The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave. Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
I served in Afghanistan and Iraq. My impression was they simply didn’t want us in their country. We never had popular local support. We should never have gone and ultimately over twenty years we achieved absolutely nothing.
Its completely true too. The middle east is just big enough and has just enough resources in just enough hands to do damage to other countries and be a nuisance... But is so damn poor, and in such disarray, if you go there and try to change anything, you'd have to stay there for good pretty much. The people there are just trying to survive, they have no desire to fight... The area is just too screwed up.
And I bet you didn’t know this, last year some of the mountains 2 hours away from the capital collapsed due to mining aftermath but the crazy thing is no afghan actually knew those mountains were mined and to your surprise the location is exactly where most of natural uranium reserves were
Desert Shield, then Desert Storm, then OIF, then OEF…I served in two branches starting at 17 years old, last was combat arms. I lost my brother in that pit (Mosul, Iraq) and know many that never came back. For what. I don’t know. I really don’t. I’m older now, and have come to despise war. A rich man’s game, where the poor do the fighting & dying.
@@sleepyjoe7518rather inconsiderate comment wise crack. but I guess you have never been in battle huh? Seen your buddy step on a landmine, help getting his pieces together? Every soldier out there is somebody's son or daughter and they sacrificed. You like somebody to refer to you siblings or children in this manner? Grow up you useless punk and mature. Get your own place away from mommy and daddy so youncan learn about life. If younhave any decency apoligise and delete this rather childish drug induced comment.
The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave. Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
The Israeli lobby and military industrial complex are responsible for self-creating enemies of the United States and the deaths of American soldiers in unnecessary wars.
You think both political parties and The media hate Trump because of his big mouth? Say what you want about the guy, He wasn't a warmonger like Bush, Obama, and the Village idiot Joe Biden. War is big business for the Lobbyist and Politicians in Washington D.C.Both political parties and the media in America love war, they're all a bunch of evil warmongers.
Some washed up bullshit soldiers didn’t even experience war going after a diabetic Afgan Ukraine they are getting vaporised and special forces are getting vaporised navy sealed SAS gun to gun against Afgan, you can never last
well they made alot of money out of the whole thing and i think somebodys now dun some kind of deal with somebody and there you go! we'll never know the full story ,but i bet you it involves a ton of money! like trillions of tons of money!
Shame on you Mission Creep Propagamndists. The day the terrorists were smoked out, all of NATO+friends should have quit Afghanistan. There was zero reason to occpy this nation one more day !
@@mohamedhalicelamina2215 the taliban /isis were financed by the usa anyway so they just do what theyre told basically. they're like a disposable army to be used and abused for the geo-political neo con plan of world resource domination and as a terror force to keep a country in line or punnish them. they're under command by the intel services
@@mohamedhalicelamina2215 What do you mean they Britain left years before and it was the ANA that surrendered without a fight and handed all their weapons over Britain wasn't even in the war by then we only really wanted to help stand up the ANA which we did and left. Then they all surrendered like cowards.
The Afghanistan people are strong, brave, heroes of their own country, nothing can stop people that fight for free and are happy to die.. no one can beat them..
@@phoenixrising8640If Taliban are heroes then why did many Afghan people try to leave Afghanistan when the US left? Some even killed themselves. Also many educated Afghan women were afraid.
@@firmbeliever3847 not really they used unorthodox fighting strategies and gorilla ware fare and the US cannot be trained for that the taliban won the war after the US fighting for 21years and ussr fighting 9 years before that and the British who tried invading Afghanistan 3 times before that even ghengis khan said it is the graveyard of empires these are tribal people who believe they are part of the 12 lost israelite tribes but converted to Islam 1400years ago by choice at that time the taliban/pashtuns tribal leaders was qais abdul rasheed who met with prophet Muhammad’s companion called Khalid bin Waleed and converted to Islam him and his tribe but anyway the only reason the war with the US happened is because they were fighting off the Soviet Union using the taliban which the had created out of tribal pushtoon people which backfired on them and the US themselves with Mossad had staged 9/11 to invade Afghanistan every countries intelligence knows this and it’s sad to see the a lot of people die
I am an Afghan I also lost so many dear friends of mine from both sides, Afghan and American, in the end we were just thinking it was not ending so fight we harder but still we lost many lives ,somewhere in that war I lost myself
Politicians are not in desperate need of income and future, why would they sign up. They will just make local economies harder and more poverish and then they will find new recruitments.
I think there must be a boxing ring for politicians so that when they have issues they go face to face these cowards getting people killed for their egos
Imagine Donald holding M16.. or that old gramp holding awm.. 😅 Our world will be peaceful. My life long question is, why the army willing to be mere "tool" to those who doesn't even give a f to the army?
there will be exactly zero and then, they will come up with reasons not to because they don't have the balls or guts to take up arms against others, and they're definitely not sending their sons and daughters to fight the wars either. They always get others to do their dirty work, like Zionists do.
