The Americans literally fled from the biggest base in the night, like thieves, without telling the Afghans they're leaving, leaving all do their vehicles behind. Now they're sending these incredibly ridiculous fucking tweets. They will be tweeting about how surrendering Taiwanese being executed "can be considered a war crime and shows no respect for hashtag HumanRights", too, and asking the Chicom soldiers not to reverse "democratic progress in Taiwan" or some other shit like you'd expect from The Duffel Blog but now it's real.
You have no idea how dismayed I am. I have put my trust entirely in America for 3 decades. Now it's all gone. Worse still, American government today actively exports fucking degeneracy to my country and subverts our values. This is where there their priorities are. The fucking Biden called us "thugs of the world", then went to what they've been accusing Trump of: appeased Putin (while destroying American economy and society and military and everything). You're fucked, but we're fucked to, China and satellites (like Russia) won. It's over and it's done.
POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES: Duterte sees it too. This is why he so completely surrendered, now is a chief of a Chinese colony because he accepted the new reality.
I agree in some sense is just that I did not see an end in Afghanistan, it sucks over all but what was the solution to let US police the area until the end of time?
It is a mess I'm glad I do not have a personal stake in. If you live or have family there I am sorry. I would have preferred the Taliban lost.
As I am uneducated on the subject, what is the actual situation over there? How come the Taliban have apparently a greater armed force then the Afghanistan army? Would it not have been better and cheaper for US to just arm the local armed forces? Or there is to much corruption?
Some things to begin with: evacuate properly (like the Soviets did!!), and take your local translators with you instead of betraying them (while accepting the flood of random "refugees" at the same time), and don't send these parody tweets or having your demented president not to answer questions about Afghanistan because he "wants to talk about happy things, man".
You know, I'm not against any resistance if the Ivan ever moves and comes over to squat here. Not only the "allies" (if they ever remain so, and not cut the ties with us over mah trannies and shit) would be of no help, but actually the Russian option increasingly looks like a lesser evil. And you have no idea how hard it is for me to think like that, because while I do like aspects of Russian culture and society I hate most of it, and historically we underwent brutal Russification (and then the export of Communism). I was a "rabid Russophobe" most of my life, and a huge, uh, Americaphile (is it even a word?). Now my entire worldview is crushed.
Also my solution, retrospectively: Americans should have go in relatively hard in December 2001 with all special forces units available (also from allied nations) plus the entire 10th Mountain and kill Osama at Tora Bora then immediately get out with the unironic aircraft carrier banner "Mission Accomplished" and leave it to anyone who wanted to be involved in this business from there on (with Pakistan, Russia, Iran, China being aligned but not quite on this issue - I guess Russia and Iran would ask China to pressure the Pakis to stop aiding the Taliban remnants). Instead the "fallacy" of the Graveyard of Empires turned out to be true. The American empire, if you can call it so, really died there in long turn.
I guess the Afghans really don't give a fuck about warlords and Taliban.
Imposing your will and a national government was impossible on tribes who really couldn't give a shit about anything and any authority outside their little area.
In a way, the Afghans are more freedom-minded and resilient than Americans.
Outside of Islam, the middle east, and Afghans in particular, have always been tribally focused. There's more loyalty to family and tribal connections than in any national government. Today's ally is tomorrow's foe and all that.
Given that, the Afghan national army/police have very little motivation to actively do their jobs for the greater country outside of their tribal areas. And getting high I guess. Add on top general corruption and it's no wonder that there's so many Green on Blue incidents (where Afghan forces shoot/bomb coalition forces). I'm sure a lot of them view the US the same way their fathers and grandfathers viewed the Soviets. Just another in a long line of occupying forces
I have put my trust entirely in America for 3 decades.
Well, there's your mistake. The empire has been dying since WWII. They've been losing nearly every single war they started unless they attacked a country that was completely incapable of resisting. Their troops needed rescuing in fucking SOMALIA. The biggest, best funded military in the world couldn't take on a pack of literal feral niggers with 50 year old Kalashnikovs.
In 1993 there were no 50 year old Kalashnikovs. Also actually they did what they went for (along with the French and the Canadians), but then withdrew the Marines and left only some Rangers and friends to work with the Paki UN child molesters.
1934 NFA, the Failed 1938 NFA, Miller,
and the Regulation of Gun Parts
By Dean Weingarten. February 27, 2020
Progressives used the Miller case to claim the Second Amendment did not protect an individual right. Progressive judges appointed by FDR and Truman came to dominate the federal appeals courts.
U.S. v. Miller was used to prevent challenges to the NFA of 1938. While Miller clearly implied that military arms were protected by the Second Amendment, FDR appointed judges ruled it did not.
