ok so gaming this out a bit there are probably several dozen thousand people we want to get out of Afghanistan of them maybe a dozen thousand Americans according to various government things we basically own the airport but Taliban control everything else i think were fucked,
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wrt "reserves" this is what im talking about saw a story about this earlier, this is a good elaboration tldr we have all of the old governments money frozen outside of Afghanistan https://twitter.com/aahmady/status/1427883009164955649?s=19 …
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so id imagine the hostage negotiation involves the return of this money at least
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I agree with your sense of the reality, but I think there’s also furious negotiation (pleading) going on by the Biden admin to the Taliban rn. The Taliban can extort us for basically anything they might ever want in order for us to avoid the worst case (hostage crisis, etc).
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Probably make some concession to Taliban allies in Qatar in exchange for safe passage.
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Cash bounties for Americans delivered safely might also work.
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What Who the fuck made that deal
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Every American there, knew the timeline had them out months ago, right? Do they want to leave, or do they want to be helpful, likely martyrs, to improve the country? If the latter, mad respect. This is why I wish the Afghan army fought harder, and didn't cling to planes.
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