Look, I try not to care, too much, about what goes on in other countries. I try not to think about all the Afghans that will die, now; all the 12-year-olds who will be married off; the fall of an entire country; the fact that terrorists will have a breeding ground again; or the total waste of money and life that this all represents...
But it's kind of hard to just "ignore" what is going on. Your country has just capitulated, betrayed its allies and left complete destruction in its wake, for what, FOR WHAT?
And why, because a couple of old men (first Trump, and now dipshit Biden) decided it was politically expedient to do so...
I just... It's disgusting, to be frank. And you know what's significant? I suspect this represents the end of American "soft power", across much of the world. Because the world, including America's allies, will now see what a joke "that country's" military is. What lies America tells itself, and its allies. How "you" can't be relied upon. How utterly, utterly pathetic this whole debacle is. And how "your" president is a useless, lying, untrustworthy, duplicitous, idiotic fuck.
Look, I never particularly LIKED Trump, but I fail to understand how ANYONE can look at the fall of Kabul this week, look at the WORST US foreign policy failure in more than 40 years, and not see this as worse than anything Trump ever directly did, perhaps even including fucking Yemen...
I just... Fuck this. It is a fucking disgrace, and there is no room to make light of it. Biden and Psaki, and everyone else involved, deserves to rot in hell for this. Blood is on their hands, and no one, American, Afghan, Chinese or otherwise, should ever forget or forgive that.
I might as well add to this: watching the US "ask" the Taliban to spare their embassy, and telling them off like naughty children, bla bla bla re "international recognition", is just... Embarrassing. Utterly humiliating.
Hell, even the fucking UN thinks it is an embarrassment. How can ANYONE take you seriously, after that?
"We don't negotiate with terrorists". What the fuck happened, America? How the fuck has it come to this, in what, less than 15 years?
You're a joke, USA. An internationally shameful joke. And this blood is on your hands. You cannot wash that off.
Also watching the Taliban rout the Afghan army using weapons, drones, Hummers and tanks left behind by the US... What the fuck do people think is going to happen with that equipment? Do you honestly believe they won't use it to arm themselves and then strike back internationally? Honestly? That they'll be so busy oppressing their own people that they won't have time to send their fighters out to attack the West?
Bullshit. You know this will have consequences down the line. Bury your heads all you want, but this decision ain't just going to affect Afghanistan, Pakistan and China. It'll come back to bite America and its allies. It's just a question of when and how, now, not if...
Nah. Taliban routed the ANA using mostly old Kalashnikovs and Toyota technicals. They did loot a ton of modern US gear, but they have no idea how to use or maintain most of it, and it'll be unusable soon.
Taliban also never was interested in anything but ruling Afghanistan. How do you even imagine they'd "send out their fighters to attack the West"? Do you think they're just going to drive those HMMWVs and MRAPs to Paris and start blasting? Afghanistan is in central Asia, they would have to go thousands of miles and pass half a dozen countries either way they went, and they'd have to go through, at the very least, Turkey or Russia, neither of whom are interested in their shit.
Pity. I'd pay them for the lot. Shame seeing all of it going to waste.
Dumb sand people. They'll probably scrap everything for the metal, like the Africans do when we try to reenact Sid Meier's games over there and uplift them.
Seen plenty of accounts of dumb, bleeding heart university boys that give them water processing equipment and the like. They leave and come back only to see the primitives dismantled the equipment hours after they left.
Give a third world primitive some fish, his neighbors will kill him for it; Teach him how to fish, and he'll use the line and rod as utensils to serve up the clay he's been eating.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210728162216/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/doctors-activists-work-to-stop-clay-eating-in-africa/article656850/
They're still doing it.
Just found this. Some dumb ass in the UK is even selling "edible clay" on Etsy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210816191538/https://www.etsy.com/listing/710394676/edible-clay-nzu-african-edible-clays
I want off this ride...