554 - Junkyard of Empires (8/31/21) by Chapo Trap House published on 2021-09-01T03:05:40Z Once more into the breach of Afghanistan takes: the media now turns to our precious abandoned military ordnance to hand-wring over, and Britain continues to feel the cold shoulder of the Biden administration. We also cover China’s new gaming ban, and an effort to gin up a BDS movement against the Taliban. Comment by comprehensiveanticipatorydesignscientist4livingry alexander fckd around and found out about afghanistan and never came back, hitler gnawed his teeth trying to accomplish what alex failed to do and blew out his brains when his treachery against stalin failed; then, when soviets finally actualized what hal mackinder theorized about afghanistan being the global *heartland, escaped nazi war criminals who secured safe passage to the united states via operation paperclip ratlines successfully infiltrated top of u.s. govt pyramid and literally invented the cold war for dual purposes of defeating the bolshevik champions of 1917 and realizing hitler's dream to control the afghanistan heartland by looting trillion$ from u.s. treasury and stealing u.s. elections under guise of occupying largest poppy/opium plantation on planet and manufacturing global opioid crisis even though it was the saudis (not afghans) who hijacked commercial airplanes on 9/11 and it was al-queda not taliban that provided shelter to saudi prince osama bin laden. Nice times 2021-09-10T19:23:01Z Comment by Graeme Scott That's freeze in Helheim for eternity, Matt 2021-09-05T12:37:02Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder They can't even call what Israel says propaganda, pro-Israel people called it by the modern Hebrew word "hasbara", which roughly means "explaining" but really means "this is our official line on the issue and you'd better agree with it or else." It is the most Orwellian thing out there within US media and online spaces and Israel and the United States are supposed to be free republics (as defined by outfits like Radio Free Europe or Freedom House, who are highly conservative), and yet one (Israel) has cajoled the other to allow their agents to get the US populace to agree wholeheartedly with anything they do, even if they somehow deport all the Palestinians to the Moon. The last time we had anything like the Israel Lobby in the US was during the 1940s with the China Lobby, and most of that apparatus was set up by Henry Luce of "Time" magazine and not imposed on America by Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang ("Nationalist") government before Mao won. 2021-09-05T04:50:26Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder Milo Yiannpoulous (remember when he claimed his surname was "Wagner" in print? We do.) still owes two (?) million dollars, last I heard, so he needs to wring as much money out of everything as he possibly can. 2021-09-05T02:49:23Z Comment by Four-Three-Five Recorder They made similar whines when the North Vietnamese beat South Vietnam and got scads of Armalite/Colt M-16s submachine rifles, Northrop F-5B "Freedom Fighter" fighter-bombers, scads of Kaiser two-ton trucks, a fleet of M-24 tanks (obsolete), and a bunch of the ancient Douglas AD-1 Skyraider "Spad" assault aircraft used by the S. Vietnamese Air Force. The fear was that the Vietnamese would sell the M-16s to any liberation army on Earth, and any classified material would go to Moscow. I don't know if they did sell the rifles, but stuff made it to the USSR. 2021-09-05T01:48:59Z Comment by Minifridge93 Delaware man monkaW 2021-09-04T17:00:25Z Comment by DJ NV OF MY OWN PRIVATE RADIO Boo the Barclay Nets, not that Chapo is about sports tho 2021-09-02T01:53:17Z Comment by Redfield-X I live for Matt's Clay Higgins voice <3 2021-09-01T16:28:38Z Comment by ElGee Oh, you think that's funny? You think that's funny, that the Taliban are going to kill those dogs? Does it even enter your mind what this means for all the American police officers who could and should be killing those dogs instead? 2021-09-01T15:31:44Z Comment by Kah Denn Worst that happens is some kids lose out on some gaming time 2021-09-01T15:07:01Z Comment by Kah Denn As a brit: I think a lot of my countrymen just want to believe that the empire is still here and strong, and that we still have a right to dictate world politics, and getting out of these countries is a glass of cold water to the face of these people, a wake up call that the empire is never coming back, and they're impotent to change that fact 2021-09-01T14:58:17Z Comment by CharlesCharley ahhh Late! 😭 2021-09-01T10:43:05Z Comment by Zona Ridder Mint! 💙 2021-09-01T06:14:25Z Comment by LeftOfDial Finally my slop has arrived! 2021-09-01T04:14:17Z Comment by De_pone Thank you kings been itching for my slop 2021-09-01T04:03:04Z Comment by Nuestra Civil War Finally my sloop 2021-09-01T03:40:11Z