The term “indulgency fee” is so much more appealing than “extortion“, just ask U.S. Ambassador John Christopher Stevens; oh,…wait. I digress.
It is being reported that CIA Director William Burns flew to Afghanistan to negotiate with Taliban leadership yesterday. Earlier today, Joe Biden tells the G7 nations that he is sticking to the August 31st withdrawal deadline imposed by the Taliban who are in control of almost all regions of the country including the capital city of Kabul.
For future reference, remember this CIA meeting with Taliban leadership in case the administration ever tries to say we do not negotiate with terrorists. The Biden administration doesn’t have a choice. The Taliban circle the airport in Kabul. The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat. As a consequence, the Taliban could easily begin shooting down any airplane attempting to take-off or land from the airport…
Hence… CIA Director Burns is almost certainly negotiating payment terms with the Taliban for safe passage. We can only imagine how much money the Biden administration is paying the Taliban leadership to permit ongoing operations at the Kabul airport. Think about how much Biden would pay to avoid the optics of a U.S. airplane carrying hundreds of Americans being blown out of the sky on CNN and BBC news. That is how much we are paying.
Biden is telling everyone at the G7 he is sticking to the August 31st deadline date. Biden addressed the leaders on the call for about seven minutes. The NATO allies are worried they will not be able to get their people out. However, undoubtedly the extraction of Americans and allies AFTER August 31st is part of the agreement between the CIA (on behalf of Biden) and Taliban leaders.
The Taliban are not stupid, they have all the leverage in this dynamic. The Taliban know this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to gain massive ransom payments without the international media visibility of physically holding hostages. They also know the desperation of the Biden administration to avoid any painful optics.
Earlier today, the Taliban announced they will not permit Afghan nationals to travel to the airport in Kabul. The Taliban are not going to permit U.S. embassy staff who are Afghan nationals to leave.
BBC is reporting that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Majahid said: “Afghans should not go to the airport or try to leave the country.” At the press briefing, Zabihullah Mujahid also said, “Women should stay at home for now, for their safety.” The Taliban spokesman added it would be a “violation” of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond the 31st of August.
This is the problem with, and motive for, the Biden administration refusing to quantify the number of Americans and SIV’s who remain in Afghanistan. As long as the American public do not know how many are there, the administration can use any arbitrary number to claim they have all been removed regardless of their actual disposition.
If you don’t think a Democrat administration is willing to sacrifice a few thousand pesky Americans to save themselves the political issues of their abandonment; and if you think the Democrats are genuinely worried about the disposition of Afghan nationals that will likely be killed silently by Taliban enforcers…. please, remind yourself of Benghazi.
Biden raised food stamps by a huge amount knowing he would bring in 100 of thousands of Afghanis, left our border open since his first day of Installation which has gained us more than a millions illegals, and Nancy is going to shove amnesty down our throats.
In the meantime, pay farmers to roll the crops to create shortages, cut manufacturing and trade, create super inflation.
Ever step comes off very planned and very coordinated.
It is all planned and it is all tied together- Afcrapistan, the vaccines, the mandates, the naming of anyone that does not want a shot are all terrorists, Trump supporters are terrorists, the flooding in of morons from the southern border, the useless masks all to overrun the country with 3rd world low IQ 7th century barbarians, to keep conservatives in line all of it is planned and it all has Odumbo’s fingerprints all over it. Globalism demands that white countries be destabilized, demoralized, demonetized.
Yes, but Obama is just a role player. Maybe high up but a role player. The big players are the ones that control govt. Like the people that own Vanguard, Pfizer, ABC, NBC, The Federal Reserve, Bank of England, etc. Not the CEO’s, they are public faces like politicians. Salesmen.
Also, remember the unemployment $. It is all meant to get the average low-end wage rate to $15/hr. And it’s working – notice how many signs are advertising that as a starting wage? They win another “policy” battle. Vile people (includes GOPe)
Maybe Nancy’s emergency overnight shenanigans were necessary to appropriate the couple $billion the CIA negotiated in ransom earlier in the day.
