Breaking News The Taliban topples city after city as they continue their campaign to takeover Afghanistan

Because there’s only villains and the regular people are getting shit on. We are turning our backs on everyone who helped us along the way and it’s bullshit. It could have been done better. Anyone who thinks there won’t be retaliation for anyone who helped the coalition is fooling themselves. Doesn’t feel good to know your country isn’t acting with integrity. Yeah you can say that’s nothing new but this is just dogshit. I

The taliban are Villains too. They’re already killing people. Fuck them.

Monday was rough on me. Sounds pathetic but I laid in a dark room for a while.
I feel you man. I hope you can find something that bring happiness in your life. Tolerance breaks my G.
 

I agree w this. The news channels have been 100% over the top w the coverage of Afghanistan. While not really giving the full, complex picture.

But these news channels dont give af. They are desperate for new content. They were living good during the trump years. Biden is boring af and most ppl dont give af bout covid no mo.
 

I agree w this. The news channels have been 100% over the top w the coverage of Afghanistan. While not really giving the full, complex picture.

But these news channels dont give af. They are desperate for new content. They were living good during the trump years. Biden is boring af and most ppl dont give af bout covid no mo.
Afghanistan is red meat on the table for these news outlets and media conglomerates.
 
Taliban Seizes Billions in US-Supplied Weaponry


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Michael Rainey

Thu, August 19, 2021, 7:05 PM·3 min read

The Taliban has seized billions of dollars’ worth of U.S.-supplied military equipment in Afghanistan following their rapid defeat of government forces in that country.

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Images of Taliban fighters posing with U.S.-made supplies are circulating widely in the media, The Hill’s Rebecca Kheel reports, and include weapons ranging from M-16 rifles to armored Humvees. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft have also reportedly been captured.

Videos show Taliban fighters inspecting vehicles left behind by the Afghan military and opening crates of new firearms and other military equipment, including drones and night-vision goggles. “Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," a U.S. official told Reuters.

A substantial stockpile: The U.S. has provided the Afghanistan government with an enormous supply of military equipment as part of the $83 billion it spent during the nearly 20-year course of the war to train and supply the national security forces. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office reviewed by Kheel, the U.S. supplied Afghan forces with more than 75,000 vehicles between 2003 and 2016, along with nearly 600,000 weapons, 160,000 pieces of communications equipment and more than 200 aircraft.

Some of the equipment has been lost or destroyed, but U.S. officials told Reuters that the Taliban now controls more than 2,000 armored vehicles and as many as 40 aircraft. (Afghan military pilots reportedly used about 50 aircraft to flee the country, effectively removing them from Taliban control.)

Military experts note, however, that technologically advanced equipment such as helicopters and attack aircraft would be hard to use without advanced training and skilled maintenance. “Ironically, the fact that our equipment breaks down so often is a life-saver here," an official said
 
Taliban Seizes Billions in US-Supplied Weaponry


3268db46c4b9361aaa9ff635c0595607




Michael Rainey

Thu, August 19, 2021, 7:05 PM·3 min read

The Taliban has seized billions of dollars’ worth of U.S.-supplied military equipment in Afghanistan following their rapid defeat of government forces in that country.

210820160234-01-taliban-us-weapons-parade-large-169.jpg


Images of Taliban fighters posing with U.S.-made supplies are circulating widely in the media, The Hill’s Rebecca Kheel reports, and include weapons ranging from M-16 rifles to armored Humvees. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft have also reportedly been captured.

Videos show Taliban fighters inspecting vehicles left behind by the Afghan military and opening crates of new firearms and other military equipment, including drones and night-vision goggles. “Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," a U.S. official told Reuters.

A substantial stockpile: The U.S. has provided the Afghanistan government with an enormous supply of military equipment as part of the $83 billion it spent during the nearly 20-year course of the war to train and supply the national security forces. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office reviewed by Kheel, the U.S. supplied Afghan forces with more than 75,000 vehicles between 2003 and 2016, along with nearly 600,000 weapons, 160,000 pieces of communications equipment and more than 200 aircraft.

Some of the equipment has been lost or destroyed, but U.S. officials told Reuters that the Taliban now controls more than 2,000 armored vehicles and as many as 40 aircraft. (Afghan military pilots reportedly used about 50 aircraft to flee the country, effectively removing them from Taliban control.)

Military experts note, however, that technologically advanced equipment such as helicopters and attack aircraft would be hard to use without advanced training and skilled maintenance. “Ironically, the fact that our equipment breaks down so often is a life-saver here," an official said
The self-drag tho...smh lol
 
Taliban Seizes Billions in US-Supplied Weaponry


3268db46c4b9361aaa9ff635c0595607




Michael Rainey

Thu, August 19, 2021, 7:05 PM·3 min read

The Taliban has seized billions of dollars’ worth of U.S.-supplied military equipment in Afghanistan following their rapid defeat of government forces in that country.

210820160234-01-taliban-us-weapons-parade-large-169.jpg


Images of Taliban fighters posing with U.S.-made supplies are circulating widely in the media, The Hill’s Rebecca Kheel reports, and include weapons ranging from M-16 rifles to armored Humvees. UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft have also reportedly been captured.

Videos show Taliban fighters inspecting vehicles left behind by the Afghan military and opening crates of new firearms and other military equipment, including drones and night-vision goggles. “Everything that hasn't been destroyed is the Taliban's now," a U.S. official told Reuters.

A substantial stockpile: The U.S. has provided the Afghanistan government with an enormous supply of military equipment as part of the $83 billion it spent during the nearly 20-year course of the war to train and supply the national security forces. According to a report from the Government Accountability Office reviewed by Kheel, the U.S. supplied Afghan forces with more than 75,000 vehicles between 2003 and 2016, along with nearly 600,000 weapons, 160,000 pieces of communications equipment and more than 200 aircraft.

Some of the equipment has been lost or destroyed, but U.S. officials told Reuters that the Taliban now controls more than 2,000 armored vehicles and as many as 40 aircraft. (Afghan military pilots reportedly used about 50 aircraft to flee the country, effectively removing them from Taliban control.)

Military experts note, however, that technologically advanced equipment such as helicopters and attack aircraft would be hard to use without advanced training and skilled maintenance. “Ironically, the fact that our equipment breaks down so often is a life-saver here," an official said
The ISI know how to use/repair that stuff, though.
 
Listening to Al Jazeera .... expert on the Taliban mentioned that the US asked the Taliban to take control of Kabul after the president fleed to avoid chaos
 
(CNN)CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies out of Afghanistan by a looming August 31 deadline.

The Biden administration has been in regular contact with Taliban officials throughout the course of the evacuation process, both on the ground in Afghanistan and in Doha, Qatar.

But the covert meeting, first reported Tuesday by The Washington Post, between Burns and Taliban co-founder and deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar amounts to the highest-level direct exchange of views since the militant group took control of the capital, a US official briefed on the matter told CNN.


So the head of the CIA has the head of Taliban on speed dial. Gets face to face meetings with him inside of Afghanistan.

Of course this is normal.
It's the same ppl the CIA worked with back in the 80s... contact can be still made, but corporations/warhawks + money influence politicians better than anything else. However I don't see the Taliban making a mistake of hitting that airport and bringing the US military back into Afghanistan as well as other locations for vengeance... that deadline will be malleable
 
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