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Afghan chaos undercuts Biden's promise of competence


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2021 Aug 18, 2:48pm   117,709 views  1,138 comments

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The shambolic unravelling of America's withdrawal from Afghanistan comes from a yet to be written textbook of "how to lose at everything". Warnings hadn't been heeded, intelligence was clearly totally inadequate, planning was lamentable, execution woeful.

Let's just focus in on one thing - although there are any number that are worthy of examination.
The withdrawal came during the "fighting season" - a phrase I have to say I have always found rather odd. But in Afghanistan there is a fighting season which starts in spring - and then in winter, when the country freezes over, there is a time when the Taliban go home to their tribal homelands. Did no-one think that it might have been better to have ordered the withdrawal for the dead of winter when Taliban forces weren't there, poised to fill the vacuum?

The end result might have been the same - a Taliban takeover - but it would have almost certainly led to a more orderly drawdown. Yet the Biden administration wanted an eye-catching date. They wanted the withdrawal completed by 11 September. Twenty years on from 9/11 - an artificial, self-imposed deadline.

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Biden's election campaign could be boiled down to three messages to distinguish himself from Donald Trump. First, he would be more empathetic. He would be more competent. And instead of "America First", it would be replaced by the mantra "America is back".
But in his address yesterday, there wasn't a whole lot of empathy towards the thousands of Afghans who've helped Americans these past 20 years. On competence, even his biggest cheerleaders would struggle to say the withdrawal of American troops has been anything other than shambolic.
And after the bewildering events of the past few days, how exactly is America back?

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But on the policy itself, Joe Biden is utterly defiant. He summoned up his inner Harry Truman and made clear in his speech that the buck stops with him. He was, however, happy to distribute blame in much the same way that a muck spreader disperses manure in all directions. The Afghan leadership weren't up to it, the Afghan armed forces had no fight in them; Donald Trump had negotiated a bad deal.

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A fascinating nugget from a briefing that's just been given by Joe Biden's National Security Adviser. Since the fall of Kabul, Jake Sullivan revealed, Biden hadn't spoken to another world leader. Wasn't that just a bit surprising, given that there were a lot of other nations - including Britain - who'd committed vast resources to Afghanistan?

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When the G7 gathered in Cornwall and the Nato nations met in Brussels the sense of relief was palpable among the prime ministers and presidents that a more outward looking American president was in charge. But given what has unfolded - how America has been humiliated, how Joe Biden embarked on a policy he was cautioned against by these leaders - there is now a good deal more wariness.
And who will feel they have gained most from America's departure - apart from the Taliban, of course? Why, three countries near Afghanistan - Russia, Iran and China. I'm not sure that is what Joe Biden had in mind when he said after his inauguration that "America is back".



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58252174?source=patrick.net

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434   Onvacation   2022 Aug 5, 2:44pm  

At least he's not trying to kiss one of those tweenage girls on the lips. Pervert of the US.
437   Patrick   2022 Aug 9, 8:36am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/SteveGuest/status/1557011318175047680#m

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Steve Guest
@SteveGuest
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All it takes is like 5 seconds for Joe Biden to forget he shook Chuck Schumer’s hand.

Scary.


440   Patrick   2022 Aug 9, 4:47pm  

https://dailycaller.com/2022/08/03/biden-admin-grant-botswana-lgbt-social-acceptance/



The people of Botswana would be justified in burning down the US embassy there (if we have one) because the US is clearly trying to endanger their children and to spread disease.
441   richwicks   2022 Aug 10, 3:03am  

Eric Holder says

Some say that Biden's admin glaring incompetence in Afghanistan showing complete military ineptitude and lack of coordination within NATO was one of the major bits of information which convinced Putler that he could get away with taking over Ukraine. But there was one tiny and almost obscure bit of info which should've give him a pause: when US and the rest of NATO forces were covering inside Kabul airport and telling their citizens to try to make it there on their own, Ukrainian SOF stationed there were actively going out and bringing back Ukrainian citizens to the airport. Looking back that was a sign of things to come, but Ruscist either didn't know it (I doubt it, as it was reported at the time) or discounted it as insignificant.


What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?

I'm reading what you say, and you put in a noun which means NOTHING to me, which isn't in any dictionary and only has meaning to you.

Your emotions over-ride your thinking centers to the point that, at least I, can't understand what you're even trying to say.

I don't think Afghanistan had anything to do with Russia's decision to invade Ukraine. The United States has repeatedly showed itself to be a paper tiger and our military as ineffective. What caused Russia to invade Ukraine is that they were hosting NATO weaponry and ceased being neutral. I think it's quite obvious that the US is full of shit, it starts wars it cannot finish, don't even have mission objectives or goals, doesn't even ANNOUNCE why it's attacking a nation or outright lies about them. Russia just sees the US as a nation filled with short term thinking criminals and a population that hates them and the entire house of cards is based on a fiat currency standard that was printed with no backing to the tune of $5 trillion dollars for "covid relief" for which more than 90% of the money went to corrupt corporations - mostly the banking system.

