“We could inflict a military defeat on them, if we wanted, in ways that I will not talk about. Nuclear, ”Trump told reporters. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.
At the same time, the president did not specify whether it was a question of nuclear weapons.
Earlier, the US president said that negotiations with the Taliban are “dead.”
On July 22, Trump during a meeting with the Pakistani Prime Minister told reporters in the White House that the United States could win the war in Afghanistan in a week, but that would have killed 10 million people.
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.