And of its own children. And elderly. And in-between..Somewhere around 3 of 10 children die in childbirth or from infections right now. Afghanistan is the place where empires sigh and say; unfortunately, we can't help you people. But attack us again and see if we're nice enough to risk our troops... to rebuild what was never. We have plenty of unguided bombs to level the mountains. Thats what's coming if there's another big attack from Afghanistan... carpet bombing nukes fool. Who will come to their aid? A sanitized Afghanistan might have to be it, well see. You'll notice, America is still an empire with bases all over the world, even if the pet plan on "rebuilding" Afghanistan and integrating it into the modern day didn't work. Shockingly. 😮 😂
Graveyard Of Empires Afghanistan don't have resources but Empires invade Afghanistan just to show their power, but invading Afghanistan is easy but getting out is almost impossible.
Step 1: They deploy soldiers in dangerous zones Step 2: They face casualties, now they fight for their buddies not peace Step 3: Soldiers have no morality and suffer from PTSD Step 4: Their families are falling apart back home
@@WazobiaTechGuy,Step 1: They place husbands away from their families. Step 2: They face casualties, now wives fight for their boyfriends, not for their husbands. Step 3. Wives have no morals and suffer from lack of sex. Step 4: Their families at home fall apart.
Americans under the illusion that they were defending freedom and democracy when in actual truth, they were enriching the corrupt politicians and military industrial complex.
@@virgiliustancu9293 of course. In IRAQ there was over 9 thousand sub contractors everything from repairing roadways to security to everything you can think of. We americans destroyed everything then we build everything we destroy. It's crazy. Why have a war if your going to repair the entire infrastructure of the country you attacked.
I'm a US Marine who served mutiple deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan as a bomb tech. My generation was too young to even vote to go to war in either countries yet we spent our youth fighting for something that those same politicians and generals could never define. Everytime I went back over it felt like the war was a hill just getting steeper and steeper with more and more bodies around me. Of course I wanted to help the average Afghani, but unfortunately, the Taliban wanted it more. We lost, plain and simple. Not because of the boots on the ground but because of the lack of leadership.
A country that has never lost war in its entire history. Someone should have told them about Afghanistan and the lions that’s live in Afghanistan ❤ come in peace and we will welcome you come with guns and you won’t go back alive
If they want to erase the whole Afghanistan they can. But they want to help you people to integrate with the rest of the world but you still live like in first century and your beyond help....if you worked with the western world you would have better life like in Saudi Arabia Dubai Qatar...so now stay and eat sand with Taliban..live in mud house
As an American combat veteran I'd just like to say. I love my Australian cousins. Thank you for everything you done and your countrymen you lost. We hold you up high and appreciate your sacrifices. God except them
Not solely but there is an element in some wars which would support that. Ukrainians are dying to remain free and to protect their families. Our lads and yours who go there go because they believe the horror of Tsar Putrid has to be stopped one way or the other and they feel they can and should contribute to that. Lose that sense of right and wrong, duty to your fellow man and we're all f------. People lay peaceably abed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf - attributed to Orwell but not conclusively. As true today as it has been in any part of history you care to turn the page to.
@@Scaleyback317what happen in Ukraine before Russia invade them? What happen in Cuba when Russia put one, only one military base? ....... Yeah you know what i mean. All hypocrisis.
Since world war 1 they were experts in divide and rule . The theory worked out in many dozens of countries . More than 50. People became enemies to each other who belong to same country . We are still suffering the poison of the seeds they sow. But the theory failed in Afghanistan. Not just once , multiple times . May Allah make Afghanistan a source of peace to whole world
No they didn't. Militarily they dominated almost every engagement and fight. The war wasnt lost, building a 21st century country for a bunch of 18th century backwards goat humpers was a failure. They were too busy molesting little boys, getting high and selling all the equipment that NATO supplied them with on the black market to want to fight for their country. It was like trying to get the crips and the bloods to form a common government and get along. All those fuckers would rather have their local war loard tell them what they can and can't do.
The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave. Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
When you look into the eyes of the soldiers who say they believe in and are proud of what they are doing and the deaths of their comrades is worth it, they are trying to convince themselves and the listener. The Afghanistan's did not want them there. The soldiers did not want to be there.
When will everyone stop following the US into their self serving actions I wonder... And, as a citizen of a supposedly democratic nation, will we get to vote on whether we actually get involved in wars or not? That'd be nice...
a democracy doesn't mean a citizen will have the right to vote for every major decision made by the government, but to elect a small number of indviduals that would make those decisions for them. In theory, these people are supposed to represent the interests and voices of the people that elected them. However, we can see how this doesn't translate that well in practice.
