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Taliban took over yesterday's lost territory without a fight but at the same time, the rebels moved to another district of the province, squeezing territories there.

 

[grassyknollgunner]

 

[Junglejim]

CNN actually putting the Pentagon in a hot seat by asking "will you guarantee to every Afghanistan that worked with the US that they will be evacuated?" Pentagon "I can assure to you if they follow the process, we will try, until the end of the months..." lol

 

[Musashi]

Tony Blair calls withdrawal from Afghanistan 'imbecilic'

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[Hiryu2.0]

And who, wishing to cause trouble for the USSR, trained the Mujahideen, sent them weapons and made films about the "atrocities" of the USSR in Afghanistan? It seems Reagan called the Mujahideen "Warriors of Light". The USSR collapsed, but the terrorists remained. And it seems to me that today's American guys are paying the price for the shortsighted policies of their fathers.

Sorry, but here in Hungary , the government is constantly pushing Russian propaganda, while sticking its tongue up Putin's ass. So you don't have to bother with May Day slogans or cheap platitudes here. I hear just enough of that.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Tony Blair calls withdrawal from Afghanistan 'imbecilic'

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Tony Blair bzmeg...
It's like someone who tells the Sunday Lotto numbers on Monday...

 

[Ivan le Fou]

Tony Blair calls withdrawal from Afghanistan 'imbecilic'

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Damn... when even Tony calls you out you have got to know you done fvcked up.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Damn... when even Tony calls you out you have got to know you done fvcked up.

The Ministry of Defence later launched Operation Pitting, in which 600 Armed Forces personnel would be sent to Afghanistan to help relocate British nationals and local allies.


Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Britain had little choice but to follow the lead of its allies.

“It would be arrogant to think we could solve Afghanistan unilaterally. The solution can only come if the force is multinational and the nations involved bring to bear all the tools of nation building – hard power, soft power, foreign aid, and political alliances,” he wrote in The Sunday Telegraph.

And he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “The die was cast when the deal was done by Donald Trump if you want my observation.”

“President Biden inherited a momentum, a momentum that had been given to the Taliban because they felt they had now won, he’d also inherited a momentum of troop withdrawal from the international community, the US.”

“So I think in that sense, the seeds of what we’re seeing today were before President Biden took office. The seeds were a peace deal that was (effectively) rushed, that wasn’t done in collaboration properly with the international community and then a dividend taken out incredibly quickly.”

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Tony Blair calls withdrawal from Afghanistan 'imbecilic'

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Brexit Blair...

 

[Ivan le Fou]

CNN actually putting the Pentagon in a hot seat by asking "will you guarantee to every Afghanistan that worked with the US that they will be evacuated?" Pentagon "I can assure to you if they follow the process, we will try, until the end of the months..." lol

This crisis is displaying for all to see how little, if any at all, coordination and collaborations there are between the different organs of this administration.
That being said, maybe had it happened under a different administration these gaps and lacking would have also been revealed. But here the cat is clearly out of the box.

And it is similarly proven by the fact each of these branches, up to the highest, are contradicting one another constantly; and it almost feels like nobody really knows what is going on.


But telling the Afghans who worked with the US to "follow the process" to "eventually" (we will try) get something is ludicrous. It already was a few weeks back, when the Taliban were not on the verge of reconquering the totality of Afghanistan, but now that the situation has turned abhorrent cocktail of Saigon+Benghazi+Dien Bien Phu on steroids...?
These Afghan workers should simply try to enter the US by crossing the southern border.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Relative of DW journalist killed by the Taliban – DW – 08/19/2021

Journalists and their families are in grave danger in Afghanistan. The Taliban have no compunction about carrying out targeted killings as the case of a DW journalist shows.

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[Junglejim]

This crisis is displaying for all to see how little, if any at all, coordination and collaborations there are between the different organs of this administration.
That being said, maybe had it happened under a different administration these gaps and lacking would have also been revealed. But here the cat is clearly out of the box.

And it is similarly proven by the fact each of these branches, up to the highest, are contradicting one another constantly; and it almost feels like nobody really knows what is going on.


But telling the Afghans who worked with the US to "follow the process" to "eventually" (we will try) get something is ludicrous. It already was a few weeks back, when the Taliban were not on the verge of reconquering the totality of Afghanistan, but now that the situation has turned abhorrent cocktail of Saigon+Benghazi+Dien Bien Phu on steroids...?
These Afghan workers should simply try to enter the US by crossing the southern border.

That's exactly the reaction of the CNN reporter, that lady in Kabul "You dont really expect me to tell the Afghanis that, do you?"

 

[grassyknollgunner]

Sorry, but here in Hungary , the government is constantly pushing Russian propaganda, while sticking its tongue up Putin's ass. So you don't have to bother with May Day slogans or cheap platitudes here. I hear just enough of that.

CIA did support f***ing mujahedeen in the 80s. Thats a fact not a slogan.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

CIA did support f***ing mujahedeen in the 80s. Thats a fact not a slogan.

Yes, he supported them.
So did England, London, Saudi Arabia.
And the biggest supporter was China, in collaboration with Pakistan.

Now you can berate them too.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

Yes, he supported them.
So did England, London, Saudi Arabia.
And the biggest supporter was China, in collaboration with Pakistan.

Now you can berate them too.

Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historian

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02634930120095349?journalCode=ccas20

 

[grassyknollgunner]

Yes, he supported them.
So did England, London...

Here comes the blowback...

 

[BCNTM]

Tony Blair calls withdrawal from Afghanistan 'imbecilic'

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Takes one to know one
Bliar a shonky politician, a bit of a slime ball
Was he supposed to be some sort of ME UN ambassador - he was *uck all use at that as well

 

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[Ivan le Fou]

CIA did support f***ing mujahedeen in the 80s. Thats a fact not a slogan.

There is a big nuance that has got to be taken into account though, and saying "the CIA supported the mujahedeen" is a gross oversimplification.

It wasn't "the CIA" who "supported" the "mujahedeen". The CIA created a international program aimed at providing funds and weapons to the mujahedeen. Program including countries such as the UK, Pakistan, Israel, even Arab countries. Obviously, these countries offered their cooperation in exchange something (be it contracts, commercial/economical deals, concessions, etc...). But also from private donors not linked in any way whatsoever to the CIA and its program.

The "support" (funds, weapons, etc...) wasn't direct, but went through a vast network of actors in order to muddy and blur the origin of the program. Though it was obvious it originated from the US, you still need tangible and irrefutable proof to support that claim. That whole network was set to prevent that.
Generally speaking that support ultimately ended up in Pakistan who then redistributed it to "the mujahedeen".

Again, the term "mujahedeen" is very broad and encompasses many things, and, incidentally, not limited to Afghanistan. But since this is Afghanistan we are talking about, "mujahedeen" was a "drawer term" including most, if not all, the local factions engaged against the USSR: Massoud, Haqqani, Hekmatyar, Wardak, etc... though they ultimately unified under a single designation (Islamic Unity of Afghan Community) they did not operate under a single command nor did they share the same ideologies.

Going back to the redistribution of the support, the countries providing the weapons and funds had no say to which group (Massoud, Haqqani, etc...) they would be given.