Trump saber-rattles at two countries, apparently giving up on his Nobel Peace Prize push

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1. **From Steve Benen, producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show”:**  

   Donald Trump and his White House team spent much of the summer practically begging the Norwegian Nobel Committee to give the president a Nobel Peace Prize, his record notwithstanding, though the public relations campaign has died down a bit of late.

   It’s been replaced with presidential saber-rattling at two different countries simultaneously.

   First up is Afghanistan, a country Trump has talked about going back into since 2022. Though the president had expressed greater interest in acquiring Canada, Greenland, the Panama Canal and the Gaza Strip, the Republican took a renewed interest in Afghanistan last week, insisting that the White House was “trying” to reacquire the Bagram Airbase, a former U.S. military base. “We want that base back,” he told reporters.

   Meanwhile, this isn’t the only country facing oblique threats from the Oval Office. Trump has also made provocative comments about Venezuela, and a reporter asked the American president last week whether he’s prepared to launch military strikes, not just on boats near the country, but also on mainland Venezuela. “We’ll see what happens,” he responded again.Trump’s missive concluded, “GET THEM THE HELL OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, RIGHT NOW, OR THE PRICE YOU PAY WILL BE INCALCULABLE!”

   Read more: [https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-saber-rattles-two-countries-apparently-giving-nobel-peace-prize-rcna232935](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-saber-rattles-two-countries-apparently-giving-nobel-peace-prize-rcna232935)

2. Does Bagram Airbase have any real strategic value? Closer to China than the base in the UAE etc I guess?

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