Hasn't Kabul been liberated from a 20-year unwanted foreign occupation? Feb 2020, the US agreed to complete the evacuation by May 2021 then extended it to 31 August. Why has the US still problem to complete it on time? Does the US slow down the evacuation intentionally for no other purpose than to provoke Taliban? Now our media is crying out loud that the Taliban doesn't allow the US/G7 to keep breaking their agreement. So, any agreement signed with the US/G7 is insignificant - virtually worthless because they can tear it apart at will? Russia offers to provide its civilian planes to fly Afghan and US citizens to the US and other countries. Hasn’t the US not only invaded Afghanistan for 20 years to replace the Taliban with the ‘Taliban’ but also send 1,000 more US troops to aid evacuation? While "cleaning up" the mess in Afghanistan is still under way what country’s vice president is visiting Asia strengthening its strategic structure around China with the sole purpose of containing China?
The American taxpayers should be so proud that Ashraf Ghani stole $169 million of their tax money while a lot of Americans sleep on the streets. Great job Uncle Sam.
I wrote about it a few days ago but Americans wrote to me that homeless people in the US are fantastically good. They get food stamps, work and enjoy it very much. I do not know if really mean it or just joked with me.
@@republicofsrpska6904 They just don't want the world know the embarrassing situation of our country, the truth is more and more people are suffering from poverty
FUN FACT: The United States simply abandoned $85 BILLION worth of military gear, weapons and vehicles over there. Some perspective: Russia's entire defense budget is only $61.7 BILLION. India spends about $72 BILLION. The UK spends $59.2 BILLION. What we just threw away is more than the entire defense budgets of Italy, Australia and Canada COMBINED, and we did it for NOTHING. What's worse is these very weapons will likely be used against us in the coming years.
Ended in chaos? Not surprising! This happened in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam too. Exact same situation. Scenes of people rushing onto helicopters at the US embassy, scenes of babies being lifted, scenes of helicopters flying off from embassy rooftop, scenes of Vietnamese US collaborators, translaters, etc. being executed, scenes of Vietnamese refugees on the high seas and land borders.
Well... If you in one of the poorest countries in the world announce "Come to the airport and we will evacuate you" What did they expect would happen?? Must say it was not "The brightest idea" they had... Strangely enough nobody has pointed this out...
@@garyoakham9723 Trump's Impeachment at first was caused by his phone call with the Ukranian President, trying to favor him about the 2020 Election. He was charged for abuse of power, and obstruction of congress. His second impeachement was caused by the US Capitol Attack by Mobs, encouraged by Trump himself. He was charged of Incitement of Insurrection. Trump may not started another war, but Trump caused the reigniting the tensions with the Iranians, which both US and Iran made a peace terms during the Obama Administration.
Maybe we would actually have the infrastructure, the renewable energy, the public transportation, to receive this amount of people. At the very least the American people could count on tangible results other than "it's going great guys!"
@@Ardilla88 they didnt even attack the us and the fly brained president didnt even evacuate it right he needed to take the weapons and dogs out first before completely leaving.
@@dr.phylisphical9294 I am talking about in Sept 11, 2001, they attacked the US. Once you go into a country after a war is started, you are going to be there a long time.
$2 trillion flushed down the toilet along with more than 3000 service member's lives. But we "can't afford" health care for Americans. Stop the insanity.
Spent my early 20s deployed. I’ve had 15 knee surgeries and lost 3 friends. I’m angry, sad and indifferent. Spent 2 years in Kabul alone. Now I understand why Vietnam vets are salty. This hurts. Wish the best for the local nationals.
Do you want to feel hurt even more? Whenever you are called into a war in foreign lands, know that you will not fight for your own people, but for the rich and powerful minority.
The goal of the war was to funnel 2 trillion dollars of Americans tax payers money to the military industrial complex, which it achieved spectacularly. Sorry for what happened to you and your friends.
I’m sorry for your losses, but thank you for your service, I don’t think I could ever willingly enlist in the military knowing that we fight for the rich to get richer.
