Taliban winning in Afghanistan
POSTED BY: Magonsdaughter
UPDATED: Sunday, August 30, 2026 23:18
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Seems like the Afghanistan disaster is being taken off the front page.
No more mention of the billions of dollars-worth of weaponry and equipment in Afghanistan... a post that was published by the Sunday Times of London.
https://fee.org/media/40233/graphic.jpeg
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The Times of London reports that the US simply abandoned a truly astounding arsenal of military equipment and weapons.
This reportedly includes up to
22,174 Humvee vehicles,
nearly 1,000 armored vehicles,
64,363 machine guns, and
42,000 pick-up trucks and SUVs.
358,530 assault rifles,
126,295 pistols,
nearly 200 artillery units
state-of-the-art military helicopters
warplanes,
other aircraft
...
night vision goggles,
body armor
And state-of-the-art Javelin anti-tank missiles
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“The Taliban now has more Black Hawk helicopters than 85% of the countries in the world,” Congressman Jim Banks, a veteran, lamented.
https://headlineusa.com/military-equipment-us-left-taliban/
There are a few reasons to leave this all behind:
1) The military was so intent on making things look like a "success" that they didn't want to take toys away from the Potemkin "Afghan Army"
2) Now the USA MIC gets to make MORE money by making replacements! AND
3) Russia won't be making any money selling arms to the Taliban bc, except for muntions, tha Taliban is armed for the foreseeable future!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Yep, Biden* admin spox, Pentagon, etc are (finally) standing shoulder to shoulder and declaring this a "success" and therefore a "success" this will be.
Another "mission accomplished" moment!
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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Pepe Escobar posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times
The announcement by Taliban spokesman Zahibullah Mujahid in Kabul of the acting cabinet ministers in the new caretaker government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan already produced a big bang: it managed to enrage both woke NATOstan and the US Deep State.
This is an all-male, overwhelmingly Pashtun (there’s one Uzbek and one Tajik) cabinet essentially rewarding the Taliban old guard. All 33 appointees are Taliban members.
Acting PM
Mohammad Hasan Akhund – the head of the Taliban Rehbari Shura, or leadership council, for 20 years – will be the Acting Prime Minister. For all practical purposes, Akhund is branded a terrorist by the UN and the EU, and under sanctions by the UN Security Council. It’s no secret Washington brands some Taliban factions as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and sanctions the whole of the Taliban as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” organization.
SPIRITUAL LEADER
It’s crucial to stress Himatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban Supreme Leader since 2016, is Amir al-Momineen (“Commander of the Faithful”). He can’t be a Prime Minister; his role is that of a supreme spiritual leader, setting the guidelines for the Islamic Emirate and mediating disputes – politics included.
Akhunzada has released a statement, noting that the new government “will work hard towards upholding Islamic rules and sharia law in the country” and will ensure “lasting peace, prosperity and development”. He added, “people should not try to leave the country”.
Spokesman Mujahid took pains to stress this new cabinet is just an “acting” government. This implies one of the next big steps will be to set up a new constitution. The Taliban will “try to take people from other parts of the country” – implying positions for women and Shi’ites may still be open, but not at top level.
DEPUTY PM
Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, who so far had been very busy diplomatically as the head of the political office in Doha, will be deputy Prime Minister. He was a Taliban co-founder in 1994 and close friend of Mullah Omar, who called him “Baradar” (“brother”) in the first place.
ACTING INTERIOR MINISTER
A predictable torrent of hysteria greeted the appointment of Sirajuddin Haqqani as Acting Minister of Interior. After all the son of Haqqani founder Jalaluddin, one of three deputy emirs and the Taliban military commander, with a fierce reputation, has a $5 million FBI bounty on his head. His FBI “wanted” page is not exactly a prodigy of intel: they don’t know when he was born, and where, and that he speaks Pashto and Arabic.
This may be the new government’s top challenge: to prevent Sirajuddin and his wild boys from acting medieval in non-Pashtun areas of Afghanistan, and most of all to make sure the Haqqanis cut off any connections with jihadi outfits. That’s a sine qua non condition established by the China-Russia strategic partnership for political, diplomatic and economic development support.
ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER
Foreign policy will be much more accommodating. Amir Khan Muttaqi, also a member of the political office in Doha, will be the Acting Foreign Minister, and his deputy will be Abas Stanikzai, who’s in favor of cordial relations with Washington and the rights of Afghan religious minorities.
ACTING DEFENSE MINISTER
Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of Mullah Omar, will be the Acting Defense Minister.
