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Have you seen this on the news?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/08...eport-1121293/
Former Congressional staffer Matthew Russell reported the following: Serious friction between U.S. and U.K. military commanders at the airport. American forces refuse to leave airport due to deal with T-ban while British paratroopers are still running constant patrols into the city to collect people from safe houses. British forces are rescuing British, Irish, and Afghan Nationals due for evacuation. Any other nationality also picked up if at location. T-ban are aware of patrols and taking no action so far. U.S. command is unhappy with the Brits as they say it puts their deal at risk. A British paratrooper commander and an 82nd Airborne commander had a screaming match. The Brits are reportedly very unhappy at how Afghans are being treated by American forces. U.S. rank and file soldiers are infuriated with their command. They are extremely frustrated they can’t join the British paratroopers or use the small army of contractors assembled at the airport to go on rescue missions. The British Home Secretary Priti Patel has only authorized up to 5,000 Afghan refugees but UK troops on the ground have orders to ‘Ignore numbers and get as many people out as possible.’ They have been told by diplomats that the Home Office can sort out the paperwork later. The Brits have set up a temporary embassy at the Kabul airport. Staff requested to remain so they could help as many people as possible. |
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This doesn't surprise me. For the U.S. it's now politics over common sense and our national interests. Don't look for the UK (or anyone else) to back us up again any time soon.
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Really looking like Biden or those controlling him, are intent on ending the American Empire. I suspect we might start seeing our Allies like the U.K., suggesting the dollar be replaced as the reserve currency. If that happens, this tragedy won’t be isolated to the players in Afghanistan.
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And all that only works because we've got the biggest, baddest military on the planet. Well, had, anyway. Now we've got the most woke, feminist, tranny friendly military on the planet, which is fabulous and all, but probably not effective for propping up the dollar world wide. The whole Biden election fraud coup and subsequent Biden regime is death by misadventure for the US. |
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Our Commanders have no balls because they are afraid of optics or being fired.
This is what happens when you nation build vice fighting wars. |
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This is a another thing that shows our woke military command no longer have the balls to do the right thing.
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This administration needs to stand trial for treason.
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WTF is making these decisions and why are the rest going along with it? |
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Bagram was the ingress point in 2001. It should have been the egress point as well. People lost their lives due to incompetence. Pure and simple. Trump was correct in pulling out 100%. Biden's execution is what botched it 100%. |
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This is what happens when the civilians refuse to listen to competent military leaders and replaces them with brown nosing yes-men over 2 decades. |
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I'd really love to know the details of Trump's withdrawal plan. I mean, he had to know that we'd already lost. W and O probably knew it, too. One thing I definitely fault Trump for was his plan to do a final exit in May, vs. leaving in the Winter, when it's literally too cold to fight. Of course, Biden didn't correct that error, then compounded it with his cart before the horse epic fail. |
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Trump’s plan had the sequence right. He also told the Taliban leader that he knew where his village was, and named it. Then he said if one American was killed during our exit, he would wipe that village off the face of the earth.
The time serving, careerist, parade generals that survived Obama’s purge are grossly incompetent. And training the military to be all woke.. treason. Firing squad. |
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[Jeff'79] We just need to be nice to the Taliban and they'll be nice to us. [/Jeff'79]
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A lot of people don't know this.
As the decision is made to leave a country the initial drawdown is military led. When the drawdown reaches a certain point the State Department takes over handing the country back to the indigenous people. State Department ****ed this up at the behest of the Administration. Why do you think a 2 star was flown back in from the 82nd? Because civilians ****ed it all up. |
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