They were correct they said ten years, not eleven.

this video aged pretty well for a change

@Tommy's Barber tbh the coalition had Afghanistan before the u.s left, the taliban were dormant, until we’d left

Literally were still there ah

Everyone knew that from the beginning.. They did the same to the Soviets in the 1980's. And we armed them to do it.

These wars are rackets run by the financial elites, they are never supposed to end or serve any purpose other than power and profit. They invade a country and portray them as the terrorists and then act surprised when they have no other options but to fight back.

@@Cp_9900 any proof I often see people say this but why aren't we in darfur then there are so many just wars to fight we weren't involved in plus darfur has oil as well as a genocide

cdr861532 us had nowhere near it

Here's an idea, go Fukn home! Nobody wants you there. Idiots.

It is because of the cameras. Don't fool your self!

cdr861532 I wouldent

cdr861532 if Ana has yr equipment they will conquer the world

Haha I did the exact same thing. I was really disturbed by the chi boys and the pedo police chief. I loved how they did the interview in the middle of the marijuana garden, passing around a joint with the American soldier.

It's like call of duty

Correction... MEN. I hope these MEN made it home safely.

Yeah man. You gotta look at it from their perspective a little though. Their only experience with government is something corrupt, and law and order and rule of law doesn’t exist. To survive in such a war zone, it requires one to be selfish AF and do what they need to to get what they want and not risk too much doing so. These guys in the video were fighting for a pay check in a country where the only solid jobs were soldier/ police/ interpreter/ local subcontractor or working with NGOs. They didn’t want to be there. In 20 years NATO and the UN created an economy based on international Aid (look at how many journalists and NGO activists there are in Kabul compared to STEM jobs). There was massive corruption and no meritocracy. It was just based on who you know. As soon as the US left the Economy collapsed. Even agriculture which is the main industry in Afghanistan was left crippled as there was no widespread refrigeration of international export capability. Afghan Pine nuts and walnuts (might just be the best in the world) for example are shipped to Pakistan for pennies on the dollar and then packaged there and exported as premium product in the world. No factories or manufacturing were made due to the corruption. The best industry of telecoms which actually returned on investment and built a network from scratch was regularly shaked down by the government and had its towers blown up by the Taliban. Basically in such a country people are socialized to see government as strictly transactional over any other abstract ideas of patriotism or civic duty because they are still trying to accomplish Maslow’s first need (survival and safety). Even the rule of law didn’t exist if you had the connections. I think that’s why the criminals among them are so brazen- they think it’s the same rules like before with no consequences.

It’s just sad really

​@@mws2546 This was very enlightening. Thanks for writing this.

i dont fucking trust them, those fucking muje mothefuckers. they distrust everything because they just playing you and dont want to assimilate. its thats simple.

this should have way more likes than it does, the reporters didnt have a fucking clue of what was going on.

Finally lol someone with a pair of eyes

@Arsene Who? yeah but it wasnt the mag that fell out or caused by his rifle taking a bullet.

Arsene Who? do you know how a grenade works

I was looking for this comment

Gary Ko welcome to the world of a veteran

The sleeping schedule, arrangements and rotation is the responsibility of your commanding officer who will most likely delegate the responsibility to a senior non-commissioned officer, in the platoon level it might be a staff sergeant, or a sergeant. Squad leaders can also handle making sure the fighting troops get a minimal amount of rest when possible, but in areas where firefights and ambushes are frequent they are getting the same minimized downtime as their troops.

You wouldnt you end up so tired physically and emotionally that you soon sleep and anywhere to. When your exhausted your body just shuts down to revive itself

Yep, you would psychically pass out despite being ready to or not. After all of it, you'd be mentally and psychically drained and when all that adrenaline crashes, you would be naturally exhausted. The 'come down' of adrenaline is the exact opposite of the hyper vigilance and energised feeling when its happening. And especially in situations as intense as these, you'd be sapped of all energy and need to sleep just to function.

exactly

A repeat of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan is known as the graveyard of empires for a reason. This war is just like Vietnam, less casualties for the western forces but they come home and end up killing themselves all too often. There's really no winning in Afghanistan.

@@Gerbs1913 The scariest part about war on terror is that its just an undying ideology. Even much of Hitler's closest SS officers could have seen that fighting is futile, especially nearing the end of a war. However, you can't kill an ideology as rooted as this.

I don't see killing terrorists as a waste of time, money or human life

@@richardkong6226 then go fight then yourself ya pluck

Not true

@@Official_Happy_ its true

@@ikm1796 nope

@@Official_Happy_ us and nato runs away from death while the taliban runs towards it happy and willingly

@@ikm1796 no they don't, they run away after firing 1 shot because they are pussies.

Nonsense...

These are the best moments. Any man will turn savage when pushed close to the edge. That being said as an American, I would not mind fighting alongside someone with such an elegant accent

You mean fucking stupid its fucming war. Throats Slit and teeth caved in and mothers raped in front of their children. War is disgusting. Fuck war it's not glory its grotesque

brits are far from elegant trust me

Daniel Rodriguez oh bullshit someone has to do it ,!!!! FUCKIN PUSS boy

You are smarter than all the politicians and military analysts that have planned this withdrawal.

@@CrossingRover they probably knew as well. War is a good way to transfer tax payer $$$ to loosely supervised private entities

Damn you called it

Bro

B r u h

unfortunately.. hes..

Jack's back home fine. had his ups and downs but all good.

The Afghan army is doing the same as the Yanks army or the Brit army would be doing if some foreign force invaded its country to steal it resources and try to put its own government official in place, fighting back.

@@RSR423 how did we steal resources you dumbass? LMAO absolutely zero oil was "stolen' like u idiots say. Its laughable.

