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Deminpenn

(16,082 posts)
4. Another foreign journalist was interviewed
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 05:35 AM
Aug 2021

yesterday about 10:30PM local time. He said Kabul was generally calm. Apparently the other cities were captured with little to no resistance and are also calm.

Engel is going for max sensationalism unfortunately.

JI7

(90,237 posts)
6. Even here the guys are kind of cheering . It doesn't look like the desperation of Vietnamese
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 06:15 AM
Aug 2021

The fact is most of the men are ok with the Taliban . It's why these guys are there rather than doing anything to defend the country against the Taliban.

obamanut2012

(27,716 posts)
7. Man, DUers are sure falling for Russian propo
Mon Aug 16, 2021, 07:29 AM
Aug 2021

I am seeing clickbait, unsourced, obvious propo with Cyrillic captions posted as truth.

Remember the Kuwait incubator story, complete with video? And the Jessica Lynch propo (still major pprops for her and her family refusing to be used).

Trust nothing unsourced by legit folks, and even with legit folks, check it out.

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