Trump Admin Has Been Quietly Pushing To Retake Afghan Base From The Taliban For Months, Sources Say

September 18, 2025October 2, 2025 ArklahomBoyLeave a comment

President Donald Trump has been quietly pushing his national security officials for months to find a way to get Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back from the Taliban, three people familiar with the matter told CNN.

Trump hinted at those discussions publicly for the first time on Thursday, telling reporters that his administration is working to regain control of the base, which lies an hour north of Kabul. The Taliban took it over following the collapse of the Afghan government and the US military withdrawal in 2021.

Wow, that is stupid. A few years ago, when I wrote that those “who call for us to re-invade and re-occupy [Afghanistan] must be ignored,” I had no idea that the first actual proponent of such idiocy would be Donald Trump, who negotiated our departure from Afghanistan in the first place.

Trump’s 2-Week Deadline For Russia To Start Peace Talks Comes And Goes

September 4, 2025 ArklahomBoyLeave a comment

Military Times:

The two-week deadline that President Donald Trump gave Russian President Vladimir Putin to make a peace deal with Ukraine ended Thursday, with Russia showing no signs of stopping the violence as Western leaders pushed for additional security guarantees for Ukraine.

Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and French President Emmanuel Macron by phone Thursday following a Paris meeting on the so-called “coalition of the willing” to support Ukraine.

Another dumbass Neocon Trump Administration deadline for Russia to voluntarily lose the war we started and lost against them in Ukraine has come and gone. With our stupid little EUro-peons ramping up their idiotic “coalition of the willing” bullcrap, threatening a 26-state invasion force to shore up our proxy army under the cover of US air support, Russia has no reason to stop fighting. And so the war will continue, Ukraine will continue losing territory, and the Ukrainians will continue dying for nothing.

Donald Trump’s 50-Day Deadline To Russia Expires

September 2, 2025 ArklahomBoyLeave a comment

Newsweek:

On July 14, the U.S. president threatened “secondary tariffs” on Russia if Putin did not agree to a deal to end the war in the 50-day timeframe which has just ended.

Since then, Trump revised down the deadline to 10-12 days and there has been a meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders in Alaska. However, the White House has not announced any economic measures to punish Putin directly linked to not meeting the deadline.

When Trump stupidly issued his dumb 50-day ultimatum, I wrote that “…he effectively gave himself fifty days to back down. Russia will not be intimidated, our sanctions are never going to collapse their economy…”

According to Reuters:

The complex web of Western sanctions targeting Russia’s oil and gas industry has failed to impede Moscow’s energy flows or its war effort, suggesting that time and overuse are blunting the force of U.S. and European financial weapons.

Too bad there is no one with even an ounce of sense in control of US foreign policy.