Posted on 08/15/2021 5:23:13 PM PDT by conservative98
Taliban officials declared victory and the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after occupying the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday.
Appearing in a Twitter video alongside other Taliban leaders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s cofounder, pronounced victory in the battle for the nation. “We have achieved an unexpected victory,” he said. “Now is the time to test, to show how we serve our people and ensure their future in the best possible way.”
Baradar said the Taliban have appointed him to be “leader of Afghanistan” and take the reigns of government.
Pakistani authorities arrested Baradar in 2010, but freed him in 2018 under pressure from the United States.
The Taliban’s official documents have long referred to the group as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as it claims to be the legitimate government of the country as opposed to the now-defunct U.S.-backed republic.
The restored Islamic Emirate will likely exercise stronger control over the country than it did before the U.S. invasion. The Taliban regime, which ruled most of the country from 1996-2001, never exercised complete territorial control within Afghanistan’s official borders. Much of the northeast was under the control of anti-Taliban militants at the time of the U.S. invasion. Those groups and holdout territories have, however, evaporated. In early July, the Taliban swept through Badakhshan, formerly the center of fiercest resistance against the Taliban pre-invasion, taking many of its districts without a fight.
Afghan soldiers defected and deserted in droves, many fleeing into neighboring Tajikistan. Long War Journal, an independent group dedicated to mapping the Afghan War, asserts the Taliban currently control or maintain a heavy presence in almost 90 percent of the country, including nearly all of the territories that resisted the Islamic Emirate.
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“after occupying the presidential palace “
I would’ve sent a tomahawk there.
Joe Stolen’s first big achievement.
Stolen elections have consequences
Highly indicative. The take-over of the country was so easy, even the Taliban are having trouble believing it.
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now-defunct U.S.-backed republic.
Interesting.
U.S. republic went defunct fall 2020/winter 2021.
U.S. banana republic operating now close to peak suckage.
Maybe they will ally with Pakastan, take ships to Mexico, then march armed on the US border with T-shirts that say “BIDEN, LET US IN!”
WTH??
Leftist spin doctors working overtime tonight. You can bet the MSM will be shoveling the line that this is actually a good thing. No doubt they’ll utterly make up some BS about long term stability, self-rule, or how the Taliban is such a kinder, gentler, changed group of fine fellows...
or they could call it Hell
Probably already have… along with the entire Sandanista army
“Pakistani authorities arrested Baradar in 2010, but freed him in 2018 under pressure from the United States.
WTH?? “
Trump’s state dept.
But would you buy a car from these guys. 😏
All thanks to the GOP Establishment.
With only a 75000 fighting force plus some allies, the Taliban expect to peacefully and/or successfully if not peacefully, hold the country of 30 million together? HEH HEH!
Afghanistan will be returning to its history of being a giant cage match of Tasmanian devils all crammed in and fighting each other viciously!
I saw stories of The Northern Alliance beginning to reconstitute itself already against the Taliban.
A nation so-conceived long endured. But this “all men are created equal” frabajabba is dead white male European. It is so 9/10. Get with it, man. Now it’s dedicated to the proposition that Han Lives Matter. As for the guei, whether black or white, they’re equally irrelevant to the Han master race, unless they can prove they’re useful.
Keep an eye out for this year’s 9/11 and every one from here on out.
And Obama is cheering.
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