Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "The New Atlas"
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Thanks again Brian for a factual grounded report. I always now consult your channel as often as possible after I hear the latest development in the western media regarding this conflict. As a fellow US vet post 2000, who now seize the world very similarly, I really appreciate your points of view and I consider you a trustworthy source of information. You don't make your reports with any emotionality, not that I necessarily have a problem with that, but when you give an opinion or statement you clearly show where you're gathering that from. Anyone can research the links or the information that you base your conclusions on; none of this is simply pulled out of the sky and I think it's obvious that you are not intentionally making any of it up. As others have said it's so refreshing and I just wish that we had many more like you right now even if they differed in their viewpoints to myself. Simple fact-based news reporting is such a breath of fresh air on an age of clickbait, hot takes and entertainment-based "news" media.
It's clear that you have your own views and who you feel is the more respectable side of this affair and that is there's nothing wrong with that; everybody has the right to have their views on who they agree with when it comes to world events, that doesn't make your reporting illegitimate at a. You simply do everything that you can to prove that what you're saying is actually the truth, and as we know by now that is not done by even some very mainstream outlets. They're more than willing to falsify or misrepresent or "creatively" report on whatever happens to be going on in whichever way best serves their current agenda and audience.
I do not agree that you have an agenda; I do agree that you have convictions, as I'd like to think I do, but that you back them up with real world, verifiable information and I just want to thank you for that. You're not just someone giving their opinion, you are inviting everyone to do their own research and to see that what you're saying will most likely be shown to be a verifiable reality. It is just a shame that we can't get any oppositional viewpoints on any kind of televised MSM these days, not even a watered-down version. The only way a person can find oppositional viewpoints when it comes to world events in the West is to use the Internet or social media these days, and so that's what we do.
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@jerronng6036 I can explain that actually. It wasn't a military loss it, was a deliberate walking away by US forces. I'm not defending what my government does, I don't support imperialism or the bullying or brutalization of ANY other country or region by my government or our security forces and we shouldn't have occupied Afghanistan unless we had genuine concern about helping them become self-sufficient.
However the Taliban are not good guys either, they are very fanatical, most are very violent, and they have an extreme problem with the female gender for whatever reason they should be nowhere near power or control of any region. they live in the Stone age and they want to make everyone else live in the Stone age too. It was good that we removed them in 2001 HOWEVER that should have been a relatively short-term operation, it certainly shouldn't have extended to 20 years, and whether we left with the client government in charge, or the Taliban, we did very little else to advance the general welfare in that country. But I can go into more detail about how the Taliban ended up back in power and how they were able to run the US client government out from Kabul last august. Basically are US forces were ordered to withdraw and they did, leaving only the other non-taliban Afghanistan security forces in place to fight against the Taliban and here's the problem. This is what I've been able to gather. The non-taliban forces were deliberately deprived of resources, weapons, and food by the US, whom they had come to rely on. The Taliban were likewise helped and supplied by my government in order to ensure that they would be able to take over again. My government also applied heavy pressure to Pakistan and Kabul to release 5,000 Taliban fighters including a very senior commander. Which they did, so basically they engineered the Taliban takeover. This happened under Trump and it was basically the brainchild of a man called Mike Pompeo who was the ex-head of the CIA. So essentially what the US CIA did in 2014 with the Azovs in Ukraine, they did almost the exact same thing for the Taliban in Afghanistan between 2019 and last year 2021. What the world saw in the deplorable and disgraceful exit of our forces from the region and the corresponding panic that that caused many local residents was just the tail end of an operation that began somewhere back in either late 2018 or into 2019.
Our domestic MSM here barely covered that whole sequence of events from this point of view. I am not certain what agenda it serves to have the Taliban back in charge but it's obviously not a positive one. but if you do a little digging you will most certainly find that this is exactly what happened and it happened at the behest of Mike Pompeo ex-boss of the US CIA. I am glad for the most part that we are out of Afghanistan however if it comes up the cost of putting the Taliban back in charge I feel that cost is too high. And I believe that the majority of other Afghans would agree. However I also understand that many US affiliated persons committed deplorable acts while we were there and they have every reason to hate us. And finally to top it all off, the drone strikes which I don't know if they're still continuing or not are never acceptable and our crime against humanity and should be banned under the Geneva convention. We're not for the constant drone strikes we may have been able to engender better goodwill amongst the local population. But the fact that my government chooses to use DRONES for anything and EVERYTHING, committing mass murder in the name of fighting terror, when what they're really doing is CAUSING terror to defenseless non-combatant human beings and local defenders, is something that will ALWAYS make me sick until it stops. I say this as an ex-Navy person myself.
