Did the former guy get bribed by the Taliban in any way?

[duforsure]

To get the co-founder of the Taliban Abdul Baradar released from a Pakistan prison, and 5,000 Taliban fighters from prisons for money for his PAC's,, or for favors ? Maybe for this rush to retake the country to make Biden look bad. When it was announced from the start I felt his intentions were corrupt. I always suspected he's done this before with N.K. And others.

[Walleye]

1. Maybe. But there's also his natural inclination to cozy up to authoritarians everywhere

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." NT

[Hortensis]

13. :) Except when the people involved are also normally cruel and malicious. nt

[lagomorph777]

19. You're way too generous. Trump has always gone out of his way to be malicious.

He's very in-your-face about it.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Trump doesn't do anything unless there is a direct payoff for him.

So your question is a very legitimate one.

[gab13by13]

4. or orders from Putin.

[Renew Deal]

5. Or a half-baked attempt to look like a peacemaker.

[keithbvadu2]

15. He's still waiting for that 'Noble' Peace Prize.

He's still waiting for that 'Noble' Peace Prize.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Something that always bothered me - FG saying he'd planned a surprise trap for biden

[2naSalit]

17. +1

[Irish_Dem]

8. Yep. Same thing. Putin reduced his debt load. Or handed over incriminating pics.

So there was a quid pro quo.

[ariadne0614]

11. +1 n/t

[Hortensis]

14. My best guess is he sees the Taliban as shit-hole people.

The horse's ass-whisperers he admires, powerful dictators, are all enemies of the U.S. Putin's my best guess too, but any would have been happy to advise him.

tRump ran on getting out of Afghanistan. With toxic advice from the subversive extremists he surrounded himself with and imo almost certainly influence from foreign enemies, he made a deal with the advancing Taliban to mostly cease their advances while he drew down our troops to almost nothing, setting a date for final withdrawal of May 1, 2021. Regardless of whether he or Biden was president, we know now the end was going to go bad and look bad for the U.S.

[Treefrog]

6. I don't think we can blame this debacle on tfg.

Tempting as it might be.

[GoCubsGo]

10. No, but we can't ignore his role in this, either.

As is being done now.

[Klaralven]

9. Probably through some deal with the Saudis or Gulf States sponsors of the Taliban

The Taliban are the product of madrassas on the Pakistan border funded by the Wahhabis and other Islamic fundamentalists.

[rampartc]

12. i'd look to riyadh for those "contributions.

[ShazamIam]

16. It is more likely that the Taliban when governing Afghanistan will allow for multinational

corporations and investors to gain the rights to produce and market Afghanistan's resources. How weird is the fact that the Afghanistan government was excluded from the so called, peace talks?

[2naSalit]

18. +1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. No, TFG was just following Putin's order

TFG followed Putin's orders and Putin is very pleased with his employee of the month