Posted on 08/18/2021 3:20:18 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chief’s Chairman Mark Milley held a Pentagon press briefing today about the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan. [Full Presser Here] As the Taliban has taken full control over the country and capital, the U.S. presence in Kabul has been reduced to securing the airport as a temporary fortress, and telling U.S. citizens to try and get there.
When asked about the Taliban surrounding the airport, constructing checkpoints and the inability of Americans to reach safety for evacuation, Defense Secretary Austin said the military “don’t have the capability to…extend operations.” The follow-up question was then about the U.S. essentially having to negotiate safe-passage with the Taliban… and rather than say, “Yes, that is accurate“, the question left Secretary Austin speechless. WATCH:
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Well, according to The Gipper Lives, a commenter on CTH:
"WikiLeaks on Twitter: “Julian Assange in 2011: “The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war”
A GIANT KICKBACK BUNCO SCHEME WITH A MILITARY FACE. NO WONDER THE AFGHAN ARMY WAS STARVED OF REAL ARMAMENTS. OUR DEEP STATE WAS LOOTING THE RESOURCES.
No Wonder Granny Rodham wants to Seth Rich him like Epstein."
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You can call The Gipper a lot of things. I don't think you can call him crazy these days.
(And no, HG, I am not The Gipper and am not related to him.)
One of the other revelations from that embarrassing press conference was that we will only attempt to rescue people for as long as the Taliban lets us.
Biden, Austin and Thoroughly Modern Millie need to resign. But they don’t have the decency. I hope all three suffer the same fate as Il Duce.
+10000
Steer clear of Esso stations, guys!
Fixed it.
Can’t stand to look at him. Stupid brute.
I heard Devin Nunes on the radio this morning — he said it’s actually Obama who’s running the show. It wouldn’t come as a surprise.
We have said that before. Regardless, it is Biden who is doing the talking and botching everything in plain sight.
Haven’t any of these fools ever watched godfather not so complicated. Genghis could solve this 5 minutes
Well, you cowardly hack, the fact is that you lack the WILL.
The situation is this:
We have been at war for twenty years that the Taliban started with a successful attack on the Trade Center in 2001. The Taliban has won the war and we are the defeated with 15,000 of our citizens behind the Taliban lines.
We have no say as to who can cross the lines to get to the airport to be evacuated out. The Taliban has all the cards. We have to ask them what they need from us to let our people out.
Our only choices are to pay the price that they set to get our people out, abandon our people there, or start a new war that I predict will last twenty years before we lose again.
Whatever happens, a lot of people are going to die.
I predict that when the Taliban soon hold thousands of U.S.citizens trapped in Kabul for Ransom, that as condition for release they will demand payment of Afghanistan Gold, 💰and not the phony paper, 💸 printed money from the Biden regime.
FROZEN ASSETS
August18, 2021
Afghanistan has 22 tons of gold in a New York vault. The Taliban can’t touch it.
The Biden administration has frozen the Afghanistan government’s holdings in US banks, preventing the Taliban from accessing billions of dollars—a major, if indeterminate, part of the country’s foreign reserves.
Among the assets trapped in this freeze is a stash of gold bars deposited in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. According to figures published by Afghanistan’s central bank, the deposit amounted to roughly 22 tons of gold as of December 2020, the most recent date for which this data is available. At current prices benchmarked by the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the gold is worth around $1.25 billion
https://qz.com/2049375/taliban-cant-touch-afghanistans-gold-stored-away-in-the-us/
If what Austin says is true, then there should be mass firings at the Pentagon tonight, starting with him. What signal is he sending to China?
The easily spotted tell that Obama/Jarrett are running the show is prioritizing the importation of more Afghan "refugees" over getting our own people out. Obama hates this country, and proves it on a regular basis.
There are many other choices. Don't forget that the US could just vaporize the Taliban leadership pretty much any time they want to. Or they could grap the top level Taliban leaders sitting outside of Afghanistan, or we could just seize the highways leading into and supplying Kabul and cut off the Taliban and civilians there from whatever we want to block.
Or we could change the rules of engagement and just conquer the Taliban now that they have exposed themselves all over the country.
There are lots of things we could do, but Lloyd Austin, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris are unlikely to do much of anything useful.
With a passion. The only consolation is that the whole cabal will burn in hell for eternity.
Send in a few hundred special forces guys and kill these bastards. Only stop shooting when you’re out of ammo and frags.
Its really about time to teview how these incompetent A-hole get stars to be generals! Time to review Austin and Milley and strip them of all their stars!
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