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A Defense Of Joe Biden
The humanitarian disaster we are seeing at the Kabul airport is simply the last achievement of the Afghan government in fucking over its own people.
It is neither Biden nor America’s fault that Afghanistan refused to stand up for itself. We could prolong this revealed inevitable for 10 more years and Kabul would still likely surrender in 8 days in 2031.
There was virtually no fighting for Kabul. Afghanistan on paper has 300,000+ soldiers who ghosted their service and rampantly sold the war stuff we gave them on the black market. The Afghan army allegedly outnumbered the Taliban almost 3–1, and they had American-made, technologically sophisticated gear and humvees paid for with most of America’s past two decades’ worth of available infrastructure, healthcare, and green new deal money amounting to more cash than America spent on the Marshall Plan adjusted for inflation.
The Afghan military for years cited and even caused perennial maintenance problems of military equipment in order to delay war participation and continue fleecing the US, while Afghan kleptocrats laundered much of our aid money. The Afghans also had an air force with roughly 183 aircraft. It’s important to note here that the Taliban had no air force, though now it does. The Taliban will soon…
