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2025-09-22 Afghanistan

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Posted by badanov 2025-09-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1802 views ] Top

1 Trump warns 'bad things' will happen if Afghanistan doesn’t 'give Bagram Airbase back'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-22 05:54|| 2025-09-22 05:54|| Front Page Top

2 Trump wants China out of Bagram. He thinks Joe should have kept it to prevent China from exploiting Afghanistan’s mineral deposits. That is the business man in him. Trump sees an opportunity there that MAGA populists like myself don’t really care about. We would like to see his Bagram gambit fail so that he might block the weekly money shipments to the Taliban/AQ conglomerate.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-09-22 06:01|| 2025-09-22 06:01|| Front Page Top

3 Taliban rejects Trump demand to return Bagram Air Base

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-22 06:24|| 2025-09-22 06:24|| Front Page Top

4 Seems central to US interests in the region but which antagonist is going to open their airspace for US flights in and out?

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-22 06:30|| 2025-09-22 06:30|| Front Page Top

5 No air base = defund the Taliban.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-09-22 06:33|| 2025-09-22 06:33|| Front Page Top

6 Just take it

Posted by BrerRabbit 2025-09-22 07:31|| 2025-09-22 07:31|| Front Page Top

7 Was the directive to close the base and hand it over signed with an autopen ?

Posted by Besoeker 2025-09-22 08:41|| 2025-09-22 08:41|| Front Page Top

8 which antagonist is going to open their airspace for US flights in and out?

Whose defenses can reach that high, Skidmark, and who wants to catch Mad President Trump’s malign attention rather than have the chance to make a special deal with him afterward?

Posted by trailing wife 2025-09-22 09:45|| 2025-09-22 09:45|| Front Page Top

9 My bet is India, with a route through Kashmir.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-22 12:16|| 2025-09-22 12:16|| Front Page Top

10 No air base = defund the Taliban.

Why were they ever funded in the first place? If they put that money in an incinerator it would have done more good.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-09-22 12:48|| 2025-09-22 12:48|| Front Page Top

11 Donno, the airstrip could be used for drag races, the barracks: hotel rooms, the Oclub: xasino, helipad: special attraction IRBM launches.

I'm certain there's a par 5 golf course there somewhere.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-09-22 14:26|| 2025-09-22 14:26|| Front Page Top

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