Afghan War: News & Update Mega Thread
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CatSultan
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I wasn't slandering anybody. I was just joking
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China believes that economic relations determine political relations, and political relations determine military relations.
Therefore, non-interference in foreign internal affairs is the rule most in our interests.
Because the interference of external forces will only lead to greater chaos.
China is a trading country, trade needs a peaceful environment, and China needs a peaceful world. Any increase in chaos will harm China's interests.
So you often see that China has always opposed the use of sanctions or force to solve problems at the UN, and called for peaceful negotiations.
Usually, China's behavior is predictable. Otherwise, the Taliban would not want Beijing's support.
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What do you call a country who believes in "liberty", "freedom" and "democracy", but lies and genocides dozens of times, is at war nearly constantly. And believes itself to be superior even when it is an oligarchy and squashes freedom, democracy and liberty in their "own land" and around the globe.
A: a cult
UK/US are a cult
Worse and more murderous than any other cult. UK/US are not even countries, calling these diabolical cults is hitting the target.
China has to deal with Washington privately as though Washington was some evil cult, which it is.
A: a cult
UK/US are a cult
Worse and more murderous than any other cult. UK/US are not even countries, calling these diabolical cults is hitting the target.
China has to deal with Washington privately as though Washington was some evil cult, which it is.
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Washington is hypocrisy. Socialism for me, not for thee.
medium.com
Welfare for me, not for thee.
www.huffpost.com
The Latin Americans looks out for their own people, with democracy, and does socialism and welfare for the poor. And has Roman Empire capitalism of the state owning the resources for the benefit of the people, that the people demand. Expect that country to be treated like Bolivia or Hugo Chavez Venezuela.
The NYT published an article saying it was Cecil Rhodes and other British Oligarchs mission to make the Anglos rich and the rest of the worlds population very poor and exploitable. This is still the US/UK oligarchs goal. To have no economic, military, political rivals.
This is not a democracy:
America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era is to ensure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territories of the former Soviet Union..The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy. US Department of Defense, The New York Times, March, 1992.
This is an Empire. And to call it a democracy concerned with "liberty" and "freedom"... makes it a cult.
This is not a democracy. This is the oligarch class paranoid about being replaced by intelligent Asians:
www.foxnews.com
Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You
(With Mark Spitznagel)
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Welfare for me, not for thee.
Ten Examples of Welfare for the Rich and Corporations
Here are the top 10 examples of corporate welfare and welfare for the rich. There are actually thousands of tax breaks and subsidies for the rich and corporations provided by federal, state and local governments, but these 10 will give a taste.
The Latin Americans looks out for their own people, with democracy, and does socialism and welfare for the poor. And has Roman Empire capitalism of the state owning the resources for the benefit of the people, that the people demand. Expect that country to be treated like Bolivia or Hugo Chavez Venezuela.
The NYT published an article saying it was Cecil Rhodes and other British Oligarchs mission to make the Anglos rich and the rest of the worlds population very poor and exploitable. This is still the US/UK oligarchs goal. To have no economic, military, political rivals.
This is not a democracy:
America’s political and military mission in the post-cold-war era is to ensure that no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western Europe, Asia or the territories of the former Soviet Union..The classified document makes the case for a world dominated by one superpower whose position can be perpetuated by constructive behavior and sufficient military might to deter any nation or group of nations from challenging American primacy. US Department of Defense, The New York Times, March, 1992.
This is an Empire. And to call it a democracy concerned with "liberty" and "freedom"... makes it a cult.
This is not a democracy. This is the oligarch class paranoid about being replaced by intelligent Asians:
Harvard discrimination trial reveals Ivy League school's different SAT standards for Asian-Americans
Harvard University uses different SAT score standards for prospective students based on factors such as race, a fact revealed in a lawsuit alleging the Ivy League school of discriminating against Asian-Americans in its admissions process, which the dean adamantly denies.
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Erik prince needs a taliban talking to
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The Indian media (propaganda news channel WION) even covered this. It’s a sick sick practice that no one from the world tried to stop, just because the ANA was fighting against the Taliban. (Search YouTube for WION and Bacha Bazi and you will find the documentary, I won’t link to it here because it too disturbing)
Norther Alliance are highly corrupted. They are doomed to fail.
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True.
Also, when a student is learning the game of “Go” and asking where it has ever been used in modern warfare. They can point to Afghanistan in 2021.
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Taliban enter Afghan capital as US diplomats evacuate by chopper
August 15, 20215:53 PM CST
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in "from all sides" but gave no further details.
A tweet from the Afghan Presidential palace account said firing had been heard at a number of points around Kabul but that security forces, in coordination with international partners, had control of the city.
U.S. officials said the diplomats were being ferried to the airport from the embassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan district. More American troops were being sent to help in the evacuations after the Taliban's lightning advances brought the Islamist group to Kabul in a matter of days.