@@hardcorehunter9438 true say

@@hardcorehunter9438 opium lmao

They seem extremely lazy and unorganized, like they don’t know how to fight. They constantly need to be pushed. If we leave them alone, god bless! I doubt they will be strong enough to keep a stronghold. Things will just fall back into how they were before. What a waste.

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Yea sounded like a dust cover and nothing like a magazine. Sounded like an m1 garand clip though lol

Randy G Lol thats true it did make a noise similar to the noise the En bloc clip from the M1 garand makes.

+Derek Wagner so basically VICE news are just making up S%!#

It's not VICE, that would be the journalist himself. Remember, he said it and filmed it.

There's actually a very smart and conversant comment on KZfaq, well this is a rare sight.

Read the Afghanistan papers. They came out in 2019 showing the extent of lying and corruption and nobody cared because there are no consequences for failure of leadership both military and civil. There will be no Afghanistan commission. See how many of the generals who failed to win the war retired to cushy Defence contractor board member positions and see how much graft and how much much money was spent on contractors and weapons manufacturers. Look at how stock prices for those companies rose exponentially. See how in his private memoirs, Obama saw the war was lost in 2013 but was too much of a political coward to do what Biden did after killing Bin Laden. If you want this to be worth something, confront your leadership class and foreign policy elites and demand they take ownership of their failures instead of letting them wash away their failures by saying woke things or basking in friendly media coverage by their preferred network. Demand better from media companies who for 20 years had been loyal stenographers reporting whatever the Pentagon said as gospel even though everyone knew it’s spokesmen lie through their teeth. The last drone strike in Afghanistan killed a family of 10 civilians who had SIV visas based on a faulty method is SIGiNT and pattern analysis. It was called a ‘righteous strike’ by Gen. Milley and these people implied there were secondary explosions and besmirched an engineer who worked for a California NGO distributing aid of being a ISIS facilitator. There won’t be any consequences for this strike because the same methodology has been used for countless other strikes in more remote areas where journalists are not present. The only people punished for them were whistle blowers like Snowden, Bradley Manning and Daniel Hale. What is the real civilian death toll from bombing? When such a failure happens, you can either deny it and cover up with self serving narratives (we were there to help, it’s all the Afghans’ fault etc.) or take ownership (maybe empowering a bunch of warlords because they promised to let us hunt terrorists and give us people who they claimed were terrorists wasn’t a good idea? Maybe we shouldn’t have been shooting people first and asking questions later? How did our media allow flasehood to perpetuate for so long? Why were the American people distracted from a war being waged in their name). I promise you if you asses the failure and learn lessons from it and punish the people responsible (if not in court then at least socially) than it will have had benefit and made the world a better place. But I have little hope because until now they keep interviewing the people responsible for the debacle over the last 20 years from Pertreaus to Brennan to David Frum and they speak to them like they have wisdom to share, instead of asking hard questions about their roles in this moment. TLDR: confront why the war was lost and who is responsible and let it be a learning experience and chance for reform. If you cut out the rot, and introduce consequences to the highest ranks for failure, you might help make the military into an institution that wins wars instead of a giant tax money sucking beast. It might be a blessing and allow for reformation of forgiven policy and military leadership to take up the challenges of what will be similar to the Cold War where there is competition between great powers since America is no longer the only superpower. And confront the foreign policy bubble that sees American sons and daughters’ blood as acceptable currency to spend in achieving pointless goals that benefit only a few people. Get educated and demand a foreign policy that secures actual vital interests and has an actual strategic vision instead of partisan myopia. The Chinese have an airforce and a Navy. They got away with genocide in the east and it won’t be long till they annex Taiwan in the West. What happens then? These are the things that should be the focus of foreign policy, not whether there’s a guy running around in Syria that might have met Bin Laden’s secretary once in the 90’s when he was 22 and therefore is a terrorism threat since he’s technically AL Qaida that somehow requires a globally coordinated bombing campaign.

@@mws2546 I'm not your enemy. Thank you for spending the time to type all of that, there was information in there that I didn't know. You seem like you are very educated on this, could you please, if you haven't already, also confront the leadership class because I'm sure you would give them one hell of a talking to. I know that they were publicly talking about pulling out of Afghanistan since Obama was in office. I just wish we would have gotten all of the US citizens out and the afghans that worked for the US out and all of the weapons and equipment out rather than leave it there for the Taliban or any other terrorist organization that knows that this stuff is there to have a field day with. Anyway, I'm just as upset at the corruption as you are. Thank you for filling me in on things.

This was 2007, by 09 the Americans took over Helmand from the Brits

The aim was to kick our al Qaeda. It never was nation building or preaching “women’s rights” or western style democracy. We should’ve left years ago.

We was just there for training and a bit of good old fashioned freedom

Poppy

Bbbhhh

yeah the magazine was still in the rifle when he was walking away, and those dust covers can pop off like that i think

I noticed that too. Had to rewind it

That wasn’t a commander talking it was a reporter

Shudup

Yeah lmao

I didn't realize his gun was hit by a bullet

@@johncuervo3019 don't think a bullet hit his dust cover. Looked like the recoil from the grenade knocked it off. If you don't literally hit the rear of the dust cover on a Ak it won't put the end of the recoil spring into the hole on the dust cover to hold it down.

i will do this right now

1. They couldn't outflank the enemy because they didn't know exactly where the enemy even was 2. The ANA and the NATO units attached to them were all spread extremely thin across the countryside. There was no other company that could have come in to help them 3. Hiding behind a wall for 8 hours is essentially what all infantry does in modern warfare. 4. They have to at least try to do something with what they have, even if it's all pointless at the end of the day