Grendel
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to be fair I’m sure you are far more familiar with their forums than me
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to be fair I’m sure you are far more familiar with their forums than me
COV
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Surely ‘countries’ aren’t breeding grounds for terrorists, ideologies are and they are in every country
Ccfcisparks
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Grendel, out of curiosity, did you used to sit in the family zone at the Ricoh?
British children in the audio or British and children I think.
Grendel
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no did you
Ccfcisparks
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Well yes about 8/9 years ago when I was a young teen
clint van damme
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Despite the Talibans statement of no retribution ( which I'm fairly sure of no one believed), looks like they've already killed some interpreters.
Horrendous stuff.
Liquid Gold
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It's going to be an absolute bloodbath there. Really feel for the people that are in danger and also for those that are going to be left behind to live under a medieval regime.
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Well I hope you are right but the experience of Syia suggests this country at least will not do much.
shmmeee
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Evo1883
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Honestly woke up so annoyed about Afghanistan and I guess many ex/ military personnel will be the same
Lives lost , regions fucked up , peoples lives altered , suicide , mental health problems of thousands of young men and women , innocent people including children dead , refugee crisis ..
And for what
So pissed off
2 friends who took there own lives after going to this shit hole ..Blair and Bush living the life of luxury leaving a trail of destruction , its devastating
Lives lost , regions fucked up , peoples lives altered , suicide , mental health problems of thousands of young men and women , innocent people including children dead , refugee crisis ..
And for what
So pissed off
2 friends who took there own lives after going to this shit hole ..Blair and Bush living the life of luxury leaving a trail of destruction , its devastating
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Taliban retaking Afghanistan makes it much more likely Islamic terrorism will breed there. You can argue that's an ideology but if a group with that ideology are in control of the country then that country becomes a potential breeding ground.
Just like the US is a breeding ground for right-wing nutjobs to go on shooting sprees.
shmmeee
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Not even against drugs. Worse than the French.
fernandopartridge
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No more so than as a country occupied by a Western power where the Taliban is resurgent anyway.
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Johnson was talking yesterday about a be a change of Government in Afghanistan, like it's the sort of change we have here after a general election.
This is an extreme regime that we have spent 20 years suppressing and which harboured Bin Ladin. To allow them back is disastrous, not just for the people of Afghanistan but for the West too.
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Very difficult not to feel this way, the strategy was just never achievable and the speed with which the Taliban are back on top makes that very clear. Sorry to hear about your friends Evo, this is going to rake over old wounds for thousands here (and mean god knows what for the average poor bastard stuck in Afghanistan).
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Complete lack of will to oppose them it would seem. We've poured billions into their security forces and they've gone through them like they weren't there (which in some places is probably the most accurate description). It will probably revert to the kind of patchwork, tribal alliances and warfare that has characterised the place for centuries, you can expect the likes of Dostum and various other war criminals to re-emerge pretty quickly to make deals and carve out areas of influence/control.
COV
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they didn’t do too bad against us tbf
Johnnythespider
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They've been allowed to
clint van damme
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It hasn't happened in7 days. The process was started during the Trump administration, I'm not sure what the Yanks are thinking.
COV
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you may be right, also technically it could maybe be classed as a civil war
COV
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saw footage of the Afghan forces scarpering with terrified & angry locals chucking rocks at them as they were being left to fend for themselves, and long queues outside banks- it’s going to be horrific
Evo1883
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Well 80% of the original American settlers were from British blood .
They also had the help of France, Spain and the Dutch to win a war against what was actually a small British force tbh at peak was 48,000
Almost under the wheels, hundreds of them , danger of getting sucked into the engine's etc.
Earlsdon_Skyblue1
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Clown world.
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Think we fucked our chances of winning that war pretty early on and the appearance of a french fleet basically swung Yorktown for the yanks and brought the end. From what i remember from my uni days the Russians piled in on us at one point too.
David O'Day
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Also the French and Spanish sniffing around the sugar islands in the West Indies as well help the Americans