This whole pantomime reminds me of my high school days here in Texas. For one day, accomplished students would take over the offices of various elected officials such as those of Governor, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State and so on, so as to give them an opportunity to learn and profit from civics in the real world. Naturally this was done under supervision. Left alone, they would no doubt royally mess things up; and so on this one day they were very closely watched, instructed as to the operations which go on, and educated. Watching this frightening humiliating debacle become worse each day, I suspect even those high school students unsupervised could make a better hash of it than these imbeciles.
Anyone who loves our country and cares about it’s citizens would do better, irregardless of age. The federal government is our enemy. They hate us, they want to punish us and destroy the country.
For the Demo Marxists that now control our country, it can be said “Power is not a means to an end, it is the end.”
These scumbags believe that the rights of law abiding citizens should be determined by thugs, criminals and savages.
“Taliban vows to help fight climate change.”
Criminy! You can’t make this stuff up. Will they help fight climate change by remaining firmly planted in the 12th Century? Next, will they fly the rainbow flag above the executions?
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/08/24/taliban-vows-help-fight-climate-change/
step 1) our oligarchs make a deal with a third world pet
step 2) tell 3rd world pet what to say (give me money or else)
step 3) our oligarchs send money to themselves but addressed to ‘3rd world pet’
Fleeeceddd. Cleaned out. for Decades… That is the Terror and Urgency of the submitting us and ‘identifying Bulls to put down’ through each ‘Right Infringed Exercise’
The Terror in them is from noticing the People are seeing how the magic trick is done and aren’t entertained.
They are going to fight climate change by reducing the amount of humans that exhale the poisonous CO2.
That’s why all of the Taliban have smug smiles on TV. They’re still laughing about how much they’re going to get paid for “climate change”. What do you bet, the deal with the Taliban had to include “climate change” because Nancy’s emergency deal to pass the “Infrastructure”/Green New Deal Bill will be paying the ransom. The filthy thieves aren’t even going to wait until the bill is passed to start getting their kickbacks.
And they have deciples like BLM and Antifa in the USA
“. The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat. “
Why did the Afghan Army even need advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) ?
Did the Taliban have advanced aircraft for them to shoot down? Or any aircraft?
Of course they have a whole bunch now, but did they have any a month ago?
it’s a very interesting question isn’t it?
now…let explore a little bit more…
take a closer look at some of the hardware.
I can’t say anymore
It seems to be around 100 MANPADs possibly Stingers, but I can’t believe that these are leftovers from the Stingers that the CIA gave the Mujahedin (rebranded Taliban) 30 years ago.
As regitiger comments, why on earth would they need them? The obvious answer is they didn’t, but someone in the MIC or elsewhere made good money on the transaction and that was the basic reason we were in Afghanistan, recycling US$.
We should send them a few pallets of those newly minted dollars the Fed keeps pumping out and remove them from the economy by blowing up all of those advanced weapons as soon as we get as many Americans out as we can.
Americans cannot be trusted with semi-automatic firearms.
Terrorists, however, seem to be capable of safely handling and storing U.S. weapons.
Biden gave the Taliban what he wants to take away from Americans…..aiding and abetting the enemy by Biden and the Biden administration…..that alone ought to get you a night in Jail.
They have from now until the People in Public speak truthfully. Currently we yield to political acceptable interactions and speech (letting CNN be on tvs in bars etc; letting leftist dominate public arguments in public areas; mask shoved on us, boosters reshot in us)
until the Public is loudly and largey speaking in reality – Biden can rape us alll from afar.
The United States of America is no longer the leader of the free world ?. This is precisely by design and JoeBama is successfully completing the transformation of America that Obama failed to complete in his first two terms. The globalists are savoring this moment of victory. The world will never be the same.
Let’s be clear:
Biden is going to abandon thousands of Americans in Afghanistan.
There’s no way around it. Its as impossible to evacuate them by the 31st.
Between now and the 31st, every moment that we pretend that something else might happen in that this adminstration might, or even wants to, evacuate them is giving them an incredible gift of time and faith that they couldn’t deserve less. And that further harms this Nation.
