Note: There is new content behind the green door. If you are not signed up, please consider it as it will bring you happiness and save your soul. Sunday Thoughts covers the Afghan situation and some other interesting new items. The Taki post is up and it is about the Afghanistan debacle. There is a pattern here.
Over the last week, the world has watched the great project of the American empire fall to pieces as if it was a controlled demolition. The Taliban has swept across Afghanistan, facing little more than token resistance from the official government. In fact, the official government fled the country without even pretending to care. As of Sunday evening, the U.S. government was scrambling to figure out how to evacuate the people with American citizenship while begging the Taliban for relief.
This week, regime elements will be playing the blame game, no doubt settling on the previous administration as the real culprit. Faced with disconfirmation of their beliefs, the new religion of our rulers triggers a process whereby they are convinced that the latest setback is actually part of the great plan. It is a sort of test of faith and the only way to get past it and continue the flow of history is to believe harder. In time, this will become a bloody shirt in the way Vietnam was for a generation.
Putting that aside, the collapse of the Afghan model reveals some things about the ruling regime that are useful to dissidents. The big lesson is that the Washington regime never felt it necessary to subvert the culture of Afghanistan. Instead, they spent twenty years celebrating it. Sure, they did the superficial stuff like flying the flags of various sexual deviants over the embassy, but they never tried to impose it on the Afghans in the same was we see them do it to white Americans.
If the Afghans were white, the empire would have accused them of Afghan privilege or maybe Afghan supremacy then set about destroying their culture. There would have been gay imams in rainbow colored tunics preaching about how Muhamad was really into sodomy. Of course, there would have been a heavy emphasis on women’s sports, perhaps fielding an all lesbian soccer team. None of that happened because that would have been insulting to the Afghans and their ways.
The big thing that the empire did not do that they are doing in their alleged home base of America is replace the people. A big part of the war on whiteness is the importation of millions of nonwhites into white countries. It is part of the dialectic made real, where mass immigration is the negation of white culture. The empire could have done this in Afghanistan with no trouble. There are a billion Africans looking for a better deal, so they could have imported some of them to celebrate diversity.
That really is the telling feature of the twenty year occupation. The rules in place over there were the exact opposite of the rules in place over here. There was no systematic statue toppling, no mass media campaigns against Afghan culture and no chanting about diversity being a strength. One could be forgiven for thinking that the people in charge of the American empire have more respect for Afghan culture and Afghan people than they have for the American people and their culture.
These are things most people probably knew, if they took the time to think about it, but the events of last weekend provide a good reminder. In the weeks to come, the ruling class will care more about the fortunes of people in Afghanistan than the victims of their opioid crisis they inflicted on rural America. They will work harder to preserve the “rights” of collaborators left behind in Kabul than the rights of American being held in dungeons around Washington. They hate us that much.
The useful lesson in all of this is these people have once again revealed that they really do believe their own nonsense. The old paleos remain convinced that the elites know their preaching is all nonsense, but the Afghan debacle is proof that they do get high from their own supply. The plan was to celebrate the exit on 9/11 as “mission accomplished” and then forget about the whole thing. Biden would get credit for finishing Obama’s project and ending the Bush war.
Over the weekend, their lack of preparation was on display, as the regime media was not provided with a script to follow. Instead, they were allowed to think for themselves, a dangerous prospect under ideal conditions. They sent Biden out to take questions not vetted in advance and it was another humiliation. The sight of an eighty year old man struggling to do the basics is symbolic of the empire. Like Biden, it is old, senile, and operating on the fumes of past glories that never really happened.
This is not the first time the ruling elite have fallen for their own rhetoric. Back in the Obama years, they were sure the summer of 2010 was going to be “recovery summer” for the economy. They even had a campaign all ready to go. That ended the same way the Afghan withdraw ended. Recall that Biden promised this summer would be the end of the Covid panic. Everyone would get to party again. The prophesies of the new religion have a bad habit of never coming true.
Of course, the big lesson in all of this is that a small, dedicated minority can win against all odds if they refuse to surrender. The irony of the American foreign policy establishment not remembering the story of David and Goliath is one of those things that tells us something about the people in charge. They are just so sure they are on the right side of history, that they never take a moment to consider their role in it. They were the Goliath this time and the Afghans were the David.
Granted, the American military would happily abandon the rules of engagement they labored under in Afghanistan when it comes to whiteness. You can be sure General Milley has a speech ready about how white rage is really a part of some secret connected between white people and the Taliban. That said, men living as they did when Alexander the Great was in Afghanistan fought the mighty U.S. Military to a draw and then drove them from their lands. An inspiration to us all.
In the end, this is how dying empires look from the inside. The people at the top fear self-examination, so they commit to a zealous form of the mentality that made the empire possible in the first place. The empire and their place atop it are the center of their belief system and no disconfirmation will shake that belief. They will die with the empire that makes them possible. What comes next is up to the people who survive the inevitable collapse in order to fill the void of empire.
