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UK 'will try to keep airport open' in Afghanistan after troops withdraw on August 31
The Mirror ^ | 25 August 2021 | Abigail O'Leary

Posted on 08/25/2021 3:49:39 AM PDT by blueplum

The UK is reportedly working to keep an airport open in Afghanistan after troops withdraw on August 31 - meaning commercial flights could continue to take people from the country.

It comes after Boris Johnson allied forces would "go on right up to the last moment that we can", and "we're confident we can get thousands more out" following G7 meeting today.

But he added: "The situation at the airport is not getting any better,...

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; airlifts; british; dereliction; kabul; rout; surrender
Tally has already said no; Turkey is also posturing to take over the airport so our military can pull out; tally says no, but Turkey is bigger and badder, so...

In the meantime the spineless wonders at the G7, rather than issue a condemnation of the coup, and disavowment of legitimacy of a taliban govt, issued a joint letter calling for the UN to provide 'long term regional' humanitarian aid (that would be the US ultimately)

Lovely

1 posted on 08/25/2021 3:49:39 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

It would help if US forces were there to assist. But biden has obeyed his new overlords and will not help.

The president of the USA is acting deliberately to leave Americans stranded among subhuman savages because the filthy-beard towelheads told him to do it. The chicoms are holding a dossier that they will release if puppet man doesn’t obey.

This is unreal. Is it because we were conditioned to accept this kind of thing during bammy’s 8 years? Or is the American public totally brain dead? Or is it the fear of covid and the never-ending parade of deadly variants that march before our eyes to keep us scared?


2 posted on 08/25/2021 5:41:49 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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