Comments by "voteZDLR" (@voteZDLR) on "VICE News"
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People keep pointing to the Afghan military basically just throwing their guns down immediately.
If people actually thought nation building and the pursuit of Democracy in a place like Afghanistan would actually work, they do not understand the region or its people and this was bound to happen one day, one way or another, whether it was today, five years ago or five years from now. The outcome would ALWAYS have been the same.
They do not want us there. They never have. At best they just sort of allowed it, and in the military's case they were like "Sure, give us all this world class equipment (then leave it 20 years from now when you abandon us). Give us all this world class training. Give us everything you have under the pretense that once you leave we'll pick up where you left off" but here is the kicker -- they never intended to do that. In fact I would go as far as saying the Taliban was encouraging people to join this new "Afghan military program" so that way they can receive the benefit of all the training and tactics.
TL;DR -- we have literally just trained the Taliban to fight like us and we've left behind all kinds of toys and equipment they actually know how to use now. It's genius. We lost the war, we lost trillions of dollars, and we just trained our enemy to fight us down the road. Like honestly they are laughing their asses off at us right now and for good reason. Anyone who actually ever thought this would work is dreaming.
And a bonus note, I can't stand Donald Trump but even he had the wherewithal to realize that it's better to destroy the stuff we left behind if it's too expensive to move it. If the Taliban was a threat before, they're a super threat now because they have the benefit of our training now as well. It's not that they can't fight or wouldn't fight -- they were never loyal to us to begin with. You have to understand that.
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Nothing criminal will happen to Trump. Regardless of what happens or what he does. I also disagree with the notion that it sets a precedent that no indictments will basically mean that any future president might be more inclined to give in to his worst instincts and/or commit crimes, abusing the power of their office. The problem with that is that precedent has already been set. First with Nixon then with Clinton, basically, but mainly Nixon. And what happened with Nixon? Nothing because he resigned before they could ever charge him with anything and had the Vice President turned President Ford PARDON HIM for any and all crimes he had ever committed.
Dollars to donuts Trump is going to do the same thing. If it becomes clear that the writing is well and truly on the wall for him, he'll just resign and Mike Pence will pull the same move, pardoning him for everything and then what I expect him to do is at the very least start his own news network, considering he and Fox News basically broke up after this last election, if he doesn't take it a step even further and literally start his own political party. This would be bad news for Republicans if he did this, considering he is so divisive there's even a subset of the Republican Party that want him gone, too. Like the Murdochs, apparently (the family that owns Fox News).
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