Former President Donald Trump said the carnage that unfolded on Aug. 26, 2021, at Kabul’s airport set the stage for “all these wars starting all over the place,” putting the planet “very close to a third world war.”
“Since the Afghanistan catastrophe, it’s been open season on America and our allies,” Trump said during a 70-minute Aug. 21 stump at Asheboro Regional Airport in North Carolina.
During the United States’ evacuation from Afghanistan, a terrorist bombing killed nearly 200 people, including 13 U.S. Marines and soldiers.
Trump blamed the catastrophe and its fallout squarely on President Joe Biden and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris describing it as “the most humiliating event in the history of our country.”…