Posted on 10/03/2021 6:16:50 PM PDT by elpadre
There have been multiple reports of military planes arriving at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, just hours after images emerged showing that power was restored to the base for the first time since US forces evacuated the stronghold in July.
Images circulating on social media appear to show the airbase's floodlights blazing in the distance, amid reports that several military planes have taken off and landed at the base in recent hours.
Several sources suggest that the aircraft are Chinese, given the Taliban are not thought to possess the expertise needed to power the base or maintain and fly several military aircraft.
It comes after Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center think tank, said China would likely be very interested in occupying the airbase following the US pullout.
US forces in Afghanistan abandoned their main base at Bagram airport overnight in July - shutting off the lights and slipping away into the night without telling government forces who were supposed to take it over. Images circulating on social media appear to show the airbase's floodlights blazing in the distance for the first time since US forces abandoned the base in July It comes after Yun Sun, director of the China Program at the Stimson Center think tank, said China would likely be very interested in occupying the airbase following the US pullout
It has been confirmed by multiple sources that several military planes have arrived at the airbase after it was powered up for the first time since the US pullout There are unconfirmed report that the planes arriving at Bagram are Chinese military planes, though this has not been verified by credible sources
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Shame. Shame, Biden. But you have no shame.
“....The Taliban has already begun talking up plans for cooperation with Beijing.
A Taliban spokesman told an Italian newspaper that Afghanistan’s new rulers will rely primarily on financing from China as it seeks to head off a looming humanitarian crisis and begin reconstruction.
‘China is our most important partner and represents a fundamental and extraordinary opportunity for us, because it is ready to invest and rebuild our country,’ Zabihullah Mujahid told La Repubblica in an interview.....”
What a waste of American lives.
Also, as much as I respect and admire the American military, the military hierarchy seems to have become overpopulated with political hacks. I’m worried about our readiness.
Biden Effect. Afghanistan, Taiwan, what is the next domino to be threatened by feckless stupidity?
Biden can’t button his Tshirt let alone do anything which requires hand/eye coordination. This is the solidification of the #JihadJunta’s Easter Hemisphere Cabal. Period. The Taliban will bow down to Xi’s minions..
Good let the Chicoms and Talibunny’s have fun with each other.
sounds like Biden was up to his old games by giving billion dollars in equipment and many billion dollars in installations, and a giant foothold (Afghanistan) to China. He and China seem to conjoined at the pelvis. I wonder what control China has over him??
Right about Biden.
Who in the West would want such a cabal (I.e., who pulls the strings)?)
I believe Weekend at Biden needs a full team just to coordinate him taking a wee.
The Chinese are getting what they paid Biden for.
Alliances based on hateand spite dont work out so well.
Now consider how China treats muslims inside its own country, eventually it wont work out well with the taliban.
IslamoNazis running the population with $85 Billion dollars of abandoned USA latest weapons.....
and Communist China’s military machine moving right in to take over the strategic air force and army bases .... right in the middle of Asia !
plus, hundreds of civilians reportedly murdered already by the taliban Moslem murder gangsters
all within 100 days of Mr. Biden taking office
what will be the next horrible damage?
the House of Saud doing “touch and go” before any taliban atc has any clue?
Sunni vs. crazed Sunnis who dare to call their “country” (and they are losing thousands in kinetic events with the Northern Alliance, some in Kabul not to digress. Allah Snackbar— they do fear the commandos who have infiltrated no doubt.
If we were to go to war with the PRC, we would lose as convincingly as the French lost to the Germans in 1940. For all the same reasons.
An army is a reflection of the society that puts it in the field.
One needs to check the India Times and smaller stringers in country. The re-naming of Afghanistan as an “Emirate” is irritating very powerful Sunnis in the Gulf Cooperation Council who have forces in Afghan. Certainly not being discussed in clear.
Is it now China’s turn to accomplish what the former Soviet Union failed to do? Is Afghanistan in for a surprise?
How dare you denigrate our President without knowing how much Bribe money he and Hunter got from the ChiComs for the Military Base.
US and Russia came into Afghanistan uninvited - by force. China is being asked in - Afghanistan is begging for their support - big difference.
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