I was in Kandahar in the US Army and was part of the build up in 2010 as well and lost friend too. I would like to thank all our allies for coming the our aide after 911!! We are always going to be brothers!!
Bud/s 217 here, these poor bastards gave their lives as the politicians/controllers families stayed safe at home. These warriors got swindled into thinking they were fighting for their country when in reality they were getting maimed and killed by an enemy that their own government funded and armed as they invested in war stocks and made profits 10-1000x. In the end they would give the territory back to the Taliban and leave behind $85 billion worth of military equipement so that they would have to dip into the tax tank and fund more weapons and more war and more profits. Create war by funding the bad guys / bad guys do bad things and then a reason to boost military weapons production / and if you invested as they did - the profits keep coming in. These same people are invested in pharma as well. Its a pay for play game and the question isnt why its how much. Just say got paid $50 mil and then you no longer have to ask why. And its all funded by the citizens own tax money - so they are funding their own extinction. As the warriors and police leave their positions they will be filled by indentured immigrants that will be obligated to enforce the controllers rule. They will do the job that the citizens wont but against the citizens. They will also be expendable. This wasnt a war this was an investment trading soldiers for profits. Find out who profited and you will find the ones responsible for the death of your brothers. Hoo-Yaah - God bless you all - keep training - we work in the dark to preserve the light.
It served the interests of one particular small country on the eastern edge of the mediteranean, which maintains so much influence that I can't mention them by name.
So what the documentary doesn't want to say is the Afgan soldiers were turning their weapons on their Australian mentors on more than one occasion Then you're wasting lives for SFA at that point
They’ll conveniently leave those stories out. Doesn’t change the fact that it wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t invade. Something had to happened after 9/11 but a full on 20 Year invasion and occupation clearly wasn’t the answer.
Your te'rrori'sts were war'monggers, and even some of our traitors realised it. Many of soldiers wno u trained actually were also supporting our T'alib'an and hated u.
It was ALWAYS wasting lives for SFA. Why WOULDNT Afghan soldiers turn their weapons on a foreign army that invaded their country, bombed it to bits and (what YOU dont want to mention) killed thousands of civillians.
I served in the Stan and the question crossed my mind 100 times a day "what the fuck are we really doing in this shit hole." And that aussie in the beginning nailed it. All I was doing was trying to come home with all my people
I love how the seriousness of the situation is about why foreign troops are being attacked... and, the sense that their mission has some sort of purpose beyond destroying people, in a different country, because yeh...
Wasn't the VC recipient at the beginning, one of the Aus SAS blokes that got done for war crimes. He got off scot-free and the whistle blower got jailed.
@06:00 This guy is fighting not to let down his mates. The Afghan on the other end is fighting for his home, his woman and his children possibly revenge from losing comrades. which one do you think has a stronger will fight and will fight more ferociously.
LOL so what other types would we fight other than farmers? Who do you think our greatest fighters from America are? All of the special elite american forces is all made up of 90% of very rural country white farmers
When I studied economics our lecturer told us outright war is a good stimulant for the economy and sciences. Coincedently we were involved in a war at the time defending a piece of desert that once was a German Colony. Conscripts cirect out of school - if you refused jail time up to possible 6 years. After that your life was f...d. Who appoints a 24 year old with a prison record and refused to support the cause? How much of the larger countries with really large economies depend on weapon manufacturing. If the economy slumps start a war boet. Works everytime. So, as for the Aussies and many other countries, - we fought for shit and now get treated like it as well. Apart for the sake of self defence no children of mine will wear a army uniform of any sort. They can try the police but if politics endanger them they will leave. A country must have an army.....for self defence. Apart from that stay out of other countries and let them sort out their own crap.
Would be interesting to know just how many trillions of dollars were saved after endex in Iraq and Afghan. Odd that despite both campaigns coming to an end, we allegedly still have no way of funding our NHS, shools, or borders. WTF was it all for then? RIP My Brothers
now they're chucking all the money at ukraine in the hope they can get hold of resources over there and maybe russia. but its not going according to plan by all accounts
It was for those who lives in ivory towers, bunkehs, yaht owners, etc. Peasants just have to Keep Calm And Carry On while the elites drink their champagne.