The US soldiers killed recently were so young, born in 2002, 2001, 1999 etc- they have no memory of 9/11 - It’s history to them, yet they still lost their lives in that war. It is unbelievably tragic. No more.
"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war". - Julian Assange
And the american public bought it hook line and sinker. Mostly because they are not free at all, just say" terrorism, freedom, democracy " and they will fall to their knees and do what told
Until our world leaders and politicians, people who have integrity and a large following, admit that this is truly the case and the corruption and evil and greed come to an end than it can never happen. This had been in the world for an extremely long time. They have our whole future napped out for us already.... I'm just so terrified of what that's going tho end up consisting of
The question is how much of that $2 trillion was spent of Afghanistan, and how much on military industrial complex and private contractors. The corruption of Afghani politicians and civil servants were well known. But they received only a small part of the loot. The most was taken by US actors.
Firstly about half of that money hasn't even been spent yet. The costs are still to be actualized in the form of things like interest on US T bonds used to fund the war, and future VA medical bills and veterans benefits earned in the war by hundreds of thousands. Second the figure also includes adjacent costs like the Pakistani airbase used for strikes in Afghanistan. Afghanistan itself got about $100b. Most of that was salaries for the security forces. Some was other Afghans employed. Some was infrastructure projects. Some was equipment. So e was funding the creation of the Afghan government and all of its arm, to include things like government buildings.
@@kadaltokek3953 if you want to be nitpicky and technical, I'd tell you that there is no continent called America. there is north and south America, but no whole continent I'm aware of. If you are referring to north america, you say north america. If you are referring to USA, you can say America for short. I can assure you when people say America they're talking about the country. If they're talking about a continent, they'd be wrong. "America" isn't a continent. you're thinking of NA and SA.
@@Michijoy Who said that when people said "America" its reffering to "USA"? Just USA itself, the whole world reffering America as the continent. Now go back to geography lesson weeb, take care yourself, healthcare aint free and remember those 3 grand for an ambulance
Bruh didn't Vietnam have like 20x as many casualties..? I think more people died on September 11th during the terrorist attacks than US soldiers in the entire 20 year Afghan war.
"If you lose a war and wanting to flee,do not accepte the fact that you lost, just say you are withdrawing with your allies."--Sun Tzu (The art of war)
Essentially the U.S. government had been beating this dead horse for 20 years, kept throwing money and live blood at it. No president wanted to admit that this horse is dead. At the end, the dead horse just implored.
We extracted a lot of oil during the time though, money well spent to those in high positions, they don’t care about the death of our young soldiers lol
Can't say they didn't try though, imagine had it actually worked and Afghanistan could've caught up to the world like it was before the Taliban dragged them back into the medieval times.
The goal of the war was to funnel 2 trillion dollars of Americans tax payers money to the military industrial complex, which it achieved spectacularly.
We've already spent billions on both and what do we have? An overwhelming population of people who can't meet educational minimums and vast sums of money spent on people who aren't even legal citizens at the hospitals. Throwing more money at problems doesn't solve these problems - it's what is done with it that counts.
It's just the fact that we just let it get back to where it started. R.I.P to the lost soldiers in Afghanistan. This isn't going to be going anytime soon and we will feel those effects unfortunately.
The US entered the war because of a terrorist attack, we are not back where we started so much as we’ve lost the effort to continue. Also, you should feel a lot worse about the Vietnam war, with millions dead and displaced, along with huge riots and many cultural shifts.
At last , after failing miserably to make any positive impact in Afghanistan, despite being there for 20 years, America has finally seen the light and waved, the white flag before the victorious Talibans. What a humiliating swan song.
@@jamesburns2232 For the record, the idea of exiting Afghanistan began with Barack, then Trump made 'deals' to release Taliban prisoners (one is now the new Afghani leader/ president)--which had no consequences for the Taliban, nor real value other than Trump's personal gain. ALSO, Trump made this deal WITHOUT talking to Afghanistan. #facts Enter the 'Biden' administration. Which happens to inherit everything from the previous administrations, because... uhm... yeah, that's how it works. Then, they had to make their own decisions. Like it or not, 'fan boying' for one 'side' or another is pointless. If we're a 'country divided'... then, we're definitely going to flounder. THAT IS WHAT CERTAIN PEOPLE WANT. They want the people of the U.S. *divided* amongst themselves. People yelling 'TRUMP!' or 'BIDEN!' But in the end, 'DonJoe' will keep you poor, unfulfilled and broke.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Trump made the Afghan armed forces totally defenceless against the taliaban advances. It was Trump who made the "peace" deal public on US TV for electoral purposes.
