Try something like 80% of semiconductor manufacturing, and 66% of all laptops manufactured and assembled....
The Deep State State Department (overrun by known commies by the way)
- insisted on a ceasefire in 1947, after the Nationalists had just launched an offensive to destroy the communist industrial heartland
- cut off weapons, money and ammo supply, so that the ceasefire would happen.
- constantly hamstrung anticommunist efforts in the Nationalist government by focusing on useless programs
- refused to supply the Nationalists during the "ceasefire", while the commies got tons of aupport.
- refuses to acknowledge the crises going down up till the Nationalist government fled in 1949.
And on a side note, other commies in government were hellbent on giving the USSR the atomic bomb.
I believe this is the problem with the military and the intelligence community as a whole. The DC beltway types are themselves part of the Deep State. The Deep State is simply the professional technocrat class in DC that has huge sway over our government.
This is why they dragged feet on the withdrawal, hoping that Biden would reverse course. When the Biden admin took forever to decide to pull out, nobody was ready for anything, since the IC and military thought they would be the ones influencing Biden to stay. Hence the crapshoot we see now.
Taliban pretty much operate with whoever pays them money. Just dump cash and they wilp be fine with it.
The onpy issue comes when they use said cash outside just purchasing drugs and booze, and use it to fund the odd terror group and give them training grounds for cash. Even then, the amount of finances they give out isnt that high.
This was true in 2001. Anaconda was horridly botched and let just about all the senior leadership escape and scatter. After Anaconda, Pakistan became the haven for jihadis.
I dont trust the military. They are the Deep State after all, especially the DC crowd.
Well all that didnt save them at all! So much for added competence and talent.
Confession through projection much average redditor?
All we need now is some declaration of how euphoric they are.
I am so sorry for your loss. Praying for you, that you may find peace and a reassurance to deal with this.
And may God have vengeance on these peddling authoritarians and fearmongers that got us into this tragedy in the first place.
Why he's od the 99% and drip feed?
Yeah, just wish it wasnt such a demoralizing crawl.
Every 8 years or max'd out charge/discharge cycles....for almost the price of a new car!
We have White hats? It sure feels like everythings going Satanic Pedo Goobohomo.
Except add in a signature match to the audits?
33-pence, just like betraying Jesus for 30 pieces of silver! I like it!
True. Its hard to see how many layers this may go.
The military official social media is supposed to be neutrally neutral on issues like this. Someone orobably got fired behind the scenes?
Yeah...too bad she had to suck it up to liz cheney when pressured by the GOP
Other than development time and cost for a person who is DNIF anyway, not much at all. Or as a symbol for the focus of the military. Otherwise, everything is a nonissue.
Isnt the Army part of the Deep State?
Republicans also bad. Our biggest problem is that the ruling class have a deep pool of candidates to run things. Trump had to outsource this to people that hate him.
Geee....turns out to be empty suit corrupt corpo shill. Who wouldve guessed?
Even if AF1 is the callsign, the Flight Deck might get another call sign, while AF1 gets used by the back end. That way the Flight Deck can focus purely on comms related to actually flying the plane.
Wheeling and dealing happens in the background. Just proves that the elected Legislators dont matter, and the people actually making decisions are the unelected technocrat professional class running the government bureaucracy. That most of these come from the Executive branch or government is even more eggregious and vexing.
They have helicopters, aircraft and a few drones. Theres a pic with at least 5 scan eagles, which cost $4M a piece.
You have to understand the ANA's defection was complete and utter. Entire pilots and crews just outright defected to the Taliban.
Also, the Taliban apparantly are sitting on $10B in cash, which should finance operations for a bit, especially if Iran, Pakistan or China were to provide a bit of maintenance.