a “major failure” of the existing US administration’s foreign policy.
Addressing a ”Save America” rally in Cullman, Trump on Saturday mentioned that the predicament in Afghanistan will go down as “one of the greatest embarrassments” and the “greatest foreign policy humiliation” in the history of the US, Sputnik reported.
Trump’s rally comes in spite of Cullman City Council declared a state of emergency in the city due to the increasing quantity of COVID-19 situations.
Trump accused US President Joe Biden of surrendering the US military bases in Afghanistan, stressing that American troops are leaving behind $83 billion dollars worth of military gear.
“This will go down as one of the great military defeats of all time,” Trump mentioned, calling the troop withdrawal a “total surrender” and a “gross incompetence by a nation’s leader,” Trump emphasized that beneath his presidency, this would under no circumstances have occurred.
The former President told the huge crowd gathered in the deep-red state that “this would have never happened if I was president.”
US is evacuating its citizens and Afghans who helped US forces in the last two decades from Afghanistan, which fell to the Taliban on August 15.
As Afghanistan plunged into chaos, Biden was criticised for hasty withdrawal from the war-torn nation, which led to the collapse of the country’s government.
Trump agreed to a complete military withdrawal by May 1 of this year. The Biden administration has blamed Trump for the timeline major to the botched withdrawal. Biden extended the deadline to September 11 and then pledged to have all US troops out by August 31.