Looking at Afghanistan

 Here's Tucker's latest:

https://youtu.be/-kphx-mT7cU

Looks like the Americans are fixing to pull out early next week. Clearly Biden and General Millie were extremely wrong about their guys' chance against the Taliban.

I'll run some facts by you:

1) an Afghani that was lucky enough to migrate to Australia was dumb enough to go back to Afghanistan to visit. The local militia, perhaps Talibans stopped the bus he was on, ask some questions, found out he was Australian, immediately executed him.

2) from what I gathered from my buddy MLK (not his real name) that was from Quetta and suicided in my mom's garage, same as the rest of the family, he said he was working as a translator in Afghanistan for the u.s. Army and described some very sophisticated and fancy classified technology that blew his mind. Don't underestimate the power of military industrial lobbyists to have a convenient war to spend money on and practice gizmos. 

3) due to American air superiority in the region and the relationship with Pakistan, it's always possible to come back. If they just want to destroy the opium farms, I disagree with General Keane, they might not need boots on the ground long term. They never wanted to get serious about opium eradication and subsequent different nation building, it was just about playing cowboys and Indians.

4) another of my buddies is from Kashgar very close to the Chinese border. The only real strategic importance in Afghanistan is either destroy opium production or liberate Xinjiang potentially starting with Kashgar. This would really get China to act extremely well behaved, taking Xinjiang and Tibet. 

5) I don't think Al Qaeda or any other terrorists training in Afghanistan is a big threat. People don't need to go all the way there to become terrorists, can't agree with Erik Prince there.

6) the two American soldiers I gave taxi rides to while visiting Sydney for R&R directly from Afghanistan both seemed to have benefited from the experience and had positive attitudes.

7) a lot of people don't understand before the Soviet invasion Afghanistan was actually a pretty nice place, relatively speaking, quite progressive in its own way. Even lovely. It's important to understand how brutal the Soviet war was. Russian brutality can suck.

8) can't see the Taliban regime letting China annex them, least of all with all those American weapons left behind. They will make deals though.

That entire region is set for pretty big changes if a lot of ice melts from global warming around the glaciers of Tibet/ Hindu Kush. Check out this desert in Xinjiang: (10th biggest in the world)

https://youtu.be/PuFaTQofvhs

By the way, I crossed the desert from Adelaide to Darwin in the train with my son Alex four years ago, I guarantee that desert will not change at all in the next five hundred years. If you want to escape change and visit a prehistoric place where crocodiles live in every lake that will kill you, go there. I would bet my bottom dollar that desert is not going to change at all and the Tibetan ice glaciers will melt big time in the next five hundred years. Positive.

Brief history of Afghanistan last 70 years or so....

https://youtu.be/FDQLHFBp4aM