So the Taliban Pulled Up and Overthrew.

kingkoopa said:
I think you're being a smart *** but it made me remember Al Qaeda.

Who are we fighting?
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We were trying to prevent Taliban from taking over Afghanistan again like they did in the mid 90s. Al Qaeda is pretty much nonexistent now, or so miniscule where they don't have regional influence.
 
kingkoopa said:
I think you're being a smart *** but it made me remember Al Qaeda.

Who are we fighting?
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Lol nah def not. Seriously though, Im not even sure if it’s religious warfare, cultural, border issues. Don’t even know.

I do think Al Qaeda got dismantled once their leaders died or got captured, probably spread to other extremists terrorist groups.
 
danikerhino said:
Al Qaeda is pretty much nonexistent now, or so miniscule
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No. The group is very much present in the Sahel (the region across Western Africa, south of the Sahara desert), the horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia), and Eastern Africa.

www.cfr.org

Islamic State and al-Qaeda Linked to African Insurgencies

Violence attributed to Islamist groups has dramatically increased in sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade, and continues to infect new venues where it has been absent.
www.cfr.org www.cfr.org
 
gry60 said:
No. The group is very much present in the Sahel (the region across Western Africa, south of the Sahara desert), the horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia), and Eastern Africa.

www.cfr.org

Islamic State and al-Qaeda Linked to African Insurgencies

Violence attributed to Islamist groups has dramatically increased in sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade, and continues to infect new venues where it has been absent.
www.cfr.org www.cfr.org
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Smh, I had no idea.
 
kingkoopa said:
Im confused? Is the video fake or edited?
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tr1ll said:
It doesn’t matter. In 2021, we shoot the messenger.
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I was just curious about how the kindly gentlemen Bend_The_Knee Bend_The_Knee happened upon the youtube page. The channel header raises an eyebrow.
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I don't think qanon sources are allowed on NT anymore.

That said, Kevin McCarthy is an enormous piece of **** who didn't raise and eyebrow at all of Trump's ********, but suddenly finds it in him to start speaking facts after Biden "****s up. " **** him.
 
kingkoopa said:
Its Afghanistan army's fault.

How the fold that quick?

With all that weaponry?
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A lot of misconception about what happened with the Afghan military.

First thing is they fought the Taliban and fought pretty hard. They were up to 50 casualties a day for a stretch earlier this year.

Second thing that is well known is the corruption at the top. Just like every other third world military, the Afghan military had way too many 'generals' that are just someones brother or uncle or cousin or whatever. A lot of these dudes were extremely corrupt so a lot of the rank and file soldiers ended up not getting paid for the last 6 to 9 months. So the Taliban rolled up and offered them a little bit of cash to go home and avoid dying for no reason so a lot of them took it.

Third, and this is the biggest reason they fell so quickly, is that the US spent the last 20 years trying to make the Afghan military exactly like ours. Thing is, that only works when you have drones, air support, teams of intel analysts, sophisticated re-supply infrastructure, mechanics for all the equipment, and a whole lot of other logistical support to make it all work. And all that support was one of the first things to leave Afghanistan. And guess who doesn't need any high tech, expensive support infrastructure to fight effectively? The Taliban.

Its the same reason why we're so ineffective against the drug cartels. Cause we think our way is the only way to do things but a bunch of Mexican ranchers with rifles and pickup trucks can actually hold their own.
 
swendro said:
I was just curious about how the kindly gentlemen Bend_The_Knee Bend_The_Knee happened upon the youtube page. The channel header raises an eyebrow.
Capture.PNG


I don't think qanon sources are allowed on NT anymore.

That said, Kevin McCarthy is an enormous piece of **** who didn't raise and eyebrow at all of Trump's bull****, but suddenly finds it in him to start speaking facts after Biden "****s up. " **** him.
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I'm confused is the video fake/deep web, Is the dude speaking just spewing lies??
 
nonnative said:
A lot of misconception about what happened with the Afghan military.

First thing is they fought the Taliban and fought pretty hard. They were up to 50 casualties a day for a stretch earlier this year.

Second thing that is well known is the corruption at the top. Just like every other third world military, the Afghan military had way too many 'generals' that are just someones brother or uncle or cousin or whatever. A lot of these dudes were extremely corrupt so a lot of the rank and file soldiers ended up not getting paid for the last 6 to 9 months. So the Taliban rolled up and offered them a little bit of cash to go home and avoid dying for no reason so a lot of them took it.

Third, and this is the biggest reason they fell so quickly, is that the US spent the last 20 years trying to make the Afghan military exactly like ours. Thing is, that only works when you have drones, air support, teams of intel analysts, sophisticated re-supply infrastructure, mechanics for all the equipment, and a whole lot of other logistical support to make it all work. And all that support was one of the first things to leave Afghanistan. And guess who doesn't need any high tech, expensive support infrastructure to fight effectively? The Taliban.

Its the same reason why we're so ineffective against the drug cartels. Cause we think our way is the only way to do things but a bunch of Mexican ranchers with rifles and pickup trucks can actually hold their own.
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Post of the year. Facts on facts on facts
 
if folks have a few hours to kill, and don't mind his production style, check Adam Curtis' Bitter Lake (2015)



Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis - leaving us bewildered and disorientated. Bitter Lake is an adventurous and epic film by Adam Curtis that explains why the big stories that politicians tell us have become so simplified that we can’t really see the world any longer. The narrative goes all over the world, America, Britain, Russia and Saudi Arabia - but the country at the heart of it is Afghanistan. Because Afghanistan is the place that has confronted our politicians with the terrible truth - that they cannot understand what is going on any longer. The film reveals the forces that over the past thirty years rose up and undermined the confidence of politics to understand the world. And it shows the strange, dark role that Saudi Arabia has played in this. But Bitter Lake is also experimental. Curtis has taken the unedited rushes of everything that the BBC has ever shot in Afghanistan - and used them in new and radical ways. He has tried to build a different and more emotional way of depicting what really happened in Afghanistan. A counterpoint to the thin, narrow and increasingly destructive stories told by those in power today.
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