Russia invaded Ukraine after witnessing US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan - Trump
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US President-elect Donald Trump believes the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan was conducted "badly handled." Russia, seeing this, decided to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, reports Sky News.
Trump claimed that he was in power during a time when "we had no wars," but now he is "going into a world that's burning."
The US President-elect criticized how the American withdrawal from Afghanistan was carried out. According to Trump, he would have withdrawn the troops from Afghanistan earlier than President Joe Biden and done so "with dignity and strength."
"The way they got out was outrageous. Leaving billions of dollars of brand new military equipment that I bought in the hands of the Afghans. And specifically to the Taliban," Trump added.
He emphasized that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was conducted "badly handled."
"And because of that, I think Russia went and attacked Ukraine when they saw that. They said, 'these guys are incompetent - they don't know what they're doing'. But we know what we're doing now," the politician added.
US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
In April 2021, it was announced that the United States had begun withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, where they had been stationed since 2001. All American soldiers were fully withdrawn from the country by August 31, 2021.
US forces were initially deployed to Afghanistan to combat terrorism following the September 11 attacks.
According to NBC News, Donald Trump’s team may be preparing a tribunal for officers involved in the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