In Cases v. United States, 1942, a three judge panel on the First Circuit ruled it was unlikely Miller meant military arms were protected by the Second Amendment: From Cases:
The Americans literally fled from the biggest base in the night, like thieves, without telling the Afghans they're leaving, leaving all do their vehicles behind. Now they're sending these incredibly ridiculous fucking tweets. They will be tweeting about how surrendering Taiwanese being executed "can be considered a war crime and shows no respect for hashtag HumanRights", too, and asking the Chicom soldiers not to reverse "democratic progress in Taiwan" or some other shit like you'd expect from The Duffel Blog but now it's real.
You have no idea how dismayed I am. I have put my trust entirely in America for 3 decades. Now it's all gone. Worse still, American government today actively exports fucking degeneracy to my country and subverts our values. This is where there their priorities are. The fucking Biden called us "thugs of the world", then went to what they've been accusing Trump of: appeased Putin (while destroying American economy and society and military and everything). You're fucked, but we're fucked to, China and satellites (like Russia) won. It's over and it's done.
POLITICS IN THE PHILIPPINES: Duterte sees it too. This is why he so completely surrendered, now is a chief of a Chinese colony because he accepted the new reality.
I agree in some sense is just that I did not see an end in Afghanistan, it sucks over all but what was the solution to let US police the area until the end of time?
It is a mess I'm glad I do not have a personal stake in. If you live or have family there I am sorry. I would have preferred the Taliban lost.
As I am uneducated on the subject, what is the actual situation over there? How come the Taliban have apparently a greater armed force then the Afghanistan army? Would it not have been better and cheaper for US to just arm the local armed forces? Or there is to much corruption?
Some things to begin with: evacuate properly (like the Soviets did!!), and take your local translators with you instead of betraying them (while accepting the flood of random "refugees" at the same time), and don't send these parody tweets or having your demented president not to answer questions about Afghanistan because he "wants to talk about happy things, man".
You know, I'm not against any resistance if the Ivan ever moves and comes over to squat here. Not only the "allies" (if they ever remain so, and not cut the ties with us over mah trannies and shit) would be of no help, but actually the Russian option increasingly looks like a lesser evil. And you have no idea how hard it is for me to think like that, because while I do like aspects of Russian culture and society I hate most of it, and historically we underwent brutal Russification (and then the export of Communism). I was a "rabid Russophobe" most of my life, and a huge, uh, Americaphile (is it even a word?). Now my entire worldview is crushed.
Also my solution, retrospectively: Americans should have go in relatively hard in December 2001 with all special forces units available (also from allied nations) plus the entire 10th Mountain and kill Osama at Tora Bora then immediately get out with the unironic aircraft carrier banner "Mission Accomplished" and leave it to anyone who wanted to be involved in this business from there on (with Pakistan, Russia, Iran, China being aligned but not quite on this issue - I guess Russia and Iran would ask China to pressure the Pakis to stop aiding the Taliban remnants). Instead the "fallacy" of the Graveyard of Empires turned out to be true. The American empire, if you can call it so, really died there in long turn.
I guess the Afghans really don't give a fuck about warlords and Taliban.
Imposing your will and a national government was impossible on tribes who really couldn't give a shit about anything and any authority outside their little area.
In a way, the Afghans are more freedom-minded and resilient than Americans.
Outside of Islam, the middle east, and Afghans in particular, have always been tribally focused. There's more loyalty to family and tribal connections than in any national government. Today's ally is tomorrow's foe and all that.
Given that, the Afghan national army/police have very little motivation to actively do their jobs for the greater country outside of their tribal areas. And getting high I guess. Add on top general corruption and it's no wonder that there's so many Green on Blue incidents (where Afghan forces shoot/bomb coalition forces). I'm sure a lot of them view the US the same way their fathers and grandfathers viewed the Soviets. Just another in a long line of occupying forces
Well, there's your mistake. The empire has been dying since WWII. They've been losing nearly every single war they started unless they attacked a country that was completely incapable of resisting. Their troops needed rescuing in fucking SOMALIA. The biggest, best funded military in the world couldn't take on a pack of literal feral niggers with 50 year old Kalashnikovs.
In 1993 there were no 50 year old Kalashnikovs. Also actually they did what they went for (along with the French and the Canadians), but then withdrew the Marines and left only some Rangers and friends to work with the Paki UN child molesters.
I believe America's downfall began with the tyrant Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933: Executive Order 6102 'forbidding hoarding of gold'
1934: “New Deal for Crime” National Firearms Act of 1934
1942: Executive Order 9066, Japanese internment camps
These were un-free and un-American. Yet America accepted this bullshit.
https://archive.ph/MZCie http://jpfo.org/articles-2020/1934-nfa-failed-1938-nfa-miller.htm