Oh lovely. Hopefully they don’t go out of their way to make it our problem this time…
They've gone out of their way to make it our problem this time mate...
As much as we in the west have shifted our collective ADHD focus to major power conflict - citing Russia vs Ukraine and a potential China vs Taiwan as our reasons for doing so - our enemies haven't taken their eyes off of us.
Hamza Bin Laden (the son of UBL) was a key player in the Benghazi attacks, and is living a fairly comfortable life in Kabul - with the full knowledge and protection of the Taliban.
ISIS & the Taliban used to fight each other and not get along. Now, they actively work together. (Plus a bunch of other terrorist organizations that have all become quite cozy with each other since the west pulled out of Afghanistan.)
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Guess who issues legit Afghan passports, legally recognized in most countries? One of the Haqqani brothers (I shit you not...)
Yet neither Canada or the US have flagged Afghan passports for mandatory additional screening. (Not that it would do any good since the person picking up the phone in the issuing country is a member of the Taliban...)
Rumour has it that the Taliban government has issued thousands of passports to it's fighters for the explicit purpose of gaining entry to the west. (These are legitimate, government issued passports that knowingly state potentially false names & DOB information)
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I said a while ago that we, the collective west, are in for some major terror attacks - and I was dismissed pretty quickly...
And to be fair, I probably did sound alarmist.
But I'll say it again - the chances of some major terrorist attacks happening throughout Europe and North America are so f**king high I'm tempted to say it's almost a guarantee.
(And I'm not talking about the kind of terrorist attacks we've seen in the past either)
I say this based on the relationships that have developed between the various groups + the actions those groups have taken in recent years (say the last 15 years or so) + the HUGE opportunity they've had to get their people established here in the west.
I also say this because of the southern US border situation under Biden + the still
massive amount of people the GoC is trying to import each year, plus the open borders along Europe's eastern reaches.
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Just because we've taken our eye off the ball for the last decade & forgotten about our enemies doesn't mean our enemies have taken their eyes off of us...
They are absolutely wanting to make this our problem, in some pretty big ways.
My 2 cents anyway...