We have the lie of 100,000 people successfully evacuated from Afghanistan. We have the lie of only 240-250 Americans left behind when there are thousands. We have the lie of the 90,000 they will bring into the country in lieu of the 90,000 they failed to rescue.
Anonymous Intelligence Veteran
The following article was submitted to me two days ago by an anonymous intelligence veteran involved in the Afghanistan airlift. After fifteen days in the belly of the beast, seeing how everything was organized/disorganized and reorganized, our source begin to catch a definite smell. – J.R. Nyquist
What I Saw: By Anonymous
A massive betrayal has occurred, and that betrayal is being covered up. A network of well-connected and highly trained American veterans – with expertise that ranges from intelligence gathering to on-the-ground operations – have eyes on what’s happening in Afghanistan. What they see bears no resemblance to what Americans are being told by the media. American veterans, who know what is happening in Afghanistan, are disgusted by the many lies that are officially being told.
In fact, virtually everything you are hearing about Afghanistan from government sources is a fabrication. And even partisan opponents of the current administration are missing the mark. What we are seeing is not “chaos” or “incompetence’; rather, it has all the markings of a deliberate and preplanned operation to purposely eliminate witnesses to the criminal malfeasance of ranking U.S. officials.
It has become evident that there is a plan to intentionally abandon American-connected high-value assets that have intimate knowledge of our operations in Afghanistan over the last 20 years. If all goes according to plan, within 72 hours (probably less) the last U.S. transports will depart Kabul. The Taliban will then cut off all communications – cell phones, radios, internet. When that happens there will be no meaningful news coverage. At that point the Taliban will begin the extermination of America’s friends on the ground. This will include their children, even their casual acquaintances.
Veterans of the Afghan war have many good reasons to fear that the Biden Administration wanted such an outcome from the start. And for the past thirteen days, these veterans have been working nonstop to extract as many Taliban targets as possible. But, in the course of those thirteen days, we have again and again butted up against the inescapable conclusion that the U.S. government has no intention of preventing the annihilation of the witnesses – our allies, our Afghan friends. In fact, the Taliban’s planned massacre may be part of a U.S. Government coverup.
Our Veterans are monitoring the situation on the ground in Kabul in real-time, and while Americans back home listen to reports of thousands evacuated and rescued, the veterans look at the data and shake their heads. The American public is not told the truth. Not only are ordinary working men and women, who filled Afghanistan’s American-entangled workforce now stranded, we are even seeing high value assets – people especially important to America – being denied the ability to get on a plane to salvation.
These are people whom we know to be on a Taliban hunt-list. Some of them have worked closely with the DOD, DEA, FBI, NSA, and even the CIA. These are people who have helped us capture dangerous terrorists, and they are now betrayed. More importantly, our veterans have demanded that something be done for these longtime allies. Our veterans have begged for the lives of these steadfast allies in meetings with high-level officials of the U.S. Government; but the U.S Government is refusing all help.
Our veterans have had direct contact with senior members of Congress. When they shared direct information about the situation on the ground, these congressmen and senators have been shocked. The briefings they are receiving from the Executive Branch directly contradict the facts on the ground. Take two Taliban targets in particular. Our veterans know exactly what they did for us before the Taliban takeover. Our veterans know these allies are on the run. And our veterans know for a fact that the State Department and White House – who are fully informed of the situation – are blocking these allies from getting to safety.
These same officials know that our abandoned Afghan allies will be murdered, mere days from now, when we leave them behind. In fact, we know the names of those who are presently stranded. We know the names and numbers of those who have risked their lives in our common cause. Our veterans have struggled through incredibly risky operations to extract some of these people. But we have only been able to rescue a few, while many are left behind to die.
For the veterans of this war, this is not only about the public being duped by White House pressers. We are seeing disinformation appear in the press about allegedly successful nonprofit rescue operations funded by generous American millionaires. One NGO raised millions to rescue people stranded in Kabul. A week later, the organization reported having saved several thousand Christians and other minorities; but it did not happen.
The author of this report personally knows the CEO of that non-profit. He is an honest and good man who is not intentionally lying. It is doubtful that anyone on his staff is lying, either. Yet someone is lying, someone at the heart of the government-surveilled center of this unfolding catastrophe. And so, in the coming weeks, falsehoods like these could cost untold numbers of innocent lives.
You, the American people, are being deceived. Why? We may never know all the reasons. One possibility is that we are witnessing a highly sophisticated operation in which the Taliban’s purge of America’s “loose ends” plays an integral part. Another factor at play is the tendency of the American people to know injustice when they see it, and to demand accountability for wrongdoings, even if that wrongdoing was committed against foreign peoples with whom they have no connection but a shared humanity.
In the Cold War era, Pol Pot’s Communist regime slaughtered as many as 3 million civilians associated with the outgoing regime, including Christians, Buddhists, and other minorities. The “killing fields” of Cambodia cut America to the quick, and hatred of oppression and authoritarianism became dominant themes in our journalism, art, and entertainment in the years that followed.
In Afghanistan, we stand at the brink of another historic travesty, and America deserves to know what happened.
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I’m glad that you shared this guest poster’s article, Mr. Nyquist. It makes a lot of valuable points.
IMO, it is criminal to abandon American citizens in a far-away land with a history of lawlessness and at the mercy of people who have no mercy.
It’s a VLAD spin. Nyquist has a smell about him too. Something cold and pure.
