What Joe Biden just Did | The Afghanistan Crisis.

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hey everyone meet kevin here

the crisis in afghanistan is horrible

it's so horrible yet many of us in

america feel disconnected

and i'm going to start this video off by

showing you how

relatable this crisis really can be

take a look at this

nicole was one of the service members

who was killed in the blas at the kabul

airport

when we see photos like this we see men

and women in uniform

and there's a disconnect

between us and then we're separated by

that uniform

but what i'm going to show you is

where that separation breaks apart

we're going to scroll past nicole in

uniform we're gonna go to nicole with

her friends

or nicole with her friends and family

here

friends here

relationships

selfies of nicole

nicole

nicole

and all of a sudden

this crisis in afghanistan

in my opinion at least feels a lot more

relatable that everyone who's affected

by this crisis in afghanistan isn't just

a service member isn't just an afghan

they're people they're humans just like

us they have friends and families and go

on vacations and go to the gym

and so it's with a heavy heart that i

say

yeah we lost 13 american service members

18 others were wounded 170 people died

in these blasts at the kabul airport

and now we have a very big crisis on our

hands

in fact after the blasts in kabul there

were many reports on social media i even

mentioned them on this channel about

talk of other explosions in fact even a

much larger explosion happening uh in

kabul and and a lot of uncertainty over

whether this was another attack or what

this was

turns out

things have uh gotten so desperate that

uh rather than

evacuate or or remove products or

armaments or equipment from eagle base

the final ca outpost and outside of the

kabul airport americans leveled it

by blowing it up

and i'm not exactly sure whether there

was a drone strike or placed

explosives or what

but

the cia's base

outside the kabul airport eagle base was

really really important because it was

used to train

the afghan intelligence community and

the counter-terrorism forces on how to

keep the taliban at bay and how to

actually fight they were one of the last

units fighting when the taliban came

this was an eagle base was an extremely

secure unit i mean picture massive

10-foot walls

giant compound you drive through the

first gate if you got through the first

gate three more

outer checkpoints to get into the actual

facility

and uh this was this was a very

important facility

and now the facility's been leveled

because we've completely lost control

now

excuse me

it's worth noting a little bit of

background because this comes up in the

comments section and there tends to be a

lot of confusion around a little bit of

background and so i'd just like to set a

little bit of groundwork it's worth

noting that the agreement signed by

donald trump in february 2020 called for

all americans to leave by may 1st

now of course there has been a lot of

partisan bickering that trump would have

left differently and under different

time frames and so on and so forth

but it's very important to know that joe

biden did extend this deadline to

the end of august now it's worth noting

that this deal was a deal between the

taliban and the united states it was not

a deal that included the afghan

government

the deal made promises by the taliban

that they would cut ties to al-qaeda and

isis

now donald trump's deal did not actually

include enforcement measures that said

if you don't cut ties there will be

a follow-up problem it was just a

promise which is something you would

expect generally under like a ceasefire

and after this deal attacks against

american forces in afghanistan did stop

from the taliban the purpose of the deal

was really just to get the attacks to

stop long enough for the afghan

government and the taliban to be able to

forge some form of a new deal together

not for the taliban to just sit around

and wait until the united states left

and then take over the afghan government

that was not the goal obviously the

afghan government had issues though

negotiating with the taliban because

they blamed the taliban for executing

journalists and leaders of their

military which obviously executions like

this would make negotiating hard and

it's certainly also hard to negotiate

with a group like the taliban when

there's no clear one leader you have a

lot of factions that operate under the

umbrella

of the taliban

and so it's no surprise that a deal was

not formed and so then of course when

the united states military withdrew

what you were left with was a non-deal

between the taliban and the afghan

government the afghan government already

suffering from high desertions low

recruitment poor morale theft

like straight up just

fraud uh like embezzlement from leaders

uh of the afghan military from the

afghan military so

massive amounts of mistrust and

certainly when their leaders left and

bailed out of the country it doesn't

leave a lot of motivation for an already

sort of

broken force to stand and fight and risk

their lives for

a government who doesn't have a deal

with a taliban and whose leaders have

left this makes a lot of sense

so

most of the afghans who did not want to

be caught

appearing to even be part of the

military in many cases just left weapons

and equipment behind

without even a fight

and in some cases this makes sense

because the afghan government had

been propped up so miserably almost as

if on toothpicks

that who would want to stand on a

mountain of toothpicks to fight for

toothpicks it makes no sense

so in on an individual level i i

certainly don't blame

individual afghans

for bailing and trying to protect

themselves and their families and their

daughters and their sons

or their parents

grandparents

but what you're left with now is this

insane political crisis that's actually

breaking

america

even more so

than america was broken through covet

which we thought america was divided

during covid we thought

whether you are on the left or right i i

believe that 95 of us watching this

video believed

that at least joe biden would return

maybe this sense of

like

somewhat more calm right like a little

bit more calm uh certainly more

quietness coming out of the white house

i mean joe biden creates a lot less

noise than donald trump did uh you know

and this isn't to get political it's

just

i think that's what everyone believed

whether you voted for biden or whether

you voted for trump

but what's really happened here with

afghanistan is

we've actually become substantially more

divided

now you've got things trending on

twitter like biden must go

followed by photos of joe biden

with his head in his hands responding to

reporters

or or other

pictures or videos that that encourage

people to question joe biden's

competency and i'm not here to defend or

to claim or make any kind of claim about

joe biden's competency or or his his

alertness or whatever

i'm here to comment on how devastating

afghanistan this afghanistan crisis is

for america and how it's actually

breaking america

see joe biden says he directed military

commanders to take every possible

measure to prioritize protection

there were two retaliatory or at least

