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    10 mar.

    ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode

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  2. hace 7 minutos

    Great to see we’re getting back to normal after seven months of universal vaccine availability, and legal impositions initially presented as temporary emergency measures are being removed. Oh, wait

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  3. hace 56 minutos

    Very pathetic to watch British MPs melodramatically fulminating about the Afghanistan withdrawal when the UK Government had essentially no role in the relevant decision-making and wasn’t even consulted. That’s what you get for signing up to be an emasculated appendage of the US!

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  4. hace 3 horas

    Ending wars is worse than starting, escalating, and pointlessly prolonging wars. I’m a serious MSNBC pundit

    This is the worst display of presidential maladministration in my lifetime.
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  5. hace 3 horas

    It seems like only last month that people were demanding a US invasion of Cuba

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  6. hace 4 horas

    Where are the demands of accountability, resignation, and shame for the countless military and civilian officials who oversaw two decades of failed policy in Afghanistan? Because I’m only seeing these demands directed at the officials who belatedly terminated the policy

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  7. hace 5 horas

    Unsurprisingly it seems the scale of the supposed crisis has been greatly exaggerated by US media/think tankers/politicians, for whom actually ending a war provokes exponentially more fury than any of the malfeasance associated with the war itself

    Regarding the current situation in Kabul: apart from the airport, which is a brutal mess, from what I've seen riding around the last three days, the city has been calm under the Taliban. A good surprise, for now. But the airport evacuation dominates international coverage.
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  8. hace 6 horas

    Shocked that the non-binary leftist magazine co-op idea didn’t work out

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  9. hace 7 horas

    Another Afghanistan vet (and Substack subscriber) gives his take

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  10. hace 8 horas

    Bingo

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    I don't understand people that witnessed an army and government crumble at breakneck speed and are at the same time convinced a different order of withdrawal would have guaranteed stability as the US left.
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  11. hace 10 horas

    I get it, but the “clusterfuck” was caused by the fundamental fallacy at the heart of the intervention, which is that the Afghan government was anything other than a fictitious non-entity. The precise chronology of Biden’s withdrawal has little to do with that

    I feel like i'm crazy. I'm totally for Biden getting out but they could of at least had a plan to withdraw troops and personal little by little over the weeks so it wasn't such a clusterfuck at the end. when I criticize the execution that's what I mean.
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  12. hace 10 horas

    The fictitiousness of the Security Forces was also apparent to anyone who read the Afghanistan Papers. Which are in the public domain. I think critics are overly-obsessed with nit-picking the “execution” of the withdrawal, but it’s true that Biden’s pronouncements were deceptive

    Just **five days** after Biden's July 8 WH press conference where he claimed the Afghan Security Forces were more powerful than the Taliban, the independent journalist interviewed a US veteran who described how those forces were a joke and a scam
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  13. hace 10 horas

    Even though Trump is generally loathed by the media and Biden is generally defended by the media, they're united in both provoking a blithering, condemnatory frenzy when they actually attempt to *end* wars. That's how screwed up the incentives of US political/media culture are

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  14. hace 18 horas

    Whatever influx of Afghans make it to the US should be offered full territorial control of Georgetown, Martha's Vineyard, and East Hampton

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  15. hace 19 horas

    Anyone know who this journalist is? Would love to closely study the professional and personal trajectory of a journalist who ends up in the White House Press Room lashing out in tearful anger that there will no longer be a US military presence in close proximity to Tajikistan

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    A reporter expresses concern about maintaining a military presence near Tajikistan
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  16. hace 20 horas

    The fact that a President actually ending an "endless war" is being frantically decried by political/media elites as the most damaging scandal of his presidency tells you a lot about why Presidents generally do not end wars

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  17. hace 20 horas

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    THREAD: I am finding it increasingly maddening to watch former generals and policy-makers, whose fingerprints are all over twenty years of failure in AFG that led to this predictable outcome, pontificating on TV without an ounce of humility or contrition.
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  18. hace 21 horas

    It's so pathetic that corporate media outlets are trotting out as "experts" all the same Generals who were architects of these failed interventionist policies, and then letting them declare that the real "catastrophe" is that their failed policies are finally being terminated

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  19. hace 23 horas

    Ignore The Fake "Experts" — The Real "Catastrophe" In Afghanistan Was Always The War Itself

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  20. 17 ago.

    Thankfully has been patiently dissecting these nonsense "credibility" arguments for years. It's a fake concept invented by fake experts to justify their never-ending promotion of fake foreign policy objectives

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  21. 17 ago.

    Did you care about the record number of Afghan civilians killed in 2018 when the US was still backing the now-collapsed Afghan military, or do you only circumstantially care about dead Afghans when it helps you make a cheap partisan political point?

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    tell that to those dead in the streets from Taliban
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