The Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan caught the West by surprise, as no one had expected that the Afghan government forces would not put up a fight and vanish into thin air so quickly…
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The War Nerd: Was There a Plan in Afghanistan?…
Was there ever a plan there? So what was supposed to happen back in October 2001, when the US forces invaded? I’ve been going through the papers of record, the NYT and WaPo, to see what the official line was, year by year. The first years of an occupation are the most important, so I’ve focused on the first five full years of US occupation, 2002-2007. You can find a good timeline of these years here, but it’s much harder to find any trace of a plan…
FLASHBACK: This Is Why U.S. Military Trained Afghan Defense Forces Collapsed…
The loss of U.S. contractors could trigger a game-changing shift in the military balance between the Taliban and the Afghan government…
U.S. Intelligence Warned in July That American Trained Afghan Defense Forces Would Capitulate to the Taliban…the Same Month Biden Said the Government Wouldn’t Fall…
In July, Biden said a Taliban takeover was ‘not inevitable’ and rubbished the idea of a hurried evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Kabul…But a new report suggests intelligence agencies delivered a string of increasingly dire warnings about the possibility of a Taliban takeover…One assessment in July said government forces were unprepared for a Taliban assault on Kabul…
Taliban Commander Who Gave Taunting Victory Speech from Kabul Palace Was Released from Guantanamo After Claiming He Was a ‘Simple Shopkeeper’…
A Taliban commander claimed he spent eight years in Guantanamo Bay in a triumphant speech from inside the Presidential Palace in Kabul Sunday…This came as the militants declared an Islamic state of Afghanistan after President Ashraf Ghani fled his country amid chaotic scenes…Experts identified the commander and former Gitmo detainee as Gholam Ruhani, who was accused of being a longtime security agent for the Taliban…
UNREALISTIC TIMELINES, UNSUSTAINABLE GOALS MADE ‘VICTORIOUS U.S. WITHDRAWAL’ FROM AFGHANISTAN IMPOSSIBLE…
A “victorious U.S. withdrawal” from Afghanistan was impossible to achieve because the U.S. government created unrealistic timelines to rebuild the country, leading to short-term fixes such as injections of troops, money and resources, according to the watchdog agency created by Congress to provide oversight…
Pentagon Admits Taliban Has Billions in U.S. Weapons…
If anyone was holding out hope that the Pentagon has some clue where all those billions in weapons that accumulated in Afghanistan over the past 20 years ended up, don’t…
U.S. State Department Tells Americans in Afghanistan to Head to the Kabul Airport but “Cannot Guarantee Your Security”…
How would you like to be one of the 15,000+ American citizens in Kabul, or surrounding region, and getting this notice from the United States State Department:…
‘This one will hurt for a long time’: U.S. Veterans Despair As Taliban Take Over Much of the Country They Fought In…
U.S. troops who deployed to Afghanistan over the past two decades say the Taliban’s rapid conquest of much of the country in the past week has left them stunned and dismayed…
The U.S. Government Lied for Two Decades About Afghanistan…
Using the same deceitful tactics they pioneered in Vietnam, U.S. political and military officials repeatedly misled the country about the prospects for success in Afghanistan…
“A Big Money Funneling Operation” — Afghanistan Vet Reflects on Withdrawal of U.S. Forces…
As the withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan nears (apparent) completion, images of Bagram Airfield littered with deserted fleets of American-made vehicles — ripe for the taking of whoever ends up with control of that base — have come to exemplify the enormous waste our 20-year intervention is leaving behind…
The Shocking Moment People Cling Onto U.S. Military Plane Wing at Kabul Airport…
Three stowaways are reported to have fallen to have fallen to their deaths from one airborne plane and a further five people have been killed at Kabul airport as thousands of Afghans try desperately to get on flights out of the country amid increasingly chaotic scenes…
Afghanistan: Taliban Confiscating Weapons from Civilians Because They ‘no longer need them’…
Arms taken away as people risk lives to flee new regime…
Taliban Take Kandahar and Now Control Majority of Afghanistan, Capital City Kabul Likely to Fall in Days – State Dept. Evacuating U.S. Embassy…
The Taliban in Afghanistan have been taking back territory and attacking U.S. allied forces ever since the U.S. military began a withdrawal. On July 8th Joe Biden was asked if the U.S. embassy in Kabul would be evacuated giving a familiar reference to the U.S. collapse in Vietnam…
Arizona Gov Doug Ducey Calls for Biden’s DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to Resign over Leaked Audio of Him Saying the Border Crisis Is ‘Unsustainable’ and ‘We’re going to Lose’ with Illegal Crossings at 21-Year High…
Ducey hit Mayorkas on Twitter and demanded he resign in name of US ‘safety’…Mayorkas admitted in a private meeting with Texas Border Patrol agents that the border crisis is on the verge of a ‘breaking’ point in leaked audio…’If our borders are the first line of defense, we’re going to lose,’ he said…CBP encountered more than 200,000 migrants at the southwest border in July…
FBI Seizes Entire Bank Account of Conservative Talk Show Host After He Attended a Trump Rally…
During a viral new documentary released on Tuesday, Conservative Talk Show host Nicholas J Fuentes discussed the legal repercussions he has faced after he simply attended former President Trump’s speech on January 6th…
‘Not one person has been notified’: Abilene Airport Becomes Hub for Immigrant Passports…
It’s no secret that Abilene has an ICE facility nearby – the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Jones County – so that likely explains why the immigrants arrive but the mystery begins when they are released from custody…
Lawyer: Capitol Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt ‘Ambushed’ Her on Jan. 6 Without Warning…
Kicking off the first hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the U.S. Capitol riot, Chairman Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, promised to fully investigate “the facts of what happened on Jan. 6,” calling it “a scene of violence in the citadel of democracy.”…
Biden Regime to Mandate Vaccine for All Military Personnel By Sept. 15, Refusal Is Grounds for Court Martial…
Service members who refuse to take the jab will be punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice…
The DOJ Admits It is Withholding Potentially Exculpatory Evidence in January 6 Criminal Cases in Legal Filing…
The Department of Justice has provided one of the first documented concessions that prosecutors are withholding potentially exculpatory evidence in court cases concerning January 6 defendants…
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