We have incompetent asshole cannon fodder dupes presented as our "leaders" to blame shit on, but I don't think the people who pull the strings are actually stupid. Our "leaders" are not our leaders, they are just the dumbshit assholes the vast majority of the population will blame things on. We're probably going through a controlled demolition.
443   Misc   2022 Aug 10, 3:04pm  

Looks like the rest of the military came up with how many volunteers we got for the new Woke military.

The calendar year for government accounting ends September 30. So far the military has about 40% of the recruits they were looking for.

That's what trannies in charge and forced vaxxes will get you. With Biden promising student loan forgiveness, it takes the wind out of the GI bill where people actually have to work to get the benefit.

I was just in Oceanside where they were doing a radio fundraiser for military kids' back to school supplies. Gotta accept the charity from the community to just get by.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/americas-all-volunteer-force-is-in-crisis-%e2%80%94-and-denial/ar-AA10wDcm?li=BBnb7Kz
444   Eric Holder   2022 Aug 11, 10:25am  

richwicks says

What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?


Russian fascist, of course. Russia is a fascist regime - ticks all the boxes in the definition.
445   Eric Holder   2022 Aug 11, 10:27am  

richwicks says


The United States has repeatedly showed itself to be a paper tiger and our military as ineffective.


LOOOOOL. Compared to what?

Our "ineffective army" took Saddam's army out in 22 days. Your "effective" army is bombing civilians for 6 months while continuously losing ground to an adversary 20 ranks down from it while posessing literally 10x more of anything - tanks, artillery pieces, planes.... Lost a fucking flagship to an adversary who has no navy to speak of.
446   richwicks   2022 Aug 11, 3:41pm  

Eric Holder says


richwicks says


What the FUCK is a "Ruscist"?


Russian fascist, of course. Russia is a fascist regime - ticks all the boxes in the definition.



How is Russia a fascism regime?

I can see how the United States is. Julian Assange is in prison and is going to die there, we have obvious criminals running the presidency, we have a two-tiered justice system, our president OPENLY accepts bribes, we have at LEAST 800 political prisons with no bail or representation for protesting a stolen election, and we're in several wars that aren't even talked about.

Did you know the Syrian war is still ongoing - what's the fucking mission of that war?

The land of the free and the brave, what utter bullshit.
452   Patrick   2022 Aug 17, 8:50am  

https://nitter.pussthecat.org/PrisonPlanet/status/1559670928547745792#m



Pedo potatus Bidet doesn't know what planet he's on.
455   RC2006   2022 Aug 17, 11:58am  

WTF clown world IRS. I showed this to cop friends and they laughed and said they wouldn't last a week as a street cop.
461   Patrick   2022 Aug 25, 5:08pm  

https://news3lv.com/news/local/repossession-surge-looming-as-some-new-car-owners-struggle-to-make-payments-repos-las-vegas-southern-nevada-economy-stimulus-banks-default


LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A perfect economic storm of inflation, soaring gas prices and the unintended consequences of the federal pandemic relief programs is closing in on many car owners.

“We’re talking, on average, 15,000 repos a day nationwide,” said Mark Zane, owner of a repossession company and president of the Nevada Association of Licensed Repossessors.

Zane says repossessions were all but non-existent during the pandemic because banks were working with car owners to defer payments or help them get caught up.


This is a result of Pedo Potatus' criminal level of incompetence, from shutting down Keystone Pipeline on his first day after fraudulently taking office, to shutting down the whole country for a nothingburger virus, killing millions of small businesses.
468   Patrick   2022 Sep 2, 8:58am  


Tim Graham
@TimJGraham
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So Biden hasn't granted an interview in 202 days...and no one in the media cares. They are all one happy Democrat family, and Biden's minders don't even want Biden interviewed ON TAPE, let alone live.
471   Patrick   2022 Sep 8, 9:27am  

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-missing-biden-foreign-policy/


What is Joe Biden’s foreign policy? It’s a trick question, because he has no actual policy, no plan, no careful set of chess moves a step ahead of his adversary. America suffers for it.
472   richwicks   2022 Sep 8, 9:31am  

Patrick says

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/the-missing-biden-foreign-policy/



What is Joe Biden’s foreign policy? It’s a trick question, because he has no actual policy, no plan, no careful set of chess moves a step ahead of his adversary. America suffers for it.



That's been US foreign policy since, I dunno, George H. Bush.

It's been "hey, I wonder what will happen if we beat THIS hornet's nest? Let's do it!" for 30 fucking years. Biden is no different, and foreign policy doesn't change because our presidents are PUPPETS, not presidents.
473   Patrick   2022 Sep 8, 9:59am  

https://www.infowars.com/posts/biden-monkeypox-czar-ruthlessly-mocked-online-over-old-photos-following-first-presser/

Biden's Monkeypox coordinator Demetre Daskalakis is literally and openly satanic, proudly wearing and even getting tattoed with a pentagram:





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