The New Dark Age

7 July 2021 — Asia Times

The US is on the verge of its own second Vietnam repeated as farce in a haphazard retreat from Afghanistan

By Pepe Escobar

And it’s all over
For the unknown soldier
It’s all over
For the unknown soldier

The Doors, – ‘The Unknown Soldier’

Let’s start with some stunning facts on the Afghan ground.

The Taliban are on a roll. Earlier this week their PR arm was claiming they hold 218 Afghan districts out of 421 – capturing new ones every day. Tens of districts are contested. Entire Afghan provinces are basically lost to the government in Kabul, which has been de facto reduced to administer a few scattered cities under siege.

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6 July 2021 — Moon of Alabama

This is awkward:

The U.S. left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said.
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6 July 2021 — Indian Punchline

by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR

Bagram after US military left the base, Kabul, July 5, 2021 

The British newspaper Daily Telegraph did some kite-flying in the weekend that London is considering open-ended deployment of a contingent of elite special forces to Afghanistan “ to provide training to Afghan units and deploy with them on the ground as advisers.”

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