This is worth a watch and is only a few minutes long. Easy to understand video that explains how we got from that deal to what has transpired.

As I’ve been saying. This is a collective fuck up of both the previous admin and this one. Those trying to say it’s all Biden and those saying it’s all Trump ignore that this shit isn’t black and white. It’s grey and both admins screwed this up and did so for the sake of optics - in the last admin for the perception of being seen to do things and in this one because of an overwhelming desire to not still be in Afghanistan on the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

It’s non serious politics. Caring more about perception and less about results. And when admins do that, you actually get worse results and worse perception.

I’d seen so many references to Trump’s Taliban deal in the last week, I wanted to look at what’s in it and how it connects to what we’re seeing in Afghanistan. We boiled it down to 7 minutes.  pic.twitter.com/rHSneUzst1

— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) August 24, 2021

Smoking Guns wrote:

elevendayempire wrote:

I've been saying this for ages, but: Gimme Shelter, with Melissa up front doing the Merry Clayton vocal. There was a really neat video of Slash doing a cover of it with Ghost Hounds on YouTube, but the fucker who uploaded it has set it to private (don't suppose anyone downloaded it?). And Fortus would be really cool on the spacey intro.

I gotcha my brother

Slash is so badass on this shit.

Thanks! The video I'd seen was shot from up in the balcony, but this one is just as good. Aside from having been shot on a potato…