World Politics Thread

Making it worse China and Russia recognising the Taliban as legitimate government (as China has mining interests in the country) No doubt the ccp cunts are giving the taliban a huge amount of money as well to be left alone

The US are just cutting their losses and running. Any other westerner has to follow. Like I said in the UK thread, I think they knew it was going to go wrong, they probably just anticipated months not days for it to happen.

pretty much the same picture:

Insurrectionists in the US Capitol, Taliban in the Presidential Palace: An Eerie Resemblance

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/p5f3be/insurrectionists_in_the_us_capitol_taliban_in_the/

Oh shit, I wouldn’t be surprised. Lots of photos of people clinging on and climbing over planes attempting to leave. I think the airport even suspended flights it was so crowded.

Really fearing the worst if the US decides it needs to deploy crowd control to take back the runways.

This thread from the DAB Governor, quoted by Simon Marks is pretty insane:

It doesn't all solely fall at the feet of Biden (and the Fox News/MAGA crowd's attempts to literally erase the history of Trump setting the wheels in motion are disgusting as ever) but oh boy is it a stain on the current administration, and their reaction to the events have so far been rightly condemned.

The only current positive is how little violence there's been from the Taliban (so far) given the astonishing speed they swept in. It's not good by any measure but at least there aren't thousands dead on the streets as of right now, like many were expecting.

I honestly don't see how there was any other option than this. All that was happening was it was delayed as the US half heartedly threw lives at it. Eventually this was inevitable.

If you invade and destroy a country you oy have two options. Leave it fucked or help then to set up a new one. If you do the latter (see Japan and Germany) you can do long term good, but it requires shit loads of money, investment, boots on the ground and time.

All that the west has done is spin plates making a token effort. This was always going to happen and the longer we stayed feebly the more the underground of resentment would just simmer.

I don't think the US president is going to resign over this.

Sad to say you are probably right, simple. These spokespeople they keep wheeling out for the western media are just playing the game and telling us what we want to hear. The West has economic aid as a bargaining chip but I doubt it will stop the Taliban doing as they wish.

Sadly all too predictable the moment NATO was leaving the country was announced :-(

I mean there is some truth to the fact that the Afghan government were essentially toothless but I don't know it doesn't sit right to me passing the buck like that. You go in there, you take responsibility.

Jesus

It was a lose/lose situation regardless. Too much corruption on both sides and general anti-US sentiment throughout the country had lead to the leadership there basically rinsing the US for whatever they could get. The options were basically permanent occupation and constant resource drain, or cut your losses and get out of there.

I do actually think the latter option was getting close to the only option (I hesitate to say "best"), but the way it's been handled is just absolutely horrific. Multiple people are responsible for this, including both Trump and Biden, so now we get to enjoy weaponization of the blame game until the next election cycle.

Imagine being the families of soliders who died there for what was essentially a pointless endeavour.