“Some of them have worked closely with the DOD, DEA, FBI, NSA, and even the CIA.”
Well, even the CIA? I don’t what the DEA is. But I’ll tell you I worked with CIA trained people all over Sussex County DE. As well as Boston MA.
Some could actually cook.
That’s some tough talk, coming from a malcontent. May as well have the game as the name, hey?
But not every Russian topic on this board is related to Vladimir/Pilgrim. That guy hasn’t posted on here in many days, and who knows if he’ll even return.
NOTHING about the last 3 weeks in Afghanistan makes any sense whatsoever, I can’t get my head around it but deep down I feel the author is right… we’re all being played.
Is there an explanation for leaving a pallet of cash behind? Anyone seen an interview with a single American that was evacuated? Bagraham air field, billions in equipment leaving our allies swinging in the breeze.
Something stinks to high heaven about all of this.
Thank you for posting an inside perspective of the situation. The rawness and betrayal is very apparent…
Mentioning Pol Pot is like comparing apples to oranges.
He doesn’t understand Pol Pot was a poor man, who was genetically Chinese and Khmer (the name of the native population of SE Asia from the Khmer Empire, now referred to as Cambodia). Typically, when someone is mixed with Chinese and Khmer, they hold stronger loyalty to the Chinese side. Similarly, how Blacks of mix races, identity themselves as Blacks.
The fact is Pol Pot was FUNDED by Chinese and Vietnamese (also of Chinese extract). Pol Pot was obeying orders of genocide from the Chinese and targeted the intellectuals and their children. Those few Khmer who studied in France came back as communists sympathizers. It was the French that supported the formation of Vietnam for Chinese invasion and occupation.
The Khmer survivors of the genocide, particularly the older generation and/or educated have always said that “POL POT TOOK ORDERS FROM THE CHINESE/Vietnamese TO DEPOPULATE THE KHMER POPULATION FOR THE CHINESE TO STEAL THE LAND.”
Let’s not forget that the current Prime Minister of Cambodia/Kampuchea (Hun Sen) is a loyal COMMUNIST, who was trained by Vietnamese/Chinese and have GIVEN Khmer Land to Vietnam.
Most of the truth about Pol Pot is hidden and falsified by authors who favored the Chinese narrative, mainly David Chandler. Chandler is a former FSO at the State Department and view China’s involvement in SE Asia and expansionism as “benign.” However, scholars with actual knowledge of the history, culture, and Khmer language loath Chandler. They tell me their disgust towards him and how David Chandler is a communist tool and has nothing but contempt for the Khmer people.
The Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai (Siamese are also fo Chinese extract). The Chinese have committed genocide upon the Khmer people (brown complexion) since the Khmer Empire existed. Siam (now known as Thailand) invaded, plundered, kidnapped, murdered, and stole Khmer culture (including the style of dress, classical dance, records/court documents, and priests). Thai teach their children that the culture they currently have is “originally” theirs despite evidences, archeology and the map of the Khmer Empire that says otherwise.
It’s normal for Chinese to claim they invented or discovered things. All lies, to save face against their brutality and hatred of humanity. Similar to how General Chi stated that the Chinese “discovered” America. Saving face is very important to the Chinese, more than truth and honesty.
Many at the State Department (the career and political appointees) are COMMUNISTS and supports China. It’s not a coincidence that Afghanistan is being GIFTED to the Chinese.
Jim Harrow tweeted, “Indeed. Hindu are under pressure. In 1978 Muslims killed 2.8 million Hindu in a pogrom targeting Hindu. If Afghanistan if a partnership of CIA/China using Taliban as tool, China can open two fronts against India; 1 front at Afghan border, the other along AksaiChin border.”
It’s not just America’s land the Chinese are after, it’s also the warmer countries, i.e. India and still Kampuchea/Cambodia.
For sheep’s sake. Vlad is back again. Small problem is that them are coherent .Almost distracting.
@Bedlamsbard1
To clarify, I am not Vlad. Vlad has his own writing style.
If you care to read Jeff’s blog awhile ago, you would know this.
I commented a while back ago.
You apparently do not understand SE Asian history.
Maybe you’re the real communist here pretending to be Vlad, Pilgrim, etc…
Ha.
I hope we are not going to have people making accusations here. It makes us all look bad.
@BEDLAMSBARD1
Sounds like you’re the communist or Vlad, Pilgrim, etc…
You’re the one creating “distractions” from the communist agenda.
If you read care to read Jeff’s blog awhile ago, you will see I made comments.
But research, truth, and facts are foreign to commies.
Ha
Thank you for posting an inside perspective of the situation. The rawness and betrayal is very apparent…
Mentioning Pol Pot is like comparing apples to oranges.
He doesn’t understand Pol Pot was a poor man, who was genetically Chinese and Khmer (the name of the native population of SE Asia from the Khmer Empire, now referred to as Cambodia). Typically, when someone is mixed with Chinese and Khmer, they hold stronger loyalty to the Chinese side. Similarly, how Blacks of mix races, identity themselves as Blacks.
The fact is Pol Pot was FUNDED by Chinese and Vietnamese (also of Chinese extract). Pol Pot was obeying orders of genocide from the Chinese and targeted the intellectuals and their children. Those few Khmer who studied in France came back as communists sympathizers. It was the French that supported the formation of Vietnam for Chinese invasion and occupation.
