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DarkStar

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Makes you wonder how many of the 300k Afghan government army the Americans have been training and equipping were actually Taliban all along. It would not surprise me at all if the Taliban flag raisers and others sporting full American military gear appearing all over social media look incredibly familiar to western trainers and instructors who just fled Afghanistan.

In which case the Taliban have placed a masterful long game of agreeing a simmering down of hostilities with American forces while sending its own fighters to be trained and equipped by the Americans with near zero risk of having to fight their own side since nobody was supposed to be fighting. Since Taliban fighters would have been unusually skilled and motivated, odds are good they would be selected for special forces training to form the new elite if the Afghan army.

That could be a core reason for the swift and comprehensive collapse of the Afghan national army if most of their best units were Taliban all along, who probably Order 66’d any unit members loyal to the Afghan government as soon as they were out in the field and out of sight of foreigners to develop pure Taliban squads.

The rest where just glorified mall security guards with zero motivation to stand and fight.
Really puts into perspective all those vids of afghan fighters not really bothering much to fight even when US trainers are present, and all the hash smoking going on in the ANA.
 

Overbom

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West's hopium is approaching stratospheric levels

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That said, it is not unreasonable to assume the Taliban takeover will inspire opposition – even armed resistance – to oppressive Chinese rule in Xinjiang
If China becomes the latest empire with imperial ambitions to be sucked into the quagmire America has left behind, that might suit Washington just fine. That might even have been part of the plan.
Thats literally the "according to Keikaku" meme.
Everything was calculated and planned meticulously by the 5D multidimensional chess player, President Biden.
 

windsclouds2030

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What a way to insult America. Not even North Vietnam did that. LOL!

It's not gone unnoticed in the Russian media too:
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The American conservatives are going nuts. LOL!




Let's all enjoy this little piece of history. Hopefully this picture will kept around as a meme. Hahaha!
A quality meme! "Afghanistan — Iwo Jima Redux 2021"

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windsclouds2030

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West's hopium is approaching stratospheric levels

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Thats literally the "according to Keikaku" meme.
Everything was calculated and planned meticulously by the 5D multidimensional chess player, President Biden.
the same author that wrote an anti-China book, "Every Breath You Take: China’s New Tyranny" (April 2021) talking about China's new tyranny, what does one expect from articles on China by this guy... could be worse than the runaway BBC guy in China, at the same class as Pompeo, Bannon, Matt Pottinger and the cohort LOL

"Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, showing how it has been driven by the enigmatic Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, and how it impacts the daily lives of Chinese citizens, particularly dissidents and those from ethnic minorities."
 

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Afghanistan: Sky News correspondent sees Kabul airport mayhem and then bodies covered in white sheets amid evacuation scramble

  • The US embassy in Afghanistan has advised American citizens to avoid traveling to Kabul's airport due to "potential security threats".
  • Sky's chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay is there and reports on what he saw on Saturday morning as thousands of people wait to get inside to be evacuated.

The mornings are always challenging on the barricades. The British soldiers know that after a night waiting for the evacuation process to restart the tens of thousands camped on the road leading to their base will try to rush their way through.

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British soldiers have been identifying those who need evacuation

Today it was different. Very different.

Today it turned chaotic in an instant.

Within minutes this was an emergency, nothing to do with process; the soldiers found themselves just trying to save lives.

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Soldiers were working flat out to try to manage the situation

At the front of the queue people were being crushed to death.

Paratroopers began pulling people from the mayhem, medics rushing from the next casualty to the next, then the next and the next.

Crushed, dehydrated, terrified.

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The scene turned chaotic on Saturday morning

Standing on top of the compound wall, soldiers sprayed the crowd with a hose - anything to cool them down.

We saw men, women, and lots and lots of children.

And then what we had all feared began to happen.

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Stuart Ramsay saw lots of men, women and especially children at the airport

Soldiers started shouting for medics and stretchers as unconscious people were carried to the rear. The medics checked their vital signs and then covered the bodies in white sheets.

"Is this a stabilised withdrawal from Afghanistan?" I thought.

It looks like death to me, death trying to reach freedom.

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Wherever Stuart Ramsay looked, there were soldiers pulling families out of the crowd to safety

In the mayhem, units rush through crowds to shore up weak points in the evacuation centre - everyone working flat out trying to stem the tide of an unfolding disaster.

It doesn't matter where you look it's the same desperation - American soldiers, British soldiers, Spanish soldiers, German soldiers, Polish soldiers, pulling children, whole families from the pens and the crowds they've been kept behind for processing.

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The Taliban takeover meant the planning was immediately out of date

It feels like these people fear their dreams of a flight out are ebbing away as each day passes.

The soldiers sometimes have to fire in the air for fear of losing control of the crowd.

But it seems unlikely a gunshot is ever going to calm the frightened down.

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A potential evacuee takes a drink

This evacuation was predicated on Kabul remaining in the hands of the government: it was always going to be speedy and difficult, but the Taliban's lightening takeover meant the planning was instantly out of date.

Looking back, putting the processing centre in place at the end of a long narrow street, publishing a press release saying the UK would take 20,000 Afghans without explicitly explaining it would be over the next five years, and then deploying a small group of soldiers given the job of processing people in the first instance while also maintaining military security - is morphing into a planning catastrophe.

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The scenes outside Kabul airport are distressing to many watching

If it's to be turned around they'll need more time but time is running out

Out here, pain and compassion meet every minute of every day now.
 
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