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2021-07-06 Afghanistan

US Attempts to Soften Afghan Pullout, flip-flops on closing embassy in Kabul

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-07-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "The measures are intended to buy some time to soften the drawdown’s psychological shock to the Afghans, and to extend at least through August some involvement by the American military, despite there being no combat troops, equipment or bases in the country."

In other words, they can eke out a few more months of profit.

I do not know how this was allowed to happen. I was sure it was going to be called off at the last moment. How is the CIA going to stay next to the Uighurs to rile them up against Beijing? To cut off belt & road? How was this ever allowed to happen against the globalist, interventionist DC consensus? A mystery of our age.

Posted by Jiggs Trotsky5854 2021-07-06 05:54|| 2021-07-06 05:54|| Front Page Top

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