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This past week, the Presstitutes have been working overtime to try and assign blame for the swift fall of Kabul to the Taliban that’s sitting on about $1 trillion in mineral deposits and a stockpile of U.S. weapons left behind worth billions… that U.S. taxpayers paid for.
But regardless who suffers most politically, the fact remains that after 20 years, the blood of 2,448 U.S. troops who met their demise there, and the 20,000-plus Americans injured, and $2.2 trillion spent, Afghanistan’s government, its cowardly, corrupt presidency retreated with nary a whimper.
“If the goal was to rebuild and leave behind a country that can sustain itself and pose little threat to U.S. national security interests, the overall picture is bleak,” the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said. The SIGAR’s final report on the country was damning and served as a cautionary tale for future U.S. missions.
Strike Out
President Biden was presented an intelligence report prior to the fall of Kabul that failed to predict the quick collapse of the government, The New York Times reported. (See: “AS CELENTE FORECAST: U.S. WOULD LOSE AFGHAN WAR LAUNCHED BY BUSH. THE WORST IS YET TO COME.”)
“As the president indicated, this unfolded more quickly than we anticipated, including in the intelligence community,” Avril D. Haines, the director of national intelligence, said in a statement to The Times.
On 26 January, in an article titled, “BIDEN PRESIDENCY=OBAMA 2021,” we point out that Haines served as a Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama administration, which authorized drone strikes to “carry out targeted extrajudicial assassinations,” Democracy Now! reported.
The Biden administration laid blame on the Afghan security forces for not putting up a fight to defend their country. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said there were no reports that he heard of “that predicted a security force of 300,000 would evaporate in 11 days.”
Biden said that he stood behind his decision to withdraw the troops and said that he learned the “hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw U.S. forces.”
The Financial Times wrote: “During last year’s election campaign, Biden’s republican opponents portrayed him as aging on the verge of doddering. Yet his refusal to shoulder blame for the chaos in Kabul revived a criticism that has dogged him for far longer: that he has a chip on his shoulder that means he too often dismisses advisers, especially members of the ‘Washington elite.’”
“Fuck That”
The FT pointed out that Biden has frequently drawn comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam. The paper, citing George Packer’s 2019 book, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, Biden, who was vice president in 2010, told Holbrook that the U.S. should pull out of Afghanistan despite the humanitarian costs.
“Fuck that. We don’t have to worry about that,” Biden reportedly told Holbrooke. “We did it in Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger got away with it.”
TRENDPOST: As detailed in the Financial Times, but overlooked, is the meaning of Biden’s “Fuck that,” statement. Joe Biden made it clear he could give a “fuck” about the cost of money and lives. It was only his political career he cared about.
After all, if two murderous war mongers “Nixon and Kissinger got away with it,” so could Biden who voted for every war America has started since he began sucking off the public tit nearly 50 years ago.
Dumb and Blind
There has been evidence of a warning about the likelihood of the fall of Kabul. The Wall Street Journal reported that there was a classified cable that warned about the potential collapse after the U.S. troop withdrawal. The cable, dated 13 July, was sent to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other top officials, the report said.
The Afghan forces have been defended in the media against some of the criticism. These were underpaid, poorly armed fighters who faced Taliban fighters who were on a rampage in the northern region of the country and had already blocked key roads leading into Kabul. Fighters in the army would have to have been suicidal to stand up to the Taliban, and would have even put their families at risk, their defenders said.
Matt Zeller, a former CIA analyst and Army veteran, told MSNBC in a viral clip:
“The idea that the Afghan military should be blamed for this? Do you know how many casualties the Afghan military took in an average year? More than the United States did in 20. When you’re not getting paid on a regular basis; when you’re not getting fuel…when nobody is supplying you with ammunition, and yet you’re still showing up to the fight? How dare us for having to blame these people for not having the audacity to be able to survive a Taliban onslaught.”
Zeller took issue with Biden’s claim that his administration planned for “every contingency” when it came to the evacuation of Americans and vulnerable Afghans.
“I have been personally trying to tell this administration since it took office. I have been trying to tell our government for years this was coming. We’ve sent them plan after plan on how to evacuate these people. Nobody listened to us,” he said.
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the U.S.’s misadventure in the country.
Gerald Celente, had forecast when the Afghan War began, that America would lose: “If Alexander ‘The Great’ couldn’t pull it off, if the British couldn’t beat them and neither could the Russians, there is no way America will win.”
