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The West's empty promise: Kabul evacuation flights take off EMPTY as Taliban close off airport and US general warns 'overwhelming force' will be used if fighters interfere with evacuation - as women beg soldiers for help through gates
dm ^ | 8/18/2021 | pleasance

Posted on 08/18/2021 6:11:08 AM PDT by RummyChick

Evacuation flights out of Kabul are taking off almost empty despite tens of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the country after the Taliban formed a ring of steel around the airport and barred most people from reaching it.

One Australian Hercules C-130 aircraft with room for 120 people took off with just 26 on board today, the government has confirmed, while a German Airbus A-400M with room for 150 was carrying just seven people when it departed yesterday.

That is despite there being around 50,000 Afghans gathered at the airport who have been promised sanctuary by western nations. One particularly harrowing piece of footage showed women pleading with US troops that 'the Taliban are coming for me'.

America, Britain, Canada, and Germany are among those who have pledged to take tens of thousands of Afghan refugees each as part of a 'big-hearted' response to the collapse of their country that has failed to materialise.

However, according to a British Ex-Pat and former Royal Marine, British and other foreign nationals are struggling to get through into Kabul airport, and are even being turned away.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistandebacle; bidensfault; emptythreats; kabul; taliban
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I am sure they see the US as a Paper Tiger at this point
1 posted on 08/18/2021 6:11:08 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

The speech that shamed America: Its contemptible dishonesty would have made Donald Trump blush. Now, this blistering analysis by ANDREW NEIL asks - how can the liberals’ hero Joe Biden ever recover?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9903067/The-speech-shamed-America-ANDREW-NEIL-asks-Joe-Biden-recover.html


2 posted on 08/18/2021 6:12:09 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

trump would have already been impeached

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9903215/Rick-Scott-suggests-REMOVING-Biden-office-Afghanistan-crisis.html


3 posted on 08/18/2021 6:12:35 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

They’re not afraid of your “overwhelming” force. You couldn’t beat them after 20 years and now you’ve lost the advantages you had. Should have probably had a plan before all this happened.


4 posted on 08/18/2021 6:15:06 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: RummyChick

when they saw Xiden flirt with 9 year olds, asking
if they were “18 years old?”, and then disappear
with his ice cream cone, THEY KNEW.

They already knew ELECTION FRAUD could take out the
dying Republic, through THEIR satellites Leonardo et alia.

Frogs, meet boiling water and ‘no escape’
designed to change your DNA to make you a Trans-human
owned by BIGpharma and the NaziWorldOrder.


5 posted on 08/18/2021 6:17:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: RummyChick

The US cut their access to a $9.5B in GIRoA funds held here in the US. This is a pressure point to begin negotiations for access. Hostages come next.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/afghanistan-taliban-us-treasury-afghan-central-bank-reserves-monetary-sanctions-101629283295775.html


6 posted on 08/18/2021 6:19:53 AM PDT by zek157
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To: RummyChick
"U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Frank McKenzie, center left, warned the Taliban it will meet with 'overwhelming force' if it tries to impede evacuations from Kabul airport"

I bet he is not making that statement while on the tarmac in Kabul...

7 posted on 08/18/2021 6:20:16 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: RummyChick

Has the biden crowd given the taliban nukes yet ?


8 posted on 08/18/2021 6:20:26 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: wiseprince

When biden called to leave Bagram airbase it was over.


9 posted on 08/18/2021 6:23:06 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: no-to-illegals
Has the biden crowd given the taliban nukes yet ?

"hey, we just got here...man!"

10 posted on 08/18/2021 6:23:17 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

“The United States Air Force (USAF) has opened an investigation into the chaotic scenes at Kabul airport on Monday as people scrambled to escape Taliban rule, that saw at least eight people killed”

This is hilariously funny to me. Some poor military person involved with that transport is going to get in trouble when it is Top Brass that deserve the boot.


11 posted on 08/18/2021 6:23:44 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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‘The Taliban look like 1970s hippies’: Social media users ridicule the terrorists as they crack down on western dress in Kabul - but hang on to their sunglasses, high-top trainers and own-branded merchandise

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9904397/Kabuls-style-conscious-replaced-shalwar-kameez-Taliban-hold-designer-items.html


12 posted on 08/18/2021 6:25:33 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

the pics at the link are funny...and kind of tragic to realize they bested the World’s military


13 posted on 08/18/2021 6:26:31 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Paging hunter ....


14 posted on 08/18/2021 6:26:51 AM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: RummyChick

I don’t know how he managed to do it with all the plastic surgery he’s had, but that SOB blinked.
In front of the whole world he blinked. And to the entire world that means the USA blinked.
Unforgivable crime against this country and all countries who value freedom. Spit


15 posted on 08/18/2021 6:27:11 AM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. OR THE MASK)
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To: smvoice

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15898067/woman-executed-taliban-not-wearing-burqa-death-squads/


16 posted on 08/18/2021 6:28:38 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15897198/taliban-thugs-attack-women-children-kabul-airport/


17 posted on 08/18/2021 6:29:05 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

What about American citizens? Are they stuck in kabul? remember joe the traitor said that he would not prioritize the evacuation of Americans from kabul. A “commander in chief” who leaves citizens behind to savage subhuman beasts is no commander.


18 posted on 08/18/2021 6:29:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: RummyChick

unrelated but in the learn something every day category. beware of kidney beans

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1478431/Burglary-warning-families-crime-targeted-kidney-bean-trick-police


19 posted on 08/18/2021 6:30:32 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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To: RummyChick

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1478579/Afghanistan-latest-British-expats-rejected-Kabul-Airport-evacuation-TalkRadio-news-video


20 posted on 08/18/2021 6:31:07 AM PDT by RummyChick (Bagram was the most logical exit point. Stand up and justify your decision (hat tip Larrytown))
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