It’s all fun and games untill the rabbit got the gun. No one has ever stopped to think that they are in another persons country calling them insurgents😂
Ever since I was a very young kid I wanted to be in the army. I started "training" or what I thought I should be doing very young. Did 4 years JROTC and planned to join the moment I got out of high school. 9/11 happened when I was in late middle school years so that lit even more of a fire under my ass. My family was stupid poor so we didn't get to go on vacations. I heard my older brother was going to D.C. I saved up every penny I had just so I could go visit The tomb of the Unknown Solider, The Changing of the Guard, and the Vietnam Memorial. Like it meant everything to me. Long story short I was hanging out with a group of guys I didn't know very well. We got pulled over and one of them threw weed down in the car. No one would take blame so we all got charged. I was already dealing with medical issues and they told me they weren't excepting anyone with any type of drug charges at all at the moment. Can't even get a waiver to try again in a few years. That destroyed me. I tried a few more times with no luck. By the time that I heard that law changed my medical issues we're past the point of joining. It depressed me for many many years. Then I started seeing my buddies come back home(some not). They all said the same shit. They had absolutely no idea why we were over there. Those people do not want our help. Blah blah blah. I just couldn't understand though. Anywho when Biden pulled out a weight lifted off my shoulders. I'm now so glad I didn't go and I guess stuff does happen for a reason. The reason I'm saying this is to say how miserable it felt when that happened. Like everything was for no reason at all. If I feel like that and lost sleep over it I can't imagine how all you guys that actually fought there, lost brothers there, left sweat and blood in that sand feels. It's literally a feeling I can't even fathom. Thanks for your sacrifices and sorry the government let you guys down so badly. Love and appreciate everyone of you.
When war comes let the warriors run it and fight it. Problem being that, that very rarely happens and instead politicians play puppeteer with fucked up consequences. To much idiocy pervades, its like the saying: Too many cooks spoil the broth. What else can be expected especially of the USA, that is chaos incarnate, with all those fingers digging in the pot pie!?
When I was deployed there was a contractor who used to wear a shirt that said "War is a business, and business is good." A lot of people from many nations got rich from this war. The cost of many fellow Soldiers' lives was an acceptable price for these companies who realized that no one was watching the global checkbook raking in billions on the backs of other people's sons and daughters. The next coming wars will be the same if we let them.
17 minutes into, nothing about why they left Afghanistan. Just advertising their contributions. You left Afghanistan because your pride, cause and courage is unlike Pashtuns.
This was such a perfect war for shareholders. It's why we are presently drip feeding Ukraine with enough stuff to prolong the fighting but not to bring it to an end. The recent situation where the US delayed supplying them is so transparent. The F16's are always just over the horizon.
@@RoshankeyalI really have no clue where this idea about how the Chinese see geopolitics as some 4d chess game that they are ten steps ahead in came from but it’s a farce. Maybe 1000 years ago but that ship sailed in the 15th century and their system was so ossified that by the 19th century they couldn’t do a thing as Europe and Japan essentially partitioned the nation. And the current system is so reactionary and obsessed with saving face to the point that y’all send a spy balloon, deny its existence, then deny it’s yours, then demand it back when we shoot it down, then accuse us of aggression when we say no. And I say ‘we’ and ‘you’ because I’m sure this is a Chinese ‘tankie’ or even outright bot, you are at the very least a ccp sympathizer and let me tell you now that the CPC has lost the Mandate of Heaven and the good people of China will know freedom again one day sooner than later.
retiring usaf after 22 years...the pullout was gut wrenching and I am so sick/tired of it all....I will never understand it and will only ever consider it a great mess...20 years, 9K+ lives, and $8T to replace the Taliban with the Taliban....Hats off to you Aussies, Brits and everyone else that stuck with the USA during this mess - you are loved and your sacrifices are saddening but greatly appreciated.
Never in the "sandbox"; never in Vietnam. I AM a former Active Duty (4) C/A Marine, with another 14+ years as an Army Reservist. This breaks my heart. It's the SAME game, just DIFFERENT places, and names. Instead of Afghan Army, it was ARVN; instead of Taliban, it was VC. Nobody can tell who is who, and NOTHING is what it seems. Strong, good young men bleed and die, for WHAT OBJECTIVE, in the grand scheme of things. It is the EASIEST thing in the world to get young men to kill other young men under some pretense. Given the times, in the wake of 9/11, I can SEE how Americans could be fooled.... How was Afghanistan Australia's fight? Because of Britain's terrorist attacks? Because the Aussies are part of the UK? That's just a BS reason to send someone ELSE'S sons to fight in YOUR war. Reasons to go to war, frankly, are MANUFACTURED; and ALL the people in gov't KNOW it; they just can't SAY it. The "leadership" in charge, won't say it EITHER; or it's the end of their careers; with RARE exceptions [eg, LtC John Paull Vann; Daniel Ellsberg; Col David Hackworth; LTG Harold Moore; MGen Smedley Butler; LtC Robert Schirer; handful of others...]. When somebody DOES speak the truth, everyone ELSE SHUTS UP, for fear THEY will be targeted as well. The system DOESN'T tolerate those who speak the truth, no matter HOW obvious it is. If ONE speaks the truth, MORE will follow, and when ENOUGH do so, the entire system is in jeopardy, because everyone involved has to FACE the truth; which FEW can AFFORD to do. During Vietnam, the motto of MAC,V-SOG was "Death is our business; and business is good." Sounds really sick and twisted, huh? It's all cool fun and games; until you see your friends die; perhaps even the enemy. There IS a thrill, like NO OTHER, of DEALING death, while MISSING the Reaper's sickle, by inches. In one's 20's one feels invulnerable. Someone ELSE'S misfortune isn't MY problem; sucks to be THEM. Better them than me. Assuming they make it home in one-piece, they are NEVER the same as before. As they get older, and see the Reaper inevitably coming for THEM, they start to see things with a much greater clarity; and they've learned to ask QUESTIONS.... Then they look at their OWN sons, as they hear the steady propaganda of those beating the war-drums, and they begin to realize they were USED, like a tooth of a gear, in a giant machine [a meat-grinder] that has no REAL care or concern WHATSOEVER, except to justify YET ANOTHER war somewhere, for the benefit of a comparative handful, who will NEVER allow THEIR sons to "join-up"; because they all KNOW it's a BUSINESS; nothing more; and nobody cares. Maybe THEN it will stop....