Mr. Celente also noted that the U.S. had not won a war since World War II. As a result of his forecast, Celente, once a popular guest on mainstream media and having appeared twice on Oprah, was blackballed from the press and TV and accused of being anti-American. (See the movie, “ZIZI and HONEYBOY,” starring Doris Roberts.)
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the quagmire in Afghanistan and the seemingly endless war. See:
- “Bogeymen, terrorists and evil doers” (11 Jul 2014)
- “AFGHANISTAN WAR: THE END IS NEAR” (2 Jun 2020)
- “TOP DEMOCRAT: KEEP THE AFGHAN WAR GOING” (2 Mar 2021)
- “U.S. PANEL: KEEP FIGHTING LOSING AFGHAN WAR” (9 Feb 2021)
- “BYE BYE U.S.: TALIBAN TO TAKE KABUL” (29 Jun 2021)
Afghanistan is considered one of the most corrupt countries on Earth.
The exiled Afghan president was forced to respond to allegations that he left Kabul with $167 million in cash. There were reports out of the country that Ghani fled the city with four cars and a helicopter filled with cash, The Independent reported. Mohammed Zahir Aghbar, the Afghan ambassador in Tajikistan, was the first person to raise the allegation. The Russian embassy in Kabul also made the claim about the cash.
“As for the collapse of the (outgoing) regime, it is most eloquently characterized by the way Ghani fled Afghanistan,” Nikita Ishchenko, the embassy spokesman, said, according to the RIA news agency. “Four cars were full of money, they tried to stuff another part of the money into a helicopter, but not all of it fit. And some of the money was left lying on the tarmac.”
A former Afghan official told Business Insider that Ghani, who is staying in the United Arab Emirates, left the country with just the clothes on his back.
Some top Republicans have urged Biden to authorize the 6,000 troops in the capital to extend their reach to save Americans and Afghan loyalists who might be trapped behind Taliban lines.
“Two things need to happen, and only Biden can authorize: 1. US military must be allowed to operate outside Kabul airport to get American citizens. 2: Retake Bagram airfield, thus giving us more options for evacuations. Biden created this mess and needs to take decisive action,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who served as a Navy SEAL for a decade and was wounded in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province in 2012, tweeted early Friday.
TRENDPOST: Since the end of World War II, Congress has been in direct violation of the U.S Constitution by granting war powers to El Presidente.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 clearly states: “The Congress shall have Power… To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.
And despite the clause that succinctly states, “To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years,” the Afghan War dragged on for nearly 20 years and the nation was silent.
Yet, while the nation remained silent and supported every war America has launched since World War II, in his quest for peace and freedom, Gerald Celente launched www.OccupyPeace.com.
Among the statutes of the movement are no foreign entanglements. And should the nation want to go to war, let “We the People,” who pay for the war with their money and their lives, decide via a referendum. And thanks to people like Neil Anderson and thousands of others, the voices of Occupy Peace are being heard.
TRENDPOST: While the Presstitute media saturates the news with Biden’s botched retreat from Afghanistan, not a peep about the U.S. military defeat and the illegality of the murderous war. And despite the world’s #1 trend forecaster, Gerald Celente’s forecasting that America would lose the war when President George W. Bush launched it in October 2001 with 88 percent of Americans’ support—they refuse to give him recognition.
TREND FORECAST: As the United States and its allies retreat in defeat from Afghanistan, China and Russia will extend their influence in the region.
And as for China, desperate to remain relevant, President Biden said in an ABC News interview that other countries should not doubt the U.S. commitment to their security, in particular Taiwan.
“We have made—kept every commitment. We made a sacred commitment to Article 5 that if, in fact, anyone were to invade or take action against our NATO allies, we would respond. Same with Japan, same with South Korea, same with Taiwan. It’s not even comparable to talk about,” he said.
But as we have forecast, Beijing has long declared that Taiwan is part of its territory under its “One China Principle,” and it is the mainland’s territory under its Constitution. We forecast that just as Beijing has clamped down on Hong Kong protests and taken full control, so, too, will they take control of Taiwan when they are ready.
Despite condemnations when they do so, there will be no military forces from other nations that will challenge Communist China’s military might. Indeed, America, with the largest military in the world, has not won a war since World War II and could not even win against third-world nations, such as Afghanistan, after invading that nation some 20 years ago.
Should war break out between China and Taiwan, we forecast the Taiwanese military will not aggressively fight back, since doing so would result in millions of deaths and mass destruction.