The Khmer survivors of the genocide, particularly the older generation and/or educated have always said that “POL POT TOOK ORDERS FROM THE CHINESE/Vietnamese TO DEPOPULATE THE KHMER POPULATION FOR THE CHINESE TO STEAL THE LAND.”
Let’s not forget that the current Prime Minister of Cambodia/Kampuchea (Hun Sen) is a loyal COMMUNIST, who was trained by Vietnamese/Chinese and have GIVEN Khmer Land to Vietnam.
Most of the truth about Pol Pot is hidden and falsified by authors who favored the Chinese narrative, mainly David Chandler. Chandler is a former FSO at the State Department and view China’s involvement in SE Asia and expansionism as “benign.” However, scholars with actual knowledge of the history, culture, and Khmer language loath Chandler. They tell me their disgust towards him and how David Chandler is a communist tool and has nothing but contempt for the Khmer people.
The Chinese/Vietnamese/Thai (Siamese are also fo Chinese extract). The Chinese have committed genocide upon the Khmer people (brown complexion) since the Khmer Empire existed. Siam (now known as Thailand) invaded, plundered, kidnapped, murdered, and stole Khmer culture (including the style of dress, classical dance, records/court documents, and priests). Thai teach their children that the culture they currently have is “originally” theirs despite evidences, archeology and the map of the Khmer Empire that says otherwise.
It’s normal for Chinese to claim they invented or discovered things. All lies, to save face against their brutality and hatred of humanity. Similar to how General Chi stated that the Chinese “discovered” America. Saving face is very important to the Chinese, more than truth and honesty.
Many at State Department are COMMUNISTS and supports China. It’s not a coincidence that Afghanistan is being GIFTED to the Chinese.
Jim Harrow tweeted, “Indeed. Hindu are under pressure. In 1978 Muslims killed 2.8 million Hindu in a pogrom targeting Hindu. If Afghanistan if a partnership of CIA/China using Taliban as tool, China can open two fronts against India; 1 front at Afghan border, the other along AksaiChin border.”
It’s not just America’s land the Chinese are after, it’s also the warmer countries, i.e. India and still Cambodia/Kampuchea.
Artemis, check your map. My map shows Afghanistan does not share a border with India, but Pakistan does. Also, is there evidence of Chinese colonizing Cambodia?
Very interesting if true.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/08/30/taliban-hang-man-from-blackhawk-helicopter-n435409
Key words: Afghani military defectors
What do you think about “Project for New American Century” think-tank Jeff? Also all communists?
Anything with the word “new” on it is either a grift or they are selling eyewash.
As in snake oil?
The new improved snakier snake oil.
Great! Put me on the list for two cans. 😝
They were selling invasion to Afghanistan. But needed a “catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” to make it pass, in their own words.
Who are “they” selling “what” to “whom”?
It’s like that old chestnut, “Who’s on first?”
Who?
Jeff Nyquist – Who are “they” selling “what” to “whom”?
neoconservatives, many of them later became members of Bush administration Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfewitz.
They were selling it to American public and lawmakers.
if this evacuation is not incompetence, then the reason is hard to grasp, why submit the US armed forces and prestige to such humiliation?
Your anonymous source says the gov’t is deceiving us to hide “criminal malfeasance of ranking U.S. officials” but he fails to provide any examples of this malfeasance or the names of any officials who are guilty. As a result, this article has very low credibility.
Example? Um, how about the total collapse of Afghanistan and its rapid conquest by our enemies? Would you count that as an example of malfeasance? Or, maybe, that doesn’t count? Or leaving thousands behind does not count? Would using the names Biden, Austin and Blinken — as the the ranking officials deceiving us — raise the article’s credibility? It is clear to me where the malfeasance lies even if the term “ranking officials” seems inappropriate to you. I think any review of Biden’s public statements about Afghanistan shows that events have contradicted most of Biden’s public statements on the subject. Who, then, has low credibility? Do you actually believe Biden, Blinken and Austin, then? — This source just spent more than two weeks trying to rescue people that did not get rescued. That is his testimony. So he is not credible because “ranking” officials were not cited by name? Anyone can go look up those names. Does Lloyd Austin seem remotely credible to you? — as he advocates training our troops on Critical Race Theory? I suppose Austin is someone we believe in because he is such a genius. Like Biden. And Blinken. Such geniuses.
Tom:
Here is what the author of the piece just sent me in reply: “Response to comment just posted: do you understand that the Taliban knows how to read? Tom clearly does not understand that part of it. Dynamic situation it is. If names are named then we put an even bigger target on the back of those that out them.”
Exactly. This is how people “vanish” or get thrown into prison, for example, in countries that have leaders who rule with an iron fist.
There’s a story in Epoch Times about an Afghan gentleman who has family here. He helped our military and is still in hiding in Afghanistan. He couldn’t get out. The Taliban hacked his phone and called his relatives here pretending to be from the State Department. They were trying to find out where he was. This is an example of how “backwards” the Taliban is.
Yep.