but the MIC made out like bandits... THAT'S the reason for so many wars, and dragging them on for so long... Elections have consequences and this is just one aspect of that fact.
My Work mates Son got killed by the very people he was training, An Afghan turned a machine gun on his British Instructors, Killing 10 Red caps. From that day on all trainers had a Soldier with a side arm on , Called a Guardian Angel.
Why do they tried so hard to make this documentary appear like Vietnam War scenario; when in fact they are going against 8 Talibans with 1950 Ak47 with no outside support.
@fransmurati2370 why u so angry? He isn't lying,it wasn't only I-E!-Ds. We won and were totally outnumbered and we had nothing in terms of weapons compared to ALLyour 52 plus countries,all your priva'te con"trac"tors and p"up'pets.
@fransmurati2370 why u so angry with all you !! ? He isn't lying,it wasn't only I-E!-Ds. We won and were totally outnumbered and we had nothing in terms of weapons compared to ALLyour 52 plus countries,all your priva'te con"trac"tors and p"up'pets.
What's crazy is all the comments from people who were more than likely never there for ANY situation, but feel as if they know "what's what" when it comes to how the afghans "fought for their country".
I think a lot of it comes down to 20 years and the country went back to what it was before. So what did we the allies actually accomplish? It def leaves a bitter taste. Especially how they took their country over in less then 24 hrs.
Whats crazy is you implying Afghans werent just defending their country from a foreign, invading army who bombed their once beautiful country to bits & murdered thrir families. Dont tell me you STILL think they were fighting you because.....they hate freedum & were planning to invade America, kill you all & impose sharia law on the world?
How the Afghans fought can be referred to by reading some history. Every invader of Afghanistan suffers greatly. This lot embarked on this latest stupid adventure got off lightly
I’m afghan and my family was involved in both Soviet and American war and I can tell you that THEY CAME TO STEAL OUR URANIUM to build bombs which they used back on us and they succeeded
NATO trained the Afghan who are not interested in fighting the Taliban. Also, NATO intelligence appears very weak and incompetent, failed war strategy, and lacks the ability to counter the Taliban fighting experience and expertise.
The majority of us Afghans support our T-ali-ba-n. Lol, many of those u trained were T-ali-ba-n supporters, and many others saw your atrocities and hated u ter"rori"sts. Your traitors ran away with u. U also got the trash and T-ali-ba-n hot the quality fighters, whongought for a purpose.
@@NabeelKhan-lx2ly More like Israel's war on the entire middle-east. Much easier to justify their own aggression when every muslim is seen as a terrorist.
11 dead... In 2006, when I was in Iraq we called that 'Tuesday'. I don't say that to cheapen the lives of those lost, but to question the logic and resolve of the Australian government, because maybe... just maybe... if Australia took its own defense more seriously, and stopped hamstringing its own military with budget and staff cuts, there wouldn't be 47 service members dead. I served with both British and Australian soldiers in Iraq, and the frustration they felt because of their countries inability to back them up was palpable. You cannot go to war half assed, and thats exactly the situation commonwealth service members were forced into by their governments. If that pattern continues, the next time it won't be just 47 dead...
Cheeky bastard. Our lads were only IN afghan because you warmongering scum wanted to get rich so invaded foreign lands, dragging us to fight for you. Clown.
You have learned nothing have you? Instead of calling for MORE money to be wasted on weapons to start more pointless wars with countries that did nothing to you, you should spend that money helping your own people in your own country. There wont BE a next time and ZERO soldiers will die if you simply stop acting like Israel & Americas little lapdog and stop invading countries that did nothing to yours.
