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Onvacation
2021 Aug 16, 9:49am
Onvacation
2021 Aug 16, 9:49am
MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
They already tried Vietnam; they failed. Taiwan will kill a lot of PRC combatants before it falls, if it falls.
Chin's economic warfare works better than their military.
It would be a pure blessing if China tried to move in. They're not that stupid though. Their first move will be Taiwan or Vietnam.
They already tried Vietnam; they failed. Taiwan will kill a lot of PRC combatants before it falls, if it falls.
Chin's economic warfare works better than their military.
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BoomAndBustCycle
2021 Aug 16, 9:59am
I woulda had more respect for Biden if he came out and said beforehand this was going to be bad… thousands will die but we have to pull off the band-aid sometime. This just shows incompetence and no planning at the top.
The last 4 years I always thought the Taliban and such were biding their time until Trump was out of office to attack. Mainly because they feared he would nuke the whole country. I think I was correct. Fear of crazy is a powerful deterrent. Not that nuking a country is good policy… but Trump came across as someone who strike first.
I am curious how organized the current Taliban is? Are they just a giant mob at this point? Or is their actual sophistication … that is yet to be seen.
The last 4 years I always thought the Taliban and such were biding their time until Trump was out of office to attack. Mainly because they feared he would nuke the whole country. I think I was correct. Fear of crazy is a powerful deterrent. Not that nuking a country is good policy… but Trump came across as someone who strike first.
I am curious how organized the current Taliban is? Are they just a giant mob at this point? Or is their actual sophistication … that is yet to be seen.
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mell
2021 Aug 16, 10:02am
This is an unmitigated disaster - never seen something like this during any US presidency in the past decades.
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GreaterNYCDude
2021 Aug 16, 1:04pm
1) Did they (The Taliban) violate the terms of the peace treaty the signed under Trump?
1a) if yes, why can't we go back in?
1b) If no, perhaps we should let them be.
(Although you can't trust them.)
Let somone else sort you this mess.
Edit: Shame we can't keep an embassy there. We have them in almost all the other countries we've ever been involved with.
1a) if yes, why can't we go back in?
1b) If no, perhaps we should let them be.
(Although you can't trust them.)
Let somone else sort you this mess.
Edit: Shame we can't keep an embassy there. We have them in almost all the other countries we've ever been involved with.
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Bd6r
2021 Aug 16, 2:24pm
Bd6r
2021 Aug 16, 2:24pm
BoomAndBustCycle says
Biden did the correct thing in withdrawing, but it was not well-organized and degenerated in chaos. We can blame him all we want, but the mess there belongs to Bush.
About Taliban, it is not a giant mob, and neither it is what most press tells us about them: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/16/afghanistan-history-taliban-collapse-504977
The guy writing this is fairly knowledgeable, and has covered Afghanistan in 1980's and 1990's.
The power of kinship led to a common arrangement whereby extended families have protected themselves by sending one son to fight with the government army or police (for pay) and another son to fight with the Taliban. This has been a strategy in many civil wars, for example, among English noble families in the 15th-century Wars of the Roses. It means that at a given point, one of the sons can desert and return home without fearing persecution by the winning side.
This just shows incompetence and no planning at the top.
The last 4 years I always thought the Taliban and such were biding their time until Trump was out of office to attack. Mainly because they feared he would nuke the whole country. I think I was correct. Fear of crazy is a powerful deterrent. Not that nuking a country is good policy… but Trump came across as someone who strike first.
I am curious how organized the current Taliban is? Are they just a giant mob at this point? Or is their actual sophistication … that is yet to be seen.
Biden did the correct thing in withdrawing, but it was not well-organized and degenerated in chaos. We can blame him all we want, but the mess there belongs to Bush.
About Taliban, it is not a giant mob, and neither it is what most press tells us about them: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/16/afghanistan-history-taliban-collapse-504977
The guy writing this is fairly knowledgeable, and has covered Afghanistan in 1980's and 1990's.
The power of kinship led to a common arrangement whereby extended families have protected themselves by sending one son to fight with the government army or police (for pay) and another son to fight with the Taliban. This has been a strategy in many civil wars, for example, among English noble families in the 15th-century Wars of the Roses. It means that at a given point, one of the sons can desert and return home without fearing persecution by the winning side.
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richwicks
2021 Aug 16, 2:26pm
richwicks
2021 Aug 16, 2:26pm
MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says
I have said this multiple times, but it's worth repeating. The US national debt, doubles every 8 years, regardless of who is president, and has been doing this since Nixon took us off the gold standard.
Here was our debt in 1971: https://www.polidiotic.com/by-the-numbers/us-national-debt-by-year/
$398,129,744,455.54
Here's what it would be if it doubled every 8 years:
1971 398,129,744,455.53
1979 796,259,488,911.07
1987 1,592,518,977,822.15
1995 3,185,037,955,644.31
2003 6,370,075,911,288.63
2011 12,740,151,822,577.27
2019 25,480,303,645,154.55
2027 50,960,607,290,309.11
2035 101,921,214,580,618.23
Here's the debt today.
https://usdebtclock.org/
We are fucked. Simple as that. At one point, we're going to have to revolt. They're going to trigger one anyhow, and they are going to seriously try to take us into communism for these mother fuckers to stay in power.
It's funny but after almost 25 years of Total Republican Control of the Purse, we are in more debt than anytime in US History.
I have said this multiple times, but it's worth repeating. The US national debt, doubles every 8 years, regardless of who is president, and has been doing this since Nixon took us off the gold standard.
