|
Zedhe Khoja posted:One last photo of Sultan "G-Money" Ghani playing with his favorite pet at his Dubai apartment. I hope Calvin and Hobbes make it out okay.
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 00:38
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 05:16 |
|
|
Vernii posted:yea the Republicans are gonna succesfully campaign on the war they ran into the ground finally being lost as a way to help get back into power because this country is dumb as poo poo and deserves every bad thing that happens to it Dems soft on terror and radical Islam!
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 00:48
|
|
|
america spends like a trillion dollars a year on their military and they can't even hold on to afghanistan lmao what is moving faster, the taliban losing territory in 2001 or the taliban gaining territory in 2021?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 01:48
|
|
|
etalian posted:Comrade Xi knows what's up Its like the most hilarious gently caress-you-salt-in-wounds to America from China if that happens. We spent 20 years, trillions, and thousands of lives + many more mutilated trying to turn Afghanistan into a "democratic" client state to exploit only to be resoundingly defeated. Then China comes in, recognizes the Taliban, and successfully normalizes relations with them and continues the big economic/infrastructure projects they got planned and makes them rich, kinda like another Saudi Arabia. LOL. d2a
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 02:14
|
|
|
Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The hot "THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED IF WE NEVER LEFT!" takes from "very serious" people already coming in. Have another one. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/opinions/afghanistan-president-biden-debacle-bergen/index.html
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 02:15
|
|
|
Gresh posted:Its like the most hilarious gently caress-you-salt-in-wounds to America from China if that happens. We spent 20 years, trillions, and thousands of lives + many more mutilated trying to turn Afghanistan into a "democratic" client state to exploit only to be resoundingly defeated. Then China comes in, recognizes the Taliban, and successfully normalizes relations with them and continues the big economic/infrastructure projects they got planned and makes them rich, kinda like another Saudi Arabia. LOL. I'm also lolling at all the articles have lines of US state department reps saying they don't think Kabul will fall.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 02:17
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1425751441629716485 lmao Mosul 2014
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 02:39
|
|
|
Lmao Iraqi spokesperson vibes from Ned here
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 02:53
|
|
|
would have been cheaper to just pay off the Taliban from the start
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 03:02
|
|
|
Radirot posted:would have been cheaper to just pay off the Taliban from the start The MIC wouldn't have liked that though.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 03:33
|
|
|
etalian posted:Yeah despite the simple US narrative "Taliban / Al Qaeda" as some sort of overarching chain of command, it had more in common with China's warlord period especially how things were split along regional and ethnic divisions in Afghanistan. I admit I don't know much about the current situation, but it looks so much like the repeat of end stage KMT-CCP Civil War. Where the KMT can only muster token resistance at best because vast swathes of the population simply want their lovely rule to fall.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 04:58
|
|
|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGbXoT_23pg
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 06:28
|
|
|
I really hope that the US and its allies get most of their interpreters and others who helped them out so they don't all get slaughter. At least from what I can see is that if you renounce the side you were on and come fight with them, (at least for local commanders and tribal leaders) they aren't indiscriminately killing the helpers yet. That could come after they have full control. What are the chances that on Sept 11th, 2021, along with the news showing the memorial, there will also be a PiP window showing the Taliban announcing control of 95% of Afghanistan. I bet that there are some back room talks in the state department about trying to prevent that from happening.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 07:19
|
|
|
GIRL BRAINS posted:The taliban sent their engineers into our abandoned command centers and now they have access to our tech trees If they try to develop a 5th gen jet it'll be the end of them. Fame Douglas posted:"We don't negotiate with terrorists" always was a weird movie thing. Democrats and Republicans negotiate with eachother all the time. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 08:45 on Aug 13, 2021 |
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 08:32
|
|
|
whoops
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 08:44
|
|
|
one the one hand the us spent 20 years murdering people for basically no reason and with nothign to show for it but on the other hand a handful of rich fuckers got to plunder a country for two decades straight, so its impossible to say whether its good or bad now wheres my nyt paycheck?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 09:33
|
|
|
Taliban posing with Ismail Khan the governor/local warlord of Herat https://twitter.com/natsecjeff/status/1426094637219995651?s=21 also having some fun https://twitter.com/qomandon/status/1426077511172038657?s=21 Al-Saqr has issued a correction as of 09:41 on Aug 13, 2021 |
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 09:39
|
|
|
I gotta say though, the fact that the Taliban went from complete military defeat, to holding barely a sliver of border areas with Pakistan, to now overrunning and conquering Afghanistan again in a matter of weeks is really one of the biggest and fastest turnarounds and comebacks in modern history and I really can’t think of a similar example of how quickly the Taliban bounced back like this.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 09:51
|
|
|
North Korea after China intervened in the Korean war?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 09:54
|
|
|
Bideo James posted:in 2 years Democrats are going to say that China is genociding the Taliban i can only imagine that this move will play really well for xi in xinjiang, appropriately enough. getting to look friendly to islam in a meaningful way is basically a free win for the CCP in that situation. Hodgepodge has issued a correction as of 10:34 on Aug 13, 2021 |