First off, thank you for this great great documentary..brilliant...my utmost and total respect for all combatants...really...yes, we all need to research diligently for the real reasons as to why regime changes, government changes, etc are being implemented...to study what lies behind every conflict, every war, etc...very intetesting here
You are thankful for being deserted? How foolish you are. There's a reason why you don't take atheists as your allies in politics. Hopefully, you are one who learns from one lesson target then needed several.
In 2010 we were in a valley about 20km away in kunar on the pakistan border we took 36 US and 40 ANA, we lost 2 ANA and 8 1/2 hours of intense fighting, we had 250+ EKIAs, zero US kias. We left the FoB in the early morning, got back after midnight. My team expended 6000 rounds of ammo, 36 Grenades, 6 rockets and 16 gustov rounds, 8 gallons of water and 9 MREs. I still remember the count. We were awarded 4 CABs, 4 Bronze Stars, 2 purple hearts in my 5 man team including our interpreter.
ANA what a joke. I just thank God I made in out of 4 tours of Duty from Iraq and Afghanistan. God Bless all that served 🙏🏽 ✝️ Live your life for those that can't! 🙏🏽
Imagine a group of Afghan soldier invade a place in Australia and then expect assistance from other Australians.. its beyond insane.
The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so
Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave.
Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
Like the Uk ?
westerners delusions are incredible
That's what they will learn through hard experience. Afghan people have won both on the battle ground and moral ground as well.
@@mfarooqhayat8182 Afghanistan 🇦🇫 was a cesspool breeding Terrorist. West has cleared the cesspool
I served in Afghanistan and Iraq. My impression was they simply didn’t want us in their country. We never had popular local support. We should never have gone and ultimately over twenty years we achieved absolutely nothing.
Have you just worked it out
of course they did not want you in their country - US/NATO had no right going there in the first place !
@@terencefranks1688 Couldn’t agree more.
How about US stop invading and creating wars based on lies and just leave the people alone. US can just never leave people (countries) the fuck alone
Army 19K & 12B,,1986 to 1998. Huge waste of lives.
Invading others country is never an honorable deed. The Audacity to call them terrorist when all they did was to fight for their freedom.
Same like Hamas.
The question the Australian need to answer is how will you react to Japan invading pert and Brisbane
... ALSO THEY FIGHT FOR THEIR MOTHERLAND.
@@lintonero9018 like the Haganah, Stern
“The most dangerous thing about invading Afghanistan is getting back out “ wow those words
Yaa, cause Afghanistan is by truth "the graveyard of any invader" no matter who the
(f--k) he is / they are😬
Its completely true too. The middle east is just big enough and has just enough resources in just enough hands to do damage to other countries and be a nuisance... But is so damn poor, and in such disarray, if you go there and try to change anything, you'd have to stay there for good pretty much. The people there are just trying to survive, they have no desire to fight... The area is just too screwed up.
@@derekspringer6448Afghanistan is a beautiful country with beautiful ppl. Have you been?
@@hali8580 the Taliban are beautiful people ? I'm assuming you're not a woman !
@@derekspringer6448"be a nuisance"? Wtf 😅
They just want to be left TF alone, but the NUISANCE won't let THEM. 😂
Never fight other people's war. Fight your own.
Lots of money to be made for the rich and powerful families and governments.
They’ll create reasons to go to war if there’s no wars.
And I bet you didn’t know this, last year some of the mountains 2 hours away from the capital collapsed due to mining aftermath but the crazy thing is no afghan actually knew those mountains were mined and to your surprise the location is exactly where most of natural uranium reserves were
Thats right
Commanding officer: "we need u to go down the road and fight."
Soldier: "can't do it sir.....im fighting my own war."
Lmao stfu!
Said like someone that’s never put himself on the line for someone else or a bigger cause. 🤡
Nothing can stop a man fighting for his home
... NOTHING !
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... OPEN PALESTINA !
Desert Shield, then Desert Storm, then OIF, then OEF…I served in two branches starting at 17 years old, last was combat arms. I lost my brother in that pit (Mosul, Iraq) and know many that never came back. For what. I don’t know. I really don’t. I’m older now, and have come to despise war. A rich man’s game, where the poor do the fighting & dying.
Your brother became fertilizer for Iraqi wheat.
And you're a prick , it should've been you instead @@sleepyjoe7518
@@sleepyjoe7518rather inconsiderate comment wise crack. but I guess you have never been in battle huh? Seen your buddy step on a landmine, help getting his pieces together? Every soldier out there is somebody's son or daughter and they sacrificed. You like somebody to refer to you siblings or children in this manner? Grow up you useless punk and mature. Get your own place away from mommy and daddy so youncan learn about life. If younhave any decency apoligise and delete this rather childish drug induced comment.
@@sleepyjoe7518 Hoe! I meant Joe! Hey buddy! At least he didn’t hide behind some keyboard…ya big pus.
@@sleepyjoe7518opium
When politicians speak, don't listen to them!