Just last week, a U.S. intelligence estimate said Kabul could hold out for at least three months.
"Core" U.S. team members were working from the Kabul airport, a U.S. official said, while a NATO official said several EU staff had moved to a safer, undisclosed location in the capital.
A Taliban official told Reuters the group did not want any casualties as it took charge but had not declared a ceasefire.
There was no immediate word on the situation from President Ashraf Ghani, who said on Saturday he was in urgent consultations with local leaders and international partners on the situation.
Earlier on Sunday, the insurgents captured the eastern city of Jalalabad without a fight, giving them control of one of the main highways into landlocked Afghanistan. They also took over the nearby Torkham border post with Pakistan, leaving Kabul airport the only way out of Afghanistan that is still in government hands.
The capture of Jalalabad followed the Taliban's seizure of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Saturday, also with little fighting.
"There are no clashes taking place right now in Jalalabad because the governor has surrendered to the Taliban," a Jalalabad-based Afghan official told Reuters. "Allowing passage to the Taliban was the only way to save civilian lives."
A video clip distributed by the Taliban showed people cheering and shout Allahu Akbar - God is greatest - as a convoy of pick-up trucks entered the city with fighters brandishing machine guns and the white Taliban flag.
After U.S.-led forces withdrew the bulk of the their remaining troops in the last month, the Taliban campaign accelerated as the Afghan military's defences appeared to collapse https://www.reuters.com/article/afg...us-efforts-to-build-afghan-army-idUSL8N2PL043.
President Joe Biden on Saturday authorised https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bi...rces-help-drawdown-personnel-kabul-2021-08-14 the deployment of 5,000 U.S. troops to help evacuate citizens and ensure an "orderly and safe" drawdown of military personnel. A U.S. defence official said that included 1,000 newly approved troops from the 82nd Airborne Division.
Taliban fighters entered Mazar-i-Sharif virtually unopposed as security forces escaped up the highway to Uzbekistan, about 80 km (50 miles) to the north, provincial officials said. Unverified video on social media showed Afghan army vehicles and men in uniforms crowding the iron bridge between the Afghan town of Hairatan and Uzbekistan.
Two influential militia leaders supporting the government - Atta Mohammad Noor and Abdul Rashid Dostum - also fled https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...atta-noor-dostum-escape-conspiracy-2021-08-14. Noor said on social media that the Taliban had been handed control of Balkh province, where Mazar-i-Sharif is located, due to a "conspiracy."
POPULARLY ACCEPTED
In a statement late on Saturday, the Taliban said its rapid gains showed it was popularly accepted by the Afghan people and reassured both Afghans and foreigners that they would be safe.
The Islamic Emirate, as the Taliban calls itself, "will, as always, protect their life, property and honour, and create a peaceful and secure environment for its beloved nation," it said, adding that diplomats and aid workers would also face no problems.
Afghans have fled the provinces to enter Kabul in recent days, fearing a return to hardline Islamist rule https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...forced-roles-taliban-takes-control-2021-08-13.
Early on Sunday, refugees from Taliban-controlled provinces were seen unloading belongings from taxis and families stood outside embassy gates, while the city's downtown was packed with people stocking up on supplies.
Hundreds of people slept huddled in tents or in the open in the city, by roadsides or in car parks, a resident said on Saturday night. "You can see the fear in their faces," he said.
Biden said his administration had told Taliban officials in talks in Qatar that any action that put U.S. personnel at risk "will be met with a swift and strong U.S. military response."
He has faced rising domestic criticism as the Taliban have taken city after city far more quickly than predicted. The president has stuck to a plan, initiated by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, to end the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan by Aug. 31.
Biden said it is up to the Afghan military to hold its own territory. "An endless American presence in the middle of another country's civil conflict was not acceptable to me," Biden said on Saturday.
Qatar, which has been hosting so-far inconclusive peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, said it had urged the insurgents to cease fire. Ghani has given no sign of responding to a Taliban demand that he resign as a condition for any ceasefire.
www.reuters.com
August 15, 20215:53 PM CST
- Taliban enter Kabul from all sides - interior ministry official
- U.S. diplomats evacuated by chopper
- President's office says firing heard but situation under control
- Eastern city of Jalalabad falls without a fight
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
The senior official told Reuters the Taliban were coming in "from all sides" but gave no further details.
A tweet from the Afghan Presidential palace account said firing had been heard at a number of points around Kabul but that security forces, in coordination with international partners, had control of the city.
U.S. officials said the diplomats were being ferried to the airport from the embassy in the fortified Wazir Akbar Khan district. More American troops were being sent to help in the evacuations after the Taliban's lightning advances brought the Islamist group to Kabul in a matter of days.
