[arista]

[arista]

Not a Kabul
yesterday in Jalalabad
the Public got the National Flag
and marched down the street
(not a good idea)

3 were killed
as the Taliban fired there machine guns.

[Cherie]

Flicking through the new channels, difficult to look at Kay Burley putting on a fake sad face, so thought I would try BBC, what a mistake, fuming at Nick Knowles saying we will have to wait and see if the Taliban have changed when I have just witnessed women handing their babies over a fence to a stranger they are so terrified, I think they know better than Nick? (Who was on to plug his decluttering programme and claiming he was changing lives )

[bots]

the taliban are religious fanatics, part of a cult that have re-interpreted sharia law to fit their own twisted agenda. We know things will be exactly as they were 20 years ago, the only reason they are saying differently at the moment is because they want the western cash

[arista]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

the taliban are religious fanatics, part of a cult that have re-interpreted sharia law to fit their own twisted agenda. We know things will be exactly as they were 20 years ago, the only reason they are saying differently at the moment is because they want the western cash

Yes All the Money is Frozen.


Except from Pakistan or China.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Flicking through the new channels, difficult to look at Kay Burley putting on a fake sad face, so thought I would try BBC, what a mistake, fuming at Nick Knowles saying we will have to wait and see if the Taliban have changed when I have just witnessed women handing their babies over a fence to a stranger they are so terrified, I think they know better than Nick? (Who was on to plug his decluttering programme and claiming he was changing lives )

Yes Nick has new series on Ch5HD
tonight


BBC Dumped him


And That Video also on SkyNewsHD

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

China is going to pay the Taliban
so they can Mine the Lithium in Afghanistan
worth a Fortune, no less.

Lithium is used for ....


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[user104658]

Originally Posted by Zizu

Lithium is used for ....


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The reason it's so valuable is because of lithium-ion batteries, and at the moment specifically, because it's needed for the high capacity rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles. You could think of it as "the new Oil", I suppose. But also used in consumer electronics (smartphones, laptops, etc... basically anything with a rechargeable battery).

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

**** China tbh. The world would be a better place if they went back to being overly insular.

If you're worried about China, then you need to lose your nativist bigotry and encourage a more open and friendly west. All the former colonies and regions that we've screwed over are now receiving massive investment and aid from China.

They are well on the road towards being the unparalleled world super power.

[Livia]

How many refugees will China take? None, that's how many. Because it would upset the Chinese people, apparently.

[The Slim Reaper]

Well 20k over 5 years is pitiful, especially when we've been deporting folks back there to murdered.

They are still investing in these countries and creating wealth. Pretending that a stiff upper lip, loving flags, and an air of superiority is in any way more appealing for other nations to want to take our sides over China isn't realistic.

I'm not specifically talking about just that region either; they are the biggest investors around the world, and the ruins we've left in Africa and the Caribbean are being repaired by China.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Muslims must counter the perverted dogmas that drove the Taliban to victory in
Afghanistan

Sir– The politico-military strategy of the West could clearly not match the
ideological fervour of the Taliban fanatics. Instead of the Western nations
wasting trillions of dollars in a forlorn physical campaign, just a fraction of
that money would have been better spent exposing the toxic theology of the
Taliban.

Since the new regime in Kabul is a brazen offshoot of Deobandi and Wahhabi
sectarianism (reliant on the toxic triad of non-Koranic sources, hadith, sharia
and fatwas), these twisted manifestations of Islam could have been
neutered over the past 20 years.

Had Britain and America backed them, progressive Muslim intellectuals and
scholars could have decisively countered the Taliban’s poisonous propaganda
of female servitude, oppression of minorities and other non-Koranic
doctrines.

The thousands of manufactured hadith are just the reputed sayings of the
Prophet Mohammed, compiled 300 years after his death. The so-called sharia
is a concoction of medieval opinion masquerading as divine law. Fatwas are
purely the personal views of clerics, not religious rulings.


The pragmatic option for right-thinking Muslims around the world is to
promote Koranic Islam through transcendent scriptural theology, highlighting
the blatant flaws in the Taliban’s perverted dogmas and their draconian
execution.

Dr Taj Hargey
Provost, Oxford Institute for British Islam
Oxford

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/...drove-taliban/

[bots]

what china are doing is investing in countries infrastructure etc in the hope that wins them over. Iraq has shown that strategy is not without its flaws

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

what china are doing is investing in countries infrastructure etc in the hope that wins them over. Iraq has shown that strategy is not without its flaws

Absolutely, but I'm not sure Iraq is the best case study for obvious, illegal invasion reasons. However, a continual, prolonged investment strategy over decades and centuries will obviously yield more favourable results. I think sometimes it's difficult for our human brains to imagine a real long term strategy beyond a couple of decades.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

what china are doing is investing in countries infrastructure etc in the hope that wins them over. Iraq has shown that strategy is not without its flaws

I wonder what the difference is for China between the Muslims in Afghanistan and Muslims they're currently holding in "re-education" camps?

[bots]

Originally Posted by Livia

I wonder what the difference is for China between the Muslims in Afghanistan and Muslims they're currently holding in "re-education" camps?

nothing, they don't like either. China wont win the hearts and minds of the Afghans

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The reason it's so valuable is because of lithium-ion batteries, and at the moment specifically, because it's needed for the high capacity rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles. You could think of it as "the new Oil", I suppose. But also used in consumer electronics (smartphones, laptops, etc... basically anything with a rechargeable battery).

Ah ... that’s a relief .. I was thinking some kind of bomb


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[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

nothing, they don't like either. China wont win the hearts and minds of the Afghans

They don't have to win the hearts and minds of Afghans to be long term strategic allies and partners.

[Ninastar]

ABC news is on here and the reporter just said “no one could have seen the collapse happening so quickly”

And I’m like… for real?? People didn’t see this coming? Really??

[Ninastar]

**** I mean I could have told you that, but I have one brain cell lmaoo

[rusticgal]

Originally Posted by Ninastar

ABC news is on here and the reporter just said “no one could have seen the collapse happening so quickly”

And I’m like… for real?? People didn’t see this coming? Really??

I know its unbelievable....its an excuse and a get out clause.

[jet]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

I know its unbelievable....its an excuse and a get out clause.

It has been reported many times that Biden was informed of intelligence to the contrary of 'they didn't see this coming' and insisted on going ahead. A get out clause it is indeed.

[Ninastar]

It’s just been handed so poorly and it makes me so mad. So many pointless deaths.

There’s a few soldiers I know who actually wish they were there so they could be helping… but I dread to think how it would end up for them if they were there

Ugh and the poor women and children of Afghanistan. So many losses here

[arista]

[Tom4784]

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