1/ So basically we’re leaving Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban is now on its way to Kabul. Which means we wasted $2T and 2400 American lives for….nothing. The situation is not appreciably any better than it was when we went there.

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2/ Yet even this year we’re spending $763B on defense because obviously we do such a bang up job. Hey kids: what do Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common? Wasted blood, wasted money, massive failure.
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3/ The defense industry is no different than the fossil fuel industry or health insurance industry or any other corporate tyrant that allows profits to take precedence over human life. In the case of MIC, particularly heinous because of how much damage it does to other countries
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4/ America’s grace period can’t last forever. While both political parties play whore to the defense industry, the people ourselves need to stand up to the emperor and admit he has no clothes. Our military bloat is not a path to security; it’s a purveyor of death & destruction.
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Destabilization is the most common result of our imperialism
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Replying to @marwilliamson @mikedrake178
This is all on Trump He made a deal with the devil. He told the Taliban we would leave Now Biden is stuck between a rock and a hard place
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But the profits!!
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‘Nato did not defeat terrorism, but helped Afghanistan’ per former President ... reconstruction ... helping with education and other areas was very welcome BUT: the military plans to fight extremism and terrorism was a failure bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-5…
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If only we did what the mongols did…
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That’s because the U.S., in its arrogance, didn’t listen to its closest ally in the region, Pakistan, & allied instead w the Northern Alliance & India against the Taliban in 2001. Had it talked to the Taliban then, Pakistan would have helped get OBL without any bloodshed. Now…
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Afganistan , iraq , kwait, libia and so on... some of those countries are better after usa 🇺🇸 invasion? No they break the social and gubernamental organization for the millionaire aspirations of a couple of mofos , all the Americans know this but they preferred ignore
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Our government was there to help, just not to help Afghanis. Most likely most of the $2 trillion created regional chaos while benefiting the usual suspects in the USA.
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Warmonger….enough is enough…too much treasure has been spent…too many us soldiers have died….too many civilians have been harmed and killed.
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Most importantly, we did not go there with the intention of making the situation "appreciably" better.
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