What, exactly, did the orange TRAITOR** hope to gain in Afghanistan? Bluntly,

[niyad]

what was in it for him to hand it over to the taliban? We know he is transactional. He thought he would win re-election. What was in it for him?

[wnylib]

1. I have thought for a while now that

the Orange one wanted to put us back to square one where Biden would need to fight the Afghan war all over again after it was turned over to the Taliban.

If the US was bogged down again in Afghanistan, we would not be free to aid Ukraine when Putin invaded.

But Biden withdrew instead of refighting the Afghan war.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. No, his actions were before the election when he fully expected victory. . . .nt

[wnylib]

9. But did he expect to win?

He was told well before the election that he was behind in the polls.

I get your point, though. Whether he won or not, he expected to stay in office one way or another and made plans to claim his win. So he didn't need to stir up the Afghan war again. If he stayed in office, he could just refuse to aid Ukraine and promote Russia's claim to be fighting fascism there.

Trump made the agreement that we would leave Afghanistan. Did he expect to aid Russia against Ukraine?

Don't know.

[wnylib]

12. What about the effect that our withdrawal from Afghanistan

had on our NATO allies who were in Afghanistan with ud? They were pretty upset when Biden pulled out.

Could Trump's motive have been to disrupt NATO unity on behalf of Putin?

[GreenWave]

2. Fred Trump Syndrome?

Laugh at the misfortunes of others?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Re-election was kind of existential for him. Without pardon power, he is done

Re-election, that was what was in it for him.

He thought Americans were so tired of the place they would cheer him for getting out. But he bungled it and bumbled it in multiple ways.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. I'm Buying This

He thought it would be a big positive toward reelection. As was typical, he got it wrong.

[SheltieLover]

4. Dunno, but you are ccorrect.

[2naSalit]

6. An another attempt...

To throw us into chaos. He meant to leave a steaming mountain of shit on Biden's desk when he arrived, in every way possible and he had plenty of help.

It was also another slap at the Kurds who are not well liked by the despots -45 wants to have as allies.

[Walleye]

7. He wanted to be able to say he ended the war

The oppression of women and their rights was just a bonus for him. Icing on the cake

[Chainfire]

8. I agree.

And as a bonus he was hoping to leave Biden with a big mess to clean up.

[wnylib]

10. That's what I thought too. But read #5.

Even though Trump was behind in the polls, he expected to stay in office and made plans to claim a win, as we saw after election day, especially on Jan 6.

But he might have wanted to break up NATO unity. Look at how upset our allies were about our withdrawal.

[Hekate]

11. Excellent & timely question, when 50% of the population has just been tossed into slavery