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Biden also said that people with mere guns couldn’t win against a government with F-15s and nukes in regards to second Amendment arguments.
Now he’s getting his ass kicked by goat herders with small arms.
Pathetic and wrong.

Shaman says

Biden also said that people with mere guns couldn’t win against a government with F-15s and nukes in regards to second Amendment arguments.

I have to find my copy of "The Technowar in Vietnam". Play by Play on how Iron Age people defeated a Space Age people. Just watch the sky to know what the enemy will do over the next few days in the area. See more than the occasional Scout Helo? Buzzing around the same small clearing? The type and quantity of aircraft tells you it's a patrol or an FSB being set up. Grab them by the belt. Figure how far a 105mm can toss shells, then only engage right at the radius limit and get them to chase you beyond right into prepared fighting positions, punji traps, and claymore tripwires when their General is flying over in a helicopter eating Ice Cream and micromanaging his Ground troops to dash after you at maximum speed and not look around themselves.

Lost the Neocon pincer to begin the final military move into Iran and the Globalist oligarchs lost the profits of their heroin trade. Nothing to see here, move along.

Where was that photo op of George Bush Sr. and Bill Clinton gloating over the poppy fields?

Ceffer says

Lost the Neocon pincer to begin the final military move into Iran and the Globalist oligarchs lost the profits of their heroin trade. Nothing to see here, move along.

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.

We may not like em, but western citizens can learn a thing or two from them on how to resist.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

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.

China has already undermined the opium/heroin trade with cheap-to-manufacture fentanyl, which is hundreds of times more potent than morphine and easy/cost effective to smuggle/distribute without the bulky wrapped packages.

Fentanyl is now mostly responsible for snuffing the narco addicts in USA. I don't know, though, if narcotics addicts still prefer heroin for the high, and are more interested in fentanyl for reducing withdrawal, and the dealers for hiking their profit margins by cutting heroin with fentanyl. It might be that narcotics connoisseurs still prefer heroin.

China's interest in AFG are partly along the lines of securing a rare earths monopoly, since AFG has iridium reserves and apparently other rare earth resources.

Is this really that surprising? When people don't want to be subjugated by another belief system, it doesn't matter if the conqueror is are armed with terminator waifus, they will lose.

The only way to really beat your enemy is to sterilize them somehow and slowly kill off the rest of the population...sound familiar?....

"Thank you, Joe, for being such an asshoe!" So, we predictably see Joe kissing China's ass over their wooing of the Taliban just before the debacle. What a crossfire for the poor, demented pedophile: having to preserve the interests of your bribery slave master while not offending the neocons and oligarchs, while the military is pursuing their own agenda under Trump?

China would just exterminate most of afganistan.

Let them try.

The British, Russians, and Americans did not have a good time in Afghanistan.

Why are they so worried? Won't our divisions of purple haired, vaccinated, tranny Warrior Xamaxons drive the Taliban back into their holes and caves with ease?

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/29777

https://t.me/Qtah_17/6438

China has nearly zero desire to invade Afghanistan.

They already have Belt & Road deals with Kazakhstan & the other former Soviet republics to link up the near east and Europe to PRC over land. And these nations, being mainly ex-Soviet dictatorships themselves, will provide security so that the 'road' isn't just a zone for looters to hang out.

Afghanistan is at best, an inland extension of CPEC, China Pakistan Economic Corridor, which gives China access to the Indian Ocean at Gwadar, which then links with the Gulf States.

https://cpecbulletin.com/2018/01/05/cpec-route-a-complete-guide-to-cpec-and-its-significance/

Realize, unlike during ancient and medieval times, the Kyber Pass is no longer the main artery between Central and South Asia and thus, Afghanistan is basically an isolated nation-state, moving forward.

https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/23628

Question is, does Biden really have the control to send troops back in in force and re-occupy? I would hazard he does not.


https://t.me/TheStormHasArrived17/4691

"Criminal globalist elite" is very appropriate and very accurate.

So what did we gain in all of this? Two decades. Trillions of dollars (probably closer to Billions when you consider undirect costs) thousands of lives lost. For what exactly?

It wouldn't surprise me if we see ISIS pop back up next. The US is no longer feared or respected. We are laughed at by both our adversaries and our allies. The worst part is, how many average Americans are even paying attention?

Somehow we let the Islamist extremists win. Not only do they now control a large swath of territory (again) but are we safer or freer or better off than we were two decades ago? What did we prove?