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What a complete and total debacle. Unprecedented. Worse than Saigon 75′ There are no words…
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Much worse than Vietnam. Half the country wanted an excuse to dismantle it, and they now have a big one. Vietnam protests for the most part were kabuki.
No surprise the our military lost to the Taliban. They managed to even lose to Tucker in a Twitter war.
The big take away from Afghanistan should be the ineffectiveness of US government spending.
They spent a couple trillion dollars over twenty years building a nation that crumbled in a matter of weeks.
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The big takeaway is that Afghans aren’t like white people and don’t want the kind of goverment and culture that our elites think they should.
Blank slate egalitarianism and the entire Enlightenment refuted.
The desire for “freedom” is not written into every human heart. Don’t assume that non-whites have an internal world like yours.
“If the Afghans were white, the empire would have accused them of Afghan privilege or maybe Afghan supremacy then set about destroying their culture.”
Indeed. Nothing says “Democracy 4 U” like the overhead roar of a B-52 opening it’s bomb bay doors…
Mohammed the goat herd must ever be pleased for such intervention.
“little more than token resistance.”
More like that scene in Braveheart where the Irish levies betray the Brits mid-battle.
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This whole episode was only a failure if you think the original purpose was to transform Afghanistan and enjoy a military victory. Judged as a business proposition, it was a resounding success. $2 Trillion of our tax dollars (or bond issuance to be more accurate) got spent and I suspect the MIC raked a considerable amount of this. I’d be shocked if there aren’t 100 warlords, generals and politicos in Afg. who stole at least $100million each. This theft sits on top of our grasping “allies” in Pakistan “providing logistical” support and the drug profits from all the poppy fields.
If this grift is ending, it can only mean one thing: A new grift is in the advanced planning stages elsewhere.
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Climate change. The grift that can never end.
I was thinking about just this point today. Was this ‘war’ ever actually meant to end? Was the grift brought to heel early-doors? You’re right that there most certainly were winners; swine most all of them. As usual, the real losers will probably be the (mainly) white lads who buggered off over there to fight for, well, whatever they believed they were fighting for.
Can’t remember who said it on this board, but someone mentioned that every ‘make-work’ initiative started by the US government in recent times had yet to end. Don’t see why the wars would be different. Sad and stupid and evil as it is.
It is evil. And it is all so tiresome.
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No doubt the 20-year MIC revenue stream was the goal, but in the long haul (and maybe not all that long) this is the beginning of the end of the Evil Empire 2. The collapse is inevitable now and those ill-gotten gains will be clawed back.
People profit from catastrophe. More than a few fortunes were made in the Great Depression. That does not mean the hand of some great designed is behind it. The Blob went into Afghanistan because it would be their launching pad for the greater war against Islam. They saw it as a key piece on the global chessboard.
I, for one, am looking forward to an imminent collapse of confidence among the Ruling Classes if only so I can enjoy that look on their faces. These people may hate us, but they have no idea how much we hate them back. I just saw where Trump is demanding that Biden resign. Excellent timing. Let’s hope this signals the beginning of a long awaited counterrevolution.
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Anybody remembers why the US ostensibly went there in the first place? (Without looking it up).
Anybody cares to speculate what the real reason was?
To track down Bin Laden. We stayed because of the great climate.
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We went there to liberate the people of Afghanistan and spread democracy, which would turn a terrorist haven into a responsible member of the international community.
That was what Obama always called the smart war. Selflessly advancing the arc of history to a benighted POC, suffering from the legacy of colonialism.
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Supply opium to (((Sacklers))) so that they can kill hundreds of thousands of white Americans?
China is now doing it via synthetic fentanyl for 1/10000 of the price, no need to stay in Afghanistan anymore.
Plus, all the more money to give to blacks, and more military capability to attack white America.
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because some guys decided to fly a 767 full of fuel at full speed into a skyscraper.
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So it was revenge for being attacked by Mossad?
Had to stop by the old Z Blog to see what the Z Man would say. Good post. I imagine there will be more.
One thing I noticed over the weekend was that unlike in the original invasion and the Iraq invasion (parts 1 and 2), there were absolutely no reports from embedded journalists coming out of Kabul for broadcast on any of the mainstream channels. Zero on the ground reporting or people driving around in helmets talking about the action. All we got was fairly minor figures well ensconced in the Metropole or Imperial Capital giving opinions as we watched twitter videos or telegram videos.
And say what you will about America being a racist, islamophobic nation, there sure were a heck of a lot of folks storming the tarmac to get a ride on one of those cargo planes.
Let’s hope the Woke-Rainbow Deep State narrative finally starts to crack.
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Yeah, this isn’t the old days with Saigon. Nobody doing any real reporting. Why would they, they are all one team now.
