Afghanistan was nothing more than a live training exercise for the U.S. military. The war in Afghanistan gave the young officers live battle training, and prepared the next generation of U.S. Military leadership.
In order to "win" in Afghanistan it would have required slaughtering a substantial percentage of the population, which is not a particularly popular way to operate.
However, if the Taliban was actually a threat to the U.S. then the Taliban would have been eliminated, and eliminated quickly.
When I see Billionaires trying to "improve society" I spend my time trying to figure out the angle so that they not only don't spend any of their own money, but become far richer even if they fail spectacularly.
Easy, once the hospitals get overwhelmed nobody will be able to get hospital treatment. Everyone who needs to be hospitalized who isn't hospitalized WILL DIE. The hospitalization rate is about 20%. So right off the top we'll see about 6 million deaths.
Everyone who is sick will be stuck at home with family members, entire households will get sick, and they will keep re-infecting each other because, doubly difficult is the fact that there are multiple variants being spread, so it's possible to get re-infected with a different variant, the immune systems of the sick are overwhelmed and compromised. We'll see entire households dying. This is where the death rates really start to climb, it wouldn't surprise me if we see 8-9 Million deaths from this group.
Combine COVID with other illnesses and you get very high death rates.
Because Myanmar will be acting like a petri dish we'll start to see all kinds of variants get spawned, we could end up with a version the burns itself out. We could get a version that has 10-12 day incubation period where people are asymptomatic but that has a 50-80% death rate, a version like this could sweep back through the world with devastating effects.
Because some people are vaccinated and the vaccine is only 90% effective, we'll see people who are vaccinated who get sick. One of the variants could end up not be prevented by the vaccine, and that version could boomerang back through the world.
If we had 7 billion less people everything would be fine.
Since humans have no natural predator our reproduction is uncontrolled. Any time a species can reproduce at will with no control bad things happen to their environment, bad things which ultimately will correct the uncontrolled population growth. Humans inhabited the entire planet and our uncontrolled population growth impacts the entire planet, which is why the climate of the entire planet is impacted.
What's happening with the environment is EXACTLY what should be happening with the planet as a response to humans uncontrolled population growth. The unfortunate side effect is that we are going to take down a lot of other species with us.
>90% of medical “experts” are totally incompetent.
My wife had breast cancer, muliple lumps irregular shaped, the only answer was full mastectomy, except the oncologist wanted to do a biopsy before they did they surgery.
"Why?" I asked, "You already said that the safest option is to perform the mastectomy, right?"
The doctor replied, "Well, yes but we'd like to know what we are facing before we got in."
Me, "Will it change what you do?"
Doctor, "No"
Me, "Isn't bad to poke the tumor because can't that actually cause cells to migrate?"
Doctor, "yes"
Me, "So what's the benefit?"
Doctor, "We just want to know."
Me, "It seems like either you are padding the bill or you are just following some playbook because you actually don't know what you are doing."
Doctor, "We're done here."
After the surgery,
Doctor, "We discovered cancer cells in the lymph node, but that's probably just a side effect from the biop........" At that point he realized what he was saying and he also realized that I was ready to launch myself at him.
It's not about eliminating carbon emissions, or geoengineering, or reducing meat consumption or changing how we grow food.
The underlying problem is over population. We have about 7 Billion people too many, if the earth had only 1 Billion we wouldn't have human induced global warming.
In order to "win" in Afghanistan it would have required slaughtering a substantial percentage of the population, which is not a particularly popular way to operate.
However, if the Taliban was actually a threat to the U.S. then the Taliban would have been eliminated, and eliminated quickly.