Posted on 08/16/2021 12:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?
The events of the last 72 hours have been breathtaking in their speed and their seriousness. The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan, after America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to install and keep a secular government in that landlocked, opium-producing country. In the rapid advance of the Taliban, ten thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilian allies have been trapped in the country, with no chance of escape.
Women will be raped; men will be beheaded or tortured....unless we pay the Taliban billions in ransom. The President and his spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, are nowhere to be found. Biden, as addled as he is with cognitive decline, released a pathetic picture of himself at Camp David, alone and looking dejected (while, by the way, blowing the cover of several CIA Department Heads on the panel of TV sets Biden was looking at), while Psaki has decided to take a week-long vacation starting on August 15th. Calls are going unanswered. Nobody is home at the White House. We have no leadership whatsoever.
What does this mean for YOU?
In the last 72 hours, the standing of America as a force to be feared has evaporated. Every tin-horn dictator, every evil actor, now knows that America is a paper tiger and is rudderless. Our leadership is incompetent and unresponsive to any real crisis. We are much more preoccupied that transexuals and perverts be revered and that those on the political right (you know, the EFFECTIVE people) are called 'domestic terrorists'.
I expect China to move on Taiwan. I expect Islamic terrorists to swarm across our unsecured southern border. I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
As international upheaval inevitably happens, you can expect instability in the prices of commodities. Food, energy, products ... all these things will fluctuate wildly in price. An overheated stock market will tumble, costing people billions and trillions of dollars in losses. As terrorist events occur with more frequency and more deadliness, our government will clamp down more and more on personal liberties, perhaps outright ignoring the Constitutional freedoms we have been guaranteed. They have been encroaching on those liberties anyways, with terrorist events occurring more often, they will consider that justification for the outright trampling of our rights.
What does this mean for YOU?
It means rampant inflation and bare store shelves. It means unavailability of products, energy, food. It means domestic police-state tactics to deal with the increase in REAL terrorism, as opposed to the imagined terrorism of 1/6/2021. It means companies will collapse and jobs will evaporate. It means wealth you have laid up will be drained of value quickly.
It means uncertainty, unavailability, and unrest.
What can you do about all of this?
Draw closer to the Lord, and appreciate all you have right now. Prepping is okay, but what will it do but extend your survival for a few more months? The answer is to continue to go on, to go to work as if all is well, to be prudent with your finances to the best of your ability, to be prepared to learn new skills and embark on new careers, to be prepared to remake our country in a sane fashion after the 'woke' are demonstrated to have been utter fools.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, warns us of the way that reality always asserts itself in the face of the insane imaginings of those who deny reality. I would say that America has reached a place of such a dearth of reality (57 genders? REALLY?) that when reality hits, it will be powerful and very painful.
“Man shall not live by bread alone but EVERY word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”
Luke 4:4
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6. “Singing to yourselves in Psalms songs, making melody in your heart to the Lord”
Here’s one. Use at your location, with attribution of course. :)
COMEON DUDE. Don’t make me hit abuse!!!!
Thank you!
But the Taliban leader still has his account.
Afghanistan is worse than the US when it comes to face coverings. They require beards on all the men.
Gillette would go broke.
True, but both the US and the Taliban share a joy of destroying statues and promoting pederasty.
At least under Democrats, we do.
50 years later, same damned helicopter.
50 years later - same damned Biden.
He voted down funds to continue arms to South Vietnam, which had for the three years after we left fended off the NVA.
Well, Biden was right. The people weren’t being lifted off the roof of the embassy. They were being lifted off the courtyard.
Nicely written. I agree.
One clarification:
I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II IN EUROPE. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
The Taliban just got from Biden a gift of tens of billions of useful military assets to be used to terrorize the people of Afghanistan.
The world sees that the Biden administration is clueless on Intel matters.
When twit goog fb reddit insta utube and others as well as cell phones were not turned into and regulated as communications utilities we signed our own freedom death knell.
I will miss fr
Only a fool doesn't believe in hell!
Love that quote, especially coming from a soviet state movie.
We saw - and, sadly, I guess we need to be reminded - there is Something Greater than all this stuff that has kept some of us at each other's throats. And despite our differences, we are all unified in knowing how bad this is.
I haven't seen one FReeper say "well, ya know this is partly Trump's fault" or "Biden couldn't have done anything." Everyone sees with their own eyes that the guy in the chair - even if he's suffering from dementia - told the world very recently that what we are seeing, wouldn't happen. We are in the catbird seat, man, cmon. Wow...how delusional is this Admin? This is a choke on par with the Atlanta Falcons in SB51.
Saigon stuck in people's minds for a LONG time. I suspect, while the MSM and the leftists et al will blame Trump (notice how Bush gets a pass), most normal Americans will see Kabul fall while the Admin is on vacation. I hope it sticks, because this isn't just a small internal matter.
What do we do with this small burst of wind? As you said, come closer to God, use this as a teachable moment for our children so that THEY never forget, and keep the focus on this Admin's colossal failure to mis-estimate this situation.
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