100% true...they are brokers...brokers of power..fuckin addicts
smack wars are nothing new
I dont listen to putin. Breshnev maybe😂
@@darwinsoriano6792 trump either
Don't trust any politician, full stop
Accept the fact that: you were badly defeated, and that you will never ever dare of dreaming to enter that country again.
The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so
Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave.
Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
And all done by Pakistan's ISI
Lost friends there go fight there
Yes dame defeated, hello they killed 91000 afghans? It has this delusional thinking that keeps this going.
@@ادلخنبدولیyeah blame pakistan for US pig headedness good one
What were Australians doing in Afghanistan in the 1st place is the question.
They are the good guys, aren't they?
@@georgechristoforou991 thats such a subjective thing! not for the people being invaded
The Israeli lobby and military industrial complex are responsible for self-creating enemies of the United States and the deaths of American soldiers in unnecessary wars.
@@dhirajmalapati369 Sarcasm based on what these soldiers believed
Allie's
War : Old men talking While Young Men Die
You think both political parties and The media hate Trump because of his big mouth? Say what you want about the guy, He wasn't a warmonger like Bush, Obama, and the Village idiot Joe Biden. War is big business for the Lobbyist and Politicians in Washington D.C.Both political parties and the media in America love war, they're all a bunch of evil warmongers.
Some washed up bullshit soldiers didn’t even experience war going after a diabetic Afgan Ukraine they are getting vaporised and special forces are getting vaporised navy sealed SAS gun to gun against Afgan, you can never last
old men served when they we young, it's only the rich that don't fight /die but seem to get all the medals
War is hell!
and share holders laughing
70 countries against the poorest country of the world. Bravery!!
2000 marines ruled the country for 20 years dude 😂
We really need to commend the Afghani shepherds for fighting for their country.
@@mossadagent9582 ruled ? 😂 Get humiliated by afgans and at then end afgans made them to leave their country.
@@Xyz14109 yeah they also said Allah said it's OK to marry a 9 year old child
@@Xyz14109 oh and Allah said that to abuse women lol Allah lol
Shame on all countries for involvement in Afghanistan war and they were shamefully leave Afghanistan like cowards.
well they made alot of money out of the whole thing and i think somebodys now dun some kind of deal with somebody and there you go! we'll never know the full story ,but i bet you it involves a ton of money! like trillions of tons of money!
Shame on you Mission Creep Propagamndists. The day the terrorists were smoked out, all of NATO+friends should have quit Afghanistan. There was zero reason to occpy this nation one more day !
NO THE TALIBANS HAND THEIR ASS OVER TO THEM AND FORCE THEM OUT,THEY EVEN HAVE TO BEG TALIBANS TO BE ABLE TO LEAVE WITHOUT LOSSES
@@mohamedhalicelamina2215 the taliban /isis were financed by the usa anyway so they just do what theyre told basically. they're like a disposable army to be used and abused for the geo-political neo con plan of world resource domination and as a terror force to keep a country in line or punnish them. they're under command by the intel services
@@mohamedhalicelamina2215 What do you mean they Britain left years before and it was the ANA that surrendered without a fight and handed all their weapons over Britain wasn't even in the war by then we only really wanted to help stand up the ANA which we did and left. Then they all surrendered like cowards.
The Afghanistan people are strong, brave, heroes of their own country, nothing can stop people that fight for free and are happy to die.. no one can beat them..
Thank u! Our Ta'lib'an heros are our own ordinary Afghans from all over Afghanistan.
EXEPT. THEIR. CREATOR. , JESUS. .
Surrendering today & fighting tomorrow is how they survive. Its not like they keep fighting 24/7. If they did the world would cry genocide.
@@phoenixrising8640If Taliban are heroes then why did many Afghan people try to leave Afghanistan when the US left? Some even killed themselves. Also many educated Afghan women were afraid.
@@firmbeliever3847 not really they used unorthodox fighting strategies and gorilla ware fare and the US cannot be trained for that the taliban won the war after the US fighting for 21years and ussr fighting 9 years before that and the British who tried invading Afghanistan 3 times before that even ghengis khan said it is the graveyard of empires these are tribal people who believe they are part of the 12 lost israelite tribes but converted to Islam 1400years ago by choice at that time the taliban/pashtuns tribal leaders was qais abdul rasheed who met with prophet Muhammad’s companion called Khalid bin Waleed and converted to Islam him and his tribe but anyway the only reason the war with the US happened is because they were fighting off the Soviet Union using the taliban which the had created out of tribal pushtoon people which backfired on them and the US themselves with Mossad had staged 9/11 to invade Afghanistan every countries intelligence knows this and it’s sad to see the a lot of people die
I am an Afghan I also lost so many dear friends of mine from both sides, Afghan and American, in the end we were just thinking it was not ending so fight we harder but still we lost many lives ,somewhere in that war I lost myself
"Fight we harder?" I think I know what part u lost.........
