#环球时报Editorial: From what happened in Afghanistan, those in Taiwan should perceive that once a war breaks out in the Straits, the island’s defense will collapse in hours and US military won’t come to help. As a result, the DPP will quickly surrender. https://t.co/ZUrZmcsSWf pic.twitter.com/wFG4vrHbTo

— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) August 16, 2021

Biden made the fall of Taiwan into the hands of the CCP inevitable.

Possibly Japan after that.

At leat there are no mean tweets as China spreads an empire across South East Asia.

#Taliban fighters in the Afghan capital, Kabul, start collecting #weapons from civilians because people no longer need them for personal protection, a Taliban official said.https://t.co/YxzOzsBwIs

— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) August 16, 2021

I know where this is going…

Hahahahahahahaha if you believe this. They've been executing people all over the country. They are just waiting for foreign media to get out and then they're going to start.

They've lied to the U.S. this whole time, there is 0 reason to believe them now.

Recent headlines: https://t.co/IetneVIoXz pic.twitter.com/qX5LLmyXoG

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 15, 2021

After they take the guns the mass executions will really begin.

Every time, like clockwork.

Right now the catastrophe du jour is the Saigon-like collapse of Afghanistan.

But this was news from last week:

Nearly 80 percent of Americans blame Biden for inflation surge: poll

The vast majority of Americans say surging grocery and household goods prices are causing them financial hardship and nearly 80 percent blame the Biden administration’s economic policies, a new poll says.

About 70 percent of Americans say the national economy is in bad shape, and the majority — 86 percent — are concerned about inflation, according to the Fox News poll released Wednesday.

Of those polled, 86 percent blame the COVID-19 pandemic for increasing prices and 79 percent blame the Biden administration’s economic policies.

The surging costs of groceries and gas are causing financial hardship for 70 percent of people with incomes of less than $50,000, the polls says.

Over 50 percent of those who earn $100,000 say price increases have also been tough on them.

These are not going to go away, in fact they will get worse.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1427068552587235338

More spending and more incentive not to go back to work full time, which will cause more inflation.

The media may move on from Afghanistan in a few days or a couple of weeks but the pain of paying at the pump and grocery store is going to be ever-present for months and years.

On every front Biden is imploding.

I’ve never seen it this bad and this fast.

How did America go to shit?  Slowly first, then all at once.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSnZD9FDNVl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Fresh from the production line:

https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/7fe3b789-1b1a-48f0-9b4f-66be33f5cd04

Now forgotten by historians and the complicit media, I still remember being told and reading about the days after the Cuban Revolution and before the Camaradas tightened up the airport about how desperate Cubans would spring across the tarmac and trying to get inside the landing gear well of departing airplanes. People got run over, some clung only to fall  as the plane accelerated and took off, some fell to their deaths and some that managed to actually make it inside died either frozen by the low temperatures of cruise altitude or by oxygen deprivation since that section of the airplane was not pressurized.

Only a handful ever made it.  I read this article when it came out and it is what popped in my mind when I saw that video. I never expected to see a remake of that much desperation, but alas! here we are again.

The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable.

Long-time readers of this blog will know that I have been saying for years that our nation-building efforts in Afghanistan are wasted.

First, I need to point out, that the military does not do nation-building.  The military kills people and blows shit up.  Nation-building happens after the military is victorious.  We had to win WWII to make the Marshall Plan possible.

Yes, the military may be needed to maintain peace, but a permanent victory in Afghanistan was never achieved.

That isn’t the fault of the boots on the ground in Afghanistan.  I want to make that clear.

A study of Afghanistan reveals that it is a country made up of clans and tribes that generally hate each other.

The Soviets and the British before them failed to conquer and nation-build in Afghanistan for the same reason we failed.

It is a land of tribal goat-herding, boy-raping, savage, sectarian tribal violence, and it has been that way for 3,000 years.

