Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): US President-elect Donald Trump, who will attend his inauguration ceremony in a few hours and officially return to the White House, has again criticized the Joe Biden administration and the way Washington withdrew from Afghanistan. , promised to return all military equipment left in the country.
"We will reinvigorate and update our military and rebuild this complex," Trump said, speaking to supporters before the inauguration in Washington. They gave billions of dollars of our military equipment to the "enemy".
He also questioned the unconditional continuation of US financial aid to Afghanistan, adding: "Do you know that we give billions of dollars to Afghanistan every year?" My point is, if we're going to pay billions of dollars a year, tell them they won't be paid until they return our military equipment.
Trump's comments are part of his broader promises to revive the US military and address foreign policy issues that played a central role in his campaign. The president-elect has not commented on his government's plans to negotiate the return of the equipment.
Trump had earlier said Washington should have left Afghanistan in 2021, but the way it did was "shameful."
He also implicitly called senior members of Joe Biden's administration leadership and himself "ignorant and incompetent" in his recent speech at the Make America Great Again Victory Rally at the Capital One Arena Hall of Congress. They caused the equipment to fall into the hands of the Islamic Emirate.
"We will strengthen and modernize our army again," he said. We did this before. We rebuilt our entire army; {But} they (the Biden administration) gave billions and billions of dollars of it to the Islamic Emirate. They gave our military equipment to the Islamic Emirate. They gave a large part of it to the enemy.”
The United States is witnessing the biggest political transition on Monday. President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in and lead the United States for the next four years.