Found this video after watching the homelessness percentage increase in The US, but I guess Afghans will settle in perfectly fine. Just pay your taxes Americans😶
There has been one constant across twenty years of occupation: the government lying to the people. “The days of the Taliban are over. The future of Afghanistan belongs to the people of Afghanistan. And the future of Afghanistan belongs to freedom.” - George W. Bush, 2006
Sure, the last 20 years of warfare in the Middle East cost the USA $4 trillion, but the impact of all these Covid lockdowns has cost the US economy $16 trillion in just two years.
I like how this piece switches from calling out the corrupt government to calling it a "democracy we supported". I am sure Afghans will miss that government
Going forward, the Afghans will miss any kind of cohesive government. Afghanistan is a failed state, run by warlords who'll fight one another in the absence of a common enemy.
@Supreme Afghanistan has over 34M people. Of those, only a few thousand are clamoring to get to the USA, some for economic reasons and not for any fear. The country needs to settle and the best support that can be given is economic support and not perpetuating conflicts. I find it funny that people in the USA are screaming to see guns banned and police defunded etc but are perfectly okay sending troops with deadly drones etc to other countries. The only time troops should be sent is if there is a massacre or active civil war, like it was in Rwanda, yet no one helped anyway. And then leave as soon as things stabilise and focus on rebuilding. Imagine how many schools, roads, malls, farms, factories etc could have been build with the trillions spent if only half of that went to direct economic empowerment. The Afghans would have had something to fight for.
@@ciararespect4296 Once again someone who talks about something or someone without knowing what really happened. Tupac died almost broke, he didn't live long enough to enjoy the royalties of his biggest album All Eyez On Me. And he was giving a lot of his money back to his community and to charity.
@@LuckyBide yea right. Dying broke doesn't matter. We can't take it with us. All rich donate a bit to charity for the feel good factor I wasnt replying to you anyway and it was to a specific comment. So clear off
2 trillion USD. That's 600 billion USD SHORT of India's annual GDP. My gawd. The subtle privilege of being able to quantitatively ease when you're a super power.
Bhai, it is 1000 billion dollars more now. But, whatever. The main thing is US just installed monsters who will now propagate jihad all over the world.
I can't wait for Gerard Butler or Tom Hanks to star as a tough but kind US General/ NATO senior military officer that helped save thousands of lives in the evacuation in a Hollywood movie glorifying the US involvement in Afg while holding the terrorists at bay for several days outside the airport. Blockbuster hit, US pride redeemed, public forgives. All is well that ends well.
Some of the biggest critics of the Afghan withdrawal are Americans. You're literally commenting this on an American made video criticising the US' war, on an American platform. The US has a remarkable ability to admit its mistakes and display them to the entire world.
@@waterdrinkingexpert6797 lol that is why they put all the blame to afghanistan after their humiliating defeat. When they themselves sideline the afghan government by negotiating with the taliban.
Managed to secure lithium for batteries, the vast majority of the worlds supply of opium for opioids used in pharmaceuticals as well as minerals for petroleum and of course oil reserves in Iraq. All of this over a 20 year period, now presumably a deal has been struck and the Taliban will no doubt be cooperating with the sourcing and logistics. I would say mission accomplished certainly.
@@nickrad6966 wrong. China will get the deal with taliban for earth metals. They are already talking about building high speed rail between China and Afghanistan basically the new silkroad.
2:23 So are you claiming the U.S invaded Afghanistan and imposed a corrupted government on them on purpose, OR that there are corrupted U.S officials who had been working with the a corrupted Afghanistan government to misappropriate and embezzled U.S tax payer's money in aid to Afghanistan? How is that not the more important issues ?
your taxes could have been used to improve health care, improve the education system, build foster shelters public learning centres places of worship and better public transportation had been spent on a lost war.