OTHER
So far, the only non-Pashtuns are Abdul Salam Hanafi, an Uzbek, appointed as second deputy to the Prime Minister, and Qari Muhammad Hanif, a Tajik, the acting Minister of Economic Affairs, a very important post.
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The Tao of staying patient
The Taliban Revolution has already hit the Walls of Kabul – who are fast being painted white with Kufic letter inscriptions. One of these reads, “For an Islamic system and independence, you have to go through tests and stay patient.”
That’s quite a Taoist statement: striving for balance towards a real “Islamic system”. It offers a crucial glimpse of what the Taliban leNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Pepe Escobar posted with permission and first posted at Asia Times
The announcement by Taliban spokesman Zahibullah Mujahid in Kabul of the acting cabinet ministers in the new caretaker government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan already produced a big bang: it managed to enrage both woke NATOstan and the US Deep State.
This is an all-male, overwhelmingly Pashtun (there’s one Uzbek and one Tajik) cabinet essentially rewarding the Taliban old guard. All 33 appointees are Taliban members.
Acting PM
Mohammad Hasan Akhund – the head of the Taliban Rehbari Shura, or leadership council, for 20 years – will be the Acting Prime Minister. For all practical purposes, Akhund is branded a terrorist by the UN and the EU, and under sanctions by the UN Security Council. It’s no secret Washington brands some Taliban factions as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and sanctions the whole of the Taliban as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” organization.
SPIRITUAL LEADER
It’s crucial to stress Himatullah Akhundzada, the Taliban Supreme Leader since 2016, is Amir al-Momineen (“Commander of the Faithful”). He can’t be a Prime Minister; his role is that of a supreme spiritual leader, setting the guidelines for the Islamic Emirate and mediating disputes – politics included.
Akhunzada has released a statement, noting that the new government “will work hard towards upholding Islamic rules and sharia law in the country” and will ensure “lasting peace, prosperity and development”. He added, “people should not try to leave the country”.
Spokesman Mujahid took pains to stress this new cabinet is just an “acting” government. This implies one of the next big steps will be to set up a new constitution. The Taliban will “try to take people from other parts of the country” – implying positions for women and Shi’ites may still be open, but not at top level.
DEPUTY PM
Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, who so far had been very busy diplomatically as the head of the political office in Doha, will be deputy Prime Minister. He was a Taliban co-founder in 1994 and close friend of Mullah Omar, who called him “Baradar” (“brother”) in the first place.
ACTING INTERIOR MINISTER
A predictable torrent of hysteria greeted the appointment of Sirajuddin Haqqani as Acting Minister of Interior. After all the son of Haqqani founder Jalaluddin, one of three deputy emirs and the Taliban military commander, with a fierce reputation, has a $5 million FBI bounty on his head. His FBI “wanted” page is not exactly a prodigy of intel: they don’t know when he was born, and where, and that he speaks Pashto and Arabic.
This may be the new government’s top challenge: to prevent Sirajuddin and his wild boys from acting medieval in non-Pashtun areas of Afghanistan, and most of all to make sure the Haqqanis cut off any connections with jihadi outfits. That’s a sine qua non condition established by the China-Russia strategic partnership for political, diplomatic and economic development support.
ACTING FOREIGN MINISTER
Foreign policy will be much more accommodating. Amir Khan Muttaqi, also a member of the political office in Doha, will be the Acting Foreign Minister, and his deputy will be Abas Stanikzai, who’s in favor of cordial relations with Washington and the rights of Afghan religious minorities.
ACTING DEFENSE MINISTER
Mohammad Yaqoob, the son of Mullah Omar, will be the Acting Defense Minister.
OTHER
So far, the only non-Pashtuns are Abdul Salam Hanafi, an Uzbek, appointed as second deputy to the Prime Minister, and Qari Muhammad Hanif, a Tajik, the acting Minister of Economic Affairs, a very important post.
****
The Tao of staying patient
The Taliban Revolution has already hit the Walls of Kabul – who are fast being painted white with Kufic letter inscriptions. One of these reads, “For an Islamic system and independence, you have to go through tests and stay patient.”
That’s quite a Taoist statement: striving for balance towards a real “Islamic system”. It offers a crucial glimpse of what the Taliban leNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Anyone predict 1/10 maybe one Tenth of this islamist shithole dying off as they go into a Civil War?
maybe put that one into the prediction thread??
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Trump is still banned from most of the mainstream interwebs?
