in Afghanistan, this comes down to the fact that the United States wants this outcome.

So what the Afghans will tell you, what they will tell you is that the United States chose this outcome.

The United States has the power to effect anything. And the Afghans know that. . . . The United States could bomb the Taliban supply lines right now. They’re all coming from Pakistan, everybody knows it . . . They know that the Taliban doesntt exist without Pakistan, and the Pakistani ISI [intelligence service]. And they know the United States funds the entire defense budget of the Pakistani military and intelligence services. So for example you could stop the money. You could stop the remittances of Pakistanis living in the United States. You could put sanctions. . . . Every time you try to address this issue, the immediate response for 20 years of this war has been: “you’re advocating for war in Pakistan.” No you’re not. What they know is there are many things the United States could do right now to change what has happened and is happening in Afghanistan, and they’re not doing it. . . . This is the staggering part to me is that when you hear this debate that “the intelligence agencies failed to see this.” Seriously? Seriously? The NSA is known as the crown jewel of intelligence collection in the world. There isn’t a digital signature in existence that they don’t collect, and store and analyze, and have algorithms and everything else to sort through. The idea that they “missed this” . . . Do you know what it takes to do an invasion like this? You have to stage forces, you have to plan, you have to have meetings, you have to have weapons that are moving in. You have to have deals. It as ridiculous as believing that Achmed Chalibi some Iranian refugee in the US persuade the US government to go to war. That’s literally our narrative on the Iraq war. Seriously? We get so caught up in the weeds of this. What they want you to believe is that Afghanistan is complicated. Because if you complicate it, it’s a tactic in information warfare called “ambiguity increasing.“ So now we’re all talking about the corruption and the “this” and the “that” and there’s all these complex parts. But at its heart, every single thing in the world, in your personal life, professionally, on the global stage, at it’s heart, it’s very simple. It always comes down to one thing. One or two things.

And in this case, in Afghanistan, this comes down to the fact that the United States wants this outcome. Whoever is in power right now, whoever’s really pulling the strings, and I don’t know that, they could do anything they want to change this. And they’re not.

And you see that on the southern border. You see that with critical race theory. You see that with the violations of big tech. In 1000 different ways you see it all around you . . . [In Afghanistan] the United States government could change this even today. And they don’t do it. They don’t use the leverage they have with Pakistan. They’ll give you 5000 reasons, but it doesn’t matter. They don’t tell you the national security threat posed by letting the cartels come across the southern border, do they? They only have a conversation about one thing: the humanitarian aspect. They never address that. Well they’re not addressing right now, do you know if they’re not addressing? All of the Al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist literature communications that they’re picking up that is celebrating this as a massive defeat. They’re not talking about why the Taliban are dismantling advanced US military equipment and sending it back over the border to Pakistan. And worse: they’re not stopping it. The NSA and the National Geospatial Agency which controls the satellites and all of these other arms of the United States government are watching this happen in real time. They are seeing advanced US military equipment going over the border into Iran and going into Pakistan and they’re doing nothing to stop it. Why not?

So what the Afghans will tell you, what they will tell you is that the United States chose this outcome.