Goodbye US! (Kabul airport)
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all of these images of kabul airport refugees, all of them are young men
Late dudes are running after the planes still trying to get aboard, or stop them and get aboard.
In one transport plane over 800 got fit inside.
61% of Afghans are under 25. about 2% reach the grand old age of 65...
I'm sure it will work out well.
Outdated info. Life expectancy in Afghanistan under Western aid has exceeded 65.
I mean - would be outdated, because now will fall sharply again.
What an actual fucking disaster and biden is nowhere to be seen, psaki is on a weeklong vacation, god damn.
Theres two reasons for this, they're hiding him because they know he'd get actual hard questions and crumble, or he's having a extended senior moment at the most inopportune moment and they simply can't let him near a camera and this is less embarrassing.
Also no one is resigning. They're just going to hide until it's all over.
They knew it would be a shitshow so they intentionally “took time off”
wonder how many frozen corpses will drop into ocean on way to america
Yes
I just read an article on those poor Biden stowaways :-(
What did they think was gonna happen? Fly 8 hours on the side of a plane like it's a damn anime?
The kind of people who would attempt stowing away on the outside of an airplane are people who have no concept of the distance/time to destination, flight speed, oxygen/temperature at high altitude, and probability of 'landing' safely. Any one of these things would make a person of normal intelligence realise it wouldn't work.
Probably. You're not dealing with the brightest bulbs in the bunch.
More than half of the Afghan population is illiterate.
If you've ever seen those videos of them firing full auto without even aiming down the sights, standing in the middle of a street with no cover, it's because they literally believe God will be guiding the bullets.
I remember reading the words of a British muslim who went there to join one terrorist group or another, who slowly realized he was surrounded by total morons when he kept encountering people who counted on their fingers.
It's no surprise that some of them think they can just cling to the side of a plane and fly to America.
No, they don't. And the Afghans were notorious for their excellent marksmanship when fighting the Brits. I blame the introduction of AK and other automatics, replacing the Lee-Enfields and even older (and self made) guns they have had.
Also more recently they Taliban in particular got famous in the combat-footage community with their impressive sharpshooter work using thermal scopes on the M16s. Many a turkey shooting of the gov troops (single shots of course). 2 guys with the thermals were even in their video where a dozen of so proclaim the Islamic State in the presidential office.
'they' do - and by 'they', I mean specifically the morons I spoke of, not the ones actually smart enough to aim.
It was smoothbore vs rifled. Simple as that.
It gets even better/worse. Others tried in a wheel well: https://twitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1427236649784729606
They didn't make it that far, they're pancaked all over the city apparently
They find crushed people in wheel wells.
Just wait till the T end up placing artillery around (among the houses, it's in the city, a city of 4+ million) and officially issue their ultimatum.
They already surrounded the airport with their checkpoints and work on bringing reinforcements, because they originally entered with only few hundred men when the government surrendered (the rest fanned all over the country, because they conducted their offensive everywhere at the same time, but now they're converging).
Also the T checkpoints cut off the Americans and others who didn't get in time. Even the embassy's clown feed tell them to stay put (and hide?) instead of trying to come.
For fucks sake, the people at the airport could probably fight their way out if its only a handful.
I feel like words are needed for context. Why would these young people do this?
Are they getting run over?