The graveyard of EMPIRES and their WAR MACHINES. Talibans have turned their planes into swings and toys..... pic.twitter.com/GMwlZKeJT2
— Lijian Zhao 赵立坚 (@zlj517) September 9, 2021
Zero Hedge: Chinese Foreign Ministry Posts Video Mocking US "War Machines" Turned Into Taliban Playground
A well-known Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has mocked US failures in Afghanistan over the course of the twenty-year long war by posting images of the Taliban enjoying the spoils of what American forces left behind.
Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian captioned a video showing Taliban militants using the wing of an abandoned aircraft to build a makeshift swing with the words "graveyard of EMPIRES and their WAR MACHINES."
The aircraft appears to have been previously in use by the US-backed Afghan national government. Hundreds have since the US departure on Aug.30 been documented sitting on runways across the country - many of them unusable, but others - especially helicopters - still appearing operational.
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WNU Editor: I have seen worse.
2 comments:
If China invests in Afghan nation building (and I hope it does hugely), we'll see how long it takes for their bones to be added to the same graveyard.
That looks like fun. It seems the other rope swing laying on the ground has a noose tied to the end. For when the fun is over.
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