[libstripper]

Latest on the Xkden s**t storm. I'd be surprised if Kabul lasts more than a week, since the Taliban are only 30 miles away. There are 4,000 people employed at the U.S. embassy, 1,400 of whom are Americans. What's going to happen to the rest? It's looking like quite a few thousand people will need to be airlifted out, using what airplanes? How long are commercial airlines going to continue fling into Kabul, given the strong likelihood that the Taliban have at least some man portable AA missiles?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

So, exactly what is the plan to secure the nukes Afghanistan has?

[1Old Pro]

“There’s going to be no circumstance when you’re going to see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan.”

Biden has it handled

[Chad_the_Impaler]

There are 4,000 people employed at the U.S. embassy, 1,400 of whom are Americans. What's going to happen to the rest?

It's worse than that, since many other countries are depending on the U.S. to get their citizens out: "More than a dozen nations have contacted the U.S. military for assistance in removing their personnel from Kabul should the security situation dictate it, officials said."

[Georgia Girl 2]

“What airplanes”

They are bringing in AC 130’s. My guess is in the end they will start jamming people in like sardines for evac as well as covering fire for the final turn tail and run operation.

They should have quietly drawn down the Embassy to 100 people a month or more ago and assisted the Afghani loyalists in fleeing to Pakistan. Trump would likely have done that and kept a security force in the area until everyone was out. Now its Saigon 2.0

[george76]

Sent Meghan, AOC, and .. over to do a dance workshop / engage the Taliban with woke views

[MustKnowHistory]

Posters keep comparing this to Saigon, but I think it may be more accurate to compare it to the fall of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Will we see American hostages?

[PGR88]

I’ve never been to Afghanistan. I would assume that life in Kabul and one or two others cities is at least somewhat “modern.” There must be a generation born as long as a 1995, who have grown up with decent schools, grocery stores, cell phones, stability, etc...and its all they know.

[moviefan8]

Will they be wearing masks on the helicopter and plane?

Asking for a Karen friend.

[jz638]

It was always going to be bad when the US pulled out of Afghanistan, everyone who wasn’t a deluded or incompetent drone knew that already, but there’s no reason it should have been this incompetently done.

So much materiel just left to be taken by the Taliban and probably examined and exploited by the Chinese.

It won’t mean much to America directly, but indirectly, it encourages and emboldens our strategic adversaries, which is much worse.

[sauropod]

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