I’m Nervous | What Biden JUST Said about Afghanistan

hey everyone me kevin here so i've been

very closely following what's happening

in afghanistan because i think the power

vacuum that we're seeing in the rapid

collapse of afghanistan's government

that we're seeing could have long tail

implications for even the united states

stock market but even our security at

home we now literally have the taliban

in control of all of the weaponry

aircraft missiles drones everything that

we have basically armed the afghani

military with over the last 20 years

this is scary that's why this is such

big news but here's joe biden's response

so i'm going to give you a summary of

what joe biden just said so joe biden

came out and said we're closely

monitoring the situation he says we are

seeing a rapid collapse in afghanistan

but we have to remember the mission as

to why we went to afghanistan we went

there to punish the bad guys who hit us

on 9 11. he got osama a decade ago and

he says that the goal was never to build

a nation in afghanistan or to make

democracy work in afghanistan he says

that's on the afghans to figure out not

us that our goal is to prevent an attack

and that we have to focus on the threats

we face today

not from excuse me not from 20 years ago

then

biden says and this is sort of his way i

think of trying to reassure americans he

says our focus is going to be to

focus our attention on counterterrorism

so that we can act quickly and

decisively and we're not going to bring

our troops into a third decade of

conflict in afghanistan there's

something we need to respond to we're

going to respond to this personally i

don't know if that really calms people's

fears down but let's keep going here he

says he stands squarely behind his

decision to withdraw obviously he's

getting a lot of flack right now for

having withdrawn i mean if you think

about it there were 2500 american troops

there things were stable now we've got

six to seven thousand troops there just

to try to evacuate people and we've got

an entire country with weaponry now in

the hands of the taliban

joe biden says this unfolded quicker

than expected and he responded to

complaints that well why didn't you

start responding sooner he responded to

complaints by this or of this by saying

well here's the thing if we started

evacuating folks sooner the afghani

government was worried that that was

going to lead to a lack of confidence in

the afghani government and would have

just led to the exodus happening anyway

joe biden again goes on to say that uh

this happened much faster than expected

everything's rapidly devolving he says

that afghani political leaders gave up

and the military collapsed without even

trying to fight which is kind of crazy

because he goes on to say we trained and

equipped a 300 000 member force in

afghanistan bigger than some of our nato

allies he says we gave them every tool

we paid their salaries we maintained

their air force and yet the one thing we

couldn't give them was the willpower to

actually stand and fight i have to say

he's kind of right about that i mean he

kind of didn't try which is kind of

concerning too because it's like wait a

minute really america spent 20 years

building a military there and they

wouldn't stand and fight

it's scary but anyway and now all those

weapons are in the hands of the taliban

moving on

uh joe biden

and this is kind of an interesting take

mostly because i i think china and

russia are already building relations

with the taliban we know this they are

and he kind of twisted this around a

little bit joe biden said says that

china and russia would love nothing more

than the united states still being in

afghanistan

i don't know if i fully agree with that

i feel like getting the united states

out of afghanistan is actually good for

china and russia because it lets them

take more control but okay

joe biden does go on to say that how

many more american lives is fighting for

the afghanis worth how many more

american headstones is it going to take

ultimately we can speak out for afghanis

but we can't fight for them so he's

really taking this defensive posture of

hey look i stand behind the fact that we

withdrew the 2500 troops that we had

left in april may we took them out

and yeah now we have to go back in to

provide evacuation services and

protective services for ngos and for uh

news media or or even just to control

the airport which is a disaster people

are climbing on airplanes and falling to

their death as airplanes are taking off

where they're getting run over on the

airport i mean this is a scene straight

out of a movie it's it's absolutely

ridiculous what's happening right there

but anyway uh you've got joe biden

you're really saying look the right

decision for america is dealing with

threats as they pop up

personally and this is just my opinion

i'm concerned i'm concerned that you've

got the taliban now essentially setting

up an entire country

and they have enough weapons

for an army of 300 000 people personally

i think the last thing you want to do is

create a power vacuum like we did it's

my personal opinion kind of don't

understand how we're going to pinpoint

target eliminate or combat uh potential

issues that come up with the taliban i

guess we'll see what happens with

counterterrorism wise but we've also i

don't know that really had a full

country of potential uh terrorist

threats outside of say uh iranian

threats or north korean threats so this

this really elevates things a little bit

in my opinion joe biden says his

decisions were the right decision for

america i want to hear from you were

these the right decisions at the end of

his speech joe biden did not take any

questions from the media the media

essentially lost it when he just walked

out which well a lot of people was a lot

of questions so we'll see how this

unfolds personally it makes me nervous

not very happy about what's going on

obviously my heart goes out to not just

the people of afghanistan but also the

women who have created careers in

afghanistan who are now shelving their

careers and and hiding in fear along

with everybody else in afghanistan so

it's a terrible situation something that

we have to pay attention to this is

going to have global consequences over

the 2020s so we'll pay attention to this

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