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"Graveyard of empires" talk curiously muted this time around

The thing about a technocratic administrative state masquerading as a democracy is that most human beings are unpredictable often run off the chess board and do their own thing. Hence the senile Biden who was dragged to the White House by a cabal of intelligence, military, Big Tech ,media ,academia aided by the Justice Department and the supreme court stunned the military and intelligence brass when he decided to pull out regardless of the weaponry, money and even citizens left behind. Specifically 22,174 Humvees; 634 M117s; 8,000 trucks; 155 MaxPro mine-proof vehicles; 169 M113s; 162,043 radios; 16,035 night vision goggles; 358,530 rifles; 126,295 pistols; 33Mi17 helicopters; 33 Blackhawk helicopters; MDS30 helicopters; 4 C-130s; 23 Super Tucanos; 28 Cessna 208s and 10 Cessna AC-208s It was always going to be messy and to be sure there were going to be tragic stories of once liberated women now relegated behind the burqa and beaten for any transgression. But then again the U.S militar...