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Re:Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul by User23 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:17PM (#28189965)
The US supported regime and even the US military command were literally on the side of child rapists[1]. One can easily find many many other examples with a search, so I won't provide them. Suffice to say the USA was not on the side of the angels here. Furthermore, the rapidity with which the Taliban turned the government forces and took Kabul strongly suggests a Napoleon's return from Elba[2] scenario. The evidence is now overwhelming that the puppet Afghan government and its US supporters were both evil and despised by the common Afghan who jumped at the chance to support the Taliban, actively or by acquiescence.

I'm sure we'll see desperate propaganda attempts in the US news trying to spin it, but it's only going to work on people with absolutely no awareness of history. And as others here have already noted, on top of that it's probably the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American, or possibly any, people ever.

In other news, China already informally recognized the Taliban[3] and the Russian embassy is not being evacuated[4]. We are witnessing the first stages of the collapse of the US led "international order"[5]. Fascinating stuff, although as a US citizen it may not be so great for me personally.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/green-beret-afghan-p...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days#Return_to_France

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-prepared-to-recog...

[4] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/08/15/blinken-says-...

[5] Read: "empire"

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Re:Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul by gordon_gee1 on Sunday August 15, 2021 @12:53PM (#28190269)
I think this is forgetting a few things: The US benefits immensely by no longer being in Afghanistan, its a landlocked nation with limited accessible resources. For the first time in 20 years the US will not be bogged down in an active warzone. This doesnt benefit China or Russia. It might even get the US to finally realize their biggest risk is cyberwarfare/sabotage instead of blindly spending the equivalent construction cost of a high school on an Abrams tank
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