Posted on 01/15/2023 9:17:35 AM PST by nuconvert
While turning a blind eye to the starving Afghan population, on Jan. 4, a Taliban senior leader professed the group has an "obligation" to protect Chinese nationals looking to invest in the country’s mineral and oil wealth.
The comment comes on the heels of a December attack that targeted Chinese investors who frequent Kabul’s Longan Hotel. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province, ISIS-K, claimed responsibility for the assault.
On Jan. 5, the Taliban announced it had killed eight ISIS-K members, including those responsible for the hotel attack. The following day, China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas signed a significant contract to drill oil in northern Afghanistan’s Amu Darya basin.
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Adam: “What’s this ‘coffee’ you speak of?” (the real ‘forbidden fruit’ / ‘temptation of Eve’ story)
(it was humor)
The fruit incident was probably their first, uh, date...
For what? For Biden to abandon them and get our soldiers killed.
So even before that, what did the Afghanis do to fight for their own country?
Why don’t you produce a 20 year long documentary and figure it out.
Well done Douglas Wise for purposefully putting a corrupt moron in charge of foreign policy.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4123859/posts
I bit:D
Initially, the Northern Alliance militiamen did most of the fighting. Then Afghan regulars in partnership with US and forces in NATO’s Special Forces policed the country, and bravely fought alongside Americans for their freedom.
Then the crooked President Kharzai stopped paying them for a few months, while Brandon unilaterally pulled out the bulk of the US forces in the middle of the night, abandoning Baghram air base and all the equipment housed there, NATO and Afghan allies, and Kharzai skedaddled with a satchel of cash, and yes, those Afghan regulars stopped fighting the Talibanis, because Brandon did nothing to force them to honor the previous agreement made by Trump not to take more territories. They tested him out, and found him weak and cowardly, so they took the rest of the country, including Kabul. Epic cluster f#$#$, entirely avoidable. But it’s on Brandon. The Afghan troops, painstakingly trained and equipped, were abandoned and betrayed both by their government and Brandon, and are either dead, captured, turned, in hiding or running for their lives now.
In a nutshell for those with amnesia.
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