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Breaking: Large Military Movements, Things Escalate Towards Evac

Afghanistan is falling rapidly as the US Military rushes to evacuate embassy staff. On May 1st when the Biden-Harris regime failed to meet the troop withdrawal deadline of the Doha Agreement between Taliban leaders and the Afghan Government, the Taliban launched a renewed offensive supported by al-Qaeda and sympathetic tribal militias against the Afghan Government of President Ashraf Ghani. Since then, the terrorist organization and former totalitarian government styling itself as “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” has conquered at least 18 of the 34 provincial capitals across the country.

On August 13th it was confirmed that the second and third largest cities in the “graveyard of empires”: Khandahar, Ghazni, Lashkar Gah, and Herat had also fallen to the Taliban advance with minimal resistance from the supposedly 300,000 strong Afghanistan Army, trained, equipped, and funded by the U.S. and Great Britain for over twenty years. An assault on the Nation’s Capital: Kabul, could be days or even hours away. The city is now wide open to attack via the Khandahar-Ghazni Highway, three and a half hours from downtown Kabul just 92.6 miles away.

The U.S. Embassy is evacuating its approximately 4,000 civilian personnel and 3,000 US Army troops have been ordered in to cover their escape. The three battalions are expected to arrive in Kabul within 24-48 hours according to NPR. There are currently 650 American soldiers guarding the Embassy and the Kabul International Airport guarding against a force which the US Combating Terrorism Center at West Point’s, “estimates suggest a core strength of 60,000 fighters. With the addition of other militia groups and supporters, that number could exceed 200,000.”

Saigon 2.0: Western Embassies Fleeing As Afghan Military Routs

The embassies of the UK and most European powers including Denmark, Norway, and Germany are being evacuated as well as Taliban forces move to envelop Kabul, with captured American arms and equipment.

The New York Post reported,

“The White House has insisted that Afghan security forces have all the manpower, equipment and training they need to stem the Taliban tide. But video clips of militants riding on American-made Humvees and pickup trucks with M-16s slung across their shoulders has led to recriminations in Washington.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell drew a clear, through-line from the evacuation of Saigon, South Vietnam in 1975 to Kabul 2021,

“Afghanistan is careening toward a massive, predictable, and preventable disaster,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said in a statement Thursday. “And the Administration’s surreal efforts to defend President Biden’s reckless policy are frankly humiliating.”

“President Biden’s decisions have us hurtling toward an even worse sequel to the humiliating fall of Saigon in 1975,” added McConnell, who urged Biden to commit more support to the Kabul government’s forces. “Without it, al Qaeda and the Taliban may celebrate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by burning down our Embassy in Kabul.”

According to Fox News, Biden was asked by a reporter on July 8th during a press conference: “Do you see any parallels between this withdrawal and what happened in Vietnam, with some people feeling,” the reporter continued before being cut off by the president.

“None whatsoever,” Biden said. “Zero.  What you had is you had entire brigades breaking through the gates of our embassy, six, if I’m not mistaken. The Taliban is not the south — the North Vietnamese army. They’re not — they’re not remotely comparable in terms of capability.  There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy … of the United States from Afghanistan. It is not at all comparable.”

The quote has since aged very, very badly.

 

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The failure of the Biden-Harris regime to manage the expectations and logistical requirements of meeting the May 1st Doha Agreement withdrawal and the overall complete failure of our Government to competently aid the Afghans in the reconstruction of their nation have proven not only the startling incompetence of the Democrat-Socialists but of the Globalists of both parties and the ultimate failure of “nation-building” as an American policy.

John Robb summed it up well on Twitter. A tragic waste.

 

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