The Taliban were trained by the CIA in Pakistan to fight against the Russians. They got unfriended after the opium incident. But maybe they became friends again, because the CIA doesn't need the opium anymore (they trade fentanyl now). Maybe this is the reason why the CIA forgot to tell the US government that the Taliban are coming, making it possible that the Taliban got all these shiny weapons.
According to that guy (US Army vet) https://vid8.poal.co/user/0k_/6d7l4Vo the biden admin (and those before it) has been warned dozens of times of the actual chaotic outcome, and fucktons of evacuation plans have been forwarded throughout the years. And in the end they just pulled the plug without any evacuation plan whatsoever it seems.
At least that's what he says, and quite frankly it doesn't take a fucking genius to figure out that evacuating without a plan to handle the thousands of civilians trying to escape the inevitable taliban takeover, would result in anything but "bad optics"/a humanitarian disaster
Because we aren't talking about a plan going wrong, there was no plan, it's pure improvisation on the ground at the 11th hour
That being said, there are a couple of scenarios in which any of this would make sense. The obsolescence of the heroin trade generating dark money for CIA/NATO, being one of them
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