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After 20 years of evading us forces,
Afghan forces and NATO forces and hiding
in caves, the Taliban have finally
emerged and within, I don't know, 14
days, less than two weeks, they have
swept through the nation of Afghanistan.
They have waltz up to the capital Kabul.
They knocked on the gates and the
Afghan government and military.
Simply handed over the keys time,
transporting Afghanistan back 20 years
to 2001 erasing all of the gains that,
that women and children, religious
Liberty, uh, freedom of press and
freedom of speech had gained and
earned and fought for over 20 years
and nullifying all the loss of lives.
Over to nearly 250,000 lives combined
between Afghanis Pakistanis and us NATO
forces were lost, including civilians in
there were lost in this 20 year period,
reassuring back into power, the Taliban
and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
Hey, it's Lucas and you're listening
to the Lucas robot show where
we uncover purpose, pursue truth
and own the future episode 249.
It is the late afternoon of August 15th,
2021, which is vitally important because
by the time that you are listening to
this, most of what we'll talk are talking
about will have already transpired.
That is right.
As we speak the, the president of
Afghanistan, Vani, he is resigning
and he is signing power over to a
transitionary government that will
transform Afghanistan back into what.
Most likely in the nineties in 2001, it
used to be the, uh, the Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan under the Taliban rule.
And that is exactly ladies and
gentlemen, what it is going back to.
Now this transition of power
has been, uh, a peaceful one.
There's the, the Taliban has met virtually
no resists as they marched to the capital.
And at the Capitol and
Kabul, no resistance.
They, they walked in.
They asked the police to surrender.
They did.
They walked up to the presidential palace
and hugs and kisses, and they signed
over the government without, without
any bullets fired, just like that.
Without any resistance that the
Taliban now have seized military bases
they've seized the what used to be
the largest, uh, foreign operation S
uh, operation based in air force base.
Uh, in the middle east, they've seized it.
They've seized Humvees, uh, airplanes,
black Hawk helicopters, and they've now
negotiated an interim, uh, government
or presidency that will train Zishan
Afghanistan from what they are today.
Back into the Islamic.
Emirate of Afghanistan,
they are putting into power.
Most likely this transitionary,
uh, administration will
be co-directed by Moolah.
Barada a Taliban leader.
Ali Ahmed.
Jalali, who's the former minister of
internal affairs for Afghanistan and a
former employee of the voice of America,
which is most likely a price that the
Taliban knew they would have to pay
in order to be recognized by the west,
because that is extremely important that
if the us probably has not learned very
much since Vietnam since 1975, apparently.
They've not learned much, but
the Taliban certainly have.
They've learned that if they want to
be in power, they have to have the
approval of some of the world powers.
They need to at least have
a level of recognition.
And that is what they have
gained as what they've won.
And it's clear by the fact that there has
been no resistance that they just waltz in
that they have, they have enough leverage.
With world leaders and enough
leverage within Afghanistan,
that they were able to do it.
This, this like a cakewalk.
Well, if you remember back in July, uh,
president Biden, as he was announcing
his grandiose plans of, of pulling out
of Afghanistan, he was asked at a press
conference of whether or not he thought.
That Afghanistan would
fall to the Taliban forces.
This is what president Biden had
to say back in July, July 8th.
I believe there's a Tali bond
takeover of Afghanistan now.
Inevitable.
No, it is not because you have
the Afghan troops have 300,000.
Well-equipped as well as crypto as
any army in the world and an air force
against something like 75,000 times.
It is not inevitable.
It's not inevitable.
He says he went on in this, in this press
conference to say, there's going to be
the Taliban, overrunning, everything,
and owning the whole country is highly.
Well, two, six weeks later.
Yeah, he was drunk four to six weeks
later from this clip, everything fell
apart for the U S NATO forces and it's,
it's somewhat of a baffling mystery.
It's a mystery that here there's
300,000 well-trained troops that
are, have military support, have
an air force that have vehicles.
And yet there was no,
there was no resistance.
There's no standing up and
fighting for their own country.
It makes you wonder why.
Why is this?
And as I've been pondering this, this
is my, my own thoughts on the matter.
I don't have hardcore data.
