Afghanistan THE BUCK STOPS HERE

Afghanistan THE BUCK STOPS HERE

Joe Biden continues to fail on the world stage. We'll get to Afghanistan later, but in a less publicized story, OPEC and its allies, including Russia, denied Biden's request that they increase oil production yesterday, in order to drive down the price of oil in the U.S. A major smack in the face to the sitting U.S. Resident.

It's important to remember that last summer, OPEC was pumping too much oil, and it was hurting U.S. energy companies. President Trump solved the problem easily. He called up the Saudi Crown Prince and told him that if OPEC didn't cut oil production, he would kill the 75+ year alliance between the two nations and leave the Saudis to defend themselves.

...and just like that, OPEC cut oil production. That's the leadership America is lacking in this time of crisis, right now.

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2,448 U.S. soldiers dead.

20,066 U.S. soldiers wounded.

$2,161,000,000,000 U.S. dollars spent.

This is what the war in Afghanistan has cost us since 2001. And for what? For the Taliban to seize control of the country, while Joe Biden was literally on vacation.

Over the weekend we have been inundated with scenes of the Taliban re-taking city after city in Afghanistan, and along the way, capturing American equipment that was given to the Afghan army. Yesterday they declared "the war is over" as they took control of the capitol in Kabul, while American forces rushed to evacuate U.S. citizens who were still stranded in the Capitol.

How did we get here: In April, Biden announced that the U.S. would completely withdraw from Afghanistan, and that evacuation culminated in July when the U.S. left Bagram Airfield, our largest military installation in the region.

Joe Biden was asked on July 8 if the Taliban taking over Afghanistan was inevitable? His response:

"No. It's not... the likelihood there is going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely.

...it took just 5 weeks for the Taliban to prove him wrong.

'THE BUCK STOPS HERE

The situation in Afghanistan seems to get worse by the minute. And Joe Biden's impotent address to the nation doe nothing to reassure Americans or our allies.

Biden’s speech:

In true Biden sleazeball fashion, he strategically spent 3/4 of his speech re-directing and making the point that we’ve sacrificed enough American blood in Afghanistan and it was time to leave...

Duh. Most Americans agree. But that's not the issue. As former President Trump correctly said in a statement yesterday: "It's not that we left Afghanistan. It's the grossly incompetent way we left!"

Despite claiming "the bucks stops here," the remaining 1/4 of his speech was spent blaming everyone but himself for the disaster that he created. Then he tucked his tail and ran without taking a single question from reporters, leaving even CNN's Kaitlin Collins to shout, "How can you take no questions on this?"

While Biden hid from the press, here are some of the biggest developments that went down yesterday:

🚨 Taliban fighters are going door-to-door and forcibly marrying girls as young as 12 and forcing them into sex slavery. Jihadist commanders have ordered imams to bring them lists of unmarried women for their soldiers to marry because they view them as 'qhanimat' or 'spoils of war' - to be divided up among the victors. [Daily Mail]

🚨 A source inside the White House has confirmed that Kamala Harris was pressed by the administration to give an update to the American people but refused, saying "They will not...