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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/29/joe-biden-afghanistan-new-york-times-washington-post Fairly close to where I am

For the longest time I thought the West was on the right side of history, and I was hopeful that as a country we were heading inevitably leftwards. But look where we are. We've already lost Good luck with the test

China is already well on the way to be being the world Superpower but they are doing it financially rather than by invasion. They are lending money hand over fist to developing nations for modernisation and infrastructure, which countries will never be able to pay back. They will then take payment in natural resources and and achieve an economic stranglehold that way.

Again, helping Afghans was never the point of this war. Of course these pictures are upsetting, but its like people can't look beyond the media reporting, which always supports the war drumbeat and actually see whats going on

That's a laudable aim, but isn't and hasn't ever been the point of US foreign policy, here or anywhere else

I'm genuinely baffled as to why you think its a good idea for the US to indefinitely occupy a foreign country. You can't bomb a country, especially one like Afghanistan into being a Liberal democracy We aren't the good guys here

Good grief, you want more of the US being the world's policeman? American foreign policy has been a complete shitshow since WW2, and every intervention they have made has been a disaster.

Makes the US look weak is just blindly following the MSM narrative, to put it in your terms. Why would you want the US to look strong, as what that means in reality killing more brown people Obama and Trump both should have taken the troops out but didn't have the guts. I've not got overly much time for Biden but he has taken an unpopular but correct decision

Of course it could have been worse, they could have been full out conflict with the Taliban. So far, a negotiated withdrawal with the Taliban is by far the best option. Anything else would have been a slaughter

Theyve been training the Afghan Army for 20 years and spending 81 billion quid on that and equipment in the process. It's ridiculous to think another few months would have made any difference After Trump signed the deal with the Taliban in September the only choices were what has happened or go back to war with the Taliban at a huge cost to lives and money. The situation is undoubtedly shit, but there is a lot of naive wishful thinking going on here. There is no good solution

I'm a little surprised that the reaction in this forum that the solution to a 20 year occupation of a foreign country is more US imperialism I also think that considering the situation over there, where there is obviously very little support for the occupying forces, the evacuation has gone as well as they could have hoped

They rolled over because they never supported the US invasion in the first place, they were getting paid to enlist so they did They Aghans at the top were completely corrupt and siphoning money out. The whole war has been nothing but a moneymaking excercise from the start

I'll be honest I think Biden has done the right thing. What's the alternative, stay there forever?. They and we should never have been there in the first place

The war in Afghanistan has been a total success in its true mission which is feeding hundreds of billions of dollars to the American industrial War machine. Anybody claiming there was any other aim is talking bollocks

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/john-terry-steve-bruce-newcastle-21172405 I actually hope this happens so I can finally walk away

@Meenzer https://youtu.be/_qufxnGQ7pQ

Keep my brother out of this

Been enjoying a bit of Melt Banana lately https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm13652145

I saw the first night of that tour at Olympia. Well over the top with full Gospel choir and brass section. Moving on up was epic They did a 45 minute set of greatest hits as the warm up band first. Saw them later in the tour in Brighton and it was even better they had really worked out how to play the album live

I love the Gillespie but he is more of a curator than a creator, but I don't think there is anything wrong with that. They still absolutely kick it live

That's my sort of noise. When Shields was working with Primal Scream they produced some great stuff

I made 1k profit from flipping NFTs at nbatopshot.com and couldn't withdraw to a UK bank so put it into ETH Confident of never actually seeing any of it