Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan

Utter shitshow







Lot of people trying desperately to find a country that will take them. Heartbreaking






And some are just in denial



Meanwhile Afghan President turned acting mayor of Kabul turned random nobody is now chilling in Oman

PapaDragon wrote:
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country for Tajikistan, senior interior ministry official says

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1426931538571128838



I must leave, my money needs me!

Ghani is now in Oman.

How the US ensured that the Taliban comes back into power.

https://twitter.com/obaidotman/status/1426647746212159493?s=20

More pandemonium:





Betrayal:



And the deputy spokesperson of the President of Afghanistan

Hmm, wonder if she got away. Guessing not

"US elites are melting down over Afghanistan because they don't like being humiliated. They see this defeat as a destabilizing threat to their own legitimacy at home & won't forgive Biden until he gives them a new war, which he almost surely will. Dangerous times ahead for all.

Can't count how many times I've seen establishment psychos throwing around Nietzschebabble like "we lack political willpower". When the US ruling class starts blathering about the need to demonstrate their will-to-power, a lot of innocent people are going to die."

flamming_python wrote:

He certainly messed up by making those bold comments on Kabul no way falling to the Taliban for at least 60 to 90 days and then just 3 days ago, while watching the Taliban Blitzkrieg unfold in front of the entire world, tell a reporter the same thing again about Kabul and not seeing a Saigon in the remaking. Clearly he either had bad intel -- which I highly doubt -- or he didn't believe them which I also highly doubt. So while Trump signed the bill to evacuate all US forces from Afghanistan, Biden definitely will have to shoulder the blame for the tremendous failure of those particular statements.

If Joe Biden can be President of the USA, anyone can be President of the USA

It looks like Mitt may run next time.

Just wait and see.
The next line of the narrative will be that the Taliban is actually their project, so they won
And hey, this is somehow right
Besides, don't be so rush against a guy who hardly remembers his breakfast, OK?

Finty wrote:

Sujoy wrote:Russia Today is reporting based on interviews with locals on the ground that Taliban is carrying out terrible atrocities across the country. Civilians have been killed by Taliban in large numbers.

I suspect this was bound to happen because Pakistanis comprise a bulk of these fighters.

It's bad, people getting beaten for listening to pop music and others having their eyes gouged out.

but but according to fanboys here the Taliban are okay guys and the people want this.

The fact is life under the Taliban will be utterly brutal and any morons who thinks otherwise needs to go live there then come and talk.

We gave the afghans the ability to defend themselves, their military commanders just betrayed their own people for deals with the Taliban.

we helped them for 20 years and while we were there, the Taliban was kept in check, America did its part, it was up to them and they failed now they reap the rewards of this failure.

I can almost hear this poor Humvee yelling: ''I was meant to die in Fulda Gap dammit, that was my destiny!!!'' (in Lieutenant Dan's voice)



But seriously, what Afghans (all of them) have been doing with Humves and hillbillie armours is a crime against civilisation

Sujoy wrote:

Finty wrote:It's bad, people getting beaten for listening to pop music and others having their eyes gouged out.

Biden is responsible for this. Biden is responsible for the massacre of Afghans. He could've reversed course. . He made the call and he has said that he has no regrets. This is on him

So it's up to the US to defend Afghan from itself forever?

No its not, we gave them the ability to stop this. Blame the tratiors in the military for ordering their men to just surrender and run away.

Not my countries or militaries job to baby sit people who clearly have no desire to fight their own battles but rely on us to do it.

20 years, we trained 300k men, we gave them everything they needed. America helped out Aghanistain enough.

SeigSoloyvov wrote:...but but according to fanboys here the Taliban are okay guys and the people want this. ...

Dude, nobody here thinks that Taliban are cool, not even in the ballpark

And those who do say it are probably just taking a piss

PapaDragon wrote:
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country for Tajikistan, senior interior ministry official says

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1426931538571128838



I must leave, my money needs me!

300k in 20 years for a 40mln country?

Are you trying to entertain us all here?
With Afghan population size - 40 mln, and its structure - well below 20 y/o - they should be able to conscript a 100k men a year voluntary based.
For Poland - similar in size and double the age population structure - the goal is to deliver z 17+k territorial army soldiers each year.
A YEAR.
And we still have a regular army, and not at war!
In WarPac times, our population was 35mln, army was 350k strong, and steadily replaced with double the year conscript, making the yearly conscript number close to 250k, leaving the professional officer and sergeants cadre.
The numbers you provide - if we combine those with close to $90 bln expenditures - is just another face of total failure.
A corruption operation put on the outrageous stage and size.
Just like the Iraq.

300k in 20 years ... seriously ... ?

Matt Zeller
@mattczeller
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5h
Internet in Kabul is starting to go down. Taliban may plunge our allies into complete communications blackout. Dark days coming.

What a moronic remark, for a country like Afghan 300k is a normal-sized military and 300k was more than enough to keep the Taliban in check.

Afghanistan is not Poland, completely different, learn some facts before you run your mouth.

Cowboy's daughter wrote:
Matt Zeller
@mattczeller
·
5h
Internet in Kabul is starting to go down. Taliban may plunge our allies into complete communications blackout. Dark days coming.

I'm amazed internet lasted this long over there

SeigSoloyvov wrote:

Finty wrote:

Sujoy wrote:Russia Today is reporting based on interviews with locals on the ground that Taliban is carrying out terrible atrocities across the country. Civilians have been killed by Taliban in large numbers.

I suspect this was bound to happen because Pakistanis comprise a bulk of these fighters.

It's bad, people getting beaten for listening to pop music and others having their eyes gouged out.

but but according to fanboys here the Taliban are okay guys and the people want this.

The fact is life under the Taliban will be utterly brutal and any morons who thinks otherwise needs to go live there then come and talk.

We gave the afghans the ability to defend themselves, their military commanders just betrayed their own people for deals with the Taliban.

we helped them for 20 years and while we were there, the Taliban was kept in check, America did its part, it was up to them and they failed now they reap the rewards of this failure.

Honestly, I think that Medieval Europe would be a candyland, compared to Taliban ruling. But, that's only my opinion, we will see what will happen.

You gotta be shitting me...



First, a Getty image of Dep't of State Air Wing CH-46 N38TU (BuNo 154038) over Kabul evacuating the US Embassy today. Second, what appears to be 154038 on the deck of USS Hancock during Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon. The more things change, the more they stay the same.