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

It’s about 12,000 kilometers from the US to Afghanistan...about 4,500 from the nearest EU country to western Afghanistan....

the US have distance and strict and stringent criteria to enter.

the EU has neither. The EU will I think need to cop the fûck on about its borders and the criteria and rules for entering... because when the Taliban regroup.... their focus won’t just be Afghanistan....

Yes of course, this is and always been the stock in trade of the Taliban and isis

Well, until they were stopped, part of the isis grand plan was to take and destroy Rome, quite incredible though it may seem. And now,the Taliban have gained unbelievable traction in Islamic Countrys,,,, they are ones who defeated the greatest military power in the world, and not only that, but the Great Satan. And this will encourage others to equal the feat, anywhere.

Were they not given to the Afghanistan army?

I keep hearing this, how is he humiliated? What could he have done differently in your expert opinion?

Taliban use them to keep IsisK at bay.

Anything of military use in Kabul Airport was permanently disabled, Humvees, Bradleys, Aircraft etc. and they destroyed / disabled many more in the field, plus several aircraft were flown out of Afghanistan by their pilots. But its still only a fraction of what they had supplied to the ANA.Now the taliban will try to track down any of the ANA pilots they can, and force them to fly whats left. Ditto, any technicians, mechanics etc. But it will go down in US military history as perhaps the biggest war time blunder ever made.

Are the Taliban pragmatic enough to do that rather than execute those guys as 'quislings'?

Hopefully......Taliban V isis. And as Rory Stewart said about Afghanistan "Its composed of 22'000 villages, towns and cities, with a total population of 40'million people comprising 16 different etnic groups, Pashtun's making the biggest % at 42%.Followed by the Tajiks at 27%, and so on down the scale". Now thats some patchwork quilt to try and control, and always has been. And as a possible side effect, given the present heady"we are unbeatable" euphoric, they could link up with their brother Pashtuns in Pakistan, and cause some serious headaches for the PK Government. Now that would be something else...the Tiger you created and nurtured as a cub, now attacking you as an adult.

The Brits left behind an arsenal of weaponry to combat Republican forces if necessary after their withdrawal from Ireland. The Free State Forces shelled the Four Courts with British supplied artillary pieces when it was taken over by Republican troops.

Its purpose is to install order ,however the weapons would never be a threat to their original owners or at least thats the intent.

These aren't the same Taliban that the west originally faced when it went into Afghanistan back in 2001, at least not from what I can see. While they're undoubtedly still brutal fanatics, it seems as if the twenty years of fighting, as well as the arrival of ISIS and its splinter groups has pushed the group away from the fringes somewhat. The big question is how tightly the leadership can control the various groups that make up the Taliban.

Don't get me wrong, they're fanatics and I don't really have much faith in their claims about a more inclusive regime, but I do believe that the Taliban, or at least elements of the Taliban will be far more willing to be pragmatic when it helps their interests than they used to be. The coordination between them and western forces during the last phases of the withdrawal is a testament to this fact. I wouldn't be surprised if we see the US coordinating with the Taliban on going after ISIS-K in the future, at least on a unit level.

I seen pictures of dogs in cages left behind ,a lot of pro trump ,pro 2A guys ranting and raving about how they left behind actual K9 military dogs to be slaughtered , turns out the dogs in cages were local strays being fed by Contractors at Kabul airport ,

And not military k9s ,but yet the same people Claiming Joe left these unnamed troops behind (For all intent and purpose K9s are soldiers)