interesting documentary

You are the definition of a dumbass. Literally.

Just coz the word has "phobia" doesnt necessary mean it's "to be afraid of" something....you moron.

F***ing conservatives....

Xenophobia is a phobia and it does not mean fear of

I think it's clear that the US was genuinely delusional in the state of the Afghan government, which is the more interesting story - it seems like we actually, legitimately thought that the money we funneled to the Afghan government was going to state/military building, and it wasn't. $2 Trillion not just down the drain, but completely STOLEN essentially. But it's absolutely fascinating how the US...legitimately did not realize this?
Personally, in my opinion at the same time - let's be frank here; the Taliban faced virtually no resistance from not only the Afghan military essentially once the US left, but also faced virtually no resistance from the vast majority of communities (especially rural ones) there. The reason they gained land so quickly was because there was virtually no serious resistance once we left; it's almost like the military was never actually as supremely against the Taliban to begin with but had to stick with what made them money, and many communities legitimately either did not care or supported the Taliban to begin with in spite of the interim government. Absolutely fascinating example of what failed policy and cultural ignorance looks like.

phobia noun

pho·​bia | \ ˈfō-bē-ə \
Definition of phobia (Entry 1 of 2)
: an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation
-phobia noun combining form
Definition of -phobia (Entry 2 of 2)
1: exaggerated fear of
acrophobia
2: intolerance or aversion

thats great that you know that fam.

thank you for coming to terms that phobia does not only mean to be afraid of, glad you're learning

I don't really follow trump's statements. He just says whatever to me. I just pay attention to what he does. Trump isn't great on fopo but his instincts are better than most people in office. I dont think this happens the way it does without him. Biden doesnt care enough about fopo to handle this seriously.

Someone ban that dumb f***er fr

this sht got me in tears i cant lie

thank you for coming to terms that phobia does not only mean not to be afraid of, glad you're learning shane. you seem like a good wholesome guy, im sure you're intelligent and have lots to share but alas i already have a slew of smoothed brained individuals on my d***

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fall of an empire

This has to be satire. This fr?

If you think the US was spending money to build infrastructure and make life better for the Afghan people you are so lost in all this brother.

Stability in the ME was never the goal

This is absolutely wild

You're misunderstanding what I'm saying, you can read my posts in the thread leading up to this and obviously see i'm not implying that or representing the US in a good light - what I'm saying is that in the US intelligence estimates seemed to have assumed that money went into building up the military, or at least the militias which defended US interest; this clearly was not the case however, and the intelligence was so far off the market I was saying I feel like they bought into their own propaganda (i.e. the money clearly did not got to state-building, but intelligence bought their own propaganda that it did).

Completely correct, but I think I did a bad job explaining what I meant in that post, what I was trying to formulate was the idea that the US didn't just mess up in terms of geopolitics, but the US actually got itself into a situation where its own institutions began to believe their own propaganda - and this lead to a dangerous situation which caused such institutions (i.e. intelligence agencies) to act in a manner which simply was detached from reality, because they believed the propaganda they themselves had originated over the actual reality of the situation.

Tpab cover tbh

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The United States drafted an agreement with the Taliban in Feb 2020 to totally pull out in 14 months

This began going into effect this spring under Biden.

Beginning in July the Taliban began gaining territory at an extremely fast pace. At the beginning of July, intelligence suggested that resistance would last a year. 3 days ago intelligence estimates Kabul to last 3 months. In reality the Taliban just took control of every province, totally overwhelming Afghan resistance which basically gave up, and almost overrunning American personnel

this and the quoted post best takes itt

this mess was inevitable, would’ve happened 10 years ago or now

most criticism i could give the current administration on this is that we didn’t give people enough time to prepare and get out, and also to remove quotas and make the process easy for people who are most in danger from the taliban

the least the world can do is accept refugees

not surprising that the usual suspects are pushing their weird fascist bullshit