Facebook allowed photos of beheadings and violent hate speech from ISIS and the Taliban to be tagged as 'insightful'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10328801/Facebook-fail
ed-crack-extremist-content-report-reveals.html
Al-Qaeda has grown ‘slightly’ inside Afghanistan since Taliban takeover: U.S. commander
https://globalnews.ca/news/8439683/afghanistan-al-qaeda-growth/
While the West focused on Afghanistan, ISIS gained ground in Iraq and beyond
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/while-the-west-focused-on-afghanistan
-isis-gained-ground-in-iraq-and-beyond/
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How Afghanistan's Militant Groups Are Evolving Under Taliban Rule
https://www.voanews.com/a/how-afghanistan-s-militant-groups-are-evolvi
ng-under-taliban-rule/6492194.html
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
oh dear. Putting the Haqqanis in charge of everything interior is like putting the Ukrainian Nazis in charge of everything interior
Ukraine is run by a tv character perhaps a failure of a leader, however Putin is the killer who is invading.
I don't think Ukraine could ever go full islamo retard like the Taliban
but then again Russians seem to be importing islamist Chechen mercs into the region
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Originally posted by Fremdfirma:
We also made the mistake of trying to prop up yet another puppet, Kharazi
its a demon pedophile terrorist Moongod religion
These people are of shitlamic culture, these who are dumb islamic assholes who chopped each others heads off over a fucking cartoon
...and every time rather than call out islamism...assholes like Faggot Firma when given the chance they defended the demonic religion of islam
Maybe I say demon religion for lack of a better description
Perhaps there is more to this world and it is a demonic enity that crosses time
America could have propped up whatever the fuck corrupted puppet it wanted and still won that shit war
Not all muslims will be bad, terrible people, some as individual might have good human qualities but their religion is terrible, one of the worst that has ever existed.
One day a realization came to me
I think it came not from Chanting or Yoga or Buddhist history or the Bible ...it just arrived to me...but maybe from Bumping the Funny Cartoon sparks Jihad thread, maybe from looking at their shit ugly chicken scratch writing systems compared to their richer history that existed before islam, maybe it came to me after a look at their dumb art where everything looks like am ugly carpet or doormat, maybe it was the sound of islamic, hearing their out-of-tune wails from a mosque or some of their miserable dialects that sound like spittying, coughing, moaning and htorat hacking sounds and maybe it came from anotehr source maybe Eastern fictional writing or West fiction stories, then reading both Western and Asian Fantasy Novels, art books and Scifi books.
I have nothing against the pre-islamic history of Arabia and Afghanistan, before islam these seemed to be great people that had many achivements but then shit called islam comes along.
I'm not really religious
but I believe America propped up not a shit person but a SHIT-LAMIC 1400 yr old demon ghost, the United States of America kicked the Taliban's ass, it had 98% of the country in cotnrol and then suddenly it decided NOT TO WIN
in 2004 shitlamic people got inside the brains of Little Bush, inside the brains fo globalists Leftwing Neo-Liberals typesa and Neo-Cons and made an islamist Anti-American Constitution of Afghanistan
the shitlamic Constitution of Asscrackistan then in 2004 suddenly described this pedophile terroristic shit called Islam as its Most Sacred Law
In 2004 it was decided that all other faith, and political social ideas and religion rituls perform their religious 'rites' within the limits of the Sharia islamist jihadi law.
Ever since America has been sending people into Assckracistan to waste their sweat and treasure and bodies and times to bleed and die for a 1400 yr old pedophile Death Cult
Such wisdom from our leaders in the West ' sarcasm off symbol '
but then again it was Bush and Blair who declared it a 'religion of peace' straight after the 911 attacks
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Originally posted by second:
U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 111,900 people. Since the end of July, we have re-located approximately 117,500 people.
I must say that evac was very impressive even if optics looked bad like 'Nam
with people falling off planes. It was very impressive how many the USA got out.
Ther
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Taliban bars government employees without beards from work
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/taliban-bars-government-emp
loyees-without-beards-work-sources-2022-03-28
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Taliban Stops Issuing Driving Licence To Afghan Women: Reports
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/taliban-to-stop-issuing-driving-licenc
e-to-women-in-kabul-reports-2947030
1980s
"In Afghanistan, Soviets find replacing Islam with communism isn't easy"
https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/0806/olam.html
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'ISIS trying to regroup in Afghanistan'
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/272541277/isis-trying-to-regroup-i
n-afghanistan
Chair of US Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley
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