Here was our debt in 1971: https://www.polidiotic.com/by-the-numbers/us-national-debt-by-year/
$398,129,744,455.54
Here's what it would be if it doubled every 8 years:
1971 398,129,744,455.53
1979 796,259,488,911.07
1987 1,592,518,977,822.15
1995 3,185,037,955,644.31
2003 6,370,075,911,288.63
2011 12,740,151,822,577.27
2019 25,480,303,645,154.55
2027 50,960,607,290,309.11
2035 101,921,214,580,618.23
Here's the debt today.
https://usdebtclock.org/
We are fucked. Simple as that. At one point, we're going to have to revolt. They're going to trigger one anyhow, and they are going to seriously try to take us into communism for these mother fuckers to stay in power.
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RC2006
2021 Aug 16, 2:40pm
RC2006
2021 Aug 16, 2:40pm
They will strip all of our saving/retirment accounts and put us all on EBT cards amounts determined by our social credit score.
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Booger
2021 Aug 16, 2:58pm
Booger
2021 Aug 16, 2:58pm
Hitler finds out about the Taliban reconquest of Afghanistan:
https://youtu.be/8T1txBRoQxQ
https://youtu.be/8T1txBRoQxQ
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gabbar
2021 Aug 16, 3:13pm
gabbar
2021 Aug 16, 3:13pm
Why would anyone with EVEN A HALF DEAD BRAIN, expect Afghanistan army (300k well equipped Sunnis and paid for my American taxpayer, project cost 1 trillion) fight Taliban who are also Sunnis? It would be totally Unislamic if this occurred. These bastards live and die by Islam. Does anyone have even the tiniest common sense? Is there any other nation on this planet that does something as stupid?
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Ceffer
2021 Aug 16, 3:20pm
Ceffer
2021 Aug 16, 3:20pm
gabbar says
Give Biden and Kamala a chance. i'm sure this isn't a personal best yet.
Is there any other nation on this planet that does something as stupid?
Give Biden and Kamala a chance. i'm sure this isn't a personal best yet.
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BoomAndBustCycle
2021 Aug 18, 7:52am
Dholliday126 says
So Democrats plan is to sterilize and kill off all Democrats with the vaccine leaving only Republicans and anti-Vaxers left to vote in a decade? That’s a pretty bad long game strategy if that’s what you are insinuating. Also killing off or disabling your worker bees isn’t good for the hive. The queen will die.
The only way to really beat your enemy is to sterilize them somehow and slowly kill off the rest of the population...sound familiar?....
So Democrats plan is to sterilize and kill off all Democrats with the vaccine leaving only Republicans and anti-Vaxers left to vote in a decade? That’s a pretty bad long game strategy if that’s what you are insinuating. Also killing off or disabling your worker bees isn’t good for the hive. The queen will die.
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WookieMan
2021 Aug 18, 7:53am
WookieMan
2021 Aug 18, 7:53am
Bd6r says
I didn't like Bush. But it doesn't matter. A deal was brokered and Biden was too petty to stick with it because it would benefit Trump. There's no other excuse. State Department, Pentagon, Congress, etc. everyone knew the date. If they stopped preparing for some reason, the only one that could have done that is Biden or he's not leading and managing those he has control over. It's an embarrassing disaster for the US. Far more so than electing a celebrity persona like Trump.
You can love or hate Trump, but it's pretty indisputable he mostly did a good job. It was the most peaceful presidency in my lifetime which is what I thought most people wanted. The economy finally rebounded instead of Obama's empty words words and 1% growth at best.
What Biden did with this is probably a top 10 and maybe top 5 embarrassment for the US ever. I was willing to give him a chance, but what was/is happening is totally not acceptable and we can't blame Bush still. If I'm handed a mess at work caused by someone else, I'd man up and get the job done. Can't blame Trump, Obama or Bush. You inherited a mess and you made it worse. That's on Biden and his weakness as a man for not sticking to the terms of an agreement and executing it. His job is to protect Americans, he didn't. Failure.
Biden did the correct thing in withdrawing, but it was not well-organized and degenerated in chaos. We can blame him all we want, but the mess there belongs to Bush.
I didn't like Bush. But it doesn't matter. A deal was brokered and Biden was too petty to stick with it because it would benefit Trump. There's no other excuse. State Department, Pentagon, Congress, etc. everyone knew the date. If they stopped preparing for some reason, the only one that could have done that is Biden or he's not leading and managing those he has control over. It's an embarrassing disaster for the US. Far more so than electing a celebrity persona like Trump.
You can love or hate Trump, but it's pretty indisputable he mostly did a good job. It was the most peaceful presidency in my lifetime which is what I thought most people wanted. The economy finally rebounded instead of Obama's empty words words and 1% growth at best.
What Biden did with this is probably a top 10 and maybe top 5 embarrassment for the US ever. I was willing to give him a chance, but what was/is happening is totally not acceptable and we can't blame Bush still. If I'm handed a mess at work caused by someone else, I'd man up and get the job done. Can't blame Trump, Obama or Bush. You inherited a mess and you made it worse. That's on Biden and his weakness as a man for not sticking to the terms of an agreement and executing it. His job is to protect Americans, he didn't. Failure.
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SunnyvaleCA
2021 Aug 18, 1:03pm
Humor from the Babylon Bee...
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-praises-taliban-for-wearing-masks-during-attack
https://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-praises-taliban-for-wearing-masks-during-attack
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Afghanistan will have a "peaceful transfer of power" to the Taliban, the country's interior minister said.
Talks are underway to form an interim government led by the militant group, CNN reported.
Ashraf Ghani, the county's president, is expected to relinquish power shortly, according to local reports.
https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-victory-in-afghanistan-interim-government-planned-reports-2021-8
"Lies no longer last a month now"
Don't expect all the Establishment Republicans and Democrats who criticized Trump for "Withdrawing from Afghanistan too Early" to criticize Biden. Right Mittens?