I don't have the interviews to back
this up, but my suspicion is the app.
Districts began to fall.
And as it was evident that the military
was not going to, to resist the Taliban,
were people or disheartened that here,
here that the American troops are leaving.
We've been at war for 20 years.
Are we going to hold onto the nation?
Are we going to hold onto the rights and
liberties that we have fought so hard?
Is that's really what it is.
It's not just a, well, it's not just an
American idea of quote unquote democracy
that was fought for it, but it was
actual women's rights girls being able
to go to school past the sixth grade.
Girls not being forced into, into forced
marriages as minors, that by, at the,
at the young age of 12, which is now
happening, the Taliban forces are going
around knocking on doors and saying,
Hey, do you have any young single girls?
Because they're going to be forced
married to our, our military.
Are are Taliban.
Soldiers is already happening.
It's not just this mythical idea
of quote unquote, the Western world
freedom, but it's actual, it's actual
civil rights that were fought for that.
The Afghan people valued and appreciated
as we'll get into later on in this
episode, actually hearing from people
on the ground and what they feel and
think about everything that's happened.
It is just heartbreaking.
It is heartbreaking to
see, and my suspicion.
Is that as the people saw that the
government was not going to, to rally
that the military was not going to
rally, it would be makes sense to me to
say, well, I'm not going to fight back
against the Taliban because if indeed
the government is just going to fold
and fall over that this was just a front
that was being supported by the U S.
Troops and forces for all, for all
these 20 years, but there was no
substance of backbone behind the
military to unite against the Taliban.
Then I would almost in the same,
same side, be like, yeah, I'm not
going to try to fight against the
Taliban as they roll through my stuff.
As they roll through my military base.
I'm just going to hand it over because
I'm not going to be backed by the
rest of the military and not going to
be, be backed by the U S government.
I'm not going to be backed by NATO.
So it's going to be better
for me to surrender than try
to fight and lose my life.
And have my family lose their lives.
If there is no unified support,
if the nation is going to be given
over anyways, why should I resist?
Why should I fight?
That's my opinion.
Well, apparently president Biden
did not foresee this happening
as we played in those clips.
So it is highly unlikely.
This is nearly inconceivable, but.
Here we are four to six
weeks later from this clip.
Afghanistan has fallen in Afghanistan.
It has now turned into, or if not
turning into the, the Islamic Emirate
of Afghanistan with the Taliban,
having taken full control over it,
the military now in the same press
conference, there was a, another.
Brilliant, nearly prophetic, uh, question
that was asked of president Biden, but
either he either bite and just was blind.
Or, and just didn't have the foresight.
Didn't want to see the possibilities
of what would come from, just pulling
troops out without any sort of, but
without any sort of checks without
any sort of negotiations without
any sort of insurance, to make sure
that the nation would remain safe.
Maybe he just didn't want to see it
or, or maybe he just didn't care to see
it, or maybe no one saw this coming,
but here is a Biden being asked about.
Is there any correlation, is there any
resemblance between what has happened
or what at that point would happen
in Afghanistan and what happened
all the way back in 1975 in Vietnam?
Do you see any parallels between
this withdrawal and what happened
in Vietnam with some people feeling.
Zero.
What you had is you had entire gage
breaking through the gates of our embassy.
Six of I'm not mistaken.
The Taliban is not the south,
the north Vietnamese army.
They're not, they're not remotely
comparable in terms of capability.
There's going to be no circumstance where
you see people being lifted off the road.
Of a embassy in the, of the
United States from Afghanistan?
Well, not at all comfortable.
Oh man.
He got this half, right?
He got this half, right.
That it's not comparable to Vietnam
because there was no fighting.
There was th th th the Taliban
just walked into the city.
They just walked through the nation
with virtually zero resistance.
There's a couple of cities where there was
fighting and resistance for about a day.
Other than that, th the Capitol
itself did not resist at.
But , he kind of had it half, right.
American troops weren't being pulled
off of the roof of the embassy,
but helicopters right now are going
back and forth, trying to evacuate
all the American citizens, all the
U S staff destroy the sensitive
documents within the, the embassy.
