Afghanistan is about to fall.

Well, the (now former) President Ashraf Ghani fled the country earlier today.

“Today I came across a tough choice,” starts the post, written in Pashto and translated using Google. “I have to face the armed Taliban who want to enter the palace or leave the country where I have dedicated my life to protecting and nurturing it for the last 20 years. If left unchecked, countless patriots would be martyred and the city of Kabul would be devastated, resulting in a major humanitarian catastrophe in the six-million-strong city.”

As with most of the country, people chose to flee instead of fighting the taliban head on.

The president went on to assert that the U.S.-backed Afghan government has “300,000 well-equipped” troops. He said they were “as well-equipped as any army in the world.”

“Against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable,” Biden said.

But it HAS happened.  The failed state of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is by all accounts, DEAD!

The Taliban will declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul, a Taliban official announced on Sunday.

And the breeding grounds for international terrorism is much ALIVE!

…analysts predicted that history would view the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan as a failure.

“On Day One, we go in, and the Taliban is in charge. Twenty years later, the Taliban is back in charge,” said Jack Weinstein, a former Pentagon official and expert on international security.

“I don’t know how you couch that as a victory,” he said.

A victory for the taliban, and now also a victory for the CCP as…

Afghanistan has billions of dollars worth of copper, iron, talcum and lithium. In recent days, China has already made in-roads with the Taliban, developing ties that it hopes will bloom into economic cooperation, including in its Belt and Road initiative. Russia and Iran have also met with Taliban leaders to discuss future ties.

Definitely NOT a victory for biden foreign policy.  (I thought he claimed to be a master foreign policy maker.  Guess NOT.)

From 1996 to 2001, the Taliban ruled the country … Only a handful of countries recognized the regime, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkmenistan.

Now we can see many more countries recognizing this regime, including Russia and the CCP.

“The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,” Biden said in July during a news conference, adding that Afghan troops were “as well-equipped as any army in the world.”

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Biden’s decision to put “trust” in the Afghan military by leaving them on their own led to the complete Taliban takeover he previously said was “highly unlikely.”

No, it is a matter of FACT.  The taliban HAS taken over.  But without leadership, at the first sign of conflict, it will all fall down.  Thanks for reassuring the public and your allies the inevitable was “highly unlikely”.

“I do not regret my decision,” Biden said last week. “Afghan leaders have to come together.  We lost thousands—lost to death and injury—thousands of American personnel.   They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation.”

Well, it is no longer their nation.

Afghans fearing that the Taliban would reimpose the kind of brutal rule that all but eliminated women’s rights rushed to leave the country, lining up at cash machines to withdraw their life savings, the AP reported.

Which is what I expect will happen.

Taliban fighters tried to calm residents of the capital, insisting they wouldn’t enter people’s homes or interfere with businesses. They said they’d offer an “amnesty” to those who worked with the Afghan government or foreign forces.

“No one’s life, property and dignity will be harmed, and the lives of the citizens of Kabul will not be at risk,” the insurgents said in a statement, according to AP.

So long as they peacefully give over power to the taliban, no doubt.

During the five-year reign of the previous Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban imposed a strict interpretation of Sharia law nationwide. These included significant restrictions on women, who were not allowed to leave their homes without a male companion and were required to be fully covered from head to feet when in public.

So long as you do NOT give them a reason to come after you (and obey all their RULES), you are “no at risk”.

Disobey…. 💥☠

Under their harsh interpretation of religious jurisprudence, women and girls were pushed almost completely out of public life and forbidden from employment and schooling. The Taliban imposed sartorial injunctions on both sexes, and mandated such brutal punishment as hand-chopping and execution by stoning — for infractions of their brand of Islamic law. They also banned television and music.

Be prepared for that too.

As they so loudly proclaimed to the entire world:

America is Back, man!

And just like in every WAR the us has been in, they decided to leave behind LOTS of things.

Taliban show off US-made war spoils in reclaimed spiritual home

In footage posted on Taliban social media accounts Saturday, an insurgent is seen walking around a US-made Black Hawk military helicopter, which is in brown-green camouflage with Afghan Air Force markings, purportedly at a Kandahar airport hangar.

He then walks out and another Black Hawk is seen in the distance on the tarmac.

As he walks to the side of the hangar, two Russian military helicopters are seen as another person is heard saying “Mashallah” — an Islamic term of praise.

It was not clear if any of the helicopters were airworthy.

As if that matters to their propaganda.  It also does not matter they have no one who can pilot or do maintenance on them.

But their capture is a symbolic boon for the insurgents and an embarrassment for the Western coalition ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the deadline for the American withdrawal.

Exactly.

Images such as these have emerged from cities across Afghanistan that have fallen to the Taliban, showing insurgents posing with captured weapons and patrolling in vehicles once used by Afghan spies and elite forces.

Taliban fighters have also seized tactical vehicles, humvees, small arms and ammunition.

Washington supplied much of that hardware to the Afghan military, to the tune of $88 billion since 2002.

With US troops all but gone, Taliban fighters are now flush with American-supplied arms and equipment — often left by retreating Afghan forces.

Just like how the us left all those items when they left after the Gulf War.

All that is now in “enemy hands”.

What a way to circumvent selling such things to terrorists when they can be left behind and given to them for free.

They did it earlier when they left a base before the local commander knew, as the base was being looted before they could secure it.

I don’t know how much of that is the fault of the administration, the pentagon, or both when it comes to this mess.

In other article(s) we get his:

Former President Barack Obama’s ethics chief slammed the Biden administration Sunday for failing to adequately plan evacuations to rescue more of America’s Afghan allies…

…Walter Shaub, who served as director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics between 2013 to 2017.

And:

Afghanistan is what happens when Biden is able to make his horrible foreign policy reality

We are watching in real time what happens when a man with a notoriously bad foreign policy record is handed the reins: Afghanistan has fallen to the Taliban, U.S. officials are fleeing to evacuate the embassy in Kabul…

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But what more could we have expected from Biden? Throughout his very lengthy political career, he has been wrong on just about every single foreign policy issue. On the Cold War, Iraq, the killing of Osama bin Laden, the killing of Qassem Soleimani, on former President Barack Obama’s drone strategy, and more, Biden has been horribly, horribly wrong. Obama’s former defense secretary even accused the then-vice president of creating a “category five s***storm” on the international stage.

But back then, Biden’s poor decision-making wasn’t of much consequence because he wasn’t the guy in charge. Well, now he is. And this is the result.

And not to be left out, I found this:

“It is time for Joe Biden to resign in disgrace for what he has allowed to happen to Afghanistan, along with the tremendous surge in COVID, the Border catastrophe, the destruction of energy independence, and our crippled economy,” Trump wrote in a tweemail.

I wonder how long demented biden can last, before his next “I wiped my butt” embarrassment.

The US and its international reputation is being tarnished by this admin.  There is no way this senile senior can last for the 2-year mark before having the 25th used on him.

This Afghanistan disaster will fuel fresh terror in West

So more surveyance against you own citizens, more arrests for “suspected” activities, more detentions… a police state.

Oh wait!  The dems are defunding the police.

That means law and order will have to be done by the military.

Welcome to the Occupied States of America.

Is this where the west (and the us) are heading?