Nothing new there. Russia have been at it for nearly 10 years.

Very good idea, I'm sure this would never backfire!

So same with all other countries...nothing new here

Your confusing them for the Mujahideen.

I think you guys need to get better at pretending you aren't reading from a script.

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That has nothing to do with the actual Pens needed to connect to the carts, that in cbd legal countries are sold. It is not like they have the manufacturing over there to make single use pen carts also. What you are saying has nothing to do with what I am saying. I am talking about the electronics, not the oil.

Perhaps it is time for you to stop being a douche bag

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There goes another one. 🎵😓

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Haha two failing countries helping each other fail more

> How come in the drawdown from 16k to 2.5k American soldiers and Allies weren’t dying

They were. The Taliban had attacked various places in Afghanistan upwards of 15 times during the drawdown (probably WAY beyond 15, but I don’t have a concrete number that’s defendable so I picked one that seems arbitrarily small)

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/08/timeline-of-u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan/

• “Defense Department inspector general’s office says, ‘The Taliban did not appear to uphold its commitment to distance itself from terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. UN and U.S. officials reported that the Taliban continued to support al-Qaeda, and conducted joint attacks with al-Qaeda members against Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.’”

• Sept. 16, 2020 — The Taliban continued attacks on government forces. The Voice of America reported that “Taliban attacks in three provinces across northern Afghanistan since Tuesday killed at least 17 people, including six civilians, and wounded scores of others even as a Taliban political team was negotiating peace with Afghan government representatives in Doha, Qatar.”

• Defense Department IG’s office released a report for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2020, that said the peace negotiations between the Afghan government and Taliban representatives had stalled and violence increased. “At the same time, the Taliban increased its attacks against Afghan forces, leading to ‘distressingly high’ levels of violence that could threaten the peace agreement,” the report said.

• Dec. 2, 2020 — After past false starts, Afghan and Taliban negotiators agree on a framework to govern peace negotiations. “At the same time, the Taliban continued its ‘fight and talk’ strategy, increasing violence across the country to increase its leverage with the Afghan government in negotiations,” the Defense Department IG’s office said

• Afghanistan’s First Vice President Amrullah Saleh tells the BBC that the Trump administration made too many concessions to the Taliban. “I am telling [the United States] as a friend and as an ally that trusting the Taliban without putting in a verification mechanism is going to be a fatal mistake,” Saleh says, adding that Afghanistan leaders warned the U.S. that “violence will spike” as the 5,000 Taliban prisoners were released. “Violence has spiked,” he added.

All of this was before Biden was elected.

> How come Afghans weren’t hiding on wheelwells and falling to their deaths as planes took off?

Because there were no indications of an imminent government collapse at that point? Some people were sounding the alarm in the US about the dangers (Rubio deserves his credit) but it wasn’t a common position

Biden didn’t nail the situation, but the larger issue was the treaty Trump signed that Biden felt beholden to in order to not diminish US influence abroad, and the troop drawdown which allowed the Taliban to take a more aggressive role even while America was still there

Called on the world bank and IMF to offer debt relief for loans that China administered with predatory terms lol. You mean you want their money bc your debt trap didn’t work

We almost did launch the nukes, a close call could happen again and we need to be unlucky just once.

China is a bunch of losers

He wasn’t a threat, supposedly. Regardless, it’s not as if we HAVE to trade him again. There are other prisoners who have high value that Russia could want.

Two questions. 1. Is their any chance of this fixing and what are the scenarios/timelines for that(btw I mean like the currents restarting or resuming over time) 2. If the currents are slowing down faster than expected is there any chance they resume or speed back up faster than expected?

The Communist Party won the civil war and became the legitimate government of China. By your logic the Union is not a legitimately government and people shouldn't get upset when the South still flies Confederacy flags?

Lol it’s all unverifiable, though. Do you know how much fake news exists that is supposedly “verified?” Like I said, we could just use the already existing outlets or get our information from another country who isn’t in Russians shit list. There’s many ways around having American reporters there if you care enough.

I’m not talking about trading an additional arms dealer. There would be more dangerous people who have in prison who could be released

I am being downvoted in this sub because I’m not a liberal, don’t get it twisted. But ok, I’ll play. How come in the drawdown from 16k to 2.5k American soldiers and Allies weren’t dying? How come Afghans weren’t hiding on wheelwells and falling to their deaths as planes took off?

I’m not a fan of Trump - quite the opposite. But you are insane if you attribute Trump to Biden defying the requests of his generals and also evacuating military before civilians. Come on.

Supposedly. If the Russians wanted him back it’s likely for a reason. You can’t possibly trust that the US media would tell us the truth, especially when the American prisoner was a black gay female athlete.