Nigel Farage: 'DAMAGE that Biden has done to America's international reputation could NOT be greater'



The United States and Great Britain have enjoyed an alliance since World War I, but President Joe Biden's failure to coordinate his Afghanistan withdrawal with allies like the U.K. has devastated America's overseas reputation, argues Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

Farage joined Glenn Beck on the radio program Monday with the latest on how America's diplomatic relations with its allies may look for the rest of Biden's presidency, and perhaps much further into the foreseeable future.

"You know, I've spent 40 years working for American companies and businesses, being allies, politically, with Donald Trump and many friends of the Republican Party. There's nobody this side of the pond who is more pro-American, more pro-respectful relationship than I am," Farage told Glenn. "And it hurts me to say this, but for Biden to unconditionally withdraw from the military mission after 20 years, without any planning or any foresight as to how we get our nationals out in the case of a Taliban advance, and to do it without even consulting the British prime minister, and refusing to answer his phone call for almost 48 hours, sends a message to us. And the message is, we cannot trust America.

"Despite being our closest partner for over 100 years, we cannot trust America with this man in charge. And it's a sad realization, but it's true. And I think it's even further than the relationship with the UK and the USA. I think NATO, frankly, ceases to function. So the damage that Biden has done to America's international reputation could not be greater," he added.

Glenn and Farage also agreed that, while the corporate media accused former President Donald Trump of wrecking the NATO alliance, Nigel explained why it's Biden who has truly thrown that relationship into turmoil.

"The way the international mainstream media wanted to portray the Trump movement, just as they did with the Brexit movement, [was] 'Trump is going to destroy NATO.' No, no, no, what Trump did, he turned up at the NATO HQ of Brussels and said ... that we cannot go on with a NATO where major countries like Germany are only paying half the membership fee," Farage explained. "The NATO rules are actually very fair. Regardless of the size of a country, you must spend 2% of GDP on defense. And the Germans were spending one [percent.]. So actually, in many ways, what Trump was doing was trying to make NATO fair. But it was willfully, willfully misportrayed.

"What Biden has done, is to say, 'Look, we're the big guys in NATO. But, hey, we just do stuff without consulting, despite the fact that you, too, have had many hundreds of people killed in Afghanistan, and put big money into Afghanistan. But without even the compliment of a conversation, we've decided that, effectively, the NATO mission is over.' So, yeah, the special relationship with Britain is completely in tatters. NATO, I'm not even sure it could possibly survive what it's just gone through," he continued.

"And, of course, when you look at those photographs today, of Taliban soldiers now dressed in American military equipment with $85 billion worth of U.S. military hardware now in the hands of these people, with the giant lithium reserves that exist in Afghanistan now completely open to exploitation with Communist China, and warnings coming in the UK today that our terrorism threat is now going up directly as a result of what has happened in Afghanistan ... believe me, Glenn, this is on every level a disaster."

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Trump on Afghanistan: 'It's like the captain of a ship jumping the ship before the people are off the boat'



Former President Donald Trump joined BlazeTV's "Rick and Bubba" morning show Friday and hit the Biden administration hard on the tragic military exit from Afghanistan.

Rick kicked off the interview with a most pressing question: Will Trump run for president in 2024, or will he be a rally man behind the scenes?

"Maybe both," Trump responded, adding, "because of the campaign laws, you aren't allowed to say [if you plan on running] but, I think a lot of people are going to be very happy."

"What was your plan for [the U.S.] leaving Afghanistan?" Rick asked.

"Our plan was going to be very simple: We get the civilians out, and we get others out that need to be gotten out," Trump replied. "We get our billions of dollars of equipment out. ... We don't leave it to these people [the Taliban] knowing that they are probably going to be taking over as soon as we stop fighting. Then we bomb the hell out of our military bases. Then, last but not least, comes out our military, and everything is done."

Trump went on to say that his plan was seamless and simple and that "a first-grade student knows you have to get civilians out first." Trump added that the Biden administration displayed "gross incompetence."

"It's like the captain of a ship jumping the ship before the people are off the boat ... that is what we did. It's crazy," Trump said.

Later, Trump explained how he would clean up the mess in Afghanistan if asked? He recalled a phone conversation with a Taliban leader.

"I said, 'Look, here's the story, if you do anything to hurt Americans, anything that is out of line, we're going to hit your town, and we're going to hit harder than anybody has ever been hit before.," Trump said.

Trump offered his thoughts about why Twitter banned him from using their platform while still allowing the Taliban access to the Twitter community.

"These [Twitter] are radical Left maniacs ... it's not only them. It's Facebook, and it's Google. That whole group is all the same. They work together," Trump replied.

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Glenn Beck: Why Biden’s Afghanistan failure would NOT have happened under Trump



On the radio program Monday, Glenn Beck and Stu Burguiere agreed that a Taliban takeover might have happened eventually under President Donald Trump — especially with plans to pull U.S. troops out of the nation entirely — but there's "no way" it would have happened the way it did under President Joe Biden.

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President Trump says remaining US troops in Afghanistan should be 'home by Christmas,' marking the end of a nearly 20-year war



On Thursday, President Trump announced that the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan — which peaked at 100,000 under the Obama administration but has since been reduced to under 8,600 during the Trump administration — should be home by Christmas.

Trump touted the news on Twitter, saying, "We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!"

We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas!
— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1602113294.0

The withdrawal is the immediate result of a historic agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan struck in February in which the U.S. offered to withdraw all troops from the country by May 2021 in exchange for counterterrorism guarantees from the Taliban.

The president has been outspoken during his presidency about the need to end America's "endless wars," and has taken major steps to withdraw U.S. troops from areas such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

The total military withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a major achievement for the president. Though it should be noted that Trump's tweet appears to be at odds with a statement made hours earlier by his national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, who said that the number of troops would be reduced to 2,500 by the new year.

The end of a nearly 20-year war

It was 19 years ago in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that American troops were first deployed to Afghanistan to root out and combat the terrorists responsible.

According to a startling report from Stars and Stripes that puts the length of the U.S. conflict in Afghanistan in perspective, some of those same troops have watched as their sons and daughters deployed to the same fight.

"When we started this, people asked why I was going, and my response was, 'So my sons don't have to fight this war,'" Master Sgt. Trevor deBoer told the military news outlet this week. deBoer has been deployed to Afghanistan three times with the 20th Special Forces Group since 2002, the outlet reported.

Despite his wishes, nearly two decades later, his son, Specialist Payton Sluss, was deployed to Afghanistan to fight on the same ground.

"My feet were walking the same land you were," Sluss reportedly told his father in a joint phone interview, referring to Forward Operating Base Fenty, near the city of Jalalabad.

Michael Kreuger, a former Army sergeant, fought in Pech Valley in 2010. Eight years later, his son Trenton was deployed to Afghanistan to serve in the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, just like his father.

Kreuger told Stars and Stripes recently that he just hopes his grandson won't also be deployed to Afghanistan to fight the same battles "for the same reason."

The Mavalwallas, a father and son who share the first name, Bajun, had the unique experiencing of serving together in Afghanistan at the same time and even met up in 2012 while serving.

The Mavalwallas are not alone, either. Fox News reported last year about Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Kirby and his son, Specialist Kyle Kirby, who were deployed together in February 2019 to join more than 150 other soldiers serving in Afghanistan as part of Operation Spartan Shield.

"This is my 5th deployment, it's his first, we're fortunate to be in the same unit now, so I know mom's pretty excited about that," Michael Kirby said at the time.