Stop pretending that they have this. Where are the continuous front page headlines asking for an impeachment!?! Practical or not, it is what is fully warranted and it is what needs to happen. Headlines are how the political currency gets built for it eventually to happen. That I don’t see them says more about the so called conservative leaning press than most Americans would like to believe.
If this were Trump, the caucophony from the MSM, their “conservative media” neocon plants, and their brownshirt mobs would be so deafening that the impeachment trial would already be imminent. This is what the Nation knows for certain.
Further:
Biden did arm the Taliban with a better cache than many Nations have. In effect, the defense industry and its proxy, Joe Biden, took American tax dollars and armed an army of our enemies.
Joe Biden is not making decisions. Whomever is, will use Biden as a fall guy. A shadow government with no accountability is extremely dangerous to the public good.
Start whatever process is necessary to legally remove Biden, at any political cost.
Well we have been told since Nov 4th that he won 81 million votes – I am sure they will now tell us that every American (that wanted to get out) has gotten out.
Bill, I guess you also noticed that Jen Psaki throws “that wanted to get out” in every sentence. As if anyone anywhere in the world believes that anyone other than the Taliban would stay there voluntarily.
–“Biden is going to abandon thousands of Americans in Afghanistan.
There’s no way around it. Its as impossible to evacuate them by the 31st.”–
This is probably true, but I have know way of knowing whether it is possible or impossible because I do not know the ground position or how many Americans there are in Afghanistan.
The Biden/Harris maladministration has had 7 months to get this done and has waited until the last minute to even worry about trying. So no, I don’t think it will get done, but it was certainly possible for a long time and should have been done.
And I can wholeheartedly agree with you that “A shadow government with no accountability is extremely dangerous to the public good.”
Sam,
I agree with your whole post; however, impeachment by so-called Republicans seems like it would be a gift to the Dems. They obviously never intended for Biden to serve out his term. What better way to make the transition they already had planned than to get the dimwitted “Republicans” to do it for them? We can rest assured the replacement (who will not be Kamala, regardless of what title she holds) will be worse because it will be whoever they planned to install as president to begin with, but knew they were too horrible of a person to ever get elected.
If I was Queen, I would tell the Dems: “You made your bed. Now you can lie in it”. I’d make them keep their humiliating dirty old man and take out their own trash. It isn’t just the U.S. that is a laughing stock around the world, it is specifically the Democrat party. They played the “Trump is the Devil” drumbeat worldwide for 5 years and the whole world now sees the caliber of the Dems’ best and brightest replacement. Let the leaders and all of their brain dead, woke sheep admire their handiwork for awhile. They all knew they were voting for a man with severe dementia.
Look at the body language of the world leaders on the call with Biden. Biden is speaking emphatically with his hands and his peers have arms crossed and most are looking away. It’s not like it was a 3 hour call on trade tariffs. It was a 7 minute call about a raging dumpster fire in Afghanistan and they won’t even make eye contact with Biden. They used their intelligence services to get him elected. Let all of them try to fumble their way through this fiasco under his “leadership”. Maybe a few of their own careers will go down the tubes with Biden’s when it’s all said and done.
There is an old saying, “You get what you pay for”.
This old saying is now kaput as we pay $750 Billion per year (more than the next 6 nations on the planet combined) and this is what we get.
I think we should get a refund of about $749 Billion.
Ancient Israel was instructed: “you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.” This and similar wisdom gives a society stability. All else is sinking sand.
We need to organize, stop paying taxes, and surround DC until our grievances are addressed. We should never have let ourselves into this situation (backs against the wall) but here we are. We can keep playing keyboard cowboy or get out there and raise some much needed hell. It’s way passed the time to kick some ass and hold these evil people accountable. We have no recourse anymore so we have to make our own. Let me know what I can do and writing/calling my congressman is no longer on my agenda. I believe the media would be a great place to start.
Start local and coordinate with like-minded individuals and view outsiders and/or deliberate strangers with marked suspicion. Defend the local turf from Communist intrusions, that be in government, law enforcement, schools, businesses, everywhere. Coordinate and do what’s necessary to drive them out or eliminate them.
