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When the inexperienced President just came to power, American troop levels in Afghanistan were about 7,000 in 2016 and looking to draw down further. But the Deep State manufactured Russiagate delusion appeared, along with a concerted coup by the FBI and CIA to putsch out the duly elected President by a variety of illegal means other than Russiagate (which specifically was meant as a war of attrition taking us into 2020 elections, if plans A and B failed).
In this confused atmosphere of inexperience and Jared Kushner's Hassidic Ouija board, General 'Mad Dog' Mattis was appointed Secretary of Defense......to make the new administration appear bullish, tough and patriotic???? especially on defense. But sadly General Mattis was the closet homosexual Zen Master who wrote up the invasion of Afghanistan a good couple years before 9/11(indicating malice aforethought...and Deep State complicity in 9/11 planning) ...he was not a man who thought outside of the box addressing the MASSIVE ENDEMIC CORRUPTION and INEFFICIENCY of the Pentagon but rather played the company man who ran the business as usual model defending ALL its mistakes to the last cent. (hooker hotels, golf courses, gold plated toilet seats...and much much much more)
The DNC didn't exactly help the President appoint the right people, either. Filtering out good guys and shoooing in their Deep State comrades under Obama and the Republicans.
Zen Master Mattiss in this situation of fluidity and uncertainty pushed for what his Deep State Masters wanted.....more troops on the ground in Afghanistan protecting the Opium harvests in the country. The President caved in against his better instincts, and the troops were doubled in Afghanistan.
But now Russiagate is all but over even if the DNC goes into a Moby Dicky mode. Mattis is out, working for the corporate MIC presumably....and the President is in a much stronger position.
So now in the short term American troop levels go back to their 2016 levels, and there after none left in the country.
President Trump can claim to have brought peace to a 40 year old conflict, and bring the boys back home which the majority of Americans want. It is a domestic and international success.
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Taliban Says Differences With US on Afghanistan Troop Pullout Resolved, US mum on talks.
The Taliban was not very specific about what was decided, as technical teams continued to meet. The US, interestingly, has refused to comment on the matter at all, beyond Zalmay Khalilzad saying they had made “excellent progress.”
There had previously been suggestions that a deal could be announced at the end of these talks, but that doesn’t seem to be happening. Progress or not, the talks are still advancing.
But they might not be done by next month’s Afghan presidential election, and that has the Taliban condemning that vote as a ploy, and threatening to attack election rallies that are held.