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 10:32
|
|
|
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-defence-minister-says-afghanistan-al-qaeda-will-probably-come-back-2021-08-13/ UK defense minister already starting to drum up support for the next war. UK 0-4 with Afghanistan and looking for humiliating defeat number 5.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 10:36
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:I gotta say though, the fact that the Taliban went from complete military defeat, to holding barely a sliver of border areas with Pakistan, to now overrunning and conquering Afghanistan again in a matter of weeks is really one of the biggest and fastest turnarounds and comebacks in modern history and I really can’t think of a similar example of how quickly the Taliban bounced back like this. Almost makes it seem like the propaganda the state department fed the media on the war progress wasn't accurate, huh.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 10:39
|
|
|
Al-Saqr posted:I gotta say though, the fact that the Taliban went from complete military defeat, to holding barely a sliver of border areas with Pakistan, to now overrunning and conquering Afghanistan again in a matter of weeks is really one of the biggest and fastest turnarounds and comebacks in modern history and I really can’t think of a similar example of how quickly the Taliban bounced back like this. Tigray maybe?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 10:41
|
|
|
Orange Devil posted:https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-defence-minister-says-afghanistan-al-qaeda-will-probably-come-back-2021-08-13/ Fortunately, the UK no longer has the ability to project military power abroad in any significant manner. Our armed forces are shrunken, poorly led and atrociously equipped, although you'll never hear about any of that in the news lol.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 11:23
|
|
|
Pistol_Pete posted:Fortunately, the UK no longer has the ability to project military power abroad in any significant manner. Our armed forces are shrunken, poorly led and atrociously equipped, although you'll never hear about any of that in the news lol. Everyone here in Singapore knows our military is a theatrical joke too, except everyone is also smart enough to avoid Anglo chickenhawk chest-thumping
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 11:30
|
|
|
When our press does report on the army, they tend to concentrate on the heroism of individual soldiers. So you'll get a tear-jerking article about a soldier being posthumously decorated for his bravery in helping his unit to fight their way out of an ambush, but no mention of the poor tactical decisions that got them into the ambush or of the fact that there were no helicopters available to evacuate them.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 12:37
|
|
|
A small price to pay to put lie to the myth that democracies care to much about their citizens to sustain decades of casualties over pointless bullshit.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 12:39
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/ajenews/status/1426149863885004807?s=21
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 13:02
|
|
|
Pistol_Pete posted:When our press does report on the army, they tend to concentrate on the heroism of individual soldiers. So you'll get a tear-jerking article about a soldier being posthumously decorated for his bravery in helping his unit to fight their way out of an ambush, but no mention of the poor tactical decisions that got them into the ambush or of the fact that there were no helicopters available to evacuate them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi9hHDooAX4
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 13:21
|
|
|
china’s going to put a tiny watchtower somewhere and the US is going to accidentally incinerate it
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:22
|
|
|
Pistol_Pete posted:When our press does report on the army, they tend to concentrate on the heroism of individual soldiers. So you'll get a tear-jerking article about a soldier being posthumously decorated for his bravery in helping his unit to fight their way out of an ambush, but no mention of the poor tactical decisions that got them into the ambush or of the fact that there were no helicopters available to evacuate them. That reminds me, what the gently caress happened to Jessica Lynch? Did they quietly kill her to stop her going to the press?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:26
|
|
|
it’s so funny that the fall of Kabul will happen around the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I hope it is just as embarrassing as that sounds
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:31
|
|
|
fall of saigon but in 4k and that yellow filter hollywood put on to really highlight “middle east”
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:32
|
|
|
Ramrod Hotshot posted:it’s so funny that the fall of Kabul will happen around the 20th anniversary of 9/11. I hope it is just as embarrassing as that sounds I hope the Taliban copy the famous Soviet Reichstag photo next which was itself inspired by Iwo Jima flag raising.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:32
|
|
|
Zedhe Khoja posted:One last photo of Sultan "G-Money" Ghani playing with his favorite pet at his Dubai apartment. lol, good to see afghanistan's rich corrupt assholes also chilling in the same place as rich corrupt pakistani assholes. while poor people from the same places get their passports taken away and get the great opportunity to become slaves.
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:36
|
|
|
etalian posted:I hope the Taliban copy the famous Soviet Reichstag photo next which was itself inspired by Iwo Jima flag raising. Pretty sure there's a photo like that that was online a day or two ago
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:37
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/TBowmanNPR/status/1426163798063337473?s=20
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:48
|
|
|
What about the Pizza Hut?
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:49
|
|
|
lol the Taliban is going to have total control before the end of the
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:52
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 11, 2024 05:16 |
|
|
American Afghanistan Veterans crying that they fought for nothing and lost:- https://twitter.com/hollybdc/status/1426178697065807874?s=20 At least they'll get the veteran hat as a participation trophy
|
|
#
?
Aug 13, 2021 14:52
|
|