Meaningful national change will take generations, just like it took generations to get this way. Most people live local, in their neighborhoods, towns and counties. Excellent place to start IMO.
“ Meaningful national change will take generations”
Then forget it, you are already enslaved by a foreign power.
The place to start is confronting your own denial implicit in rejecting The Founders’ Solution.
The Founders’ Solution would’ve worked in their time. The people weren’t up against rogue intelligence and law enforcement agencies backed up by a powerful standing army with space age weapons. On the other hand, their government weren’t up against 100,000,000 people who were ready to demand honest and capable leaders. Those numbers are our strength, my friend. We have to figure out how to use our numbers to apply pressure.
Some of the most ready, willing and able ran straight into a trap Jan 6 and are political prisoners in DC right now. Their imprisonment has had exactly the demoralizing effect it was intended. As I’ve said before, they are the “heads on pikes” that are keeping many of us hiding behind our screens. We don’t need more demoralizing heads on pikes. Use the energy created by your anger and find a local group who has figured out effective strategies to enact change. If we ever find ourselves in a civil war, you’ll thank God for the connections you have made in your community.
“We need to organize, stop paying taxes, and surround DC until our grievances are addressed.”
Unfortunate, if we do that, especially if we surround DC, our CRT/Woke Army will shoot us all.
Charlotte Taylor Wilson: You don’t really believe the people are happy!
Don Diego: All I know is the soldiers are quite happy shooting the people who say the people are not happy, and FBI Agents and DOJ Lawyers are quite happy abusing the people who say the people are not happy, and the Capital Police were quite happy shooting and killing Alisha Babbitt who said she was not happy.
We can also learn from how the Taliban pushed our superior military into a such a corner that the CIA director is now negotiating ransom. How their unified chain of command sealed their fate. Every experience is a learning opportunity, including the events on Jan 6. Coordination and communication are essential. Posting on blogs, not so much, at least for direct action elements. For the reformers and rebuilders, a good resource.
All you’ve got to know is this: right now the government of the United States is sitting on top of the Washington Monument, right on the very point, tilting right and left and ready to fall off and break up on the pavement. There are just a handful of men that can prevent it. And you’re one of them. -Senator Raymond Clark
We’re under a dizzying attack from enemies within and the rest of us all trying to figure out what just hit us. Our strength is in our numbers but only if we can act in concert. I’m just as disoriented as the next person, but to me it feels like organizing locally is accessible and repeatable. Local groups make regional groups make national groups. It’s also one of the ways we try to weed out traitors, associate with people you know, who have been in your community for some time. The internet is crawling with people who care more about chatting and entrapping patriotic Americans than child predators. Don’t get mixed up in anyone’s criminal plot.
TeamAmerica.com, (Your State)Stands Up, Alliance for Medical Freedom. Trump rallies, eh, love the guy, but we have to get over thinking politics or voting is going help. No one is coming to save us. Either all of us are going to rise up and take our country back or lose it. If you can’t physically show up, donate whatever you can to the Treehouse, others who are publishing the truth.
Look for groups (there are a lot of nurses right now) who are already organized and standing up and just show up to provide them strength in numbers. Nurses are in short supply and are critical for many greedy for profit hospitals to take patients. They are critical due to Covid. They have more leverage than most groups right now. I went to a vaccine mandate protest last weekend (Texans for Vaccine Choice). The organization said there were 1000 people there. A small local news blurb said “a couple hundred”. There were certainly more than “a couple hundred”. There were no news cameras. These events have to get big numbers to get on anyone’s radar. Other Americans need to see us rising up-the more who rise up, the more who will be inspired to join. Just by attending, I learned a lot and got several other leads for other organizations that are already up and running and need volunteers. Totally agree about getting out from behind our screens. It’s time. Tomorrow. This weekend.
Well short of a shooting war,you are going to have to get in the faces of your”Oppressors”as has been happening around the world.
This administration probably expects the Taliban to honor their word and release these captives once their demands are met.
Nothing could be further from the truth of what will really happen.
I don’t think they really care.
Expendable capital in their war on us.