one retaliatory strike

against isis k members that killed two

members

this was apparently a

missile a hellfire missile launched from

a reaper drone reaper drones by the way

are made by general

atomics that is a private company in

case you're an investor watching this

uh so not not one that you could

publicly invest in in the stock market

although you could always look at things

like arc x which has a ton of defense

stocks in it like lockheed martin and

boeing and things like that but this

this is not a stock market video i just

touch on it because i know some folks

will think about it

but we're in the situation where

joe biden says we're going to continue

to hunt down isis leaders but i can't

help but

feel

not very

comforted when

after the kabul explosion on thursday

we've had

one entire cia base destroyed by us

and only one reported drone strike

that killed two isis members and general

mackenzie says that

this is not the last group that will be

attacked and the two people that we

killed may have hurt some

capabilities of the taliban but those

two people also didn't have direct links

to thursday's attacks so basically

stalin found those people with links to

thursday's attack so in other words we

got

joe biden and

commander mckenzie talking about

more retaliatory strikes but it's been

two days and we've only heard about

one that killed two isis members so to

me this is this concerns me that we have

a massive lack of intelligence in

afghanistan right now and that continued

pain in afghanistan is just going to

lead to more of a

uh not only crisis in afghanistan but

also a crisis in america

this political crisis is is a really big

issue you know and that's why i started

specifically starting with nicole

so i don't care if nicole is a

republican or democrat i don't care if

you're a republican or democrat

nicole's dead now

because of this disaster

it's so horrible it's it's devastating

and um

now we're becoming even more divided

here

we've got uh 100 11 900 people evacuated

since august 14th 5400 americans who

were evacuating way more people than

than just americans there are about 350

americans still left

we uh we do know that uh republicans are

obviously branding this right now as

this is the biden we told you to expect

if you would elect biden somebody who's

potentially

on on the weaker side of things

uh democrats obviously say that well

somebody had to pull out we couldn't

stay there forever and and it was going

to be tough no matter when the pull-out

was going to happen

we've even got folks like madison carth

hawthorne a representative and he wants

to invoke the 25th amendment

to

replace joe biden for being incapable of

uh handling this disaster again more

partisan-ness

which is not not a surprise from madison

okay that is it's definitely a little

bit more on the right uh there's not a

lot of uh there aren't a lot of

bipartisan posts on madison pages let's

just say

goodness

but uh you know where where i wrap this

up is

what we have left is

a military an american military that

appears to be trusting the taliban to

fight isis

the the problem about with this is we

invaded afghanistan to fight al qaeda

and the taliban harbored

bush said the taliban will pay the price

and the taliban ended up unconditionally

surrendering in december 2001.

now we have commander mckenzie saying

we're trusting the taliban we're

trusting the taliban to rebuild and

provide safety and security and perhaps

form a coalition government this

this seems backwards to me especially

since it's important to know that

remember when our withdrawal first

started uh and a lot of this panic began

there were so many uh taliban members

and and people in afghanistan screaming

death to americans that the phrase death

to americans went trending on twitter

and even though publicly the taliban

leadership that we do talk with have

condemned the kabul attack

it's worth noting that there are still

many in the taliban who are sympathetic

with isis k

and the reason for this is

people who work in the sunni

taliban group

sometimes change factions and they go

over to al-qaeda which is also a sunni

group or they go over to isis but it is

also a sunni group right

sectarian violence has been going on in

this area for thousands of years and uh

and and often what we see is a fight of

sunni islam versus

uh shia islam

and uh and in this thousand year war but

also sunni islam versus just anyone else

the the

the infidels right

and so really you know when you go back

to the sectarian roots you realize that

isis and the taliban and al qaeda

they're all the same religious

team

uh it's not a surprise that you know

there are people in the taliban who are

sympathetic to al qaeda and isis and you

also see people who get frustrated

within the taliban ranks who end up sort

of

graduating or or moving maybe over to to

al-qaida or isis

which is bad because there could always

be lingering relations and then if let's

say someone from isis was coming to a

taliban controlled checkpoint and the

taliban folks are like

oh i remember you you know and you turn

a blind eye like

relationships matter right and these

groups are very connected to each other

in ways that we don't want them to be

uh you know the united states was a and

nato forces were a massive wedge

in uh in afghanistan for for for these

three groups it's kind of like a cork

that was

protecting a ship from sinking has now

just been removed and and now there's a

lot of water coming in and the ship is

the ship's hull is is fragmenting even

more

now it's worth noting that some in

afghanistan say the mainstream media is

just overblowing this disaster and that

afghans didn't trust their government

anyway so may as well let the taliban in

who we're going to bring safety and

security but

i

i don't know that

an uncoordinated taliban government or

perhaps even some form of coalition

government maybe even with the help of

russia or china or iran or what whatever

i don't even see these three groups

coordinating super well but if they did

somehow there was a coalition government

formed in afghanistan i mean i suppose

maybe that'd be best case scenario right

at least there'd be some form of

government but

i i don't know that

this

setup will create the opportunity for

less bombings or less attacks by isis uh

especially since the goal of forces like

isis and al-qaeda is to create

instability or to kill any leftover

americans or or infidels or whatever

i don't know

that the taliban are going to be capable

of running a form of coalition

government now

i hope they are

i hope they can provide stability and

and uh

safety for the people of afghanistan

especially since they've pledged

to

let

other factions shia factions be and and

not continue this thousand-year war plus

and i fear that the more instability we

create in afghanistan

the more our

politics in the united states will

become more divisive more divided and

the more our government

will actually fail

under this

horrible partisan bickering nature of

government that we have today i think

it's horrible

and

afghanistan's gonna have big political

consequences

we'll see how it all unfolds

but i can't say i'm not nervous

thanks for watching

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