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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ggersh who wrote (175229)7/21/2021 8:56:09 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217551
 
Re <<The truth will come out>>

whilst getting harder to tell truth from fiction, given the sheer amount and bent nature of disinformation campaign bordering on the comical. A guess, that it shall take a civilisation-state to withstand such with relative ease, not be veered off course, and suffering no danger of successful siege by folks operating under false premises, and remain united, as one.

Arguable whether China is a civilisation-state. Wait & see, watch & brief.
Generally I favour grassroots on the spot reporting by amateurs per people power, by the people for the people, and pay less attention to MSM.



To: ggersh who wrote (175229)7/21/2021 10:57:03 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217551
 
By the read of suspect Bloomberg, by the math, it ought to be a slam-dunk victory for the Kabul-ruling government

What I cannot make out is whether MSM thinks Team China together w/ Pakistan, Russia and the Stan's, and Iran, will back the current government or tolerate the Taliban.

Had USA simply stipend the 74 billion training budget on monthly basis since 2005, seems to me peace would have been bought and nation build; never mind the 1 trillion on top.

Milley said Afghan security forces are consolidating forces around Kabul and provincial capitals as Taliban fighters attempt to isolate those population centers. The U.S.-allied government has about 300,000 troops and police while the Taliban forces number about 75,000.

bloomberg.com

Taliban Now Controls Half of Afghanistan’s Districts, U.S. Says
Travis J Tritten
22 July 2021, 07:47 GMT+8



The Taliban has “strategic momentum” in its fight with the Afghan government as U.S. forces complete their withdrawal, the top U.S. general said Wednesday.

“This is going to be a test now of the will and leadership of the Afghan people, the Afghan security forces and the government of Afghanistan,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon news conference.

He said Taliban insurgents have control of more than 200 district centers -- about half of 419 in the country -- and is putting military pressure on the country’s provincial capitals.

The U.S. military has completed 95% of its withdrawal and 984 airlifts of troops and equipment so far and will be finished by the end of August, Milley said. President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal in April.

The U.S. has spent about $74 billion since 2005 on training, equipping and sustaining Afghan Security Forces, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

Milley said Afghan security forces are consolidating forces around Kabul and provincial capitals as Taliban fighters attempt to isolate those population centers. The U.S.-allied government has about 300,000 troops and police while the Taliban forces number about 75,000.

The Pentagon will be closely watching violence there after the Eid holiday, which could determine control of the country, including a Taliban takeover or even a descent into chaos or rule by warlords, he said.

“I don’t think the endgame is yet written,” Milley said.

— With assistance by Peter Martin, and Anthony Capaccio

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To: ggersh who wrote (175229)7/21/2021 11:32:57 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217551
 
I appreciate, as mentioned, grassroots reports as opposed to suspect MSM

here below we have two surreal tweets that give us a sense of what might be going on, as we inexorably progress towards 2026 / 2032



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