Canada's embassy in Kabul shutting down //8,000 US troops deploying to the region to support extract

[IcyPeas]

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The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Canadian special forces will deploy to Afghanistan, where staff at the nation's embassy in Kabul will be evacuated before it closes, a source familiar with the plan tells the @AP. http://apne.ws/AEphVfo

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Barry R McCaffrey
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On MSNBC. Friday 13 August. 9 am ET. The longest 4 miles in the world… the road from US Embassy Kabul to the airport. 8,000 US troops now deploying to the region to support the extraction. Difficult days ahead.

[left-of-center2012]

1. 8,000 ?

I thought it said yesterday on the news it was 3,000?

[Devil Child]

7. It was, lets blink our eyes and see what the new number jumps to

Mission creep in the withdrawal.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

2. The lists are made, let The Slaughter of the Innocents begin, same as it ever was, goodbye Saigon

Anyone who worked for or helped the Americans will be the first to go. No place to run for them.

Aint imperialism grand?

[Irish_Dem]

3. I've been having the same memories.

Some of the wealthy Vietnamese were airlifted here to the US, if you recall.
The rest were on the list as you say.

Russia, the US, and others have dismally failed in Afghanistan. Now it is China's turn. They won't be bombing the country back to the Stone Age, China's relatively new military industrial complex has not yet figured out how to scam the government for $trillions. Instead China will throw a great deal of money and specific deals and initiatives, and a lot of them, at the Taliban. But China will want a return on their investment. The eyes of the world are watching to see how this unfolds.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

4. Same as Nam, paper army collapses when Americans arent there to do heavy lifting, goodbye ARVN

Same as before, they throw down their weapons and go home.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yep, exactly the same situation unfolding again.

[roamer65]

5. China, Iran and Pakistan should carve it up.

China from the north, Iran from the west and Pakistan from the east.

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

6. China gonna have a surprise waiting for them, we left all our equipment

[left-of-center2012]

8. I don't think China likes Muslims

They've been putting their own into concentration camps.

[Irish_Dem]

10. But China needs some things the Taliban can give them.

So they will put aside their prejudices for a pay off.

China wants/needs:

1. The $trillion rare earth minerals in Afghanistan mountains.
2. A secure Afghanistan for their Belt and Road initiative.
3. Regional stability and subservience. China cannot hope to be a superpower without it.

The Taliban wants status, power and wealth in return.

Neither China nor the Taliban will get involved in the other's internal affairs.

This will be solely a transactional relationship.

[left-of-center2012]

11. "China from the north..."

Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan are in the north.
China’s border with Afghanistan is only 41 miles long in the far northeast.

[moondust]

12. UK sending 600 troops

to get Britons out.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58195286

Heard some Brits on Sky News who are pissed about the pullout. They feel the situation there was fairly stable with little conflict and now it's going to be a humanitarian disaster.