defense secretarys suit and tie ensemble is flawless
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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."
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"if we identify threats to the airport we will respond militarily and every organization in the country is aware of this"
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"intelligence identified multiple scenarios including this one. but we did not anticipate a collapse in 11 days. [shortest estimate was "weeks"]
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"evacuating the afghans who supported us for twenty years is /personal/ and we're going to get them out."
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confirmation that special forces are operating somewhere, not sure whether this is surprising or whether this means anything
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chairman once more emphasizing that this is Personal. he seems fairly pissed in a marginally restrained way
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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
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"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"
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Replying to @eigenrobot
DR_O_oDR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Retweeted Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸
by capability do they mean (did not check if this is reliable)https://twitter.com/alexplitsas/status/1427733054114648074 …
DR_O_oDR ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ added,
Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸Verified account @alexplitsasHeld this until they were on the ground Hearing from sources that the original plan was for elements of the 82nd Airborne’s Global Response Force to conduct a mass tactical jump to seize Bagram Airfield to facilitate the evacuation but it was called off & they were sent to KabulShow this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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Replying to @eigenrobot
E.g. Germany was in the North, Kunduz, Mazar etc. They now kinda expect people to drive to Kabul to evac, I guess. This seems not very optimal.
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