I wasn't around for Vietnam but the parallels to today are sadly striking.

GreaterNYCDude says

I wasn't around for Vietnam but the parallels to today are sadly striking.

We didn't finance Vietnam with debt spending to any substantial degree, at least relative to today.

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. And while the wars contributed to it, it was mostly non-war spending on nothing we can point our fingers to.

Now they're naked with it, by stating Welfare (Administered by Corporations) is Infrastructure.

What is the debt per citizen in terms of years of labor at the median wage?

The only real measure of value is the amount of work it takes to get something. Money is too variable to be accurate.

So says Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations, which is surprisingly readable in spite of being in English from about the year 1776, like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Emprire. Maybe I'm just getting used to that form of English.

The connections are pretty interesting too:

Edward Gibbon enjoyed The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith met Voltaire (I just read Candide) and Benjamin Franklin in France.

Trump cracks me up.
https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/5262

Shit. Instead of stealing them, we're going to have to pay for them now and compete with the Chinese:
https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/5260

Ceffer says

Trump cracks me up.

Right, like the people murdering Americans and people around the world with the jab have any morals or ethics at all.

They do not.

Great comment on market-ticker forum:

Where was General Milley last night? Pondering which color lipstick to buy before going to bed early so he could finish reading his book on "white rage"?

And where are feminists in this country? I guess trying to cancel some guy on twitter for making a joke 20 years ago is more important than stopping the suffering of the untold number of women/girls who will fall under Taliban rule?

And the LGBTGABCSDSAD "community"? It looks like forcing a small-town bakery into making a cake celebrating their degeneracy is more important than stopping whatever fate befalls the fragile transgender community in Afghanistan.

The whole country has become a joke. We should replace the eagle as our national symbol with something more fitting. How about a morbidly obese Bozo-the-clown bending "Pat" from the old Saturday Night Live over a table, but unable to "perform"?

Patrick says

Adam Smith met Voltaire (I just read Candide) and Benjamin Franklin in France.

"On one occasion, Franklin was dining at a Paris restaurant and learned that Edward Gibbon, the British historian who chronicled ancient Rome’s decline and fall, was there, too. When Gibbon declined to sit with Franklin, a rebel, Franklin replied that if Gibbon ever wanted to write a history of Britain’s decline and fall, he would provide “ample materials.”
https://bencomestoniles.blogspot.com/2009/01/edward-gibbon-and-benjamin-franklin.html

Also, beware that Bulgarian Army from the town of Dirkenduffuldorf or whatever it was called. It's the best for the best in the best of all possible worlds, for without the Indian's STDs, we would not have chocolate.

Good article from a year ago on how Trump was blocked from removing troops.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/07/unconventional-tactic-becomes-congresss-go-weapon-against-troop-withdrawal/166880/

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

"On one occasion, Franklin was dining at a Paris restaurant and learned that Edward Gibbon, the British historian who chronicled ancient Rome’s decline and fall, was there, too. When Gibbon declined to sit with Franklin, a rebel, Franklin replied that if Gibbon ever wanted to write a history of Britain’s decline and fall, he would provide “ample materials.”
https://bencomestoniles.blogspot.com/2009/01/edward-gibbon-and-benjamin-franklin.html

Brilliant! I love Franklin.

krc says

Good article from a year ago on how Trump was blocked from removing troops.
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/07/unconventional-tactic-becomes-congresss-go-weapon-against-troop-withdrawal/166880/

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers who want to stop President Donald Trump from pulling U.S. troops from military conflicts and overseas bases are using a once-unusual tactic that has in the last three years become Congress’ go-to tool.

Lawmakers from the Senate and the House have in the last three years sought to use legislation to prevent the president from pulling troops from Afghanistan, Syria, South Korea, and now Germany — unless the administration certifies that a withdrawal will not harm U.S. or allied interests.

It’s an unusual reversal for Congress, which historically is far more likely to seek to force a return of American troops, not demand that they remain deployed.

Lol, whatever Trump wanted, they wanted the opposite, no matter how irrational or harmful to America.

https://t.me/WeTheMedia/29860

https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/5267

https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/5269

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

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.

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.

This is an unmitigated disaster - never seen something like this during any US presidency in the past decades.

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.

BoomAndBustCycle says

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.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

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.

They will strip all of our saving/retirment accounts and put us all on EBT cards amounts determined by our social credit score.