There've been videos coming out of stacks,
black smoke coming up from the embassy as
the burn sensitive documents and work to
destroy everything Biden even w was caught
was even begging, begging the Taliban.
Please, please, please.
Whatever you do, don't
don't take our embassy.
Don't take our embassy.
You know, if, if you're coming into, into
the Capitol spare our embassy, please.
And I'm sure that the Taliban probably
will do that because they know that.
If they strike back against the U
S forces as they are running well,
if you're going to kick a dog, as
it runs, the dog is likely to turn
around and nip you and bite you.
And they don't want that.
They have, they have their victory.
America is pulling out.
So it makes sense that they
are not going to storm.
The U S embassy.
So Biden has it half, right.
But when you look at pictures from 1975
in Saigon, in Vietnam, where helicopters
were flying over the U S embassy, pulling
people out, pulling, uh, Vietnamese.
Out of Vietnam, as they slowly pulled
the Americans out of the embassy, they
intentionally, these helicopters were
sent just to get the, the American
staff and to get the ambassador.
But the ambassador said no way, I'm
I going to just abandon all these
south Vietnamese people, they are
getting on these helicopters too.
And so they evacuated.
Uh, hundreds of south Vietnamese
people from the U S embassy and the
same thing is happening right now.
We have a similar image from the embassy
in Afghanistan with, with a helicopter
flying over the embassy landing on the
embassy grounds, pulling out U S staff.
Translators people who've worked
with the U S military and the
situation there outside, uh, outside
of the embassy is quite horrible.
There are, the streets are packed
with cars, jam packed that.
The military bases have
fallen to the Taliban.
The airport has fallen to the Taliban.
Uh, people were, had been trying to
get out for days, and yet now all
of the boarding border crossings,
all of the border crossings
are controlled by the Taliban.
I saw an image of, uh, of people
standing in line trying to get passport.
So that they could attempt
to leave the country.
The line was five there's,
one office in Kabul.
The line was 5,000 people.
Another image of the one office where
you can get a special emergency visa
as a political refugee to America
or con Canada, or even Qatar.
Right now they're taking some people.
There's one guy who's doing the
English translation with hundreds of
people packed in, standing in line.
And that was shut down by the Taliban.
So when he says.
There's no resemblance.
There's no resemblance between
what has happened in 1975
and what's happening today.
Enough Panasonic.
In fact, no, there's
nothing but resemblance.
There's nothing but
resemblance in a 20 year war.
That has now a mounted in nothing.
And just the, the tucking
tail and running there.
There's nothing but resemblance between
people fighting and running to get out.
A lot of people I've heard, you know,
say, well, you know, what do the
people on the ground thing, maybe,
maybe this is a positive thing.
It's not a positive thing.
When people are rushing to the airports,
when the streets are packed and crowded,
as people are trying to flee the city
because they fear for their lives.
Oftentimes, we like to make these,
these correlations that, oh, well,
you know, America and the American
troops are no worse than the
Taliban and the Taliban troops.
If that is true, if that is true, then
why is everyone trying to get out?
Why are people fleeing?
There's actually a vast difference.
There is a vast difference.
It doesn't mean that America's without
corruption doesn't mean that American
troops haven't done wicked things.
That is all true.
Doesn't mean that there, there
is no blood on our hands.
It doesn't even mean that we had
a, that going into Afghanistan was
a good idea in the first place.
But I am saying it, it says something
when you see the people of Afghanistan
fleeing to get out, because they
do not want to be under the regime.
Of the Taliban, this, I don't
know who this is good for.
It doesn't seem like this would
be a very good move for us policy
to just let this happen or further
their standing in the world.
Uh, Russia.
However, in China, they have made
relationships with the total.
And the, the Talibani government,
they, the Russian embassy is
staying there in, uh, in Kabul.
I know that the UK is trying to get
their people out, uh, as well as
India is getting their people out.
In matter of fact, the Taliban.
As sieged and not even see it, it
wasn't even a war have, have entered
into Kabul today on the 15th, which is
the anniversary of India's independent.
And some of my sources are saying that
that is intentional because India is,
has not opened up any sort of diplomatic
relationships with the Taliban.
And so the fact that the Taliban is
pushing forward so quickly to move
in and sign power on the same day
of Indian independence, many people.
