our national security advisor is rocking a full prole gap at a press conference. whose jacket is he wearingpic.twitter.com/SeAtI9GO9Z
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"the president has made it clear that he doesnt trust the taliban so why are you trusting them to let people to the airport" "uhhh we're watching them. and eventually we have the military" ok so she said there may be some kind of vague military response if there are problems?
she mentioned the Taiwan relations act at least, and affirmed it. somewhat passingly
"why did you not have a plan to secure the airport. you fucking idiots" "stuff happens"pic.twitter.com/6mVIU2Me1a
friends and allies of america i am really genuinely sorry for this shit show https://twitter.com/lolitsnotreal_/status/1427703931912835080?s=19 …
listening to state briefing, have to work but will update if anything interesting guy is much more clinical guys name is Ned Price. and looks and talks like a guy named Ned Price his collar is curled up but his light brown jacket fits
journalists are hammering this guy hes answering more competently but not giving answers absolutely no commitments on getting people to the airport its pretty extr*ordinary
journalists are raising specific cases of americans who are trapped in their apartments after being turned back from the airport spox not giving answers
its interesting listening to this because its clearly a lower production value press conference. reporters getting follow up questions, everything less shouty way more time for reporters to pin the guy
theyre mad that hes giving them crap they already know and that hes refusing to talk about new stuff from the main press conference theyre directly contradicting shit hes saying its pretty impressive currently arguing about SIVs
reporter is straight up calling him a liar about US ability to extract people given the (i) count of people who need extraction and (ii) current rate at which the extraction is occurring
its a hash basically just waiting for commentary about Taiwan / Korea
guess this dude has a reputationhttps://twitter.com/TeddyRaccovelt/status/1427715742368256002?s=19 …
hopped in late to a Pentagon briefing "why didnt you keep bagram running" "we decided to collapse bagram instead of abandoning the embassy for tactical reasons given our mission set with the constraint of reducing troops"
"are you thinking of retaking bagram" "good question but I won't discuss here"
"if you have a deconfliction process with the Taliban why cant you get afghans past the checkpoints" "we're emphasizing that they need to let documented afghans through. right now we see our chokepoint as moving once they get to the airport. but yes there have been incidents"
by which I mean now opens by stating current focus of defense is keeping airport running securely, also increasing pace. flown out several thousand since early August, working to increase the rate "working with State to process paperwork"
joint chiefs of staff chair has incredibly bushy eyebrows. one eyebrow hair is out of place and hanging over his right eye. v distracting "we/l have some brutal postmortems but right now our priority is evacuating Americans and ppl who supported us. will not leave them."
"if we identify threats to the airport we will respond militarily and every organization in the country is aware of this"
"intelligence identified multiple scenarios including this one. but we did not anticipate a collapse in 11 days. [shortest estimate was "weeks"]
"evacuating the afghans who supported us for twenty years is /personal/ and we're going to get them out."
confirmation that special forces are operating somewhere, not sure whether this is surprising or whether this means anything
chairman once more emphasizing that this is Personal. he seems fairly pissed in a marginally restrained way
first question "are you considering sending troops to escort people to the airport to handle checkpoints" "we're focused on airfield security. we have to be able to defend it from some specific threats. we'll continue to coordinate with Taliban" oof
"how are you going to get everyone out of the country. tons of Americans arent even in Kabul dude" "we're just working with Taliban atm. we have the capability to do other things. this would be a policy decision and we will follow policy"
"we dont have the capability to collect large numbers of people. this is different than small numbers of people in extremis" hmm
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