US-Installed Afghan Puppet Regime Nears Collapse
Stephen LendmanAfghanistan -- Taliban fighters already control most all key Afghan cities.
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Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters already control most all key Afghan cities.
The war in Afghanistan is over! Long live the war in Afghanistan!
It is becoming increasingly clear that the strategy of interventionist dead-enders is to blame President Biden for losing Afghanistan to the Taliban.
McCarthy says Afghan withdrawal is an 'embarrassment' but Biden blames Trump's deal with the Taliban and says he 'can't make Kabul fight': INCREASES troop deployment for evacuation to 5,000
Just a reminder that as the D.C. think tank pundit class of chicken-hawk keyboard warriors and armchair interventionistas who helped get the US into this unnecessary 'forever war' in the first place writhe in frustration and pain while beholding from
Afghanistan
US officials are telling the press that Kabul will fall to the Taliban within 90 days and perhaps within the month as US troops withdraw from the war-torn nation.
Pentagon sends 3,000 troops BACK to Afghanistan to evacuate Americans and won't say whether US will stay past August 31: State Dept announces Kabul embassy drawdown as Taliban captures 12 cities
City after city have fallen from government to Taliban control but Afghanistan's end-game is still unclear
A CNN national security correspondent is reporting that hundreds of US embassy personnel in Kabul are preparing to be evacuated. The US Embassy Kabul has a total staff of thousands, including over 1,000 which are deemed "diplomats".
"They said Afghan forces retreated from the city without fighting,"
Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan.
Second, it is unclear how the population and the Taliban will interact in a country that is very different, at least on the surface, from the Taliban-ruled country of 2001. With 70% of the country under the age of 25 and 15.6 years the median age, mo
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Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, interventionists are not learning the real lessons in their defeat in Afghanistan.
Says US will continue to support Afghan partners with airstrikes
The US-led war in Afghanistan looks to be ending, and not a day too soon. America's father, Benjamin Franklin, wisely wrote: 'No good war; no bad peace.'
The US-led war in Afghanistan looks to be ending, and not a day too soon. America's father, Benjamin Franklin, wisely wrote: 'No good war; no bad peace.'
Don't lie to us Joe, tell the truth!
Shanghai Cooperation Organization's 'facilitate, not mediate' role could be the key to solving the Afghan imbroglio
We wonder what those goals were after all these years?
Connecting the dots, it appears that the US is trying hard to replace the forever war in Afghanistan with a Syria-like hybrid war. The stunning success Russia registered in ensuring the survival of the Assad regime in Syria provides a role model for
This report breaks down how the US military just deliberately, not accidentally, handed over very dangerous hardware to very bad people -- and why they did this.
US troops abandoned Bagram Air Base - a symbol of the US occupation of Afghanistan - in the dead of night. Reportedly the Afghan commander did not know until morning that he was in charge. Good move? Neocons not happy. Also today - soldiers unhappy a
Afghan troops are filmed laying down arms as US general overseeing NATO exit says he's shocked by how quickly they've surrendered to the Taliban and 1,000 are caught fleeing the country
Reports say the US could leave up to 1,000 troops after the deadline
Afghan looters ransack Bagram Air Base and hawk basketballs, stereo speakers, laptops, and bicycle helmets after US troops bugged out in the dead of night
The end of the 20-year US war on Afghanistan was predictable: no one has conquered Afghanistan, and Washington was as foolish as Moscow in the 1970s for trying.
It's becoming quite evident that Biden really doesn't like challenging questions particularly over foreign policy related issues.
"All American soldiers and members of NATO forces have left..."