LOL @ one article from 2019 and the other from 2016
Breaking news
You mean 2019 and 2021 respectively. There are tons of similar articles. Those are the ones I sited because theyâre the first I saw in a long, long list of search results.
And hereâs one straight from the horseâs mouth. Chinese controlled media. English edition for the Sino impaired.
Volunteer to help some refugees some time. youâll learn a lot about the nature of dictatorial foreign regimes very quickly. Part of my âAmerican exceptionalismâ screed includes the belief that law abiding immigrants make this country stronger, refugees have more reason to love America more than anyone and that any able bodied man or woman who wants to work an honest job should be welcomed and rewarded accordingly. Nothing I have ever seen contradicts this belief. We are a meritocracy.
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Letâs see how welcoming Beijing is to the new regime in Kabul when Uyghurs are using Afghanistan as a base for insurgency
I wonder if Chinese opium dens are still a thing in China.
Twenty years wasnât enough time to train contractors?
Sure. Itâs easy to blame it on Trump. Biden could have made any changes to previous agreements he wanted. Heâs done it in a plethora of other areas. Saying it would be seen as an escalation is a bit of a stretch.
On this weâll disagree.
Maybe itâs Chinaâs turn to have a go at Afghanistan
Total bragging rights if they pulled it off
New administrations are expected to honor the treaty agreements of past administrations, so on the one part he has something of a point if not for the fact he could have obviously tried a lot harder to bring up any concerns and renegotiate terms with the Afghan government. Or just missed the deadline and said âoopsâ.
This whole thing is a total clusterfuck. I give zero credit to either administration on the subject. Failure is failure.
I donât remember a senate hearing on any treaty with the Taliban. Until then with a 2/3 vote, there is none. You know this.
The Orange one would possibly have insured there was a more stable pullout. Possibly not. Either way, our current Commander in Chief has waffled.
Totally agree on your last. This is and was going to be a clusterfuck no matter who was overseeing it. Afghanistan is a shithole.
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The US supposedly told the Afganis that we would provide the logistical support for their air force and we would not be doing front line fighting. Therefore the AAF didnât work on creating their own cadre of maintance people. Dumb huh, especially trusting us to keep our word.
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True, not that the domestic American procedural portion would matter to anyone in Afghanistan. Again, I give Biden no credit for this coming or going. He whiffed it. Maybe the Pentagon or DoS has something up their sleeve.
The thing that bothered me the worst is why they waited so damn long to pull out refugees who worked for us. Some of those people stayed in Afghanistan just to help when they had other means of egress out of the country like highly educated Westernized botanists, horticulturists and veterinarians who worked propping up Afghanistanâs agricultural infrastructure and educating farmers on modern farming methods as well as translators, educators, doctors, nurses, etc. The Taliban will kill them as dead as anyone else who worked with American or NATO forces. This whole thing is fucked coming and going.
We have totally failed in our commitment to pull out those who closely helped us. That is in-itself an abject failure. Our southern border is all but open for those willing to wait yet those who risked their lives got lip service. I donât care how anyone wants to spin it and spin it theyâre doing, this is bullshit.
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Fucking couldnât get visas my fucking screaming USMC ass. Whoâs going to risk helping us in the future? THIS shit did not have to happen to this scale.
FUCK
edit to add
Us losing credibility is a thing. Us leaving behind those who helped us in the mission is altogether another.
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So Iâve been through the articles in this post and non mention Russia or PRC supplying arms, vehicles or equipment to the Taliban
All they say is both countries want good relations with the Taliban to further their own domestic agenda
Have you any sources that are backing up your accusation that Russia and China are equipping the Taliban?
Those Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers were built in caves by people who canât read or write. Itâs Godâs work.
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Pakistan produces most of the AKs, many are indeed fabricated in caves
The RPGs are most likely from Pakistan as well
And from the recent footage, half the Talibs are toting M4âs and M16âs
Yes, Pakistan does produce some of these.
Iâd like to see any evidence of cave manufacture though.
Everyone knows where the source is for the US weaponry.
2000 shops each producing 1 AK per day
You do the maths
You do the maths. Reread your article.
Iâll sit on four decades plus of manufacturing experience, an intimate knowledge of firearms and the complexity of producing the same.
You realize Iâm sure those arms also must consume things that go bang and fly through the air.
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