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
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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
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