[Continued from the comments section of the previous post…]
Gretchen, I agree with you in principle but use a very different methodology to try to share the truth with my friends. Using private texts or emails, one-on-one, I focus on helping them gradually make the smallest of steps toward a future goal of complete paradigm shift. It is a years- or decades-long process. For my ultra-liberal friends, I find issues where ultra-conservative beliefs overlap (for instance, opposition to Big Pharma or Big Food) and use those as a starting point for dialogue. For my moderate or liberal friends, if I spot an article in a mainstream media source where the truth is accidentally showcased, I’ll occasionally send them the article with my commentary. For my conservative friends, I’ll send links to stories in World Net Daily or the Epoch Times. For my “ultra-conservative” (for lack of a better term) friends, I’ll recommend the “Agenda” or “Enemies Within” documentaries. For any who watch those, or who at least take a look at the trailers, I’ll finally send a link to Jeff’s “To the Americans Who Are on Their Knees” essay (which is probably his best essay).
This gradual transition from ultra-leftist, to liberal, to moderate, to conservative, to “very conservative,”— again for lack of a better term— is the exact path I followed when I slowly transitioned from a fully-indoctrinated leftist worldview to eventually countenancing Jeff’s ideas, over a period of about ten years. (I also rededicated my life to Christ during this time, which for me was instrumental, as well.)
With my friends I’ve had fairly good success in helping them to see the threat of Marxism more clearly, although it does seem that there’s a psychological block that occurs for many after a few weeks. The thought of one’s own democratic government being overthrown, or one’s own country bombed, or invaded by hostile foreigners, is too distressing for most people to contemplate long-term. In my experience, it can lead to stress, isolation and depression if not taken in small doses.
I have no idea what the accuracy of the anonymous source’s information is. However, if the Biden Administration is in control, there’s undoubtedly massive bungling underway.
What I can’t wrap my mind around is how in the hell 300,000 Afghan soldiers and airman simply folded and gave up in the face of, at most, 75,000 rag-tag Taliban fighters.
Why don’t these people stand and fight for their own country? And why are we supposed to feel remorse that “our allies” were not airlifted out to a new life in the United States? Wasn’t 20 years enough time to raise and train an elite corps of Afghan soldiers?
Were Texas to be invaded by a bunch of Muslim radicals, no way I would flee to somewhere else. I would die fighting it out with my boots on.
The Afghan people have elected to surrender en masse. A most dishonorable course. Worse than the French in 1940, who at least can argue they were overrun by highly trained and well-armed German armies. Total wimps.
In military affairs a rout does not occur because the armies that collapse are cowardly. A rout occurs because somebody left the back door open — at Sedan in 1940 (France) or at Bagram Air Base (Afghanistan) in 2021. You let the enemy plunder your Air Force and capture $85 billion of your military equipment by evacuating the site in the dark of night without telling your ally — and panic is bound to follow. Sedan led to Dunkirk. The Bagram fiasco led to the fall of Afghanistan — only the Dunkirk here was a fraud. And the whole thing need not have happened.
The U.S. withdrawal from Bagram no doubt rattled the Afghans. But it’s been widely known for years that the U.S. was winding down its military presence in Afghanistan. I believe we were down to 2,000 or so troops when the final pullout occurred.
I don’t agree that an entire nation gets a pass for surrendering just because the U.S. finally pulls out. Are they willing to forfeit their lives and their country so easily? You must admit there is a missing ingredient of courage to panic and surrender in this way. No “live free or die” ethic at all.
Because of their cowardice, a relatively small force of Taliban will now take control of the country and methodically execute all of their opponents. These men could have stood and fought it out. Every street in Kabul could have become a killing zone for the Taliban, taking fire from the windows above. It is a city of 4 million people for heavens sake! Guns are everywhere in Afghanistan. There is no way the Taliban could have taken or maintained control in that scenario.
Truth is, we should have pulled out many years ago. This was always a house of cards held together by massive transfusions of cash to corrupt officials, a keptocracy.
It is sad that several thousand American GIs and trillions of USD$ were poured into this remote rathole. In the end, the Afghan people proved unworthy of our sacrifices.
I would stop short of characterizing a whole nation as “unworthy.” — and don’t forget the outstanding work Biden did on the Taliban’s behalf. Here we find the courage in “encouragement.” On the other side we find “discouragement.” Of course, nation-building in a Muslim country is generally a waste of time. The Koran recognizes only one proper nation; that is, the Nation of Islam. How could it have worked out differently? Nonetheless, we should not have left $85 billion in military equipment and thousands of Christians behind. I think it could have been handled better. But what do I know? Call me stupid. I would have kept control of Bagram and forced the State Department people to give up their comfortable rooms in the city — for the sake of getting all our people out. Am I being unreasonable?
No, you are not. I agree with you, especially about the massive trove of military equipment.
I get so annoyed with the “French are wussies/don’t know how to fight” stereotype. When I was in school, I studied the French language, as well as France’s history, for many years, both of which subjects I hold in such high esteem as to be almost sacred. I had learned that the French were natural warriors and were born knights. After all, codes of chivalry had started in France, and so had modes of heraldry.
French knights had formed the backbone of the armies in the Crusades; and the Norman knights who had conquered England in the 11th century were from France. In addition, I think that if the French were such poor-quality fighters, they would not have ended up being victorious in the Hundred Years’ War, and they would not have regained all their lost territory.
By the way, Janelle, my “total wimps” comment in the paragraph above (and pasted below) was intended to refer to the surrendering Afghans, NOT the French. Perhaps it should have been stated more clearly.
“The Afghan people have elected to surrender en masse. A most dishonorable course. Worse than the French in 1940, who at least can argue they were overrun by highly trained and well-armed German armies. Total wimps.”
