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21. And the evacuation from Afghanistan, save for the last day shelling...

Fri Aug 5, 2022, 12:11 PM

Aug 2022

was not the "total disaster" the media described it as, especially compared to other full-scale evacuations in history like our pullout from Vietnam, the French pullout from Indochina, the Russian evac from Afghanistan and the German retreat from Russia during WWll.

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