If this is a, a, uh, uh, not a happy
wink, but a wink, insane, any sort of
resistance or counteractions from the
Indian government will not be tolerated.
We have our eye on you.
We know what's going on.
Uh, all in all.
This is shocking.
Of course, I do not think people saw
this coming and people, people said,
you know, within a couple of weeks,
couple of my fall, and then it was
within 72 hours, couple of my fault.
And now it's, it was 48 hours later.
Not, and not only.
Was there no resistance, but the
president resigned and he and I, again,
I have a level of empathy after 20
years of fighting 20 years of bliss,
the president Vani said in a previous
statement, I will not let the imposed
war on people cause more deaths.
That's what he said.
He said, you know what?
We've had so many deaths.
I am not going to continue this war.
In other words, if the Taliban
come in, I am going to fold and I'm
going to give them power because
I do not want to see any more
bloodshed of the Afghan people now.
It time will tell time will tell
what is true regarding this.
But the question, the question stands for
so many is okay, are we, are we giving up?
And are we winning a temporary victory?
Call it of lives.
This ain't no.
Hey, we're not going
to go to war right now.
We're not going to fight now.
We're not going to resist.
Now.
We're going to preserve lives now.
So that in the future, We
can, we can be preserved.
Are we going to save lives now?
But what happens when the Taliban truly
go back to how they were in the nineties?
Will they suffer a greater loss later?
Will they suffer a greater loss
under that regime will their
children and their girls suffer a
greater loss underneath that regime.
And it would have been.
If they fought now better if they stood
their ground now and made sure that not
one of those provinces were lost to the
Taliban starting a number of weeks ago,
which would have signaled straight.
To their military, but instead
weakness was signaled and, and the
Taliban has, has now come into power.
And, uh, that ends, that
ends a 20 year conflict.
And that does it does put it on the
same footing, the same ground we're
seeing nearly identical images.
From Vietnam from 1975 to what we're
seeing today in Afghanistan in 2021.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
A post-truth society where we have
exchanged truth for lies and reason
for postmodern irrationality.
The absurd finally make sense.
And there is.
Of absurdity that is going on, uh, in the
geopolitics surrounding what has happened
and is happening quite now in Afghanistan.
Here is Jen Saki, uh, commenting on,
uh, the Taliban's place in the, in the
international community, and also has to
make an assessment about what they want
their role to be in the international.
The Taliban has to make an assessment
of who and where they want to be
in the international community.
Do you know this, this idea?
It comes back to some things we've
touched on already in today's
show is that multiculturalism?
Is a good thing and yes,
it's great to have diversity.
Not everyone needs to be cookie cutter,
shake shapes, uh, there a multitude of
cultures in the world, and it's great that
each culture has their own expression.
I love that, but what gets tricky is.
It becomes not just an embracing
of diversity and multiple cultures,
but it becomes multi-cultural
ism within multi-cultural ism.
It's this idea.
That's the idea is that
every idea has equal footing.
That everyone's cultural is equally
good that everyone, you know, some
people might express their, their
politics differently, but over.
It's all the same.
It all has the same outcome.
We're all basically unequal footing.
There is a level when you look
at humanity as a whole, yes, we
are all are on the same footing.
We all.
Hearts that are wickedly disciple.
We have a propensity to evil and
benevolence it's inside of each
and every human being, but the
constitution of a society, the
way that a society is structured.
And the ideas that informed that structure
actually have a vast difference on
the outcomes that that society will.
And we, we, we witnessed this throughout
socialistic or, or socialism or communism
when you take the ideas of communism and
you apply it to a society, you see the.
The same thing when it comes to
capitalism, when you apply the
ideas of capitalism to a society,
you see the outcome, what's the
outcome of communism, poverty, mass,
mass destruction, mass starvation.
It's happened every time.
What is the outcome of,
of ideas like capitalism?
Th the freedom to work
and to keep what you make.
Well, the ideas from that is the reduction
of poverty lifting billions of people out
of poverty over the last a hundred years.
Different ideas do have different
fruits and different outcomes.
But when we take like Jen Saki is doing
right here saying, well, they just have
to decide who they want to be at the
table of the international community.