But it is true that France was overrun in 1940 by the Nazi war machine — something the World had never before seen until nine months earlier in the Blitzkrieg of Poland. This doesn’t make the French or other defeated countries wusses; they did fight.
Sorry if I misread your previous post.
Something for you, my Friend.
With regards – Bogdan
Janelle: I too have studied French, but I also studied history.
The “French” who defeated the Muslims under Charles Martel were Franks, a German tribe that had conquered France. In fact, the name “France” is a corruption of the name of that German tribe. His grandson Charlemagne (Karl der Große) still spoke German, and the Frankish rulers continued to rule France for generations. It was the Franks who developed knighthood.
But the weakening of the fighting spirit led to Viking raids that the French couldn’t stop. When Rollo den Ganger was banished from Noway, the French king had the bright idea to cede some land to him and his fierce Vikings to create Normandy. That way, any further Viking raids would run into fierce Vikings in Normandy which would stop the raids, and they did stop the raids.
William the Conqueror was one of Rollo’s descendants. England fell to Vikings in 1066.
By the time of the Crusades, the French knight class still had the fighting spirit, but had lost the Germanic discipline. Their impetuousness led to defeats, both during the Crusades and during the 100 years war. It wasn’t until the French knight class had pretty much wiped themselves out, thanks to their acting on emotion and attacking when they should have obeyed orders and waited, that the French won in the 100 years war.
I won’t go into the whole history—there are times when the French fought bravely and well, when disciplined and under competent leaders, other times they lost when they should have won. The bottom line is that the French are no different than any other people.
Are there lessons we can learn from this history? Lessons I see are:
1) Make sure you have accurate history. Good lessons don’t get learned from false history.
2) Act on forethought and discipline, not emotions. Don’t act on impulse, not even when goaded.
3) Don’t lionize people, they will always disappoint.
4) The victory doesn’t always go to the one who has the greatest military forces, nor the most numerous, nor have the best technology.
Can you think of other lessons that can be learned from French history?
@R.O.: I have taken Western Civilization classes in the past, so I too know how history works; you’re not the only one who does. And, don’t patronize me. I don’t appreciate it. I am not in the mood to be receptive to your silly, arbitrary “lessons”, which seem to overlap into platitudes. I can’t stand platitudes.
I may not be a history professor, but you, sir, seem to fancy yourself as such. Why don’t you go find yourself a lecture circuit?
Also, your statements here seem to be merely subjective, not objective. Phrases like “Germanic discipline”; “French impetuousness”. What do these things even mean?
Mr. Nyquist, care to weigh in here?
Is R.O. a history professor? Does he recall that Bismarck would sometimes cry or become very tearful? Or does he recall the story about Hitler in a communications shack accidentally picking up a phone call meant for a colonel who, when Hitler answered, got an earful of wild laughing from the colonel’s subordinate who shouted that he was insane. Hitler calmly turned the phone over to the colonel and said, “It’s for you. Just another person who thinks I’m crazy.” (True story.) Then there was a Pharaoh who rose from humble circumstances who had his gold urinal reconfigured into an idol and set it up in the market for people to worship. After awhile he gathered the people around him and explained that he was the same as this new idol. At one time people treated him like a urinal, but now he was pharaoh. The Egyptians thought him very amusing and decided to accept him as king.
Avoid war with the English.
Excellent. Very droll, Mr. Nyquist 🙂 I especially like the part about the pharaoh.
Sorry, but the greatest exploits of the French in medieval times, particularly those involving the invasion of England and the Crusades, were the work of the Normans. (aka “Norsemen”). These were essentially Vikings who fought their way to the gates of Paris and were ceded the land of Normandy to settle peacefully. They were formidable fighters.
I’m sure there were many other brave Frenchmen, but in the last few centuries it has not been among the foremost war-savvy nations. But excellent diplomats. I’ll leave it at that.
Virtual Cons: I suppose the conquest of Europe under Napoleon doesn’t count, then? Austerlitz, Jena, Friedland, Borodino? Or how about the French victory in the First World War? That seems to have been a big one.
Or the Kingdom of Jerusalem? The County of Jaffa, and the Duchies of Achaea, and of Estamira? All of these endured for more than two hundred years; they were founded by knights and by nobles from Anjou and from Poitou, among other places in France.
The Knights Templar, that is, the Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ, was founded as a French order, and many of its members were French. That organization also lasted for more than one hundred years.
Thanks for backing me up on this, Mr. Nyquist 🙂
😉
The battles of Napoleon were outside of my “last few centuries” bracket. Napoleon may have been the last hurrah of French military dominance — and perhaps dealt the French a lasting lesson about the futility of great wars.
Even so, perhaps most of Napoleon’s army were non-Frenchmen, such as various Germans, Poles, Italians. It is remarkable how quickly Napoleon was able to assemble an army and conquer territory so soon after being crowned emperor (and re-crowned as emperor after his first exile). A truly remarkable man; I have an original print over 200 years old of his surrender at Waterloo in my office. Unfortunately for the French, the Invasion of Russia ended in the utter devastation of Napoleon’s army.
However, he French ceased being a dominant military power a long time ago. Perhaps the “Foreign Legion” is suggestive of the French people’s weariness with war and their readiness to contract it out to mercenaries.
