Kabul madhouse

[Justin]

Yes, thanks Martinjmpr. I wonder how much different Kabul looks now after $6 trillion.

$6 trillion would have bought self-sustaining lunar and Martian colonies and the markets that would follow shortly after founding them.

[reno316]

I think this is a pretty good read on the situation:

https://amplifiedbeing.com/2021/08/1...just-happened/

Best,

[KAPA]

...so do our guys in Kabul have the ability and resources to defend themselves and get out of the region if Taliban decides to push and overpower the airport or wherever our troops are at?

Sounds like this could turn into a more grand scaled Black Hawk Down scenario if we aren't careful.

[TEAMRICO]

Waitasecond...

How did the Taliban get ahold of F-15s and nukes?

Anything is possible when you fill out a 4473 and pay your fee!!

[Scanker19]

Waitasecond...

How did the Taliban get ahold of F-15s and nukes?

Gun show loophole

[Bailey Guns]

HO-LEE-SHIT...

And I thought flying "economy" on regional airlines was bad. I can't even imagine 800 people on a C-17:

The US Air Force crammed 800 people onto a C-17 jet that flew out of Kabul on Sunday, eight times its usual capacity, as part of the ongoing effort to extract thousands of stranded Americans and Afghans from the city which has fallen to the Taliban.

The C-17, numbered RCH 871, took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport on Sunday for the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar. It is one of at least two that have flown out of Afghanistan since the Taliban claimed Kabul on Sunday.

(Source: Daily Mail)

[Martinjmpr]

HO-LEE-SHIT...

And I thought flying "economy" on regional airlines was bad. I can't even imagine 800 people on a C-17:



(Source: Daily Mail)

Yikes, that's crazy. I have a good buddy (old Army friend) who is now a loadmaster on a C-17 for the NCANG. I wonder if he's caught up in all this craziness?

I was in 7th grade in Spring of 1975 when Saigon fell, watched it on TV with my dad, who served 4 tours in Vietnam.

I never in my life thought we'd see another panicked and humiliating withdrawal from a combat zone.

[.455_Hunter]

I never in my life thought we'd see another panicked and humiliating withdrawal from a combat zone.

A true embarrassment.

[Rooskibar03]

besides all the topics discussed,
there goes the world supplies of iron, copper, cobalt, gold,chromium.

This is the "other hand" no one is watching.

[KAPA]

Pentagon saying 640 on a C17. I don't believe it. 800, no way.