That's implying that we're all on
equal footing, that their ideas
about women or women's rights or
girls or freedom of speech, freedom
of religion, freedom of thought.
That well, they're all
pretty much the same.
Well, apparently not all people
think that they're the same, of
course the west, uh, especially
as we've embraced postmodernism,
everybody's we have embraced globalism.
We say, well, it's all the same.
It's you know, we're all.
Making it together, whatever,
whatever your relative truth
is, is your relative truth.
But when you live in the country,
when you live in the situation,
it becomes much different.
Here is a clip from NPR.
Talking about the, the status on
the ground, uh, in Afghanistan,
in the areas of the Taliban have
conquered, though, it all looks a
little too familiar to most Afghans.
The Taliban has not changed at all in
their conduct on the ground Hossain hook.
Connie is a former Pakistani
ambassador to the U S who is
now at the Hudson Institute.
Yeah.
So in the areas that the tolerance.
Have been controlling
over, over the last weeks.
We see that it has not changed.
It has not changed since the nineties.
So they've, they've brilliantly.
I figured out how to rebrand themselves,
how to put a new face on the Taliban.
Thanks to multiculturalism.
You know, what, what seat at the
table do you want to have now
that you you're buddy, buddy,
up with the powers of the west.
Just let us know, you know, what sort
of font you want and you'll be fine.
It doesn't matter.
What's actually in the package.
It doesn't matter what
the outplay actually is.
As long as you play along with it, the
game they have been executing people,
somatically, they have been laughing.
Uh, women, they have been
shutting down schools, they
have been blowing up hospitals.
Uh, the only thing that has changed is
that they understand the need for a little
more international acceptance of them.
The last time they were in power,
the Taliban were isolated from much
of the rest of the global community.
The U S has spent the past few years
hammering out a peace deal with them.
And in recent weeks, Taliban
leaders have been to.
Russia and China Medea also
is a fellow in foreign policy
at the Brookings institution.
That's a problematic message
because it essentially legitimizes
them without them having to engage
in a reduction in violence are
obviously better, still a cease fire.
Now this, this might be one
of the biggest mistakes that.
President Donald Trump made, and this
is a little off the cuff, but the, one
of the biggest mistakes he might have
made is normalizing relations with, uh,
the Afghan now the Afghan government.
And just as they're seen in
this clip, the tolerance.
Normalizing relationships
with the Taliban government.
Excuse me.
The Taliban has gone to Russia has
gone to Iran, has gone to China and
they've begun to normalize all of
these relationships, which really have,
have paved away for this sweeping.
Of of Afghanistan.
Now, president Biden tried to lay this
catastrophe at the feet of Donald Trump
saying, no, I heard her, I inherited this
deal from, uh, uh, uh, my predecessor
and, uh, because, uh, no, because
of that, it's really not my fault.
But then you also said I'm not going
to pass this on to another president.
He's a fourth president too, to
have this war and he's not going
to pass it on, which is great.
I don't think anyone wants to see the war
passed on for, for another four years.
No one is saying that, but I don't
think anyone wanted to see America just
jumped ship and, and let the people who
have been resisting or the women or the
children who have been going to work
or setting up schools for young girls.
We don't want to see them put at risk
their lives, put in danger because of,
uh, president Biden, deciding just to
pull, to pull people out full force.
I don't know what the deal was between
Trump and, and maybe his plans of
how he would have pulled it out.
But I have a feeling now knowing, uh,
what we know about president Donald
Trump, former president, Donald Trump,
that he probably would not have been.
So maybe not reckless, but just so laser
fair about it, just so weak about it.
He loves to make sure
that America looks strong.
And because of that, I have a feeling
he wouldn't let this, this happened the
weight that it has, but instead we have.
Biden and Biden has said, you
know what, this isn't my fault.
This is Trump's fault.
I'm not gonna take responsibility
with the way that we handle it out.
Uh, handled, pulling out
I'm I don't regret it.
And, uh, we're just going to get
our people out of Afghanistan and.
Even though he said, it's going
to look nothing like Vietnam.
It is exactly like Vietnam.
Well, some more people on the ground
about the B the stance that Afghanistan
or that, uh, the Taliban really want to
have at the international community as.
