Posted on 08/15/2021 5:13:15 PM PDT by White Lives Matter
How wrong this assessment was is now clear for everyone to see. A week ago, the U.S. said Afghanistan could withstand the Taliban for 90 days. Today, the (70,000-strong) Taliban is in control of the capital, the much-vaunted Afghan army has disintegrated, and tens of thousands of Afghans – whose collective force could stop the Taliban, if only it had the organization to do so – are fleeing to any place and by any means they can.
Conventionally, the United States did everything right; it installed a government, equipped and trained an army with four times the Taliban’s manpower, an air force, and top of the line American military materiel, and even now is apparently flying sorties against Taliban targets. Yet everywhere the Taliban is in control, and they did so, in many places, apparently without firing a shot.
So what the hell happened?
I’m a tech guy, not a military guy. And in terms of the kind of tech I’m into it’s that weird decentralized crypto tech like Bitcoin, not SaaS.
I do know enough about the war to know that when the Taliban went toe to toe with American and NATO soldiers, the Taliban got its ass kicked basically every single time. No air force, no navy, and no artillery meant that whenever the Taliban revealed themselves on the battlefield they were guaranteed to be cut to pieces by various pieces of intimidating American hardware like A-10 Warthogs or 50-caliber rifles.
It appears the Taliban tried something different this time around. Open source reporting shows that rather than rocking up and going toe to toe with the Afghan national army, they appear to have simply called everyone in the entire country, instead, told them they were in control, and began assuming the functions of government as they went:
(Excerpt) Read more at prestonbyrne.com ...
Maybe we should try that.
I have my doubts. To put it lightly.
To put it honestly this guy knows nothing about any of the subjects he’s writing about.
Naa, I don’t buy it. Much more likely that the Taliban simply pulled up to each of the cities, sent a rep in to tell the mayor or government military dude something like “We know who your family is and where they live”. And that was it.
Thanks Zuckerberg. You’re an anti-American piece of schiff that needs to be hanged for providing aid to the enemy.
Lmao! You’re right. We can get Trump back into office using WhatsApp.
“ This is something I never pondered. If true, the American intelligence apparatus and military was completely outwitted by these third worlders.”
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It’s the result of many years of installing and promoting “perfumed princes” within the military’s officer ranks. Striving for “equity” instead of competence will yield incompetence. You end up with PUDGY, PASTY SOFT-LOOKING INFANTRY OFFICERS like LTC Vindman who clearly is a leftist Agendanista and not a leader of men.
The CIA, just like the FBI, has been loading up and advancing leftist anti-Americans for decades.
” . . . the American intelligence apparatus and military was completely outwitted by these third worlders.”
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With CCP help and direction.
“...Did America just lose Afghanistan...”
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You can’t lose what you never had.
That’s why he bought an entire Hawaiian island and kicked out the Hawaiians, because he knows there are people who would kiss him on-sight.
A little deliberate misspelling there.
This was just reported on War Room.
Not in case of that tribal shithole. These people are unable to operate the government, army etc. You could as well give books to a group of monkeys.
Instead of trying to build a civilized army, they should have just paid some local chiefs, warlords etc. to form their militias and do the job.
They learned this from us.
Biden did this at the end of last year.
“They learned this from us.
Biden did this at the end of last year.”
yes.
check out this “Leverage” episode “the san lorenzo job”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1769995/?ref_=ttep_ep16
Between Dumbya and Biden their collective IQ still won’t reach triple digits.
We should long know that you can’t fight for countries that won’t fight for themself, and expect a good result.
No. It was lost for always the same reason….nation building is useless
Middle Eastern wars are almost always just pushing matches. They spend their time shooting in the air but few seldom are killed.
Instead they argue and shout, and just get more of the other guys “soldiers” to quit and join their side. Could well be bribes, but the scale of the collapse shows that it is tribalism at its best, fighting the way they did before we ever came along.
One of their lasting impressions of Americans is that we do not fight fair but try to blow everything up. We kill people, dead.
They don’t and everyone gets to live another day to fight.
They are all muzzies, if even on separate pages.
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