On your last point about the “French victory in WW1,” you may have forgotten that the Germans swept around the Maginot line at the outset of the war and put Paris at risk. Although the French suffered great losses and fought valiantly, it was the arrival of the British Army that stabilized the front from late 1914 until September 1918, when the arrival of the AEF (Americans) on the front lines provided fresh impetus to the allies, whereupon they punched through the German lines and caused the Germans to sue for peace. (My grandfather was a U.S. artilleryman in the final battle and thereby received his American citizenship.)
The location of the Germans’ surrender, a railcar, was later re-used by Hitler for propaganda purposes to accept the French surrender in June 1940.
Perhaps you have forgotten the Battle of Verdun, in which the French repelled the greatest artillery-backed offensive of the war, which included a new kind of German poison gas and a terrifying innovation in weaponry — i.e., flamethrowers. Of course the war was an Allied effort. This takes nothing from French courage. France is not as large a country in population or industry as Germany. In that Great War the French bled more, fought more, and endured more in that war than either the British or the Americans. The war on the Western Front was fought largely in their country.
When President Obama transferred troops out of Iraq to Afghanistan, I must have missed the press conference. I still don’t know the official reason for it. Why would American civilians go to Afghanistan, with insufficient numbers of US troops in place to protect them in the first place? Why didn’t the US Military inform President Biden of the poor planning of withdrawal?
Joe Biden recently responded to a critical reporter, that if he couldn’t meet President Trump’s date to withdraw in May, that it would be a bad idea to announce that the US would not withdraw on time. Why couldn’t Biden withdraw troops and safely evacuate US citizens and allies, by May?
Does Biden seem remotely intelligent? Who is guiding him? Why didn’t the generals stand up to him they way they stood up to Trump?
Biden appointed a new Secretary of Defense, who seems to be in on the gag. The trend has been, ever since, President Reagan, to demonize the President as senile. That tends to excuse them from malice of forethought.
Jeff, re: Verdun, etc. All true.
But perhaps we’ve come pretty far from the Afghan capitulation. That I don’t forgive them. As a veteran, I don’t doubt I’d give my life for our country. I don’t understand a whole army that just — gives up without a shot.
Virtual Conservative, I understand and agree with your concern and frustration.. But did you know that by August 6, the Taliban had control of 24 of the 36 state capitals? That the main Afghan general made a deal with the Taliban? That President Ghanni left in a helicopter from his presidential palace on August 14 and HE NEVER CALLED ANYONE, not even his VP? Did you know the Taliban called our White House on the 14th to say either the USA secures Kabul at once or they will? The White House told the Taliban to “go for it”.
So how is an army supposed to fight when their leadership has abandoned them? 🤔 Where’s the plan?
One way or another, the truth will come out. History has a way of reopening closed books when it deems them vital to the historians’ enterprise. Although the victors write the histories, as has been proclaimed, when there is more than one faction, it has a troublesome time in a democracy to keep the truth out. So, for instance, Kennedy was not killed by American agents because enough time has passed for that truth to “out.” Afghanistan should follow the same trajectory of exposure, if exposure there was.
— Catxman
http://www.catxman.wordpress.com
Like how there’s no way a 757 can fly close to the ground at a high rate of speed, because of lift, and leave a cruise missile sized hole in a vacant part of the Pentagon.
A plane hit the pentagon. I know someone who was in the building and saw it. Get rid of that crazy conspiracy stuff.
Do you know three independent first hand eye witnesses who were there, and haven’t signed a, National Security, non disclosure agreement? Do you understand why all conventional airplanes need to gain high speed in order to lift off the ground?
Thank you, Jeff, for posting this, and may God bless the courageous writer of the article.
There may be particular reasons why the Biden-fronted regime wants the Taliban (and Russia?) to capture certain former US assets in Afghanistan, but these may be lost to us in the fog of war.
In the bigger picture, though, the main purpose is surely that all US allies and US hidden assets around the world now understand that not only will the US not support them, but is likely to work actively to betray them.
The deal between Saudi Arabia and Russia is probably the first fruits of this, and the consequences may be momentous – given that the Saudis, back in the 70s, promised support for the petrodollar in return for US promises of defense, any defense deal between the Saudis and Russia therefore removes the raison d’être for the petrodollar (although it might be allowed to continue for a while yet until Russia and China decide that the time is right).
Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Isrаеl and others must be making their plans. Australia and New Zealand already seem to be in the process of capitulating. The communist cuckoo-in-the-nest, Merkel, can retire happy in the knowledge that her legacy is secure.
It is likely that US hidden assets around the world are now either fleeing, or trying to cut a deal and divulging all the information they can, but it is unlikely that we will hear anything of this.
I wonder who the anonymous do gooder is mentioned in the blog? Possibly, could it be that it’s Glenn Beck or the man who heads Mighty Oaks? Glenn’s charity raised $29,000,000 in a week. It’s called Mercury One and is headed by David Barton. Barton owns the second largest collection of American primary source documents before 1800, second only after the National Archives. Mercury One provided 737 aircraft to Afghanistan and worked with other NGOs to help. They reported that 5,000 people were rescued, not just Christians, but some were. I wonder if your guest writer could elaborate on the deceit there. I hate to think of the pain and guilt this would create, if you’re right.
For sure it was Mr. Cheetos himself, Glenn Beck. I happened to catch a video of him mentioning his rescue efforts to bring out Christians and “other minorities”, as described in the video. I can’t think of any other group that explicitly mentions the rescue of Christians.
