exile Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Boris Johnson’s Global Britain is exposed as impotent and friendless by Afghanistan A dig at the Tory Govt but also how to react in a new world order where USA may post itself missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDYER63 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 45 minutes ago, exile said: Boris Johnson’s Global Britain is exposed as impotent and friendless by Afghanistan A dig at the Tory Govt but also how to react in a new world order where USA may post itself missing. Talking of posting itself missing, how Dominic Raab is still in a job is beyond me. It does not matter if ultimately there was nothing he could do, he is the fookin Foreign Secretary not the Transport Minister, he should be seen to be actively showing some concern. Unless of course simply lying on a sunbed in a foreign country justifies his position . And yet the Tory band wagon still rolls on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 On 8/18/2021 at 12:36 PM, Och Aye said: Can they drive lorries? When sarcasm starts to turn into reality. Wonder how the 'Get Brexit done we're fed up with Johnny Foreigner' types feel about this. https://news.stv.tv/world/uk-home-care-provider-to-train-500-afghan-refugees-as-carers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhumper Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, Och Aye said: When sarcasm starts to turn into reality. Wonder how the 'Get Brexit done we're fed up with Johnny Foreigner' types feel about this. https://news.stv.tv/world/uk-home-care-provider-to-train-500-afghan-refugees-as-carers Good on them, some of the kindest folk i've met have arrived here as refugees. Eternally grateful and if these are the kind of people caring for our elderly then they are in safe hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 20 minutes ago, Squirrelhumper said: Good on them, some of the kindest folk i've met have arrived here as refugees. Eternally grateful and if these are the kind of people caring for our elderly then they are in safe hands. Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThistleWhistle Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 2 hours ago, Squirrelhumper said: Good on them, some of the kindest folk i've met have arrived here as refugees. Eternally grateful and if these are the kind of people caring for our elderly then they are in safe hands. Couldn't agree more and my extended family absolutely amaze me - best folk I've ever met. My father in law had class just oozing from him and didn't have two rupees rub together. I'd willingly and enthusiastically accept a refugee wiping my @rse in the final years of my life without question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orraloon Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 5 hours ago, Och Aye said: When sarcasm starts to turn into reality. Wonder how the 'Get Brexit done we're fed up with Johnny Foreigner' types feel about this. https://news.stv.tv/world/uk-home-care-provider-to-train-500-afghan-refugees-as-carers Fuk that, we need lorry drivers. NANDOS NEED CHICKEN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Och Aye Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, Orraloon said: Fuk that, we need lorry drivers. NANDOS NEED CHICKEN. Aye and it's a sad day when you cannae lob a McDonalds milkshake at Nigel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 minute ago, Och Aye said: Aye and it's a sad day when you cannae lob a McDonalds milkshake at Nigel. Farage true end game with brexit revealed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanderark14 Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 It's all kicking off at Kabul Airport. A suicide bomb has gone off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
86glebestreet Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 1 hour ago, vanderark14 said: It's all kicking off at Kabul Airport. A suicide bomb has gone off. Saying 40 dead including 4 US Marines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mitre Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Nice one Joe you doddery old fud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 Got speaking to my friend who works with DFID and her "portfolio" is Afhganistan, grim as fuck trying to get folk back and who has and hasn't been told is eligible to apply for resettlement. Taliban going door to door having to keep moving, frantic phonecalls from Afhgan colleagues trying to get to the airport etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted August 26, 2021 Share Posted August 26, 2021 2 hours ago, vanderark14 said: It's all kicking off at Kabul Airport. A suicide bomb has gone off. Yeah it was telegraphed as well. Basically saying one was imminent in the hours leading up to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 (edited) Over 100 MANPADS... wow. https://sputniknews.com/world/202108241083702895-taliban-got-huge-amount-of-weapons-including-over-100-manpads-russian-defense-minister/ Why were they even being stocked there at all... insane. Edited August 27, 2021 by thplinth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 Interesting comparing the soviet pull-out versus the US one... they basically drove out! Amazing looking back now. Soviet Pull-Out Vs. US 'Saigon Moment' "The key difference between the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 and the US pull-out today is the completely disorganised and haphazard nature of the latter", says independent American journalist Max Parry, referring to the messy evacuation of the embassy staff and the dispatch of an additional military contingent to the country to wrap up the withdrawal as soon as possible. Despite being bogged down in a protracted and exhausting standoff with the US-armed Mujahideen, the Soviets managed to carry out their drawdown "in an orderly, responsible fashion", he points out. Nevertheless, the US and its allies tried to hinder the Soviet pull-out, according to the journalist. He explains that although the Geneva Accords stipulated the timetable for the Soviet evacuation, which Moscow adhered to, "the US actually violated the agreement in continuing to send arms to the jihadists". "The Americans did everything to ensure that the pull-out either did not take place or, if it did, with huge losses for us", recalled Colonel-General Boris Gromov, the last commander of the 40th Army in Afghanistan, in his 2019 interview with Sputnik. Nevertheless, the Soviet military prevented provocations and ensured safe a withdrawal through land routes, which was apparently more risky than the US aerial pull-out. Furthermore, in contrast to Washington, "the Soviet Army left intact a relatively stable government to preside over the country", the journalist remarks. The pro-Soviet government of Mohammad Najibullah ruled the country and maintained armed resistance against the Mujahideen until April 1992. The Afghan insurgents took Kabul shortly after his resignation. https://sputniknews.com/us/202108181083640041-a-tale-of-two-withdrawals-why-soviet-and-us-pull-outs-from-afghanistan-were-so-different/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty CTA Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 7 hours ago, thplinth said: Over 100 MANPADS... wow. Why were they even being stocked there at all... insane. They are (once again) 'created' opposition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertsscot Posted August 27, 2021 Author Share Posted August 27, 2021 12 hours ago, thplinth said: Over 100 MANPADS... wow. https://sputniknews.com/world/202108241083702895-taliban-got-huge-amount-of-weapons-including-over-100-manpads-russian-defense-minister/ Why were they even being stocked there at all... insane. Am I the only one who didn't know what a MANPAD was? Feel more enlightened now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 10 minutes ago, Hertsscot said: Am I the only one who didn't know what a MANPAD was? Feel more enlightened now. Is is basically like the modern equivalent of a hand held stinger missile. Shoot down commercial aircraft at will… in the wrong hands of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 27, 2021 Share Posted August 27, 2021 7 hours ago, Scotty CTA said: They are (once again) 'created' opposition. Of course bud. Like they pumped mexico full of weapons for a decade or so and then went all 'who could imagine it would result this way'... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted August 31, 2021 Share Posted August 31, 2021 (edited) Apparently and maybe I misheard this as it is so mind bendingly huge... the US has effectively given the Taliban $50 Billion worth of military hardware making them a better equipped army than the Ukraine for one example. Ooops! they did it again... The nick of Joe Biden as well... wow. Oh well reap what you sow. I wonder who is really pulling the strings there. Whoever it is they seem happy to let Biden get slowly crucified for them. edit: not to mention the mountains of freshly printed $100 bills as well. And who has paid for all of this... Edited August 31, 2021 by thplinth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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