@@Blackowl44 in foreign policy but if you leftists think America will fall like the Soviet Union you're trippin asf as long as standard of living and pace of the economy is good just because civil and social issues are prominent it wouldn't mean crap I recommend you watch the whatiflist on would the west fall within our lifetime
@@inigobantok1579 Soviet Union and USA are two completely different societies. Everything you mentioned is not good in America currently lol. Do you even live in America right now. They are literally printing and pumping more fiat currency into the economy just to keep it going. So many more problems I haven’t even mention that is building up.
You literally have big private equity companies buying up everything and raising the price in America as we speak. Millennials can’t even afford to buy a house in key America cities. Majority of people don’t even own their home. Our tax money is wasted majorly. The intelligence community can operate without any accountability. Millions of Americans are becoming fed up everyday. You have no idea was gonna pop off in the near future.
If the US is truly a land of law and order and justice (i.e a first world civilized nation) as they try so hard to promote around the world. Then, heads need to role, those decision makers that did all of this need to be held accountable. However, this will not happen and the world now sees that the US is no better than the countries the US points their finger at.
"No-one could have predicted what happened in August 2021"...except that it was obvious with the complete incompetence of leaving what has been the true security base of the country for the last 70 years in Kandahar in the middle of the night with no smooth hand-over, this leaving our position to secure a withdrawal in the hands of looters & the Taliban.
@@KesumaofEO Talaban was in control then. Talaban is, after two decades, still in control. Afgan is the longest and costliest war in US history. At least 2 Trillion plus went to Boeing, Raythin, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin. So yes, I guess it is MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
@@jonb3189 obviously you're just here to spread anti-american thoughts since you can't even get the spelling correct for the Taliban. Use your 50 cents to get a better education you wumao. You go ahead and tell all the women in Afghanistan that it wasn't worth it to give them a chance at being something more than a breeding vessel.
@@KesumaofEO 2 trillion dollars and thousands of lives for giving Afghans limited human rights. Not to mention US bombed thousands of kids to death and it is the US fault that Taliban exists. Maybe it's you who needs a history lesson, US does have a crappy education system.
We extracted a lot of oil during the time though, money well spent to those in high positions, they don’t care about the death of our young soldiers lol
$2.26 Trillion better to be spent on well being for Americans providing home for the homeless, create more job opportunities, settle student loans, cheaper medical expenses etc
@SpaghettiBoy7 Afghans does not have a real concept of a country, the are like 5-6 main tribes, mostly rural people, thats why the military arm of Afghans fell like a house of cards, Afghanistan "exist" by a mere "fake" territorial division of Great Britain.
Sure if you like waiting 3 months for a surgery like in Canada where wait times are three times higher than the US... by the time you get your date for surgery you're already dead.
7:05 - "it's a welcome move of course but I don't think it's enough" shouldn't the US and UK focus on their own people first? Lots of homeless people who need more help.
Uh no, just that there was not enough support for a unified government, without the US the people in those rural areas hardly had a choice, let the Taliban takeover or be killed by them.
The mostly rural people were not getting the support they wanted from the very corrupt Afghan Govt.--- The very corrupt Afghan Govt. was not worth fighting and dying for. America is an idea. But what exactly is "Afghanistan" to the mostly rural population. Answer: ??
What is the lesson of the US wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and Korea? 1. Never intervene in an other country, no matter how justified. 2. Intervene and conquer other countries totally to gain absolute power and rule as a dictator.
Intervening in the Korean war was justified though, North Korea would've taken over the south if America didn't intervene. So it was actually a success.
Why would they bring refugees from Afghanistan and spend so much money when there are many immigrants from Mexico that are willing to work and they cross the border by themselves, what a waste of money.