It may be possible that they negotiated that the Taliban wouldn’t show the executions on live tv.
They’re sitting on all of the Afghani assets frozen by the Fed. Fed froze the assets and Afghan leadership grabbed the first flight out, after they got the call.
As I mentioned before, just watch the Taliban leverage the American hostages to spring KSM and his goons from Guantanamo Bay. (If we could send the pearl-clutching defense lawyers with them, that might lessen the sting of humiliation).
Paying tribute to the savages.
While I likewise view the Taliban and their ilk as savages, in that part of the world being a savage is often essential to survival, and we can learn a lot about tactics from savages like them.
Look what they did, how they coordinated and negotiated in-country and, yes, murdered because that’s part of savagery, and pushed the reigning purported superpower into a corner where our CIA director is personally negotiating a ransom of our money, yours and mine, our work, our sweat, our lives, paid to savages. IMO, process that. Learn from it. We’re going to need it.
Do you really think that the Taliban are capable of all that and more ?
Please.
TPTB handed it to them on a silver plafter wrapped in a pretty bow.
If we really were determined and not corrupted, we could have annihilated them within the first 2 weeks of fighting.
Sent them back to the Stone Age.
Same in Vietnam , Korea , Iraq and a host of other skirmishes.
Read General Smedley Butler, War is a Racket.
They did it, it’s real. I’ve learned to accept the real. We’re not going to murder hundreds of thousands of civilians, millions actually, like we’ve done in prior wars. That’s off the table so not even a consideration. The Taliban knows this.
Turn some Taliban fighters loose in this country and I’ll guarantee you they could do a bang up job of assassinating quite a range of targets. Why? They’re willing to kill and die for their ideology. We can learn from that. Meanwhile, we wear masks, follow vaccination orders and work at jobs to pay the ransom the powers that be will provide to the Taliban. What does that say about us?
When we were young back in the 1770’s we also did what the Tally did to the British.
All Great Empires eventually fall due to corruption from within.
It happened all throughout the history of Man and will continue and it will happen to the Taliban also.
A great lesson to learn from is from the book, The Fall of The Roman Empire.
It has parallels to our society also.
What is says about us is we are in the twilight of our Empire, soon to fall also.
When we were young back in the 1770’s we also did what the Tally did to the British.
Prove it.
It’s in the history books.
So George Washington didn’t field a guerilla war against the British ?.
Hmmm, I wonder how the 13 colonies became United and not another possession , unless the yoke of British tyranny was thrown off.
Wanna explain that to me ?
Or do they teach some other woke crap in schools now.
So,your denying what happened way back in 1770?????What dickwad you are.You think they played by the rules??????BS.
President Donald Trump:
Biden surrendered Afghanistan to terrorists and left thousands of Americans for dead by pulling out the Military before our citizens. Now we are learning that
out of the 26,000 people who have been evacuated, only 4,000 are Americans. You can be sure the Taliban, who are now in complete control, didn’t allow the best and brightest to board these evacuation flights. Instead, we can only imagine how many thousands of terrorists have been airlifted out of Afghanistan and into neighborhoods around the world. What a terrible failure. NO VETTING. How many terrorists will Joe Biden bring to America? We don’t know!
Maybe the CIA is going to release another animated short like they did to explain TWA Flight 800.
painful optics.
this administration just does not understand what painful optics is.
but they will soon find out about pain.
intimately, personally
directly.
stage 3 advances
as the GLOBAL COMMUNITY OF CITIZENS
close the gap, join in a majority to dissent against a tyrant, corrupt, traitorous, inept, thieving, hollow, inhumane central state.
the reckoning
it’s coming
be prepared
God Bless America
The Founders’ Solution
Organize, Militarize, Train, Mobilize.
Yes indeed.Just look at what is happening all around the world.We the great unwashed are rising up.
The miracle outcome from the “secret meetings” has been set up….for who ever is going to be the “white knight” to ride in on 31 August to save the day.
A “white” knight would not be politically correct.
I suspect the CIA met with the Taliban to beg leniency for the STRANDED CIA operatives in Afghanistan, NOT normal citizens!
