Posted on 08/16/2021 12:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?
The events of the last 72 hours have been breathtaking in their speed and their seriousness. The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan, after America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to install and keep a secular government in that landlocked, opium-producing country. In the rapid advance of the Taliban, ten thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilian allies have been trapped in the country, with no chance of escape.
Women will be raped; men will be beheaded or tortured....unless we pay the Taliban billions in ransom. The President and his spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, are nowhere to be found. Biden, as addled as he is with cognitive decline, released a pathetic picture of himself at Camp David, alone and looking dejected (while, by the way, blowing the cover of several CIA Department Heads on the panel of TV sets Biden was looking at), while Psaki has decided to take a week-long vacation starting on August 15th. Calls are going unanswered. Nobody is home at the White House. We have no leadership whatsoever.
What does this mean for YOU?
In the last 72 hours, the standing of America as a force to be feared has evaporated. Every tin-horn dictator, every evil actor, now knows that America is a paper tiger and is rudderless. Our leadership is incompetent and unresponsive to any real crisis. We are much more preoccupied that transexuals and perverts be revered and that those on the political right (you know, the EFFECTIVE people) are called 'domestic terrorists'.
I expect China to move on Taiwan. I expect Islamic terrorists to swarm across our unsecured southern border. I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
As international upheaval inevitably happens, you can expect instability in the prices of commodities. Food, energy, products ... all these things will fluctuate wildly in price. An overheated stock market will tumble, costing people billions and trillions of dollars in losses. As terrorist events occur with more frequency and more deadliness, our government will clamp down more and more on personal liberties, perhaps outright ignoring the Constitutional freedoms we have been guaranteed. They have been encroaching on those liberties anyways, with terrorist events occurring more often, they will consider that justification for the outright trampling of our rights.
What does this mean for YOU?
It means rampant inflation and bare store shelves. It means unavailability of products, energy, food. It means domestic police-state tactics to deal with the increase in REAL terrorism, as opposed to the imagined terrorism of 1/6/2021. It means companies will collapse and jobs will evaporate. It means wealth you have laid up will be drained of value quickly.
It means uncertainty, unavailability, and unrest.
What can you do about all of this?
Draw closer to the Lord, and appreciate all you have right now. Prepping is okay, but what will it do but extend your survival for a few more months? The answer is to continue to go on, to go to work as if all is well, to be prudent with your finances to the best of your ability, to be prepared to learn new skills and embark on new careers, to be prepared to remake our country in a sane fashion after the 'woke' are demonstrated to have been utter fools.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, warns us of the way that reality always asserts itself in the face of the insane imaginings of those who deny reality. I would say that America has reached a place of such a dearth of reality (57 genders? REALLY?) that when reality hits, it will be powerful and very painful.
It seemed to happen quickly.........our downfall
But in truth our destruction has been quietly ramping up for years
There were a lot of roads that led to this
President Trump saw this coming and heroically tried to stop it.
Well -- nothing, actually.
Just think of all those tens of thousands of Afghanis loyal to America now betrayed by Biden!
Can you say quickly: "Biden Bullseye on Biden's Big Ba$tardly Backside ?"
Joe had better get into his basement and stay there.
Otherwise he is a walking dead man.
Kamala will cackle her way into China/Taliban hegemony.
And Joe can hear that train a comin' .........Huzzah!
Don’t understand the point of your visual. Pretty girls have always been given a pass to do whatever the hell they’ve wanted with their bodies in our “society”. And men have encouraged them to do it. How many unborn children have perished on the altar of “women’s right to choose” in the US just this past year. It’s okay you know ‘cuz the illegals don’t ever abort. They bring their pregnant wives and daughters to the ER to have those babies full term at your expense. That’s how a sterile vapid country in decline gets colonized.
Sadly your thoughts are most likely correct
And it happened because the swamp wanted revenge on us the American people for electing Trump in the first place
Burka manufacturing futures are up.
What we can do
Great post! I agree with most of it except “to be prudent with your finances”. It’s not that I disagree with being prudent with finances, but rather with the notion that finances in dollar terms will still exist. The nation is bankrupt and if the house of cards collapses as you describe, Americans will be using trillion dollar tender for tinder to boil our daily water.
Unless we pay the Taliban millions, here is another way of offering them millions while skimming off the top for their personal accounts. just like the palettes of cash for Iran
I think the Taliban are on their way to our open border with their new weapons and their released prisoners. I hope the leftist useful tool girls will be down there with their “Welcome Refugees” signs. If all this happens NFL and college football seasons may get disrupted. THEN maybe people will wake up.
I was there in 1965 when we started out and again there in 1975 when just let everything collapse. We elected Democrats and a whole lot of us (including some who show up on this site) breathed a sigh of relief because their skins were now safe, no matter what it cost the poor Vietnamese and no matter how many of our lives were sacrificed in the war up till then.
The country that we had been has passed into history.
I have a box of powdered Idaho spuds in my pantry.
Purchased two large bags of cofefve.
Saw some soup on sale, will look for spam on sale
Get off my ass and create an account to buy physical gold and silver
Hang some buzkashi posters in my bedroom...
My only child is in basic training at Fort Benning, Infantry. When he graduates in December I am terrified he’s going to be shipped off to the Middle East and die in a war that would have never happened under Trump. He’s just 19 years old.
Tragically well said, Laz. We know how the larger story ends, but this smaller story - the possible end of the greatest experiment in government the world has ever seen - is a bitter pill. I believe there are enough rational, faithful, courageous people to pick up the pieces, but it will be a monumental undertaking, a piece at a time. I’m in.
——What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?——
Nothing, absolutely nothing.
While the news here is Americentric, the big picture is occluded and obscured.
In addition to the departure of the USA, the UK, Germany , Canada and others there have also departed.
The real message is that Afghanistan has been declared irrelevant by the civilized world. It doesn’t matter what happens internally in Afghanistan
President Trump Negotiated with the Taliban. I would think he made them an offer they dare not refuse. Permit the return of Al Qaeda and Isis and you will die
You are wrong, sir.
As you will see, in the next few weeks and months.
We are a paper tiger, a toothless shadow of a nation.
There will be serious and significant fallout.
We’ll see
The civilized world had only two choices.
Kill tens of thousands of Taliban zealots including men, women and even children or allow the Taliban to take full control
Afghanistan simply doesn’t matter
Neither did Archduke Fernidad.
Until his assassination sparked World War One.
Not sure how yet, but I will try to lead the effort in some small way.
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