Because the Afghans are fleeing from a war you guys started and because of the oppression of the Taliban. Mexicans on the other hand have a democratic government and are just economic refugees whereas the Afghan refugees are war refugees. It's as simple as that
Well, when the Soviets left Afghanistan, it was done in a very orderly, efficient and organized manner. The Afghan government troops that were left, fought, defended the cities and capital and held out for 3 years before falling to the US and Pakistan supported mujahideens. Also, while the Soviets built a lot of infrastructure, the US mostly spent the 2 trillion dollars on big US defense companies and private military contractors.
@@cplcabs huh? I think Biden is a total tool, but I agree with him on this one. Weapons are really cheap and easily available in Afghanistan - why not fight? They had 20 years to save up for a rifle and ammo and train. Now they’re running away? Did they just sit around and smoke opium the whole time?
@FlawlessGainzz4 exactly! They just rolled over instantly. Almost like they think it’s not worth it, or they agree with the takeover. Either way, you’re 100% correct. We can’t fight for them forever.
How can the Afghans are left badly trained ? The US has been there for 20 years fighting side by side with the Afghan military. It is absurd that they learn nothing from the experience on the battlefield. It is the attitude of the Afghans soldiers that ran away from the taliban , not willing to fight to the last man. If you ask me, I will say, they deserve this ending.
@@Helloverlord what do you mean healthcare doesn’t pay back? Do you think people being healthy and being able to work isn’t a good thing? Believe it or not when the government implements policies the money doesn’t just go into an endless pit it goes back into the economy or in the case of the Afghanistan war right into the military industrial complex.
A wise man told me, "You're just a poor man fighting a rich man's war." Nothing but glory mongers, all because of 9/11. None of these guys, except maybe a small, very small percentage gave some care for the people of Afghanistan.
More like the american peoples understanding. The military have said multiple times how barbaric in thinking Afghans are, and how its like teaching medeival idiots how to form a functioning democracy. But some people live in a fantasy land where they think they can keep afghanistan stable without equally barbaric responses.
Not, down the drain, Taliban upgrades and resupply. See what the $85 billon gave them: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NQSfFvaztdc.html
whenever you fail a business or a job, wasted a lot of money on failed investment, and want to end your life; remember not to ever do it. because as bad as you are, you will never wasted $2 trillion dollar. so keep on living, better days will come.
Anyone who had the slightest delusion that the Afghan war would end any other way simply ignored a surfeit of evidence. We knew the Afghan regime we had brought to power was deeply corrupt. We knew the money we were spending on projects aimed at improving the economy and building stability were being stolen from. In what universe did you expect such people to fight and die against the Taliban once we left and the gravy train was coming to a stop? The simple fact, the United States' war aims were never possible, because true regime change requires cultural change. It's madness to suppose that in a mere 20 years, we can change the fundamental character of Afghan society and values. England conquered Wales in 1283, yet the Welsh culture and character remains distinct. England began incursions into Ireland in 1529, yet Ireland struggled for nearly 500 years to achieve independence. Scotland and England came under a unified Monarchy in 1603, yet there is still a seething independence movement after over 400 years. Cultures change, to be sure, and these lands are far different from the places they were hundreds of years ago. And yet, you would think after all that time, the regional identities of the various parts of the United Kingdom would have assimilated after hundreds of generations with a single government. So, why would we operate under the fantasy that we could assimilate the Tajik, Pashtun, Uzbek, and other ethnic groups in a mere 20 years? Especially while we were, to the casual observer, indiscriminately firebombing people? The truth is, there we never a reason for us to be there. Not defeating Al'Qaeda, not exporting democracy, not providing stability. It was all futile, a gigantic government boondoggle which made riches for defense contractors and a select group of corrupt Afghan insiders. Next time we're going to waste 2.2 trillion dollars in taxpayer money, let's do it on the American education system, so at least nobody has to die while we're hemorrhaging money failing to achieve our policy goals.
Amen to this, US was successful with Japan because they were so nationalistic and US work with their high ranks to rebuild the country, in Afghanistan you have lots of ethnic groups that probably hate each other and wouldn’t never cooperate with each other.
