gearhog

I’ve tried to remain stoic through all of this. I can’t. We need to see changes. Today.

Hey guys, not sure what to do with this. Help/Advice/Recommendations welcome. I just checked into my hotel here in California and struck up a conversation with the bellman. I was struck by what an incredibly genuine human being he was from the moment he started speaking. He asked where I was from, I asked where he was from. Afghanistan. Former interpreter for the Marines. Came here under the whatever program it was that got him and his family US citizenship. Extremely long conversation ensued until the manger hinted that he needs to be working, not talking politics. Long story short: He has a brother in Herat with a wife and kids. The brother is in hiding because he also worked for Kellog, Brown, and Root on military bases throughout AFG. The Taliban is trying to root them out. Apparently, he needs some sort of a letter saying he worked for KBR to get the documents required to leave the country. Latif then asked, because I was former military, if I had any ideas or knew of anything he could do. He's worried that his brother and his family will not survive this. I got a lump in my throat as this whole thing I've been following suddenly became personal. I want to help, but I don't know what to do. I have his contact info. Any comments welcome.

State Department = "Brainworms" https://twitter.com/JimmyPrinceton/status/1428756995650240513?s=20

This one was a gut punch when I saw it, but it was designed to be. It's not for everyone, but consider looking into Stoicism.

From the WSJ article: A tent city is being erected at the New Jersey base and medical supplies, food, water, restrooms, lighting and other equipment are being installed there now, officials said. Evacuees could be there by next week, they said. Other bases being studied as potential housing sites include Fort Pickett, Va., Camp Atterbury, Ind., Camp Hunter Liggett, Calif., and Fort Chaffee, Ark. Pentagon officials are also looking at American bases in Japan, Korea, Germany, Kosovo, Bahrain and Italy, officials said. The Pentagon earlier had identified Fort Lee, Va., Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort McCoy in Wisconsin as bases that were to begin housing refugees.

C’mon, man! The fall of Kabul was 4-5 days ago. Why are we still talking about this?

What the hell is he doing? He keeps attacking a significant portion of his base. LOL. If he’s intentionally trying to end his career, good for him.

Senator John Cornyn tweeted that we had 30,000 troops in Taiwan. He deleted the Tweet, but China didn't like it. China is also holding live-fire exercises and making even larger incursions into Taiwan airspace today: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/17/china-holds-live-fire-exercises-near-taiwan-response-provocations?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=soc_568&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1629225077

I’ll say it: “battles”.

Everything you're going to hear at 3:45pm. Leaked from a Pelosi staffer.

According to German media, none of the German aircraft that were earlier launched to rescue citizens have been able to land in AFG. They've all been diverted to Uzbekistan. What are the chances the Taliban will be seeking stranded foreign nationals for a GITMO prisoner exchange?

Blood in the water: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202108/1231636.shtml

EST I believe: 2:00 PM: U.S. State Department briefing 2:30 PM: Pentagon briefing 3:45 PM: President Biden to make remarks on Afghanistan from the White House. First remarks since last week.

He called it.

Holy shit https://twitter.com/NewsForAllUK/status/1427203279256227844?s=20

Can you imagine making decisions that this C-17 crew is having to make? An unknown number/nationality of floor-loaded pax, Afghan clinging to the landing gear while you're taxiing in hopes of escape. Waiting at the end of the runway while two Apaches attempt to clear it of thousands of frantic Afghan civilians? Afghanis falling from the plane after takeoff? https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427194671223250948?s=20https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1427194671223250948?s=20

White House just outed members of the CIA, on Twitter, out of sheer incompetence, on top of one of the most humiliating days in the last 20 years: https://twitter.com/thomasbsauer/status/1427001051249512448?s=20

Silk Road Initiative. https://afghanembassyturkmenistan.com/12-reasons-the-silk-road-through-afghanistan-is-underway/ https://www.dailypioneer.com/2021/page1/taliban-seek-air-missiles-from-china.html [quote] Taliban seek air missiles from China Sunday, 01 August 2021 | PNS | New Delhi Delegation requests Beijing to help it with electronic warfare against US bombers The Taliban are desperate to get supplies of medium range surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) from China before the complete withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan in September. Afghan Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, alias Mullah Baradar, placed his desire to get SAMs before the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at a delegation-level meeting at Tianjin on Wednesday. “The Taliban delegation requested SAMs from China during the inter-delegation meeting headed by Baradar from the Taliban and Yi from the Chinese side,” they said. Backed by technical inputs from the Pakistan Army-ISI complex, the Taliban have sought missiles capable of crippling the electronic warfare capabilities and jamming the radar of the American B-52 bombers as the configuration is estimated to be closely matching those of Rafale fighter jets being procured by India from France, the sources said.[/quote]

Remember “Baghdad Bob”? https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1426957410426630154?s=20

No F'n way... Gotta be a glitch in the simulation.

War is over. Time to turn inward.