Women are being lashed.
People are being painted in blackface
and tarred and toured around the
cities after being beaten and
rash to serve them a sentence.
Uh, people who've been accused of
stealing have been, as this happened,
two executions have been happening
across Afghanistan by the taller.
So when you ask yourself, what place do
they want at the table, but sort of what
sort of reputation do they want to have?
Well, they want to have one reputation at
the international table and they want to
run the country in a very different way.
Here is my haboob, uh, strategy
from the contacts you've been able
to speak to around Afghanistan.
Just tell us how women are fairing in the
cities that have fallen to the Taliban.
Um, the situation is extremely bad.
Um, the woman that I have been talking to,
or they are reporting to us, especially
the human rights defenders or the civil
society members, or just the ordinary
people that they were working in offices.
Uh, they are all, um, uh,
leaving, uh, most of these people.
Um, especially from condos area and
you're trying to get to some safe
places, whatever they are, some of
them are trying to come to Cabo or go
to Mazari Sharif with their families.
So the situation is extremely bad and
one in what makes me really extremely.
Yeah.
Um, how should I say?
Very sad is the fact that now
Afghanistan and the lives of the
African people has become a subject
of the Twitters of the world.
And the, and, and just, you know,
uh, places like the United nations
or they're all, you know, treating
now about Afghanistan and that's all
they're going to be doing about it.
And everybody is just watching to
see what's going to be happening.
I don't know what it is
that they're all expecting.
That is going to happen in games though.
Well, I think Mr.
Rogers, this she is so right here it is.
Afghanistan has moved from actual steps
that can be taken to help Afghan people
and arguably some of it wasn't good.
Arguably, there were mistakes made,
but here this, this Afghan woman is
saying now it's, it's just going to be
something that gets tabled at the UN.
And it's just going to get shuffled
and buried underneath global warming.
It's going to get shuffled
and buried against, uh, the
LGBTQ rights across the globe.
It's going to be shuffled and Berry
as another line item that people
are going to pontificate about as.
Very little will end up getting
done for the Afghan people,
to all of us that they want.
I don't understand it.
I really don't understand.
The situation is really
about . Uh, by this Mr.
Raja, I'm sure that many people are
wishing the people of Afghanistan all
the very best and hoping that the, and
she has a point here is, is it the death?
Is it the death of, of the, did you
want to all of us that they want?
I don't understand it.
Okay.
Well, she goes on in this interview
with TRT world and she just lays
into the, the ruling elite of the
world who are really just using
Afghanistan as a pawn in their own game.
Not seeming to.
Not seeming to take care and to
consider or use empathy or, or use
caution when it comes to the health
and safety of the most vulnerable
Afghan people to those one readers.
I'm going to say it really shame on you.
I'm going to say to the whole
world, shame on you for, for
what you did to Afghanistan.
Why did you have to do what
you did and why you're doing
this to this part of the world?
I don't know.
I mean, are you already using all of us
or we being just the ponds in your hands?
Is that what it is?
I don't understand it, but I really,
really, you know, the fact that we
don't have any hopes from you and
the fact that that really, I don't
even want to talk to you at all
because the talking time is over.
We talked to you with
the mom that we asked.
We, we, we did everything
and, and nobody paid any yet.
They just made decisions with their
gut feelings or whatever, all of these
men of the world that they are in
power and they are destroying what,
something that we worked so hard for.
What is happening in Afghanistan today
is going to put this country 200.
Yeah, yes.
Back again.
And how are we going to do that again?
Again, for me, I'm not going to see
anything good about this generation.
I'm going to be gone.
I won't even see my country
doing what it's supposed to be.
Well, not only me, but a whole lot
of other people, even for the young
generation, what are we going to do now?
There's going to be an Exodus of the
Africans again, leaving this country.
So what I'm going to do, we are going
to sit again and fight again and lose
again, and then make another generation.
And then for, for the world to make
another stupid decision and destroy
us all, is this what is going on?
I don't understand it.
This Boba, this lady.
She's right.
That this is putting this nation
200 years back, not just 20 years
back, it was just it's this vicious,
endless cycle of atrocity and war.
