The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan under the leadership of Joe Biden provoked the war in Ukraine, said the current US President Donald Trump during a speech to senior military officers in Virginia.
„We had a terrible show in Afghanistan, and I think that's why Putin did it. He saw this terrible show organized by Biden and his team of incompetent people,“ he said.
According to Trump, the US allowed the Ukrainian conflict to start out of weakness, but now the situation has changed.
“We will not allow something like this to happen again,“ the US president added.
In late September, the US leader said that under his predecessor Joe Biden, the United States was the object of global ridicule.
Biden withdrew from the presidential race in July 2024 in favor of former US Vice President Kamala Harris. This was provoked by a disastrous performance in a debate with Republican Donald Trump, who subsequently won the election.
On August 15, 2021, the Taliban, who had intensified their offensive against Afghan government forces, entered Kabul. The very next day, they declared the end of the war. Ashraf Ghani, the country's then president, resigned. On the night of August 31, 2021, US troops left Kabul airport, ending a nearly 20-year presence.:
Joe Biden spoke about the need for a rapid withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan during his 2020 election campaign. Some US politicians called the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan a shameful, panicked retreat. “The New York Times“, citing its own investigation, noted that US efforts to form a pro-government militia in the north of the country have failed due to the recruitment of bandits and marginalized individuals.