Thread by @ejmalrai

20 years of #US occupation:

Why #Taliban is not in #Kabul centre? Only because it is waiting for all embassies who want to leave to complete their evacuation, mainly NATO members, including #Turkey.
In less than 48 hours, the Afghan President is expected to deliver the capital.

#Taliban has liberated the 1st prison at the gate of #Kabul already and is present all around the capital now.

Remember what history tells you (#Kurds of #Syria and #Iraq):

45 years apart: The US Embassy staff fleeing from Saigon (top) and Kabul (bottom) via @ARanganathan72

#Russia said its diplomats are not leaving #Kabul.

Why it is not surprising: #NATO (30 member countries, Canada and the US, 28 are in Europe, one of which (Turkey) is in both Europe and Asia) said it was caught by surprise.

After 20 years of #US occupation, the biggest lesson to the world and to researchers to remember is the following:

The Americans, wherever they go, are incapable of winning the hearts and minds of any population. They have the military power to occupy but not to create peace.

4 days are given for the #US forces to withdraw from #Afghanistan: 10s of 1000s of US troops forced to speed up their withdrawal due to #Taliban advance.

Pro-US Afghani President left the country.

Why would any country negotiate with the #US from a weak position in the future?

So, when the #US favorite hobby (economic sanctions) will start on #Afghanistan?

Sanctions are the usual weapon of the losers who are carless about the suffering of the population #Syria #Iran #Lebanon #Yemen.

#BreakingNews:

#Taliban entered #Kabul. All #US, #German, and other NATO troops are at the airport, feeling the country.

Bye-bye #USA.

Everything @JoeBiden said here is wrong, proving the #US intel services have no clue what is happening on the ground, not only in #Afghanistan but anywhere in the Middle East & West Asia.

One thing though: #Taliban did not lift the US embassy's roof.

https://twitter.com/BryanDeanWright/status/1426710333264179214

#US spent $88 billion dollars training 300,000 Afghan Army for 20 years and it has collapsed in one week, less than the Iraqi army's collapse for the obvious reason: Iraqi Army members were trained only for 11 years and collapsed in 3 days.

The proportion is quite right.

After 20 Years of #US occupation, #Taliban will soon announce the "Imarat Afghanistan al-Islamiya" (announced the first time in September 1996).

#Taliban enter the Presidential Palace in #Kabul, life from @AlJazeera_World

#Breakingnews:
#Taliban leader at the Presidential Palace in #Kabul said he ordered 15 militants at every ministry and outside every embassy to protect these and prevent any attack on the city institutions and foreign missions.

The delivery of the Palace went without bloodshed.

In 2001, #Taliban abandonned #Kabul to allow the #US to occupy it. 20 years later, the Taliban is taking Kabul without a fight and the US forces are abandoning it.

The only differen abandoned the fact that Taliban and 1000 US soldiers are together in Kabul but are not fighting.

#Breakingnews:
#Taliban at the Presidential Palace in #Kabul: we took the control of the capital in agreement with the #US command.

#Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Brader - captured in 2001 - is the head of the political committee - delivering his message now and expected to become the new President.

Thousands of Taliban fighters coming into the city of #Kabul.