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As U.S. leaves Afghanistan, Europe sours on Biden
The Washington Post, via SF Gate ^ | August 31, 2021 | by Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post

Posted on 08/31/2021 11:11:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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1 posted on 08/31/2021 11:11:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well then.....

A sour Europe can’t complain when ISIS K and Al Qaeda are precision bombed on a Fraday


2 posted on 08/31/2021 11:12:59 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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Stolen elections have consequences


3 posted on 08/31/2021 11:13:17 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The lights are on, but no one's home.

Hell, the lights aren't even on.

4 posted on 08/31/2021 11:14:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (On the backs of Joseph Stolen and future Lessident Harris, the Democrat party should evaporate.)
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They got what they wanted. I don’t want to hear them whine


5 posted on 08/31/2021 11:15:16 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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6 posted on 08/31/2021 11:16:31 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Move all US troops out of Germany to Poland. Let the eurosnots consider a future where the US Cavalry should not be expected to gallop in to the rescue.

The EUsnots actually loathe the fact the USA arrived "late" for both WWI and WWII after having sent millions of their own boys off to the slaughter.

And they learned very little about weakness.

7 posted on 08/31/2021 11:16:54 AM PDT by corkoman
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Weii,maybe one dim bulb.


8 posted on 08/31/2021 11:18:31 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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Frankly European Leaders will ride Biden out regardless of what he does.....I don’t see them going to far forward without the US. They are still dependent militarily on the US.


9 posted on 08/31/2021 11:18:48 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

at least they knew where Trump stood, and never wavered


10 posted on 08/31/2021 11:19:18 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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Those sophisticated Europeans seem kind of stupid. But they’re coming around. Maybe.


11 posted on 08/31/2021 11:21:37 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. Weaker, a Jr partner good at losing wars.)
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The reality of the Afghanistan war is money. We were told that we were building and buying an army, a government. But then there was no government. There was no army. So what happened to the 100s of billions of dollars every year? Thats what we need to get to the bottom of. Our Army, our state department gave away $100 billion dollars a year. To who? for what?

You can let them off easy by assuming it was stupidity. I don’t think so. I think people know where that money went. I think people got that money on purpose. Who were they? Where are they now? And where is the money? That amount of money is too huge. We should never stop looking in to it.


12 posted on 08/31/2021 11:22:01 AM PDT by poinq
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Nothing should have been done without planned coordination with our allies with folks, military or not, in Afghanistan. Like with Bagram, not only were the Afghans not told, before it was done in the middle of the night, no other NATO allies there knew about it either.

The “plan” was apparently no plan at all.


13 posted on 08/31/2021 11:22:28 AM PDT by Wuli
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Nothing should have been done without planned coordination with our allies with folks, military or not, in Afghanistan. Like with Bagram, not only were the Afghans not told, before it was done in the middle of the night, no other NATO allies there knew about it either.

The “plan” was apparently no plan at all.


14 posted on 08/31/2021 11:22:31 AM PDT by Wuli
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But will they let him stay in “the club”, you know, because he pays heavy dues?


15 posted on 08/31/2021 11:22:44 AM PDT by Migraine
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"We're not islands. The decisions of our allies have consequences for their allies,"

LOL Really rich coming from the Germans, whose foreign policy is based on naked mercantile self-interest cloaked with multinational virtue signaling. Little more than clever parasitism.

16 posted on 08/31/2021 11:24:51 AM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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Hey Europe! I could have told you what to expect from the drooler-in-chief! But you didn’t ask me!


17 posted on 08/31/2021 11:26:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Trump: Make America Great Again. biden: Make Taliban Great Again. (Click on my user name))
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He’ll send them all large amounts of U.S. tax dollars to soothe their anxieties.


18 posted on 08/31/2021 11:28:29 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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What an idiot.

BTW, Great pic.

19 posted on 08/31/2021 11:31:48 AM PDT by TheConservativeTejano (The Business of America is Business...)
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Or when when ISIS K and Al Qaeda precision bomb the Eiffel Tower.


20 posted on 08/31/2021 11:34:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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