MLSM posted:

“The debacle in Afghanistan, which will unravel into chaos with lightning speed over the next few weeks and ensure the return of the Taliban to power, is one more signpost of the end of the American empire. The two decades of combat, the one trillion dollars we spent, the 100,000 troops deployed to subdue Afghanistan, the high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper drones armed with Hellfire missiles and GBU-30 bombs and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command composed of elite rangers, SEALs and air commandos, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies, infusions of millions of dollars to buy off and bribe the local elites and train an Afghan army of 350,000 that has never exhibited the will to fight, failed to defeat a guerrilla army of 60,000 that funded itself through opium production and extortion in one of the poorest countries on earth.”

owned

etalian posted:

So what's everyone's best guess for how long it will take for the central government to collapse and also for what's left to get marched up the wall??

Looks like the domino effect has already kicked off with the Taliban making big gains and the government only being left with marginal control over urban city areas like Kabul.

PawParole posted:

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.

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.

genericnick posted:

Could the US even reinvade without a few months of build-up at this point? Or really at all? I 'm a bit fuzzy on how they moved in twenty years ago. Through Pakistan and they got the Russians to help/not gently caress with them building logistic bases in former USSR republics? That might not be quite that easy a second time.

Radirot posted:

fresh meat.

yellowcar posted:

oz should go enlist then

bedpan posted:

cope more

Al-Saqr posted:

lol whoever wrote that article is a crybaby loser who can’t get it through his thick skull that there is literally nothing america can do at this point, they had 20 years but spent the time jerking off in the wind. it’s too late bitch.

PawParole posted:

Common sense

Atrocious Joe posted:

if anyone deserves to face the Taliban's justice system, it's the CIA collaborators

etalian posted:

Also how is the US even have any sort of moral high ground to talk about human rights given the laundry list of war crimes
such as creating death squads, drone strikes on weddings and SEAL force chuds mutilating / trophy taking rituals on dead soldiers?

yellowcar posted:

lol i bet you a million bucks that most of these Young Hip Afghans are actually rich kids born and/or raised in the west who moved there post-invasion because their parents had networking connections with the DoD or something

DesertIslandHermit posted:

Still loling that America spent over a trillion in Iraq and China just won the most oil contracts by doing nothing.

Comrade Koba posted:

lmao at the us official a couple of days ago who said kabul could fall within 90 days when at this rate it won’t even last 90 hours

Ash1138 posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDAmPIq29ro

Agrajag posted:

hmm

drunkill posted:

https://twitter.com/SpaghettiKozak/status/1426751901006237696

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u49PPN1jT9o

Agrajag posted:

LMFAO this demon cracker nation values a piece of loving cloth more than all the lives weve bombed out of existence in the name of whatever the gently caress

sullat posted:

Sorry, the fall of Ho Chi Minh City for the kids.

a few DRUNK BONERS posted:

do you think there will be another "terrorist" "attack" soon

Agrajag posted:

gently caress em i hope they die

mercs are the absolute dog poo poo worst of the worst of humanity

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1427063160046080000?s=20
https://twitter.com/KareemRifai/status/1427066054254206979?s=20

Shear Modulus posted:

getting word that the US is dispatching Big Boss to extract everyone from afghanistan

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1426595888500199425

There's so many US guns that prices are starting to drop.

cenotaph posted:

Dude has better muzzle discipline than some people I've hunted with.

Schnorkles posted:

gotta admit when 80%-95% of the people loudly complaining are blood gargling psychopathic cowards and the idiots who blindly spout whatever they say i'm having a hard time being mad about the situation

smarxist posted:

military is full of poor people pressed gang into doing imperial murder by promises of college money

BAE OF PIGS posted:

MIL still sick to her stomach over how women will be treated there, as if Afghanistan was some sort of monument to feminism these last 20 years.

neutral milf hotel posted:

T-Paine posted:

Our Soldiers sure are invincible roughneck killin' machine manly men until they suffer some minor setback, and then they turn into maudlin emotionally wrecked babies