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crazy to watch this happen live. world historical event right here. our generation's vietnam, except the taliban are cringe while north vietnam was based
Just hopped on liveuamap for Afghanistan, and the country was essentially conquered by the Taliban in three days.
Was it that easy to take over Afghanistan after all? lmao
US military analysis says Kabul could fall to Taliban in 90 days: Official
-12 August 2021, 12:00
:amerikkka-clap:
lol America's puppet government rolling over and "peacefully transferring power" to the Taliban after America spent thousands of lives and trillions of dollars over two fucking decades is the weakest shit ever
At least Biden killed the American empire folks
Couldn't be a more literary apropos ending to this conflict. It's fucked. But holy shit
holy shit it's the same CH-47
some army battalion commander is laughing their ass off after playing this practical joke
Omg I love the Hindutvas in the comments shitting on the US saying “How is the US a super power, they haven’t won a war since WW2.” and then Reddit brained Americans replying “um actually we’ve won plenty of times militarily, but we can’t create stable democracies after. That’s not our fault, it’s the dirty natives who don’t want democracy.” Just fascists arguing with fascists.
To be fair, when was the last time the American military outright won a military conflict? Like I'm not talking about achieving the political aims, but just in terms of war.
yea desert storm was a complete roll in terms of shooting shit
lol this is gonna be awesome footage for the 2024 trump campaign commercials
When will we get the movie that shows the hard working cia and state department people and troops get sold out and abandoned by the government. Then it is Islamaphobic showing all of the wide Muslims taking over the country and we have to hope that by the end of the movie all the white people will be saved, but another white guy who sacrificed himself.
There's footage of helicopters chaotically lifting people off a roof, then Jim looks straight at the camera
Eternal damnation unto the yankee empire, may its satanic hagiography be purged from the earth.
How does the US expect to keep contractors there if the entire government is handed over to the Taliban peacefully? I hope the us doesnt try anything stupid, especially after the Afghans have taken a bunch of risks to ensure peace
the contractors will stay there forever, probably six feet under
There is a very recent precedent where the US abandoned Kurdish militias once ISIS was nearly defeated. The US was also completely apathetic about Turkey attacking Kurdish forces soon after the military exit in Syria; the Rojava-Turkey ceasefire ended up being negotiated by Assad.
How is Rojava doing currently? I haven't really heard anything about it in the last few years.
You haven't heard anything in the past few years because everything has been the same in northern Syria since 2018.
I'll be honest what really gets me is that just a few years ago "The Afghanistan Papers" were made public for all to see. In them we saw state department officials essentially admitting what independent reporters had been saying for years: that the US was in Afghanistan blatantly supporting corrupt Northern Alliance warlords and as a result enjoyed little to no popular support among Afghans. This was all admitted not long ago at all and yet we are now seeing supposedly "informed" people dragging out dated canards that bear no relation to the reality that preceded the collapse of the US backed regime. Truly, I feel as though the US imperialist propaganda machine is so well lubricated that it recreates reality from moment to moment, if only there was a book describing how that happens ...
small win for socialism
e. nothing short of my expectation that our resident liberals would jump like a springboard to attack any radical anti-imperialist stances that unsettles their liberal sensibilities. what I actually meant was that the fact socialism lasted 3 years and america lasted half a month is a small win in defence of socialist history
This is your brain on antiimperialism.
Edit was mostly meant as joke. Though I agree with shaun that you don't have to hand it to them (isis) at all and while taliban isn't isis not much to hand to them.
insofar as a defeat for america is a victory for socialism? but even then, this is one kind of fascist losing to another kind. its hard to see a victory in this unless you’re blackpilled or a fed trying to make us look bad. the taliban is cringe.
edit: go ahead and call me a liberal at least i'm not an edgy teen dirtbag socialist giving us the fantastic optics of saying "the taliban winning is the same as socialists winning"
umm actually sweaty, socialism is when 1st world labor aristocrats do neocolonialism so they can buy cheap electronics thanks to their child slavery (oh sorry, it's Nestle's child slavery)
nothing short of my expectation
Nothing short of your expectation because you said something stupid on purpose specifically so you could do this.