They keep saying “all Americans that want to get out will be evacuated”. This is their way to claim that those that did not get out did not want to get out – just wait and see. And that will be repeated by the losers in the media and even bigger losers in Congress.
SaigonDein Bein Phu.when you remember government money is our stolen money being used ugh
to the leftist loons reading this post : Don’t talk to me about gun rights or gun control ever again. You just gave 600k plus in automatic rifles to the Taliban. I’m done with your hypocrisy and your insanity
I like and respect Sundance and this community ( have followed this site for years), but sometimes these comments kill me. It’s just great that we know what is happening and going to happen. Like a play-by-play of our own execution. How about some comments addressing viable solutions??? Anything??? This is painful to listen to and watch. Like watching a speeding car coming at you and continuing to stand in its path. What is all this commenting doing to solve the problem?
Mine is:
The Founders’ Solution
1 Violence remains very much “on the table.”
2 Organize, Militarize, Train, Mobilize.
3. Start with Veterans groups and Veterans in Local Churches and Civic Groups.
Local Community Home Defense Guard Auxiliaries (Minutemen)
Neighborhood Son’s of Liberty, Committees of Correspondence.
I see there are “aps” out there.
Problem is with giving solutions.
You will be targeted in an open forum by your enemies and taken off the battlefield before even firing the first shot.
First rule of Fight Club ?
Don’t talk about it.
American Patriots are in the same position as US supporting Afghanis still in Afghanistan.
I don’t think you’ve “followed this site for years”. I think you’re a plant trying to stir up trouble. I warn everyone here to not respond to this troublemaker.
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Sooo $$$$ involved … -As good ol’ Gomer Pyle would say ( watch TV land for repeats ) with his signature saying when he figured it out “ Well Surprise , Surprise , Surprise ‘
Well, they have our weapons, why not send them a sh*tload of money, and wrap it in our lost dignity?
Why hasn’t the Tali mortared the airport? I find that interesting.
$$$ better
This isn’t a war , this is a negotiation…. just settling on the price
It wouldn’t take much to make the runway inoperable.
How can men with 25 ribbons on their chests and all sorts of medals (our Pentagon Leaders) be so out thought by men with zero ribbons on their chests and no medals (Taliban Leaders) ?
So glad I’m not in charge. I’d carpet bomb every single Taliban and all of their assets until every single American and those who helped us are rescued.
Biden has no balls.
Bingo.
They may not have to worry about the Taliban or IsisK or whoever , when the hoards of people outside the gate
found out they have no hope of getting out and the military is already leaving.. They might just rush the gates and
storm the airport..
I agree with Sundance that the top dog of the Deep State, aka Executive Branch of the US Government, is the Intel Community followed closely by their allies in the State Department. Especially as they control and have more money under their control control than most nations around the world if one counts US Government, Off the Books US Government and non-Government Money they can access.
Just thinking out loud here…. what if the Deep State has grown tired of the Puppet Master arrangement they have via Obama, the Uni-Party, Obama’s lackeys and his Avatar(s)?? They feel it is time to cut out the middle people to take the seat in the White House directly in 2024. This gives the Financial Masters of the world a more reliable handle on power in the US, than democrat party anarchists who cannot seem to put enough people into la la land suspension.
Burns becomes the front man as hero of the Afghanistan Crisis and Kamala’s VP. That gives the Deep State 2-years in order to position him with a different VP.
DUMB AS A BUCKET OF HAIR…
Not one cent for tribute.
Payment was guaranteed long ago, now they are just hagling over final price and delivery.
This is no longer a representative government. I don’t consent.
now the Taliban (read:. CCP) is in full command, pushing around the CIA …
see this wasn’t about CIA negotiating SHIT!
THIS IS ABOUT THE CCP TELLING THE CIA TO MAKE A MEETING PRONTO …sound of fingers snapping.
