Gentlemen what did I say in my previous post? The quote "emirate shall view them as occupiers and shall take a stance against them as they have taken against invaders throughout history" I think makes it clear.
Agreed and they have become more refined since their previous iteration of 1996-2001 when they could often appear to be uncouth idiots.
I have no idea what he is trying to do but certainly in my opinion this would be a terrible decision. You already have heard Taliban making it clear they don't want any foreign soldiers - by the way even Pakistan placed soldiers one inch inside Afghanistan Taliban would start killing them - despite many of those soldiers being ethnic Pakhtun/Pashtuns thus indifferant from Taliban themselves who also tend to be Pashtuns. Pakistan Army soldiers broadly are recruited from two major ethnic groups of Pakistan - Punjabi or Pakhtun/Pashtuns. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, the Finance minister of Pakistan a\s well as at least half of the governing cabinet are Pakhtun/Pashtuns right now. But on of this would cut a inch with Taliban. There is deep traditional culture also at work here. Although there are many ways of translating it but one of the most famous would be "come as a friend/guest and I will die protecting you. Come as univited/enemy I will die fighting you. And I think 40 years of fighting two superpowers has amply demonstrated this fact.Turkey, US in dialogue for post-withdrawal Afghanistan: NATO
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@Kaptaan what do you think is going on with these "talks" when Taliban has already labelled anyone remaining as "hostile occupiers". It's pretty obvious that anyone remaining is going to be a target, so it doesn't make sense to continue these talks.
I mean, the only reason I can see is that RTE is going to curry favour by sacrificing TSK soldiers on this mission. Which is going to cost him even more votes. He's lost 2023 so it doesn't make sense that he's trying to save what can be saved by sacrificing soldiers.
Either that or he's trying to find safe country to retire.
Doesn’t make sense. We’ll use s400 as we see fit. We don’t need US permission for this. Since all the dices on this has been cast.
Well let;s see how this plays out. Also it depends on how long the reserve force is left behind. Few months might be okay as strictly speaking September was the announced date. It could that the airport is needed to exfil friendlies out of Afghanistan like Afghans who worked for US military etc