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This is a very excellent question, one that I've asked myself many times, and I'm one who lives here in the US.
In my view the way I see it is, these people are just extremely mentally ill, and unfortunately our entire MSM media machine goes right along with it. It's really unfortunate. Clearly what these people want is ongoing destruction and violence. The reasons why don't really matter- I understand the reasons, it's as others here have said- they want to feel like they own the world, like they rule the world, that they are the economic masters of the universe; and so on. since they don't value any human life besides their own, they're willing to sacrifice hundreds of millions of other lives and untold amounts of infrastructure damage in order for them to believe they are achieving this goal, with coup after coup and war after war. That should be condemned.
I look forward to an overthrowing or at least a fundamental changing of my govt in my lifetime, by any means necessary. If and when it happens, I intend to be a part of it.
When it comes to land outside our borders, all they do is destroy. This should not be preserved, these should not be our long-term goals. These people are wholly illegitimate in my eyes and I just see them as a bunch of out-of-control gangsters, with a thirst for blood, answering to no one; nothing more.
The direction of civilization should be MORE peace, LESS violence, MORE cooperation, and more stability; not the opposite. The current regime is in direct opposition to that and has been since at least the close of WW2, altho imperialism within this part of the world by the US had been going on for many decades before that.
We can have a more peaceful, stable, cooperative, and rational world order if we choose to, or we can have the opposite. I believe most governments, even if they are highly corrupt, want the former. I believe it is MY govt and mine alone that is THE most dangerous threat to ongoing, unnecessary violence and destructive activities the world over.
Those of us who live here and are aware and can see what is happening want this to stop. We want A-bombs to drop on Langley, Virginia, the home of the CIA (just the buildings, not the rest of the area of course). There is no legitimate reason why the entire globe cannot cooperate economically for mutual benefit of all. The only question is, is that going to happen prior to another world war, and will a major war be averted, or only after it??? If those who are currently setting the agenda in the US State Dept agenda get their way, it will only be after, because by then I predict they will be out of power, and rational sane people with a peace agenda will have taken over for the first time since at least 1963.
I hope it doesn't take another world war to get us there, but it very well may.
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@theprinceofcrows8691 yes.
Of course. You certainly don't have to convince me. I'm as much a critic of this gov as anyone. I find most if not all of what they do inexcusable and reprehensible.
I think you're likely right about Afg. I wouldn't be surprised if an attitude such as that factored into the decision of the planners in 2001 and possibly since. Most of us here who follow world issues are now fully well aware that Bush and his flunkies were just waiting for an excuse to come along to invade Iraq, long before 9/11, whether that included Afghanistan as well I'm not sure.
Regardless of the exact specifics, we can all be 100% certain that it boils down to the following: the endless desire for more profits by the military supply sector who work hand in hand with the White House and the State Department, and one or more strategic goals that boils down to "what other poor middle east country can we exploit for either natural resources or its location, while pretending to fight either totally invented or greatly overblown and exaggerated threats to "national security"?
Shame. 2T down the drain what do we have to show for? How are the Afghans lives better than when we first got there? They sure aren't now- now that we helped the Taliban take back over. I mean you couldn't write this shit. It's it's really, really hard for a normal person with a semi-decent set of ethics to try to wrap their head around it. I guess when you're so high up, when there's nobody above you, you just start seeing the entire globe as your chessboard, your playpen, everything- its just a game and it's never going to touch you, you're never going to bleed, so why shouldn't you see it as a game??? I imagine, whether they want to admit it or not, that's exactly how they see it. Some kind of game to see who wins in the end, and nobody else besides you and your big-shot buddies matter.
That's their mentality, you know? I'm pretty sure that's exactly their mentality.
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Clearly from the Ukrainian side there appears to be much psychopathy and lust for blood. The gratuitous violence of the Azovs and their collaborators were on full display the night of the coup in 2014 and has caused 14,000 deaths in the Eastern regions since that date. I have heard these estimates from multiple alternative sources by now.
Given what I believe are the facts, I would be much more likely to suspect the Ukrainians were responsible for both of these incidents, this and Bucha; then the RF military. It's not out of the question that any military could commit war crimes, but I have yet to hear a report that I consider credible that would lead me to suspect that the RF were the ones responsible for either of these incidents. If I do, I will adjust my views at that time, but it hasn't happened yet.
Knowing all of the US-aligned Western MSM is against them, I'm not sure what Russian military forces would have to gain by this, if they were to do it. Also, I think it's significant they called immediately for a full investigation into the allegations over Bucha, and were so far brushed off by the UK on the UNs behalf. It sure doesn't seem like Russia is the one with anything to hide here.
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