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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because the Taliban seem to be aggressively blocking people from getting to the airport and our options are: 1. just accept it 2. plead with the Taliban but were already doing that and its not working 3. fly in lots more troops and try to break out of the airport
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https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-kabul-evacuation-88db88ca25d33ceff43072c885ed04f9 … ?
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that seems to be pure spin hordes of people still locked outside, gunfire, apparently taliban control civilian side of the airport
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