CIA is now servant to the whims of the Taliban/CCP.
here is what you do for us now that we OWN YOUR ADMINISTRATION!
there isn’t money being exchanged…why would there? is cash is worthless… Taliban/CCP has what is far more powerful than cash money.
it has TRUE POWER.
this isn’t political…it’s not even Islamic terrorism
not anymore
this is the US IC CONCEDING IN A FORMAL MEETING IT OWN DEFEAT AND WHAT THE CCP EXPECTS OUT OF IT GOING FORWARD.
CIA dropping off it resume
CCP: we have already hired enough Americans thank you but thanks for applying….
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Biden lied about rescuing Americans. US troops are already being removed from the airport.
Pentagon Begins Withdrawing Troops At Kabul Airport
Update (1524ET): It’s looking like the troop draw down order has already been executed, after Pentagon officials indicated they would need ‘several days’ to get the some 6,000 US soldiers out of Kabul International Airport, who meanwhile themselves are busy overseeing the evacuation operation.
With SAM’s in possession of Taliban and ISIL as someone who used to sit in the Oval Office referred to them.
Almost any airport worldwide is now in jeopardy of extortion or having a passenger jet shot out of the sky.
It has been that way for a very long time…and did not just magically start with the “Fall of Afghanistan”.
South Africa, Iran, China, Pakistan, Turkey and a host of others can build to print any early generation US, Euro or Russian man-portable guided weapon you care to name. Those prints are available on the market or export at the right price.
Plus, low tech 12.7mm or 14.5mm anti-material rifles would do just as well. For that mater a good sniper rile of any caliber on approach or take off would be nasty business.
Psaki is spewing BS right now. No one should bother to attend her press conference.
On January 26, 2021 the Taliban called on Biden to follow President Trump’s Peace Plan in Afghanistan
But Orange Man Bad so Biden trashed that agreement
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/taliban-calls-on-biden-to-follow-trumps-peace-plan-in-afghanistan/ar-BB1d7jTH
I don’t know much about US international foreign affairs but why is the CIA doing any negotiating? Shouldn’t it be like the State Dept. or something that handles that?
We are thinking about this wrong. We need to send in a company of social workers and SJW’s. After all, it works for defunding and reimagining the police here. Imagine the success they will have with the Tallybon./sarc off
The fake president, has no leverage whatsoever. Then again, why assume he was expecting to have any. He’s already given away the farm. So really, the idiot and his entire administration, can only negotiate from a position of weakness and failure.
Turn tail.
After the deadline I’m sure a deal has been made. Something like for every plane load of Afghanistan refugees/American citizens the shrewd Taliban gets a plane load of cash. Sound familiar. JoeBama ain’t stupid his mentor advising him did a similar move in the Iran deal.
And the big guy gets his cut
I fear, this is the first in a series of catastrophes that will plague this country because of a fundamentally Incompetent Administration and Democratic Socialist Party! These are the very people I Took an Oath to protect My country from, and if I wasn’t too old, I would have already disappeared to be a part of the coming revolution!
Also, they don’t mind leaving the military hung out too. After all, they have only about 6% black soldiers (as to 12% of the population, and since 12+5 of blacks voted for Trump, the D’s see no down side with their main minority “prop-up.” And so what if some of the white/Black/Hispanic’s are D’s – they will be OK, as they have been passed up the leadership ladder, only the poor dog-faces get the shaft.
“The Taliban have U.S. made advanced technology surface-to-air missiles (SAMS) that we left with the Afghan army before their defeat.”
Can anybody explain WHY the Afghan army needed surface-to-air missiles?!? Until the present fiasco the Taliban didn’t even have an air force! It looks like we left the Afghan army with exactly what we wanted the Taliban to capture. This must have beed planned by 0bama to strengthen his Muslim allies and also to transfer a lot of our advanced weapons to China for reverse engineering.
The SAMS they could get any time they wanted from many Islamic Nations who can build to print.
A bigger technology loss is all RADAR, Electro-Optic, COMMS and Encryption equipment left behind for China Inc. and others to study and duplicate.
The Kabul Airport likely had some latest Surface to Air sensing equipment as well as Civil Aviation COMMS and interfaces.
The SAMS could be obtained any time any place. Do not let that mask the real catastrophe.
