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Hey Joe, I warned you what would happen…!

The fall of Kabul was predicted. By me.

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

Understandably there has been rather a lot of comment on the triumphant entry of the Taliban into Kabul. The shots of desperate men clinging to the wheel bay of a C-17A military plane as it took off are destined to go down in history as a defining image of the end of the Afghan war.

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