As she said, all the Afghan people,
th the educated people, the ones who
were working to develop the nation,
the ones that were working to develop.
Childhood education for young
girls to develop society.
They're going to leave and they
are leaving the, our fleet.
What happens to a nation and
what happens to the youth.
And as she rightly put, is it
just, are they just pawns to be
used by the powers of the world?
Just in one day and the next.
Without any regard for the millions
of lives that are on the line?
It is, it is shocking days.
It is shocking days that we are in.
We are truly in incredible
days in the earth.
We're in the midst of a shift
of times in seasons across the.
And obviously this started back in 2020
with everything that was happening and
the globalization that's happening,
but we're also seeing a massive
shifts of, of power and a swing of
power, which seems to be a way from
America in to China and to Russia.
Uh, we are, we are in an epoch shift.
And we see it right
now in the middle east.
We see it with deals being made
between Israel and UAE and Bahrain.
We see it with an increase of conflict
between between Gaza and Hamas and Israel.
We see it.
In Afghanistan with the
Taliban coming back to power.
What this all means, where
this all, so heads we, we will,
we will see in the future.
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Welcome back.
I'm a part of the show where we take
ancient wisdom and we weave it in with
our every day lives so that we can
own our future and weave our destiny.
Well, today's quote comes from the
one and only son sued the art of war.
What would be, it would be
wrong of us not to include a
quote today from the art of war.
Since we were talking about, uh,
the falling of the U S military
in Afghanistan, it's, it's not
just that they've retreated.
Uh, when you look at the.
This all happened, but it
was a clear, a clear loss.
So no, no better place to turn.
Then the art of war and this quote is the
Supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy
without fighting the Supreme art of war.
Is this, do the enemy
without fighting now.
It certainly seems like the Afghanistan,
Taliban army really nailed that one.
I mean, they, they, they figured out
how to hide and, and use guerrilla
warfare and, uh, evade, the Afghani,
Afghans troops, the American troops
and the Taliban, or the, the NATO
troops, excuse me, for 20 years.
They, they slept, they just waited
it out for 20 years as they have
been doing for hundreds of years,
the Afghan people are warring people.
They, they, they, they
kicked the Russians out.
They lost their, and the Americans, as
I said, it was a fool's errand for them
to go in and think that they could win.
There were gains that happened as
we saw, you know, even from Booba,
has she described that we've lost
so much now with w with these world
superpowers, just saying we're done
with you, not fend for yourselves.
Good luck.
After fighting, fighting.
20 years after.
And it's not just like Americans
came in and fought for 20 years
or NATO came in, but the Afghan
people fought for their own land.
They fought for their own people.
Side-by-side with American troops
and NATO troops and Australian troops
for 20 years, UK troops for 20 years.
And as she said, it's like, what?
Now?
Now you just abandoned us.
And all of the, all of the lives that
were sacrificed for, for freedom of, as I
said, freedom of religion, freedom of, uh,
equal rights for women and young girls to
be able to go to school and be educated.
Those are all going to
be wiped off the board.
It happened in two weeks,
wiped off the board.
So the Taliban, they were
able to hold their breath.
Wait for the right moment.
Move the right chess pieces, get the
right, the right influence, the right
international recognition from, from
nations like America, Russia, China, Iran.
So that.
In the inevitable day that America
would finally leave, they would be able
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
And they did.
They walked straight into the
Capitol and they were given the
keys to the kingdom without a fight.
So hand clap to the Taliban for winning
this, the Supreme art of war metal.
Uh, you win.
Absolutely.
I mean, clear as day there,
it took them 20 years.
They realized, you know, the
quote before the proverb, before.
This sun Tzu quote, it says, hence to
fight and conquer in all your battles is
not Supreme excellence in his translation.
It says Supreme excellence
consists of breaking the enemy's
resistance without fighting.
And this is what the Taliban did.
They said, you know what?
We're not going to win all of our
battles because that's not Supreme
excellence, but we are going
to break American's resistance.
Without fighting and they, it took
them 20 years to do it, but nearly 20
years to the day they did, they did.
So if, if we're handing out metals on
this show, the Taliban would get the
metal for the Supreme court, heart of war.
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