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Originally Posted by Lightspeed
Looks like Afghanistan is about to enter its next phase of the cycle of violence. Biden has achieved a box ticking exercise. I mean, the troop withdrawal is genuine, but the only thing this achieves is Biden can claim he ended an endless war.
Taliban are already sweeping the country, taking US equipment from abandoned Afghan government outposts as soldiers flee.
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The hilarious but in retrospect totally predictable bit: they didn't tell the Afghan troops or govt that they were leaving.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/us...06-p5874x.html
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The US left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander.
Afghan military officials say they discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left.
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