The only unifying force that was successful in overcoming that tribal conflict was tyrannical Islam.

That is what the Taliban is, tyrannical Islam.

The only way to prevent the Taliban re-capturing of Afghanistan was a permanent US military presence.  There wasn’t enough training we could provide the Afghani Army to shift thousands of years of culture and get disparate tribes to come together as a unified fighting force willing to fight for unified Afghanistan.

I have said repeatedly that if we ever pulled out of Afghanistan, there would be bloodshed in our wake and we will need to accept that or accept that we will never pull out.  Those are our only choices.

Bush knew this, Obama knew this, Trump for all his bluster knew this, Biden was the senile old patsy with a legacy that could be sacrificed to an Afganistan pullout.

I knew this was coming.  So why am I so pissed?

#Afghanistan: This seems to be happening everywhere as the Taliban seize most of the country, but just a sample of the weapons seized in #Herat. Literally hundreds of M4s, M249, M240, as well as PK(M)s, RPGs, and much other assorted materiel. pic.twitter.com/DIa8TdCWL7

— Cᴀʟɪʙʀᴇ Oʙsᴄᴜʀᴀ (@CalibreObscura) August 14, 2021

The #Taliban not only seized appr. a hundred US humvees and (MaxxPro) MRAPs at Kunduz airport, but also several US ScanEagle drones.
Billions of US tax payer $ going to Islamist extremists, thanks to the administration’s hasty withdrawal without a peace deal or follow up mission.

In Herat Large cache of US weapons taken by Taliban in this compound. #Taliban #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/zF5U7xVXWy

— Abhishek Saxena (@tagabhishek)

August 13, 2021

ef=”https://t.co/Fb5MTpdLKK”>pic.twitter.com/Fb5MTpdLKK— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) August 12, 2021

Counting the boxes, Taliban collected another five #ScanEagle drones in Herat, each costing around 4.000.000$.
Let’s see how much Iran or China pay the Taliban for them to investigate our western technology …#EpicFail #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/YlG8rwlXNe

— Julian Röpcke (@JulianRoepcke) August 14, 2021

Extraordinary scenes of #Afghanistan’s military fleeing to #Iran with advanced equipment, likely supplied by US. Iran’s defense industries will want to get their hands on that equipment pic.twitter.com/0Ei2EgKiQ4

— Jason Brodsky (@JasonMBrodsky) August 14, 2021

The Taliban are now in possession of more Blackhawk helicopters than 166 other nations around the globe. pic.twitter.com/2q9CyXcBNy

— CulturalHusbandry (@APhilosophae) August 13, 2021

The #Taliban force has now an own Air Force. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/tYxCXAMHzg

— Ali Özkök (@Ozkok_A) August 15, 2021

The Taliban now has javelin missiles as well as the OS for Strykers and other military vehicles. “Everyone is wondering what the black market is going to have in Iran,” a US official told me.

“An F-15 flight simulator was also left in Bagram, the Taliban has that now.”

— Cernovich (@Cernovich) August 15, 2021

VIDEO showing some more vehicles that were captured by TB from Kandahar Airport. #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/Rr6ZMSA4d3

— FJ (@Natsecjeff) August 14, 2021

We armed and equipped the Taliban with advanced weapons and vehicles.  What they cannot use themselves they will sell for cash to Iran or China to be reverse-engineered.

We left Afghanistan with a Taliban that are now experienced veterans at fighting and defeating advanced Western armies and with US taxpayer-provided weapons.

These weapons will be used against the US or our allies.  They will be smuggled into Europe or elsewhere.

You will see them used in terrorist attacks.

That is what we did.  We created a Taliban that is stronger now than when we arrived.

Our leadership should have seen this coming and pulled every last penny’s worth of equipment and tech on our way out, but they didn’t.

They left it all to be used against us in the future.

That is a level of incompetence that is unforgivable.

That is why I’m so pissed at what happened in Afghanistan.