Take a good, hard look at that picture. Stare at every little detail, everything that can be implied by what’s happening (or, more importantly, not happening) in the room. It’s the photo that will come to symbolize American decay.
No, it’s not that the Taliban won, although they did. We never should have stayed in that godforsaken place, and with rules of engagement and lawyers for the other side, it’s a fight we were never going to win, as Yarvin points out quite well. We would have had to fight it with brutality the soft members of our modern society don’t have the stomach for.
So, we all knew we were going to leave and the Taliban would roll into Kabul, sitting in the back of Toyota Hiluxes equipped with heavy machine guns, at some point. To those that didn’t want troops there forever, that was always the reality.
The problem is in how we left; this wasn’t an orderly retreat, a well-executed decision to leave and take our friends with us. It was a cowardly, disorganized route. We vanished one night, our troops flying out in the dead of night and leaving billions of dollars of equipment behind. Then the Afghan Army, an institution we spent 20 years and hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars training, collapsed in a few days.
Finally, in the ultimate moment of shame, our embassy staff was forced to flee in confusion, burning documents and trying to rescue flags, as they desperately attempted to escape the rampaging Taliban forces. Left behind were American citizens that happened to be in the country, billions of dollars worth of military equipment (dropped or abandoned but never fired by the ANA), and countless brave Afghans that had fought alongside us or attempted to free their nation from the talons of the Taliban. It was disgraceful.
But even great nations suffer similarly shameful moments of defeat to barbarians. Victorian England was defeated as Isandlwana and Chinese Gorden was butchered with his garrison at Khartoum. Augustus lost three legions in the dark forests of Germany. Custer and his troopers were wiped out at Little Bighorn.
What separates those defeats from this, what makes those dark moments mere blips on an upward trajectory and this photo symbolic of decline, is that in those days there were brave men willing to do something about it.
After Isandlwana, the British won at Rorke’s Drift and then tamed the Zulus for good. After Chinese Gordon was killed by the Mahdi, Kitchener butchered the Sudanese with a vengeance, slaying thousands of them. Augustus avenged Teutoburg Wald and recovered the eagles. We tamed the west.
No more. Slow Joe is resigned to defeat, as you can see in the photo. No one is there with him, planning a retaliatory strike. The Joint Chiefs aren’t convened, ready to rain hellfire on our enemies. Joe isn’t even energetic; he’s defeated. What advice he is getting is coming from Zoom; the “leader of the free world” is so scared of something he’s vaccinated against that he can’t even see people in person. He’s scared, weak, and useless.
This is what decline looks like. We no longer even have the will to avenge our defeats, much less try to win in the first place.
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Why doesn’t everyone just leave this doddering old fool alone. Can’t you see that he is suffering from the mental decline due to the long hours and stress of the new job he has. Would you treat your own grandfather, who suffers from dementia, this way? Of course not! It brings a tear to my eye to see him confused and lost, not wanting to engage with reporters bc they treat him so harshly. Asking questions about policy decisions he can’t remember from this morning. Geez people, back off, please. The reason people don’t want to be around him is that they don’t want to get exposed to the spike protein shedding problem. Give it time and all will be back to normal soon………maybe……..I think…….
Kind of agree. Biden is not himself anything but a prop. I would rather see the people behind the curtain outed.
That picture was photoshopped to make Byden a bit moar decisive..
This is what the situation really was…
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Add a giant bowl of ice cream!
you know what else is wrong with that picture, and emblematic of what’s wrong with a whole lot of things?
that picture is fake. Rather, it’s not what theyre selling it to be. I’m not the one who first noticed this, but check it out. the clocks in view… note the 3 hour difference between moscow and london, and the half hour time difference shown between moscow and tehran.. that’d be the case only winter-time daylight savings – meaning before some time in march. also note biden’s hair. he’s got more of it in that photo, than in another shot allegedly a half hour or so later, where he’s got a visible bald spot. look at photos of him from february or so- he has a bit more hair on his pate then than now. that photo is not taken in some somber mood this week, that photo was taken 5 or 6 months ago! and yet it seems to bother no one that it is being passed around as a genuine account of this week’s events.
the whole system has been bullshitting us, and themselves, for so long they cannot tell the difference.
I like your observational skills.
Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that gum in your hair?
“I’m going out to smell that little girl, and cop a feel with my clammy hand”
It’s all part of the ongoing psyop. This author, whether intentionally or ignorantly, as usual is pushing the wrong fight. The author wants the side show, the red-cult/blue-cult story be be the story, and thereby miss the fight against those running the show.
Mostly Saudis attacked us on 911 and we went to Afghanistan as a diversion. It was a bad decision right from the start. A giant boondoggle for the military/industrial complex. what was the winning strategy? declare victory when our soldiers stopped getting killed?
Get ready for another boondoggle, we will need new and improved equipment from MIC to counter the modern stuff our adversaries have now.
mostly saudis brought down building 7 too, right?
Please don’t blame poor, senile Creepy Joe; he is demented and incapable of even changing his own sticky diaper and that is obvious to the rest of humanity whatever about the loons in Slumville. To expect this corrupt old fool and those that stole the selections and who are in the shadows using the old dude to get anything right flies in the face of reality. USSA is a deadbeat nation and a thug and it’s going down hard and fast. My God how can anything but a depraved nation tolerate the father of the degenerate cracked clown Hunter Biden to even pretend to be “president”? Moral decay and psychopathy is a deadly cocktail and when it happens to a nation of entitled, ignorant, drug addled amoral bums then the results are far from pretty. When China finally flushes its mountains of worthless IOU fiat filth Saudi Mercan petrodollahs the ensuing tsunami in Slumville will make the collapse of the Soviet Union look like a demolition as controlled and orchestrated as the Deep State slaughter of 9 11. It’s been 1939 time in the anglozionazi empire of filth for decades and if you haven’t managed to jump the rat infested sinking tub already your chances are looking slimmer by the day. Think Pentacon flying machine engines of death sucking in its Afghani collaborators and spewing them out the back on that runway that says all the world already knew about war monger USSA and its endless neocohen orchestrated judaic serial wars of expansion.
Karma is a mean bitch when she finally gets around to calling. As Droner Obomber was wont to quip…”You can take that to the bank.”
Islamic fundamentalists ancient hatred and modern weapons WOW what a combination !
To think Washington DC geek squad would do shit about anything effectively would be hilarious if it were not so pathetic !
WE as a nation had no business constantly meddling in the affairs of other nations !
I want all the arms and legs , all the lives destroyed and all the dead back alive and whole like it never even happened .
I know that’s about as realistic as expecting truth and integrity from anyone in government .
All you DC dickheads did not learn shit from history unless of course we are talking about how the Third Reich reached near world domination built on lies deceit fear and destruction and death of all who dare not follow the propaganda of the state .
AS Big Brother fails outwardly the war is now waged on our doorsteps by the inept ilk that consistently fails lies and survives to fail again !