Ha ha ha. It’s Trump the evil orange mans fault. He made this plan. Ha ha. But the border didn’t trump have a plan with that? Ha ha ha ha. Biden needs to go to Afghanistan and throw out paper towel and bullets. China is living every minute of this and is waiting to be amongst the first to recognize the Islamic empire of Afghanistan and scoop up some minerals. Hiding in the bunker got Joe elected but it’s not working well for his presidency. Oh well we are only immortal for a limited time. Glad I spent some time In Afghanistan got a nice sun tan, every fucking day. Why leave during fighting season? This is when shit gets whacky. You think guns are weird in America spend a little time in Afghanistan, everybody is packing full auto.
I think bitcoins like 47 or something but we are really watching that ethereum. Just the gwei sucks but what’s perfect anyway.
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https://twitter.com/theNuzzy/status/1427051039404957697
https://twitter.com/travisakers/stat...08000498225153
https://twitter.com/thomasjoscelyn/s...13881558118401
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https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/st...08053301596165
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/statu...18983379640323
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/sta...22834644267009
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status...72508921917440
Biggest stretch of reality we can attempt to make is that any of the last 5 U.S administrations have clean hands in this. It's a giant shat sammich everybody grab a napkin. This was going to be ugly and nasty with back to back pull out "plans" made into campaign slogans but given a literal end date. In a way it's the closest Trump and Biden have ever been on anything but we're trying to put lipstick on pigs and make them our favored security blankets. The execution and order of exit was shameful and needs to be investigated. Lost me at midnight abandonment of Afghan forces and Bagram airbase like we were fleeing a rent collecting landlord. And so was knee-capping the Afghan leadership and agreeing that the Taliban will 'fight the terrorist'sand freeing thousands of them. I'm of the unpopular opinion that our small maintained quick reaction and air based presence kept the lid on the jar and was the burden we (they) excepted once we entered and cleared the hornets nest in the first place and agreed to provide the full rent. Politicians knew that and they just kicked the can down the road.
There are up to ten thousand Americans still in Afghanistan. The situation over there could easily go to shit at any time. I wonder what we'll discover in years to come about this, exactly what bribes or assurances we've given the Taliban to let us get our people out. The Taliban aren't going to let the west extract all their people and then turn on them full scale with sanctions, international isolation and so on. They have the west by the balls at the minute and will surely have extracted cast iron guarantees over various issues.
Even if they have and you would have to think they have thinks can still go wrong at any minute. But if we were going to leave this kind of situation was inevitable. I wonder if any agreements were worked up in advance.
When you look at this:
https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1426938737523630090
it makes you wonder. But then you have Biden making all those claims on camera just a few weeks ago that the whole thing wouldn't end up like the fall of Saigon and so on. So maybe the whole thing is just an epic clusterfuck with huge amounts of blame for everybody involved.
These posts all make excellent points/are very informative:
https://twitter.com/JustinTLogan/sta...90580679745537
keep scrolling
https://twitter.com/Ibishblog/status...87884238843905
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...79074092183553
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...26213325377540
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https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/stat...86393291481088
https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1427660668937900040
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...84020430729222
https://www.slowboring.com/p/afghan-war
Last edited by Kirkland Laing; 08-18-2021 at 02:06 AM.
That is because they do not believe in the virus.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
Anybody wanting to know what kind of economic situation the Taliban are facing and the main reason they're being so considerate with the west in Kabul right now:
https://fullstackeconomics.com/afgha...shock-taliban/
There's at least one honest/undeluded senior military guy:
https://twitter.com/mviser/status/1429453432134508547
by comparison:
https://twitter.com/JustinTLogan/sta...03463572135937
The question that subsequent investigations should be asking but wont:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/sta...76135767793664
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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