Exactly. It's not only an 'unwinnable' type of intermediary war (U.S. 'in the middle'), but... no matter WHAT action was taken = PEOPLE ARE ANGRY. Leave too 'quickly' (lol), after 20+ years = YA F'ED IT UP, [Clinton/Obama/Trump/Biden]!! SHOULDA STAYED [#] MORE [days/weeks/years]! YOU RUINED 'MURICA!!" Stay longer = "WTF?! WASTING MORE OF MY MONEY ON OPIUM AND GUNS?! OUR BOYZ EEZ GETTIN' KILLED! BRING 'EM HOME! 'MURICA!" Yup. Be honest: that about sums it up, and it pits you vs. your neighbor. 💪😎🤟 Political alignment #1 vs. political alignment #2. Stay classy.
@@kalamari3288 (and others)... I think that a gigantic amount of RU-vidrs need to actually *educate* themselves on actual war. Not CoD, nor Hollywood, nor anything akin to a "Here's how it *should* have gone" garbage. The sheer amount of YEARS (let alone money, and humans both on the ground and behind the 'lines') spent are mind-numbingly complex. Logistics. Who to trust. Interpersonal communications and relations both built and BROKEN... are all more than enough to stagger the minds of even intelligent military officials. TL;DR = Grow up and do some research.
20 years of American soldiers men and women , soldiers men and women from Great Britain, Australia and other countries with the most advanced modern weapons in the world, Trillions of dollars and all for nothing ............
The burden falls on us?? let these people figure out their own problems, the only reason to get involved in more bs is for money and weapon manufacturing
Yes, you and me the tax payers finance those expensive wars, and the wars need to continue because the military industrial complex needs to make billions of dollars manufacturing and selling weapons, it's all about MONEY.
The Americans knew they were leaving (remember the 9/11 deadline), they knew those translators and other officials who worked with them would be in danger. They should have started the visa vetting and processing months ago, and organized a phased departure.
@@VegitoBlackk It is mostly men who worked with the Americans. Some to earn money to feed their families. Interpreters have saved many innocent Afghans from being detained or even shot by Foreign troops. Those men are in danger and the danger might also spill over to their families. The women and children are riding on the visa of the men.
Bro we didn’t have a single casualty until Biden’s handing in the final days in the withdrawal. There was no need to completely pull out thanks to bombing any taliban movement. Now the world is a more dangerous place now that terrorists have more black hawks then Australia.
The whole "War on terror" adventure is around 7 TRILLION USD and that is only what the USA have spent... then you have what all allies have spent... "But look at the fantastic result" things have gotten so much better😂😂😂😂😂😂
Reality Check: With Afganistan's war budget of $2 trillion, you could fix American healthcare, eradicate homelessness, and build an extensive high speed cross country rail network COMBINED. *AND YOU WOULD STILL HAVE $1.47 TRILLION LEFT OVER* . The US government can fund a 20 year long war, but not the most basic necessities for it's citizens as a "first world" country.
@@zakiasultana7087 No, the US is a very young country,, about 240 years old, that makes it only about 6% of the time those countries have been fighting, and destroying each other, (close to 4000 years), and it doesn’t have the malice and history of human disrespect and degradation all those other countries have, but I should add terrorist harboring Pakistan to the list, along almost the whole east side of Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan, one of the MOST repressive countries in the world as well. Would be interesting to get a live satelite view of all those borders right now. May I say more? We can continue if you like.
So your telling me, you’ve lost the longest war in your histories and now you want to wage another war on the same people that you were screaming to help and now this war which kills poor and innocent people and deprives Afghan of intl investment, it’s sickening The west has lost all morals and self respect.
Not even close dude, Less US soldiers died in 20 years in Afghanistan than on September 11th. Vietnam had WAY higher casualties too. This was a failure to build an independent nation.
Every major news outlet reporting how the US has lost trillions of dollars, but why do they not report the amount that the US has made from this war. All the contractors (e.g. Boeing to name one) that were employed in the last 20 years made also trillions of dollars. Board of management of these contractors are top US military individuals...all became millionaires. You have not lost the war, you decided that elsewhere profit will be higher.
Let's not confuse politicians and the American people. Politicians may have made out like bandits with their executive cohorts, but the American people were left with the bill.
"The goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe through Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war". - Julian Assange Somebody! Please thumb me!