Just last week, a U.S. intelligence estimate said Kabul could hold out for at least three months.
"Core" U.S. team members were working from the Kabul airport, a U.S. official said, while a NATO official said several EU staff had moved to a safer, undisclosed location in the capital.
A Taliban official told Reuters the group did not want any casualties as it took charge but had not declared a ceasefire.
There was no immediate word on the situation from President Ashraf Ghani, who said on Saturday he was in urgent consultations with local leaders and international partners on the situation.
Earlier on Sunday, the insurgents captured the eastern city of Jalalabad without a fight, giving them control of one of the main highways into landlocked Afghanistan. They also took over the nearby Torkham border post with Pakistan, leaving Kabul airport the only way out of Afghanistan that is still in government hands.
The capture of Jalalabad followed the Taliban's seizure of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif late on Saturday, also with little fighting.
"There are no clashes taking place right now in Jalalabad because the governor has surrendered to the Taliban," a Jalalabad-based Afghan official told Reuters. "Allowing passage to the Taliban was the only way to save civilian lives."
A video clip distributed by the Taliban showed people cheering and shout Allahu Akbar - God is greatest - as a convoy of pick-up trucks entered the city with fighters brandishing machine guns and the white Taliban flag.
After U.S.-led forces withdrew the bulk of the their remaining troops in the last month, the Taliban campaign accelerated as the Afghan military's defences appeared to collapse https://www.reuters.com/article/afg...us-efforts-to-build-afghan-army-idUSL8N2PL043.
President Joe Biden on Saturday authorised https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bi...rces-help-drawdown-personnel-kabul-2021-08-14 the deployment of 5,000 U.S. troops to help evacuate citizens and ensure an "orderly and safe" drawdown of military personnel. A U.S. defence official said that included 1,000 newly approved troops from the 82nd Airborne Division.
Taliban fighters entered Mazar-i-Sharif virtually unopposed as security forces escaped up the highway to Uzbekistan, about 80 km (50 miles) to the north, provincial officials said. Unverified video on social media showed Afghan army vehicles and men in uniforms crowding the iron bridge between the Afghan town of Hairatan and Uzbekistan.
Two influential militia leaders supporting the government - Atta Mohammad Noor and Abdul Rashid Dostum - also fled https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...atta-noor-dostum-escape-conspiracy-2021-08-14. Noor said on social media that the Taliban had been handed control of Balkh province, where Mazar-i-Sharif is located, due to a "conspiracy."
POPULARLY ACCEPTED
In a statement late on Saturday, the Taliban said its rapid gains showed it was popularly accepted by the Afghan people and reassured both Afghans and foreigners that they would be safe.
The Islamic Emirate, as the Taliban calls itself, "will, as always, protect their life, property and honour, and create a peaceful and secure environment for its beloved nation," it said, adding that diplomats and aid workers would also face no problems.
Afghans have fled the provinces to enter Kabul in recent days, fearing a return to hardline Islamist rule https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-...forced-roles-taliban-takes-control-2021-08-13.
Early on Sunday, refugees from Taliban-controlled provinces were seen unloading belongings from taxis and families stood outside embassy gates, while the city's downtown was packed with people stocking up on supplies.
Hundreds of people slept huddled in tents or in the open in the city, by roadsides or in car parks, a resident said on Saturday night. "You can see the fear in their faces," he said.
Biden said his administration had told Taliban officials in talks in Qatar that any action that put U.S. personnel at risk "will be met with a swift and strong U.S. military response."
He has faced rising domestic criticism as the Taliban have taken city after city far more quickly than predicted. The president has stuck to a plan, initiated by his Republican predecessor, Donald Trump, to end the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan by Aug. 31.
Biden said it is up to the Afghan military to hold its own territory. "An endless American presence in the middle of another country's civil conflict was not acceptable to me," Biden said on Saturday.
Qatar, which has been hosting so-far inconclusive peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, said it had urged the insurgents to cease fire. Ghani has given no sign of responding to a Taliban demand that he resign as a condition for any ceasefire.
Taliban enter Afghan capital as US diplomats evacuate by chopper
Taliban insurgents entered the Afghanistan capital Kabul on Sunday, an interior ministry official said, as the United States evacuated diplomats from its embassy by helicopter.
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Vietnam then, Afghanistan now: Tense Kabul evacuation rekindles memories of another US retreat
The Vietnam operation, dubbed Operation Frequent Wind, saw more than 7,000 Vietnamese civilians evacuated from Saigon on 29 and 30 April 1975 by helicopter
US Embassy to be evacuated in 72 HOURS and staff rushes to the airport
Sen. Mitch McConnell has called for US airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan as warlords moved to within seven miles of Kabul and prepare to isolate the capital.
Fall of Saigon 2.0, Americans just never learn
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