Karl Marx said history repeats itself, first as tragedy and then as farce.....and he should have known, he had a giant beard.

20 years, 4 presidents, and trillions of dollars and thousands of dead and maimed, all to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.....you just got to love that elite class, loaded with money and eternally f***ing up.

Edited by Stirlingsays (20 Aug 2021 2.43am)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Essentially the West wants us to believe that the Taliban took over ALL of Afghanistan, including areas in which the majority of its members do not even speak the lanague, where everybody is toting weapons and living in remote towns and villages in areas that are probably not even mapped.

And all without any kind of organised logistics back-up, heavy artillery, air cover, armored units?

And all within a space of 3 weeks?

All I have seen is footage of what seems at most, groups of maybe 10-15 men, often on motorbikes, causing mayhem in Kabul. That is it.

In this age of the mobile phone then You Tube should be awash with footage of truck loads of Taliban moving into town after town. There is some of Taliban being greeted by enthusiastic crowds but to my cynical eye, most of those seem staged. Very much after the fact.

Something is very, very amiss with the entire picture here.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Given some of the high profile events of the past I was somewhat anti Libya for quite a long time, whilst living in the UAE at a certain point in time I was tasked with driving a group of Libyans several hundred miles to go & see some machines working(I was going to be with them the whole day) I honestly didnt know how I was going to feel about doing this but - I picked them up, we chatted in the car & within 15 minutes we were all on the same page & it turned out to be a very enjoyable experience -

Certainly during the week before there were just stories of the Taliban had taken over this town or this province, I dont remember any stories of this battle or that battle - maybe I wasnt paying enough attention ?

I see Western media are fawning over the Badri 313 unit which is apparently some Taliban special forces unit.
Was looking at some pics of them on the Daily Mail website and the attached popped up.

Theyre a bunch of f***ing Larpers, not even the Airsoft community would be this amateur.

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The mountains are calling & I must go.

Hopefully if this is legit then they have air power from the west. There are protests happening in many towns which could be the catalyst to finally show the taliban the door. One worry is a loose bullet from the soldiers doing the evacuation could start a fire fight although I would imagine that eyes are on and the whereabouts of the taliban hierarchy are only a drone strike away. Maybe been a bit too quick and too spread out and far too cocky