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  • Akagiyama0

    20 years.

    Hundreds of thousands of (military/civilian) lives lost.

    Trillions spent.

    So long Afghanistan, and thanks for all the fish!

    • China's problem now.Nairn
    • As if no one could predict this. We sure pumped that war machine full of cash...on and on it goes.formed
    • "We" as a country and the world at large have been turning a blind eye since the start...jonny_quest_lives
    • 2011 grift highlights... https://www.motherjo…jonny_quest_lives
    • Trillions spent... should've just divided the country into congressional districts...jonny_quest_lives
    • Just talking about making Washington D.C. a state is enough to give Republicans a brain anneurysm..jonny_quest_lives
    • i don't really get what we were doing over there, but how tf did we fail?scarabin
    • Knew a couple of guys who took acid out in a tank in the first gulf war. Blew up a family in a mini van and watch them burn to death tripping off their facesPhanLo
    • Obviously they have some psychological problems now.PhanLo
    • you can just go on youtube and search "US training afghan soldiers" and see how we "failed" weren't working with the best recruits in building that military.jonny_quest_lives
    • Never pick fights you can't win boys...
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    • factor in a historically corrupt, factional tribal hierarchy stretched across the country that rolls over for whoever is paying them that day...jonny_quest_lives
    • inevitablejonny_quest_lives
    • Taliban simply outlasted the US as the Mujahideen did with the Soviets...jonny_quest_lives
    • https://en.wikipedia…
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    • @jonny Seems like some "friends" had something to do with it, the Taliban couldn't overtake the country in just a few days on their own
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    • @graf Taliban pays a few regional commanders promising them and their troops safety in the new regime if they surrender...jonny_quest_lives
    • Afghan army is purpose built to surrender/ work for whoever pays them more.jonny_quest_lives
    • Taliban paying with whom's money?

      Anyway, prepare for a wave of refugees to hit Europe in 3...2...
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    • *whose, but yes.

      fun times ahead. again.
      Nairn

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