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David L

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If they had just given every single Afgan citizen a gun. A good one with tons of ammo. Then let them all defend. What 32,000,000 to 100,000? At least one of them could have shot the cowardly president, Ashraf Ghani, on his way out of the country.
You got my vote for President. Great idea...
 

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If there was ever any doubt that Russia would climb the ranks of world leaders with the outcome of the US “election”, it shouldn’t exist now.
This is what happens when you have a weak and pathetic excuse for a president (or whoever’s pulling the string) sitting in the White House. Just like 44 cowering down to Russia on the subject of a missile defense system while on his apology tour. Upon seeing that weakness, Russia deployed their own system in the exact region in which the US was looking to implement.
If the US does go back into Afghanistan, I would almost wager it would be under UN authority with Russia acting as an advisor. Seems very similar as going into Bosnia under UN command with SFOR/CIOP. In other words, this is America bowing down to globalism instead of embracing nationalism.

 

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A quick summary of the collapse .. map ..

Most important, all this happened after President Trump left office.

The Leftist News Media can whine all they want while trying to throw Trumps name into the blame game mix.

But Trump did not do or allow this to happen. Nothing Trump did facilitated this.
 

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Looks like you can see who is voting "yes" to recall Gavin Newsom without opening the envelope. Democrats wouldn't dare think of throwing those ballots away would they?

we should be able to see if our vote was counted. At least I could last election on the county website
 

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FBI says little evidence Jan 6 was a coordinated effort to overturn election, report

The FBI has concluded that there is little evidence to suggest that the riot and breach of the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 was part of an organized plot to overturn the results of the November election, according to a Friday report.
Reuters noted exclusively, based on information from four current and former law enforcement sources, that even though federal officials have charged some 570 people with the breach, “the FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump.”
The sources have either been briefed on the case or were directly involved in investigating the incident, Reuters added.
“Then you have five percent, maybe, of these militia groups that were more closely organized. But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages,” the official added.
That said, FBI agents did uncover evidence that some smaller groups of right-wing organizations like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers plotted to breach the Capitol, as was evident by photos taken during the riot showing some participants wearing gear like body armor and ballistic helmets and carrying breaching tools. However, investigators did not find any evidence that those same small groups had grander plans once they got inside the Capitol, the sources told Reuters.
Federal prosecutors have nonetheless filed conspiracy charges against 40 people, claiming that they did, at least, engage in pre-planning on some level before the assault.
“They alleged that one Proud Boy leader recruited members and urged them to stockpile bulletproof vests and other military-style equipment in the weeks before the attack and on Jan. 6 sent members forward with a plan to split into groups and make multiple entries to the Capitol,” Reuters reported. “But so far prosecutors have steered clear of more serious, politically-loaded charges that the sources said had been initially discussed by prosecutors, such as seditious conspiracy or racketeering.”
The assessment by the FBI that no major plots have been uncovered could have some impact on congressional investigations that are ongoing, especially one by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select Jan. 6 Committee, which has already held its first hearing. Public support for the commission fell in the wake of that hearing.
While Democrats and GOP opponents of Donald Trump have blamed the riot on a speech the then-president gave earlier that day, in which he urged supporters to “peacefully” march to the Capitol to let their opposition to counting electoral votes from certain contested states be known, the FBI has also found no evidence that Trump or anyone associated with him had any part in organizing the breach, according to the law enforcement sources who spoke to Reuters.
According to the Justice Department, more than 170 people thus far have been charged with assaulting or impeding a police officer, which carries a much harsher penalty in D.C. — a maximum of 20 years in prison — than practically anywhere else in the country.
However, one of Reuter’s sources told the newswire that there hasn’t been much consideration, if any at all, by senior DoJ officials of filing “seditious conspiracy” charges, accusing defendants of attempting to overthrow the government. There had been discussion of such charges in the weeks immediately following the breach, said the sources.
Also, prosecutors have not charged anyone or any group in connection with playing a primary role in organizing or leading the assault and the law enforcement sources told the newswire there are no such charges in the pipeline. “Conspiracy charges that have been filed allege that defendants discussed their plans in the weeks before the attack and worked together on the day itself. But prosecutors have not alleged that this activity was part of a broader plot,” Reuters added.

FBI says little evidence Jan 6 was a coordinated effort to overturn election, report (bizpacreview.com)
 

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US Black Hawk Helicopters Captured by Taliban as ‘Horrified’ Senators Demand DOD Audit

Likely billions of dollars of American weapons and vehicles are now in the hands of the (Taliban) extremist group after the collapse of the Afghan government and army, with numerous videos and photos surfacing online showing Taliban members seizing the equipment.

Photos have circulated of Taliban members holding American M-4 carbines and M-16 rifles rather than AK-47s or AKMs. Other images and videos showed the Taliban surrounding U.S. Black Hawk helicopters and A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft.
[snip] “As we watched the images coming out of Afghanistan as the Taliban retook the country, we were horrified to see U.S. equipment—including UH-60 Black Hawks—in the hands of the Taliban, (Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and two dozen other senators wrote) to Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin this week.

US Black Hawk Helicopters Captured by Taliban as ‘Horrified’ Senators Demand DOD Audit (theepochtimes.com)
 

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Americans in Afghanistan rescued by British military: former deputy national security advisor

Matt Pottinger says the situation 'could get worse' in Afghanistan following the disastrous pullout by the Biden administration..

The British military has stepped in to evacuate some American citizens who were left behind in Afghanistan following the Biden administration's chaotic pullout of U.S. forces and the nation's quick fall to Taliban terrorists, according to former Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger.

"The United Kingdom right now, I know that they’re running patrols into Kabul to get British citizens, Afghans and in some cases Americans that they encounter, and helping bring them to safety," Pottinger told FOX Business' Larry Kudlow on Thursday.

Pottinger, a former Marine who served four years as a senior aide in the Trump administration, said NATO allies "in some cases, at the risk of the lives of their own diplomats, have been arranging for Americans and students, journalists, Afghan staff who have been working at the American university in Kabul, for example" to flee the war-torn nation that the U.S. occupied for 20 years up until the disastrous departure of the American military earlier this month. The former Trump official said those allies have "been escorting, creating safe passage and escorting those people onto the airbase and flying them out to safety."

He told Kudlow, "So when the full story of that comes out it’s going to be quite stunning what they did when this really was not their mess to fix."

Following the departure of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, President Biden sent back thousands of American military personnel after Taliban terrorists took over the nation in a matter of days. But Pentagon leadership said U.S. forces that have returned to the country are not tasked with going beyond the Kabul airport to retrieve stranded Americans, unlike their British counterparts who are scouring the country conducting rescues.

Americans in Afghanistan rescued by British military: former deputy national security advisor | Fox Business
 

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Burn that succession list into your brains. It's what we're going to experience in the near future and the Founders are doing 78RPM in their graves.

I agree with them. We are in one huge, huge mess. No relief in sight.
 

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