Who knows what else was left at Bagram or what Counter Fire and FARR RADAR were gifted at the 20+ fully functional regional Brigade(+) sized bases the AFGHAN Army was given.
Can’t say it enough…the $85 Billion in weapons was bad….but the US Built and left in place a 2+ Trillion Dollar Fully Operational Inter-Connected Base of Operations for the Muslim Brotherhood, China Inc. and Russia to exploit. There are 2 x fully functional airports with runways and logistics that support any aircraft you name. Then trained a cadre of Taliban soldiers and officers in its use.
Need to expand beyond China Inc. studying and duplicating.
South Africa, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan have very good build to print capabilities of about any weapon you care to name.
Iran and Pakistan already build knock-off copies of man-portable US weapons.
I think you read too much into this. The US military and State are just not smart enough to have planned this out.
Same with the MANPADs, probably Stingers as per what the CIA gave the Mujahedin 30 years ago, no doubt that was a nice cash deal for someone on the gravy train, nothing more. A bit like some aircraft that were supplied and then chopped up when still new as not being suitable. We will never get to know the inside financing of what was supposed to be a forever war.
Bannon interviews Michael in first 10 minutes of video. Yon knows a lot about Afghan culture, nuances. He details more on his Locals channel (link below). Not good news. Doesn’t bode well.
https://rumble.com/vlmr71-episode-1198-taliban-is-expected-to-hit-kabul-airbase-hard.html
https://michaelyon.locals.com/upost/990028/the-perfect-evil-biden-surrenders-to-taliban
The way he describes these people is like I would to a pack of dogs running around a junkyard.
Literally chase us if we regress, don’t respect weakness and it only encourages.
These people only exist to aid JoeNiparty to steal from us legally.
Edit -. If it wasn’t clear, he is describing them as low IQ weak thugs
Yes. Yon said that’s part of their culture. If you run, they chase. I didn’t grasp that they thought they were low IQ. They are fighters and have beater everyone.
It’s a lie. He has pushed it up to September 27 and hasn’t told anyone.
https://twitter.com/KassyDillon/status/1430247974060367879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1430247974060367879%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Freport-us-forces-have-stopped-taking-afghans-wants-to-be-fully-out-in-72-hours-bret-baier%2F
The Taliban want to get rid of all the corrupt and US/NATO/NGO hangers on. Clearly the most corrupt were at the front of the line flashing their $ (e.g. estimated $10000 per seat on Ukrainian airliner) to get out. There seems to be capacity to get around 15-20,000 a day out (if the Taliban let them) but from now on the military are going to start withdrawing their own.
I have little doubt that next week the scenes are going to get more chaotic, if only to increase the humiliation of the West. Yes, whilst you in the US see it as all about you as the leaders of the Free World, us vassals are also hit by this. Just wait for a Taliban ‘honour guard’ seeing off the last US C-17 as they keep the mobs at bay, with half a dozen US helicopters burning in the background.
All of you here blaming it on Biden can’t be serious, the poor guy is only half here. He’s just the fall guy, the real decision makers are elsewhere. I am sure that this is just a monumental cock-up. No-one really saw it coming as fast as it did.
The deal that Trump made, or more accurately, was made in his name, with exit in May was just not possible, so it was altered ‘by Biden’ to end August probably by the same people that did the original deal. In doing so, in the eyes of the Taliban that broke the deal. This is a major reason why the Taliban will not allow any US/NATO military in the country post August. That is key, they are very careful to exclude from either out by 31st August or can’t leave the category of foreign nationals. With $10B frozen in the US/IMF we will see just how good negotiators they are in getting that back.
The Taliban that we see now are not the Taliban of 20-30 years ago. For example it looks like there will be a 12 man ruling council with 7 Taliban and 5 from the current Government plus opposition. Whilst there will be cases of retribution, as post any civil war, if the Taliban hold their coalition of tribes together there is hope for the country.
We have to look beyond the doom mongers, many of whom are desperately trying to rescue some reputation, the natural anger of those let down by the cost plus waste of human lives and hope for the people of that country that outside interference stops. Let them, for better or worse, get on with it.