Thread by @DefenceGeek

This yesterday from the #US Press Secretary's chat with reporters at the White House regarding #Afghanistan.
Absolutley bewildering attitude to the posibility of a designated terrorist organisation taking total control of a country... (1/6)

She also stated:

"Ultimately, the #Afghan National Security Defense Forces have the equipment, numbers, and training to fight back. They have what they need. What they need to determine is if they have the political will to fight back...
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...and if they have the ability to unite as a — as leaders to fight back. And that’s really where it stands at this point."

Now to me this stinks of a disregard for the hundreds and thousands of Afghans who have died fighting the #Taliban, especially in the last few weeks
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The completion of the #US withdrawal from #Afghanistan is now less than 3 weeks away and when asked if the US recognises the assessment that the Afghan government will collapse within 90 days, Mr Psaki replied:
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"Well, we don’t rely on anonymous assessments... [#US Intel] have put out public assessments which, certainly, we stand by. We are closely watching the deteriorating security conditions in parts of the country, but no particular outcome, in our view, is inevitable."
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OPINION: I cannot see the current #US and #NATO leadership changing views on #Afghanistan, even if we see massacres against Afghan people by the #Taliban. I can however see the terror threat from there rising in the years to come which the west will be unable to ignore...
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US Press Statement quoted above: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…