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David and Goliath works as a metaphor, but so does a game of tug-of-war. Our rulers have grown so used to our desire to wrest power from them (and always by voting or protesting or some other nonstarter) that they were counting on our countering energy to sustain them in their fight against us. They feed on our outrage and fear our indifference. Instead, by disengaging from them— their media, their rituals, their Olympics, their schools, their wars, their police problem, their race problem, their vaccinations— we’ve stopped yanking the rope, let go, and are watching them fall into their own filth.
Only the craziest of progs will believe police are quitting the force or the Taliban is winning because of Trump. Even MSNBC videos are starting to have a lot of downvotes/negative comments, and official comedians like Colbert are getting pushback from even their microcephalic audience, on stories like the NSA spying on Tucker.
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“Only the craziest of progs …”
Converted to a fraction, 999 in 1000.
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If you take nothing else away from this it is our rulers and the NPCs that follow them are no match for any willing and able dissident.
I hear that mayonnaise brains Jimmy Fallon noted in his monologue, the white people are in demographic decline factoid that’s in the news recently. The idiots applauded their own demise. How hard will it eventually be for us?
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I agree with Z’s assessment except that there will be a negative repercussion on our rulers. Americans really don’t care about Afghanistan any more than they care about Yemen or any of our other senseless war zones. Democrats will blame Trump. Republicans will blame Biden.
Neither side is a threat to the empire. It will be a debate over who lost Afghanistan not who do we prosecute for getting us into it and keeping us there. A huge amount of money was made in the fiasco and the tribe will be able to import many refugees from Afghanistan. So anyone who is anyone will be fine and will have profited from the 20 year debacle.
Russia and China both know that our military is dangerous but less so by the day as it gets woker and woker. The history books will likely record the mess as an after effect of the great enemy of American democracy: Donald Trump. Students will be as bored by studying it as they are anything in history outside of the Holocaust and slavery.
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The Taki piece & this post are two of the most important commentaries on current affairs that have been written in the past century (at least). There are hundreds of paid mercenary pundits in both Prog Inc. & Con Inc., and not one of them would touch on these truths with a 10-foot pole. And since we’re being brutally honest & blunt, my 2 cents.
Yes, the humiliating collapse in Afghanistan is seminal bellweather event that foreshadows the beginning of the rapid change cycle here in the Good Ol’ USA. So let’s connects some dots. It’s easy to blame the epic & massive fuck-up in Afghanistan on the stupidity and corruption of the Bush, Obama, & Biden Administrations; but that is not where the real blame resides. Voters right here elected those morons & put them in charge. Why did they do this? Because most of our voting population (which now includes tens of millions of dead & illegal participants) is perfectly willing to sell its vote for another dollop of government gravy. More than half our population is now on the government dole, and since the Fed can print money FOREVER without consequence (really?), the vote bribing will never end. IOW, we are now politically captive to the cohort of parasites that have the “privilege” of selling their votes and selecting our leaders. And it only gets worse from here with the next amnesty on the way.
Collapse is inevitable and the Taliban success story is now our inspiration & hope for the future. They disappeared into the hills, bided their time, made life miserable & expensive for the invaders, and ultimately prevailed. If it can work there, it can work here. Take heart. The fight is just now beginning.
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“The big lesson is that the Washington regime never felt it necessary to subvert the culture of Afghanistan….If the Afghans were white, the empire would have accused them of Afghan privilege or maybe Afghan supremacy then set about destroying their culture…Of course, there would have been a heavy emphasis on women’s sports, perhaps fielding an all lesbian soccer team. None of that happened because that would have been insulting to the Afghans and their ways.”
Why did we do all of this in Iraq, and not Afghanistan? In Iraq we toppled statues, and we pushed women’s rights hard as a way to subvert the social order. A difference in motivation? Did we not really see enough “upside” or resources to exploit in the latter?
On a side note, when India became more democratic and “capitalist” we did the same thing as in Iraq– bolstered women’s rights for a softer subversion of the ancient social system. In with the bankers, out with the traditions.
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We did those thing in Iraq for the American TV cameras. In reality, the cultural efforts were superficial. It is why Iraq is now a client state of Iran.
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Everything is illusory in this culture, even our own empire it seems. Biden really is an apt symbol of American power. We are losing our grasp on things quite fast aren’t we…
Yes. But we cannot also discount the fact that Saddam looked like a duskier, pudgier moustache guy. No doubt the do-gooders imagined his take down to be of Hitlerian proportions…
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Waiting for the Monday press conferences to blame everything on Trump in three, two, one…….
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listening to this song on saturday called “everybody knows this is nowhere” by Neil Young. The title itself I feel is indicative of the state of things. Everybody (conservative and liberal alike) know that this is nowhere.
I am leaning more towards “Sugar Mountain.” Just listen and let your mind grasp why.
We no longer live there.
reading the lyrics – it sort of sounds like he’s describing a cult.
Did anyone ever actually think that this fiasco would end in any other way?
For your Book of Aphorisms (from Taki post): “The point of democracy is to have someone to blame when the people in charge need a scapegoat.”