Posted on 07/30/2021 11:27:28 PM PDT by weston
French RAID operators (police special forces) have been making runs in Kabul to retrieve French citizens and others and get them safely to the airport. Chapeau!
Twitter ^ | August 18, 2021 | Andrew Lebovich
Posted on 8/18/2021, 10:38:22 PM by MinorityRepublican
French RAID operators (police special forces) have been making runs in Kabul to retrieve French citizens and others and get them safely to the airport. Chapeau! https://t.co/B0DjvNbuGh— Andrew Lebovich (@tweetsintheME) August 18, 2021
Breaking: British Para Troops Are Running Vehicle Patrols Through Center of Kabul to Extract Trapped UK Citizens — While Biden Abandons Trapped Americans
GP ^ | August 18, 2021 | Jim Hoft
Posted on 8/18/2021, 9:04:30 PM by White Lives Matter
The US Embassy in Afghanistan under the direction of Joe Biden on Wednesday sent out a second security alert to stranded Americans in Kabul:
“THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT CANNOT ENSURE SAFE PASSAGE TO THE HAMID KARZAI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.”
You are on your own.
.... Snip....
Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin have abandoned over 10,000 Americans trapped inside Kabul who are not able to leave their homes.
But not the UK. The British Government is sending Para Troops in vehicles through the center of Kabul to rescue their citizens
I wonder if they shot the guys using the bumper cars.
Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says
Chris Miller now says talk of a full withdrawal was a “play” to convince a Taliban-led government to keep U.S. counterterrorism forces.
President Donald Trump’s top national security officials never intended to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, according to new statements by Chris Miller, Trump’s last acting defense secretary.
Miller said the president’s public promise to finish withdrawing U.S. forces by May 1, as negotiated with the Taliban, was actually a “play” that masked the Trump administration’s true intentions: to convince Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to quit or accept a bitter power-sharing agreement with the Taliban, and to keep some U.S. troops in Afghanistan for counterrorism missions.
In a conversation this week with Defense One, Miller revealed that while serving as the top counterterrorism official on the National Security Council in 2019, he commissioned a wargame that determined that the United States could continue to conduct counterterrorism in Afghanistan with just 800 American military personnel on the ground. And by the end of 2020, when he was acting defense secretary, Miller asserted, many Trump administration officials expected that the United States would be able to broker a new shared government in Afghanistan composed primarily of Taliban officials. The new government would then permit U.S. forces to remain in country to support the Afghan military and fight terrorist elements.
American flag saved from embassy!
Thanks to my Sis who posted it in The Canteen!
Awww thanks! He appreciates it as well.
@jahootsen · Aug 17
From Dutch newspaper @NRC: When Afghan employees of the Dutch embassy in Kabul arrived at the office on Sunday, they were flabbergasted to find that the Dutch had all left without telling them anything.
They just left.
@ChrChristensen·Aug 17
Swedish staff left the embassy as their Afghan colleagues worked.
Then, they refused to answer calls from the Afghan staff and even blocked their official email accounts.
Left the country.
Trudeau is asked about the Gurkhas who were guarding Canada’s embassy who were left behind when staff were flown out.
He says the Gurkhas are Nepalese and Indian citizens so they don’t qualify for special immigration but they are working to have them air lifted. #cdnpoli
PR. BIDEN LIED & MUST BE ASHAMED. WE LOST 70000 MEN IN WAR. WE HAVE CARRIED OUT 95% OF ALL OPERATIONS SINCE 2014. JUST WHEN WE WERE CLEARING FARAH, THE AIR SUPPORT, SUPPLY CHAIN, & OUR COMMUNICATION WERE SUSPENDED.
