US and Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan...- threadbanned users in OP

the eastern bloc, no guarantee the wall would ever have come down had it not been for the USA.

Building on what the US had already rebuilt / repaired...and help oppress the Uyghurs. So much for muslim brotherhood. Marriage's made in haste often end in quickie divorces..... We live in interesting times.

I read on news websites the taliban will need to let others in to the new government , respect minoritys, otherwise they risk encouraging a resistance movement to appear its too early to say is this a charge offensive to gain credibility with China India and other governments

The taliban now have acess to large amounts of modern weapons not just ak47 rifles also they seem to have acess to government computer records which they could use to track down to those who worked with the US army and theres 1000s of people left who America intends to allow to go to America

Those weapons could be sold to country like Iran or to enemy's of Israel it seems the Americans learned nothing from the fall of saigon

Well I hope everyone is looking forward to the new waves of needy new neighbours who will now be importer en masse.

True, it might be sold on the cheap. Interestingly a convoy of Afghan army vehicles fled into Iran, so they Iranians will be able to get a good look over some of the equipment. Imagine we might see some domestic vehicles inspired by them in the Iranian inventory soon enough.

It's all good sneering at Europeans or Germans (as you love to do) but who provides security for them to get anybody onto planes they send over + avoid them starring in an Islamist propaganda video?

I assume it is the US now if Afghan government/army are no more (Is that correct?).

I imagine they are very busy getting all their own people and Afghans working for them who may be in danger out (America First naturally) not to mention defending the airport itself.

I expect the USs European "clients" (I think Trump's presidency and Coronavirus has exposed the truth that they are not really "allies" any longer) may have to wait their turn unless they can get some soldiers over there to provide their own security.

edit: Some quotes in this https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2021/0818/1241411-afghanistan-taliban/

would seem to agree with what I was thinking about why such planes might leave with hardly anyone on board.

There have been a few articles in the Guardian and on CNN in recent months about the silence from Muslim majority countries about what's going on with the Uyghurs. I think I read something about deportations of activists to China also.

Never happens though, because apparently it’s everyone’s responsibility to fix the problem.

150 I heard on the news this morning but at the moment it doesn’t look like there’s going to be loads to take. The Syrian resettlement here has been successful so I’m now sure it’s a good example for the point you’re trying to make. Either was the USA will be taking zero refugees as they never have, at least from Syria and Afghanistan anyway.

I don't see why it would be 'massively expanded'? How many will be airlifted out in total between now and August 31? I'd be surprised if it's over 100K. Distrribute them proprtionately round willing countries and I don't see how Ireland ends up with anything beyond 1,000.

Anyone suggesting we take upwards of 1000+ refugees I have heard we should take up to 10,000 ,now where would you be planning on housing 1000+ immediately ,

We don't have the ability to pull 1000 + homes out of nowhere ,add how do we vet those who you want to Come here ,

the citizens have to fight. it seems they are all well armed as shown by the weapons which were abandoned at the airport the other day. i don't understand why all these people are crushed up against the gates of the airport expecting death at any minute, yet are just willing to let it happen without a fight. if all hope is gone as they believe it is, then why not go down fighting? the women also need to take up arms. if the population turned on the taliban, they'd easily win. there's no other massive force of taliban fighters to back up those already on the streets. what do the people of kabul have to lose?

Because the proportion of the population genuinely in fear of their lives is, I'd imagine, pretty small. We're not talking about the Khmer Rouge here...