Poll of the Day > Conspiracy theory: The CIA forced America to leave Afghanistan deliberately.

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Conspiracy theory: The CIA forced America to pull out of Afghanistan and leave behind U.S. military uniforms, equipment, and weapons deliberately so that the CIA can send shock troops to attack anyone they want without being bound by the rules of war, and then blame it on the Taliban if anyone sees them. When the general population cannot distinguish between U.S. soldiers and the Taliban, U.S. Special Forces and Black Ops are free to do whatever they want.

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Boo

Cia didn't force shit

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Blighboy posted...

Cia didn't force shit

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how does the cia force the president to do something

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you think trump would listen to the cia?

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helIy posted...

you think trump would listen to the cia?

I dont think that at any point trump had the actual power to oppose the CIA, and I would wonder whether Biden does either

Intelligence agencies largely run the world, and the CIA is the biggest predator in the water.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Boo

urns
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Blighboy posted...

Cia didn't force shit

good. you should never force a shit, it's not healthy
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Mead posted...

I dont think that at any point trump had the a ctual power to oppose the CIA, and I would wonder whether Biden does either

Intelligence agencies largely run the world, and the CIA is the biggest predator in the water.

cia doesn't have anything on china, or the kgb

shit, Russia is ran by the kgb


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highly doubt it, but its hardly the craziest conspiracy theory out there.

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helIy posted...

cia doesn't have anything on china, or the kgb

shit, Russia is ran by the kgb

the CIA largely controls the flow of geopolitical information into the most powerful and wealthiest nation on the planet. There are some areas where traditional journalism cant really penetrate.

Its ultimately up to them what conflicts we engage in around the world, the idea that its up to the people is largely a ruse, they are gonna do what they want to do regardless of what public opinion says

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The better conspiracy is follow the money.

With all that equipment "lost", US taxpayers get to watch their tax dollars spent on more military equipment. Basically, the industrial military complex gets to make more money and the US warmongering can keep going.

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Mead posted...

the CIA largely controls the flow of geopolitical information into the most powerful and wealthiest nation on the planet.

no i don't think the cia is doing that for china

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When did Bush say "Mission Accomplished"? That's when you were supposed to start leaving... of course a withdrawal that takes over 10 years will fail

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Lokarin posted...

When did Bush say "Mission Accomplished"? That's when you were supposed to start leaving... of course a withdrawal that takes over 10 years will fail

I think that was for Iraq.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I think that was for Iraq.

oopsie, yup - my bad

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Lokarin posted...

When did Bush say "Mission Accomplished"? That's when you were supposed to start leaving... of course a withdrawal that takes over 10 years will fail

youre thinking of iraq

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helIy posted...

no i don't think the cia is doing that for china

China isnt anywhere near as influential or wealthy as the US. We have the most expansive and well equipped military and Air Force on the planet, and have nearly double their wealth.

They have the largest population and land based army, a ton of new consumers, and a booming economy on the verge of a terrible collapse due to overdevelopment and overvaluing in real estate where people dont even live.

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"We had to engineer a Taliban takeover because it was the only way we could prevent a Taliban takeover!"

"We couldn't just do something cheap, simple and safe and falsely claim that US-supplied uniforms and equipment had been stolen or captured. No sir, we had to actually let the whole country fall and the entire regime collapse instead."

"And then we would reinvade, except that we're not."

"Then once we reinvaded (although we're not going to), we'd be able to relax the rules of engagement because only by killing civilians can we hope to defeat the Taliban whose victory we've deliberately ensured. And we all know that the American public would never for one day tolerate a counterinsurgency campaign that resulted in any civilian casualties! Of course, it'd know about them because there's just no way to cover up such incidents except by fantastically elaborate ploys that involve letting the Taliban take over the entire country."

Yeah, all of that sounds eminently plausible. I'm sold.

Or, less sarcastically: what a pile of bullshit nonsense.

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Criminalt posted...

"only by killing civilians can we hope to defeat the Taliban whose victory we've deliberately ensured."

Oh, the purpose isn't to defeat the Taliban. They're already secretly controlled by the Pentagon, anyway. The real goal is to use the Taliban as proxy agents against Russia and China.

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ComradeSeraphim posted...

Oh, the purpose isn't to defeat the Taliban.

In your original fantasy, the whole purpose of this horseshit was supposedly to free US special forces to go back in and fight the Taliban and get away with killing civilians. So now you've decided instead that letting the Taliban win has been the whole point all along, except the Pentagon (no longer the CIA, I notice) needed to wait for 20 years first?

Jesus Christ. Conspiracy fantasies truly are that subset of the Venn diagram where mental illness overlaps with stupidity. Luckily you're just kicking around some daft ideas for shits and giggles instead of actually believing this stuff. There are some people who fall into that subset who actually will latch onto a theory like this, you realise?

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It's standard for the US to dump their shit, and it's not even unique to them. The Afghan fighters were often seen using Russian equipment from their 80s campaign.

Never assign to malice that which you can assign to stupidity.
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