As the US continues its withdrawal from Afghanistan, they are set to leave a very big site behind. Bagram A.F.B. has been the de facto base on the US occupation for decades now.
A Soviet-made airfield in the 1950s, the site hosted the failed Soviet occupation. When the US showed up, it started expanding precipitously. As new US missions were added to the war, Bagram grew with it.
In 2021, the US is leaving behind basically a small city, and a reminder of all the things the US wanted to do in Afghanistan, broadly things that never got done. It will be turned over to the Afghan government, even if it’s bigger and costlier than Afghanistan is liable to have use for.
Either way, it won’t be America’s problem, beyond the US probably bankrolling whatever the Afghans end up doing with it. The last US troops will be out in a matter of days.
Scenes of Saigon repeating itself. Settler states without any history of their own never learn.
So they used a soviet base and made sure that everybody knows it’s American. They expanded it. Did they learn Russian on that base? Non they did not. Had it been the case they’d have left 10 years ago. On this point they came out Victorious. One of the last miserable American generals
in Afghanistan ( Mc Nicholson )used to say if we fight them here we won’t have to fight them there in America.Make them busy. When unaccountable say anything you like. About time to ask boomers to tell us the story of that war. Not an easy task for those who believe in the 1776 commission report.
According to CNN today, this isn’t necessarily the case.
US days from completing formal Afghanistan withdrawal but up to 1,000 troops could remain
This suggests to me the infighting between the ordinary neocons and lunatic neocons isn’t yet over.