According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being firedIf the Russians could not sort the place out all those years ago what hope did we and the Yanks have?
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
I guess the US Defence contractors did alright out of it though!They always do, a pretty good Incentive to keep a conflict ticking over (top points If you can supply both sides)
And the might of the British Empire before them....... Lessons of History not learned.According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being firedIf the Russians could not sort the place out all those years ago what hope did we and the Yanks have?
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
All for nothing.
According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being firedSo the US and its allies held off the Taliban for 20yrs.
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
They didn’t want to.A friend and I were at a bar in Dubai a few years back and met an arms dealer over the bar (yes, in Dubai this is not uncommon who you bump into). He was American selling arms to you guessed it, the Taliban. His comment, "the good thing about the Taliban is that they pay cash on time".
Getting the US, et al in to ‘kick out the Taliban’ was just a very carefully orchestrated technology transfer between the US and the Taliban.
The US came, issued technology to the interim Afghani government and when the US announced their departure the Afghanis just transferred the technology to the Taliban.
Without hardly single shots being fired…
According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being firedCreating the Taliban
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
And the Persians and Russian empire before them too! Lessons of history not learned. The Soviets at least figured out they were not wanted a lot quicker and that the afghani's did not want their political system and the the government they set up at least lasted for few years after they withdrew. Its so remarkable the yanks learned absolutely nothing from them.And the might of the British Empire before them....... Lessons of History not learned.According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being firedIf the Russians could not sort the place out all those years ago what hope did we and the Yanks have?
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
All for nothing.
According to news reports many provinces have been taken without a shot being fired
So 20 years of money, resources and lives spent by the US and allies including Australia for what?
Any railways in Afghanistan?
Any railways in Afghanistan?Not once the Taliban are back in, if it's not weaponry they're not interested in much beyond the bronze age.
The CCP is showing interest in Talibanistan. Maybe they'll do some kind of collab relating to the Belt and Road 'initiative'.The CCP might be in a better position to deal with the problem. The US throws buckets of money at technology, which is quite intimidating when all that hardware is coming over the horizon at you. But you have to know where your enemy is to make the best use of it. The CCP on the other hand can, unsavoury as it may sound, keep throwing troops at the problem. This might yield better results when the enemy is popping up in random locations and random numbers like a country wide game of whack-a-mole.
Maybe the war ravaged nation will build a heavy vehicle 8 lane major highway into Xinjiang (able to carry CCP armoured personnel carriers and battle tanks).
incorrect. Afghanistan never has had a rail network, bar some narrow gauge industrial and urban railways. Everything before the Yanks showed up ended at the border, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Iran. All Lines built into it were done following the Us Invasion as have been extensions of the relevant network into the country. I.e, Standard gauge from Iran and broad gauge from the former USSR. The first proper railway into the country opened in 2011.Any railways in Afghanistan?
Yes and traffic has been returning.
http://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/first-rail-network-opens-between-iran-and-afghanistan
and
https://www.railpage.com.au/news/s/railway-opening-forges-bonds-of-friendship-between-afghanistan-and-turkmenistan
to start your reading.
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