PR. PUTIN STOOD UP WITH CRIMINAL ASAD & BIDEN BETRYED ALLIES. pic.twitter.com/olCVQtNo2j— Sarfaraz (@Sarfaraz1201) August 17, 2021
Thanks for reposting it! It certainly defines the moment.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-pushes-covid-19-vaccine-says-he-very-proud-it-1620880
Donald Trump Pushes COVID-19 Vaccine, Says He is ‘Very Proud’ of It
Former President Donald Trump says that he is “very proud” of the COVID-19 vaccine and would “love” to see more people get vaccinated.
Trump boasted that he had purchased “billions and billions of dollars” worth of vaccine doses in advance while serving as president and gently urged his followers to take the vaccine during a Wednesday interview on Newsmax TV’s Greg Kelly Tonight.
The former president said that the vaccine had prevented the COVID-19 pandemic death toll, which currently stands at over 4.3 million worldwide, from matching the even worse toll of up to 100 million people who died during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 to 1920.
“I bought billions and billions of dollars of the vaccine and that’s why we’ve been taking it for a long time now,” added Trump. “Without that we really would have a big problem. And I do believe people have to have their freedoms and all that but, you know, I’d love to see them take the vaccine.”
Trump made similar comments earlier on Wednesday during an interview on Fox Business with Maria Bartiromo. The former president said that the “problem with people not wanting to take” the vaccine, which he suggested should be called the “Trumpcine” in April, was due to the public lacking trust in President Joe Biden.
“I’m proud of the vaccine, I’ve taken the vaccine, I’m very, very proud of it,” Trump told Bartiromo. “When I was president, you didn’t have this problem with people not wanting to take it. They don’t take it because they don’t trust Biden and they don’t trust the Biden administration.”
“When I was president, you didn’t have people protesting the vaccine,” he added. “Everybody wanted to get it and we were giving out over a million shots a day... now it’s coming back through the Delta... people that do get [the vaccine] get better much quicker, it’s a very important thing to know, they don’t get nearly as sick.”
However, during the same interview Trump suggested that fully vaccinated people getting a vaccine booster shot—which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says will be recommended for all adults beginning on September 20—”sounds to me like a money-making operation for Pfizer.”
Although vaccines commonly require booster shots, the former president went on to falsely claim that the COVID-19 vaccines developed while he was in office had originally been “good for life” and suggested that the push for booster shots could be explained by “that guy that runs Pfizer” getting “dollar signs” in his eyes.
Trump and allies have feuded with Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla since the company announced positive vaccine trial results shortly after the former president lost to Biden in the 2020 election. During an April interview on The Carlos Watson Show, Bourla said that Trump had reminded him prior to the election that releasing the information earlier could “help” his chances.
Polls and vaccination data have shown that those who voted for Trump in 2020 are more likely to resist receiving any doses of COVID-19 vaccine than Biden voters, despite Trump boasting about the vaccine and reminding his followers that he has personally been vaccinated.
Newsweek reached out to the office of Trump for comment.
Good morning, lysie!
A BACON taco for breakfast!
You are so creative!
Thank you!
Thank you for posting such an encouraging story! I have a cat that looks just like that. I can imagine that cat thinking, “Took you humans long enough.” They are so smart!
Guy Benson
@guypbenson
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Biden — not talking about Afghanistan — aggressively attacking GOP governors on school mask mandates. He says it’s about SCIENCE & safety. The EU’s CDC & UK do NOT recommend masks for kids under 12 in classrooms, based on data. Are they anti-science too? Are they against safety?
Alexandra Marshall
@ellymelly
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6h
Good luck with #VaccinePassports for a vaccine that requires constant booster shots. 7.6 billion every 6 months. You work out the logistics.
Byron Donalds
@ByronDonalds
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17h
The White House lectern is collecting dust under the Biden-Harris Admin.
Former President Trump never shied away from answering tough questions. Be it at the WH lectern, the South Lawn, Oval Office, you name it.
All Biden does is run away.
Where’s the transparency?
Good morning. You are welcome. We had a cat like that, too. Yes. What took you so long? LOL So sweet.
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