He had an interview last week on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” where he talks about this.
Why is it that everyone keeps forgetting about the number one cash crop in Afghanistan – OPIUM. Why is it that no one can recognize that the largest heroin epidemic in US history just happens to coincide with the US occupation of the place it grows the best? What other war that ended the same way also involved that magical plant – Vietnam? Research Air America. Coincidence? NOT!!! I guarantee that everything that is going on over there right this minute is ultimately centered on those poppies.
Read Joseph D. Douglass, Jr.’s book “Red Cocaine.” If you do not read this book, you will not understand this subject aright.
Hi Jeff, I have a few questions. I hope I don’t sound pretentious or inconsiderate.
Do you believe that the global communist agenda will succeed at taking over the world? What about North America?
What do you think a post-communist world would look like or do you see this boot permanently on humanity’s face, forever?
Thank you for all your work and I really appreciate you leaving the comment section open for 2 days.
It looks like the communists will win. But we cannot know this future fully. There is a problem in that communist ideas lead to the degeneration of society if consistently practiced. The whole project much crash on the rocks. Thus, power can be preserved by backing away from the idea. But the question of something authentic remains. When will that emerge?
Never underestimate the power of people who love the Lord.
The Covid mRNA serum utilizes a spike protein, which produces abundant Prion Crystals. throughout the vascular system, same as Mad Cow Disease. Crystals can be manipulated to produce electricity. The serum also utilizes Graphene Oxide magnetic nano-particles, to force the mRNA into human cells. This combination lays a redundant bio electric nervous system, to carry transmissions via super wide band 5G to the human brain. These messages are commands to activate the nervous system to control the subject’s body, turning people into human robots. As Mad Cow develops, the human will becomes nil.
Zombie wars, that’s what.
The serum was designed and virtually tested by the artificial intelligence of a supercomputer which can act as puppet master of everyone in the World who has been so-called, vaccinated.
The Communists
Richard M. Bissell
Open Skies Policy
https://youtu.be/1svGIBKaE_0?t=673
I agree, right now it looks as if the communists will win. They have the preparations, the arms, trained personnel, against “enemies” led by traitors in high places, to a large extent unarmed, seething with internal strife, immoral, full of false narratives so that people don’t know what to believe, etc. Once the tanks start rolling, it will be too late. If I were a betting man, I would put my bets on a communist victory.
However, the final victory doesn’t always come in ways that are predictable. There are too many histories of individuals or small groups of people holding off far superior forces, and winning. Or something else comes up forcing the superior force to break off action and leave.
To me, it looks as if the coming war is the one predicted in Ezekiel 38–39. Ezekiel described only a small corner of that war, namely that concerning Israel. But the description he gave of the invaders looks very much like the coalition that the Russians and Chinese are putting together. That coalition is not Russia and China alone, but it includes parts of Africa, Turkey, Iran, probably some of the ’stans, and from Ezekiel’s point of view, “other allies” who are not named. That coalition will come to grief because its members will fall to fighting among themselves.
The coalition that I see consists of communists who want to rule the world, Islamists who want to rule the world, and the Islamists are divided among themselves, which faction will rule the world. To me, that looks like a very unstable coalition that would very easily end up fighting among themselves.
The question is, what will life be like after that war? Much of it depends on the amount of death and devastation that we suffer. If incoming nukes and invasion are our fate, we may lose half our population. Can we imagine what a U.S. with a population of 150 million would look like? Would we be able to maintain the infrastructure that we have? What sort of political structure will come out on top? Australia and New Zealand have already fallen to fascist dictatorships, will that be our fate too? Too many questions, too few answers.
Will we bring the traitors who engineered first the Vietnam debacle, the Cambodian killing fields, and now also the Afghanistan debacle, to justice? Aren’t firing squads to merciful for the suffering they have caused? Or will they succeed to subjugate this once greatest country to their dystopian vision?
I believe Rev 17 describes a final form of government in the western world that is communist and in a federated aka globalist condition, with the participating nations all united as one behind the ideology. Probably a Chinese style social credit tyranny, going by current trends. but mercifully very short-lived.
As the article suggests, I did enlarge the “hung man” photo and enhanced it. It does look like he is alive and waving to friends on the ground. But don’t worry. Soon Hunter will be on a fact finding mission for the big guy.
Well, looks like reply didn’t work. Prior was for the Janelle and the Redstate link.
Got it. Thanks.
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Deputies identify woman with a gun near a school
By WSAZ News Staff
Published: Aug. 28, 2021 at 4:14 PM EDT
https://www.wsaz.com/2021/08/28/woman-found-with-gun-near-school/
VINTON COUNTY, Oh. (WSAZ) – The Vinton County Sheriff’s Office have identified the suspicious woman near dumpsters behind a restaurant on Friday, not far from two area schools as Cheyenne Hansley. This happened on Friday, August 27.
Cheyenne Hansley, 30 of Columbus, was placed under arrest and transported to Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail. She is facing charges of having weapons under disability, carrying concealed weapons, possession of drugs and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Deputies say they noticed a large firearm that Hansley that she was hiding in her clothing. Deputies found the large rifle, suspected narcotics, and a pillow case filled with a tripod mount, scope, rifle magazines, and a bolt action to the rifle. No ammo was found.
