Shortly Russia will be promoting large soviet helicopters - "Perfect for all that extra cash when you are fleeing your country".
Taliban in Kabul as President Flees
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Shortly Russia will be promoting large soviet helicopters - "Perfect for all that extra cash when you are fleeing your country".
CIA warned of rapid Afghanistan collapse. So why did U.S. get it so wrong?
With U.S. officials struggling to explain why America’s longest war ended in chaos, a series of interviews revealed there’s plenty of blame to go around.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna1277026
With U.S. officials struggling to explain why America’s longest war ended in chaos, a series of interviews revealed there’s plenty of blame to go around.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna1277026
"Thousands of Americans are stranded in Afghanistan with terrorists hunting them down," Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York tweeted Tuesday. "President Biden & his top team are totally not up for this task & it's infuriating. I don't see how the President can remain in his position. This is historic, unforgivable incompetence."
we care about the Afghani allies cons said...
Back last month:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/afghans-interpreters-visas-house.html
By a vote of 407-16, the House moved on Thursday to expand the number of available special immigrant visas for Afghans to 19,000 from 11,000 and broaden the universe of people eligible for them by removing some application requirements.
Sixteen Republicans opposed the measure, which some of them argued did not contain strong enough vetting for the Afghans who helped American troops. Others argued that the bill was simply misguided at a time when Congress should be more strictly limiting immigration, not making it easier.
some of the no votes:
Back last month:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/afghans-interpreters-visas-house.html
By a vote of 407-16, the House moved on Thursday to expand the number of available special immigrant visas for Afghans to 19,000 from 11,000 and broaden the universe of people eligible for them by removing some application requirements.
Sixteen Republicans opposed the measure, which some of them argued did not contain strong enough vetting for the Afghans who helped American troops. Others argued that the bill was simply misguided at a time when Congress should be more strictly limiting immigration, not making it easier.
some of the no votes:
quite telling they did not think the Afghanistan government was worth negotiating with for the future of Afghanistan.
Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine, did the same in 2013. He took billions of cash and left with 2 helicopters at night to.... Russia. Russia helped him and never made the same claim as they did now. They probably took a "commission" from Yanukovych for delivered services.
The Ukrainian government estimates that Yanukovych and his allies may have stolen more than $100 billion from the state. In April, 2014, Ukraine's Acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky said that while the investigation was in its infancy, there was evidence that Yanukovych had moved $32 billion dollars in cash across the border into Russia in just the last days of his administration.
Can the US lobby for his extradition back to Afghanistan to undergo Sharia justice?