Posted on 08/16/2021 11:47:11 AM PDT by elpadre
In the end, the Saigon moment happened faster than any Western intel “expert” expected. This is one for the annals: four frantic days that wrapped up the most astonishing guerrilla blitzkrieg of recent times. Afghan-style: lots of persuasion, lots of tribal deals, zero columns of tanks, minimal loss of blood.
August 12 set the scene, with the nearly simultaneous capture of Ghazni, Kandahar and Herat. On August 13, the Taliban were only 50 kilometers from Kabul. August 14 started with the siege of Maidan Shahr, the gateway to Kabul.
Ismail Khan, the legendary elder Lion of Herat, struck a self-preservation deal and was sent by the Taliban as a top-flight messenger to Kabul: President Ashraf Ghani should step out, or else.
Still on Saturday, the Taliban took Jalalabad – and isolated Kabul from the east, all the way to the Afgan-Pakistan border in Torkham, gateway to the Khyber Pass. By Saturday night, Marshal Dostum was fleeing with a bunch of military to Uzbekistan via the Friendship Bridge in Termez; only a few were allowed in. The Taliban duly took over Dostum’s Tony Montana-style palace.
By early morning on August 15, all that was left for the Kabul administration was the Panjshir valley – high in the mountains, a naturally protected fortress – and scattered Hazaras: there’s nothing there in those beautiful central lands, except Bamiyan.
Exactly 20 years ago, I was in Bazarak getting ready to interview the Lion of the Panjshir, commander Masoud, who was preparing a counter-offensive against … the Taliban. History repeating, with a twist. This time I was sent visual proof that the Taliban – following the classic guerrilla sleeping cell playbook – were already in the Panjshir.
And then mid-morning on Sunday brought the stunning visual re-enactment
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“Iran is about to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a full member – another game-changer. Even before resetting the Islamic Emirate, the Taliban have carefully cultivated good relations with key Eurasia players – Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran and the Central Asian ‘stans. The ‘stans are under full Russian protection. Beijing is already planning hefty rare earth business with the Taliban.
On the Atlanticist front, the spectacle of non-stop self-recrimination will consume the Beltway for ages. Two decades, $2 trillion, a forever war debacle of chaos, death and destruction, a still shattered Afghanistan, an exit literally in the dead of night – for what? The only “winners” have been the Lords of the Weapons Racket.”
After COVID and hundreds of thousands of Americans murdered by the PRCs you think we’ll NOW go to war with China? With the resident in office? Calling Hunter Bidden, you need to set this person straight on a few things.
“the most astonishing guerrilla blitzkrieg of recent times. Afghan-style: lots of persuasion, “
Persuasion? LOL
He thinks the Tollybon actually did something. They didn’t. The Afghanistan army turned tail and ran. Biden essentially said F you guys, you’re on your own. They weren’t ready for that. The Tollybon doesn’t deserve credit for a guerilla war they did not fight.
This is going to be much worse than most people realize and executing young women on the 50 yard line as half time football entertainment and beheading, crucifying and the rest of the brutal tortures perfected by ISIS in Syria and Iraq are going to be the least of the disaster and nothing more than collateral damage of the Jihad and other revolutionary violence coming our way.
The Biden Admin was a major player in implementing this plan and part of the plan was knocking America off it's throne as world leader and destroying our economic power, our monetary system and our status as reserve currency to the world.
The stolen election coup we saw in 2020 was just the opening shot in a world wide play to take over
The entire Biden Admin needs to tried for treason
Wow.
The corrupt media received their copy as well I noticed.
Asia Times writes like the Bee.
That’s quite a JUMP.
Taliban are religious fanatics.
Russia and China hate religious fanatics.
If anything they will hate each other more.
After Biden announced the exit, they turned the Afghan Army over to Afghan government to pay salaries which the US had been paying. The Afghan troops had gone for a period of time with no pay and not happy campers. At each city, the Taliban set up a meeting with the local Afghan commanders and offered a sizable sum for them to leave the city. The commanders all took the money and turned the city over to the Taliban.
the enemy of my enemy...
Your analysis is the same as mine....
Not in this case...
Hatred is a strong emotion.
Taliban will have Russia for breakfast and Chinese for dinner.
they will all three deceive each other while using each other
to our detriment...
Ahh, yes. We spent 20 years on Chinas back door atop a pile of rare earth elements that we would need to fight a war with China as China is the source for so many of those elements.
We bided our time not building bases or trying to help to develop those resources and use that economy to try and bring Afghanistan into the modern world.
At the last moment we would spring our attack by pulling our troops and running away.
The master plan all along was to lull them into a false sense of security.
After giving China easy access to control the remainder of earths easily accessible REE and hobbling ourselves the Chinese generals would tell XI that we couldnt possibly be dumb enough to attack...and then WE DO!
BWAHH HA HA HA HA! THAT IS SO ABSOLUTELY BRIL...stupid.
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