Vinton County Schools were placed on Lockdown as a standard precautionary measure while Deputies were investigating this matter.
Keep checking the WSAZ app for the latest information.
VINTON COUNTY, Oh. (WSAZ) — The Vinton County Sheriff’s Office says they responded to reports of a suspicious woman near dumpsters behind a restaurant on Friday, not far from two area schools.
According to law enforcement, the woman was located behind a church, across from the Vinton County Middle School and Vinton County High School.
Sheriff’s deputies say she was found with a rifle hidden in her clothing.
Further inspection lead deputies to find a scope and attachable bi-pod. No ammo was found while searching the area, but the schools were put into lock-down temporarily as a precaution.
While investigating the incident, the Vinton County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to reports of a truck with an ATV in the bed driving on U.S. Hwy 50 West in the Eastbound lane trying to hit vehicles head-on at high rates of speed.
Deputies were dispatched, but the vehicle entered Ross County prior to deputies making contact.
The Vinton County Sheriff’s Office was then notified that the vehicle had turned around and was back in Vinton County heading East on U.S Hwy 50 at a high rate of speed and swerving at on-coming traffic.
Deputies engaged the vehicle with spike strips and the pursuit ended in Athens County where the suspect was apprehended.
Around the same time as the pursuit, a stolen vehicle was recovered in the Wilkesville area.
Three people were arrested in the above incidents and more details are expected to be released soon.
Hocking Co. Sheriff’s Office, Athens Co. Sheriff’s Office, Meigs Co. Sheriff’s Office, Jackson Co Sheriff’s Office, and the State Highway Patrol all assisted in the pursuit.
Hi, K. Up until recently I would have agreed. Now, though, so much is happening so fast and there isn’t really time to slowly and gradually inform people. (For years that was my strategy.) Right now we have to battle the lies they are hearing every day in the media, which is in the process of very QUICKLY molding them into accepting tyranny.
My comments on the Facebook page of my friend were bullet points, headlines, reiterating facts the liberal readers already knew and asking them to look at those facts in light of each other — with the addition of one or two new ones.
Covid came from Communist China, the vaccine is partly manufactured in Communist China, defectors say China’s goal is world hegemony, and a Chinese general advocates in a speech for an American invasion. I was asking folks to put two and two together.
I agree that people back again from the implication because it’s terrifying. But when the tiger is preparing to strike, someone has to give the yell that he’s there, even if that’s scary. It’s better than the alternative.
”Janelle Latruevere”, you said;
”That’s some tough talk, coming from a malcontent. May as well have the game as the name, hey?
But not every Russian topic on this board is related to Vladimir/Pilgrim. That guy hasn’t posted on here in many days, and who knows if he’ll even return.”
The guy is a paranoid. It’s no reflection really on Mr. Nyquist, but Paranoids flock to political websites, and those with philosophical/spiritual/cultural themes. It’s a kind of compulsion, and they even turn on the Blog writers as well in their paranoia too, if they don’t conform with their personal vision of things. I say to people; ”paranoia, it’s one hell of a drug”, because that’s true; an worldview that ”explains” the world’s problems with one external reason/enemy, is very tempting. Not saying that’s what Mr. Nyquist provides or wants to provide, but that that’s what political paranoids look for in an idea. They are like needy children who want things a certain way and have a tantrum if that is threatened by others.
As for my return or not returning, it’s related precisely to that. I get tired of being called an agent or Communist or some kind of dishonest or nefarious sort of person, or an insinuation of that, when I’m simply presenting what I believe, what I see and what I know. On the other hand, because I’m far from a Communist and actually a Traditionalist in a blunt and honest way, I can get attacked for that too, and have been. My views are not popular, and are not meant to be. They are not democratic or egalitarian, depending on popular opinion, out in the world or anywhere else, even here. I simply wish to speak my mind without hostility, even if one disagrees with me. If that can’t be done, I’ve no need to be here.
Even if I disagree with Mr. Nyquist on some important elements of his thesis, I think that it is important to discuss what the world is really like, and the way the world is going in the future. And that’s where I like my discussions with Mr. Nyquist and others here.
I’m not saying I’m coming back to post, but I thought it important to say this now..
I myself have condemned you but have come to the conclusion I was wrong to do so. You’re fine by me, even if your hopes of a Russian Monarchy founded on Orthodoxy is silly and absurd.
Ricardo Galvan, there are many things that seem ”silly and absurd” in modern men’s eyes, but absolutely nothing is impossible with God. But I thank you nonetheless, I appreciate your comment.. Oh the things that we shall see, in our day… Marvelous things, Terrible things.
Gretchen, if today the CCP marched down Main Street in every city in America, and CNN said it was a good thing, both your and my liberal friends would likely welcome them with open arms, no matter what you or I said, or what evidence we gave.
On the other hand, conservatives seem to already be on the verge of putting two and two together, in many cases. It was not like this five years ago.
I have been waiting for conservatives to put it together for 34 years. And just as I think they will make 4 out of 2 and 2, they are not quite able to pronounce the word. I am still waiting.
Thought I’d share this article. Very interesting. It would be nice if they impeached Biden over this, but I doubt they will.
“Exclusive— Oliver North: Weapons, Equipment Abandoned in Afghanistan Will Be ‘Reverse-Engineered in China, ‘Used Against Us’
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021/09/01/oliver-north-weapons-afghanistan-china/