Taliban offensive of 2021 and collapse of Afghan government.

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In Herat, ex-Mujahideen commander leads efforts to resist Taliban
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Mohammad Yasini, a veterinarian by trade, was first part of an Afghan resistance movement against the Soviets at the age of 12. At the time, he was fighting among hundreds of thousands of other men, including a then 27-year-old Ismail Khan, to repel a Soviet occupation.
Now, in his 60s, he is joining Khan’s men to remind the Taliban of the valour he sees in Herat.
"They will never take Herat because it's a city of Mujahideen."
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Some cities are managing to hold out against the daily assaults, but for how long?
 
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Gog & Magog said:
Some cities are managing to hold out against the daily assaults, but for how long?
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Its only a matter of time, the Taliban control all avenues of approach and eventually these cities will just exhaust their military supplies, Afghani people aren't absolutely stupid like Americans and could probably last a siege of a few months, maybe half a year, but ultimately the requirements of life dictate a surrender. The spokesman for the Taliban routinely says that the Taliban would prefer some sort of unity government but doesn't discount the scenario where the Kabul regime will fight to the last in the major cities. The Taliban is still seizing land in the rural areas but seems hesitant to actually charge in and clash in heavy urban fighting at the moment. We'll see how this plays out through the rest of the summer, there is still the chance that the Taliban can flip a city just from positional advantage. Not really much to discuss or show, most of the Twitter rambling is just bitching about that Indian journalist getting smoked.
 
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The most ridiculous part about this is that we're watching our allies collapse as we're pulling out. At least with Vietnam the commies had the decency to give us two years before they inevitably broke their promise. This is by far worse than Vietnam as an embarrassment to us.
 
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The most ridiculous part about this is that we're watching our allies collapse as we're pulling out. At least with Vietnam the commies had the decency to give us two years before they inevitably broke their promise. This is by far worse than Vietnam as an embarrassment to us.
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As I said before in this thread, Trump already negotiated a withdrawl period where the Taliban would remain dormant so it wouldn't look like abandonment, Biden and the deep state dithered thinking they could just tell the Taliban not do shit and ended up getting told to go fuck themselves as the Taliban went on the offensive, the deepstate are some of the most arrogant and incompetent people you can find and they routinely blunder around like this.
 
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I wasn't aware they had a government; I thought they just threw shoes at each other.

And rocks.

And grenades.
 
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I don't know if I should have posted here or in the Chinese CCP thread but there a game changer. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/530595-beijing-taliban-talks-key-role/
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A new Great Game is afoot in Afghanistan, as China hosts the Taliban …

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The inviting of a delegation from the Taliban Islamic fundamentalist group to Beijing this week has raised eyebrows across the world. Is China being clever, or does it face grave dangers on entering the “graveyard of empires”?
China this week took the highly unusual step of hosting a delegation from the Taliban in Beijing for talks, as concerns rise about the future of Afghanistan, amidst growing fighting and a massive offensive by the Islamist group against the government, whose days are increasingly seen as numbered.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated he expected the Taliban to play a role in the “peace, reconciliation and reconstruction process” in Afghanistan. The visit was interpreted widely by the mainstream media that China was giving its blessing to the legitimacy of the Taliban on the international stage, and this has occurred despite huge ideological and theological differences between the two sides.
Despite all that, they have found a set of “common interests” to collude in, concerning the future of the country. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while visiting India, said that the Taliban risks creating a “pariah state” but nonetheless admitted that China may have a “positive role to play” in the country.
Afghanistan is often touted as the “graveyard of empires,” with good reason, and the recent withdrawal of the US is the latest evidence. The strategic position of this country is as a pivotal gateway to all Eurasia. To its north is Central Asia and Russia, to its East is China, to its South is the Indian subcontinent, Pakistan and India, and to its West is Iran and the Middle East.
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Seems then the talibans don't give a fuck about the Uyghurs or China bribed them enough. :cunningpepe:
 
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