Dame bro. None of us can imagine what you went thru. Live in peace my dude.
@@Phil-s4uand I know the part you never had
War has been happening from the hunter gatherer times , I guess they said the same thing as we are saying now.
you are indian
Let the politicians fight the wars. Then there will be less war.
Politicians are not in desperate need of income and future, why would they sign up. They will just make local economies harder and more poverish and then they will find new recruitments.
I think there must be a boxing ring for politicians so that when they have issues they go face to face these cowards getting people killed for their egos
Imagine Donald holding M16.. or that old gramp holding awm.. 😅
Our world will be peaceful.
My life long question is, why the army willing to be mere "tool" to those who doesn't even give a f to the army?
there will be exactly zero and then, they will come up with reasons not to because they don't have the balls or guts to take up arms against others, and they're definitely not sending their sons and daughters to fight the wars either. They always get others to do their dirty work, like Zionists do.
Afghanistan is the true cemetery of Empires.
Nah just a cemetery
No, we are the graveyard of empires
You would think after Russia took their turn no one would try it for a while. It's like world leaders dare each other to try it. Doesn't make since.
Not at all 😂@@phoenixrising8640
And of its own children. And elderly. And in-between..Somewhere around 3 of 10 children die in childbirth or from infections right now. Afghanistan is the place where empires sigh and say; unfortunately, we can't help you people. But attack us again and see if we're nice enough to risk our troops... to rebuild what was never. We have plenty of unguided bombs to level the mountains. Thats what's coming if there's another big attack from Afghanistan... carpet bombing nukes fool. Who will come to their aid? A sanitized Afghanistan might have to be it, well see. You'll notice, America is still an empire with bases all over the world, even if the pet plan on "rebuilding" Afghanistan and integrating it into the modern day didn't work. Shockingly. 😮 😂
Graveyard Of Empires
Afghanistan don't have resources but Empires invade Afghanistan just to show their power, but invading Afghanistan is easy but getting out is almost impossible.
Step 1: They deploy soldiers in dangerous zones
Step 2: They face casualties, now they fight for their buddies not peace
Step 3: Soldiers have no morality and suffer from PTSD
Step 4: Their families are falling apart back home
their wives and gfs cheating back home too
@@WazobiaTechGuy yeah the soldiers got NTRD like a fucking Anime beta cuck characters : )
@@WazobiaTechGuy,Step 1: They place husbands away from their families.
Step 2: They face casualties, now wives fight for their boyfriends, not for their husbands.
Step 3. Wives have no morals and suffer from lack of sex.
Step 4: Their families at home fall apart.
and then after they retire they all seem to think "Why did we do it?"
Wrath of God
We americans have a history of starting wars then abandon the war we started, and thousands of our young men lost there lives all for nothing.
Americans under the illusion that they were defending freedom and democracy when in actual truth, they were enriching the corrupt politicians and military industrial complex.
Your NATIONAL politics sucks ,,all doing is destroy humans and earth
Not for nothing, some made billions.
@@virgiliustancu9293 of course. In IRAQ there was over 9 thousand sub contractors everything from repairing roadways to security to everything you can think of. We americans destroyed everything then we build everything we destroy. It's crazy. Why have a war if your going to repair the entire infrastructure of the country you attacked.
A theif always left the job When police arrive.
USA - Oil theif.
In the Vietnam war America successfully with Rambo, then in the Afghanistan war Rambo was retired.😂
US retreated without glory mate, they did a runner in Vietnam.
No, they will show winning in movie by a new James bond
War are big business, soldiers were the workers politicians are the shareholders
I clicked this video hoping to learn "The REAL Reason We Left Aghanistan". An hour later, I have NO IDEA why we left Afghanistan.
To focus on Ukraine. (Which, as I said when they went into Aghanistan, will only end badly)
We live in a crazy world controlled by delusional people everywhere.
US politicians wasted trillion of dollars but shamelessly failed....the Muslims of Afghanistan kicked 2 world powers out of their country.
Because you had no legitimate/legal reason to be there in the first place?
Because you get beaten sick 🤢 human being the question is why you was there at first
I'm a US Marine who served mutiple deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan as a bomb tech. My generation was too young to even vote to go to war in either countries yet we spent our youth fighting for something that those same politicians and generals could never define. Everytime I went back over it felt like the war was a hill just getting steeper and steeper with more and more bodies around me. Of course I wanted to help the average Afghani, but unfortunately, the Taliban wanted it more. We lost, plain and simple. Not because of the boots on the ground but because of the lack of leadership.
Perdisteís porque soís unos invasores que fuisteis a matar inocentes. Espero que nunca podáis dormir sin pastillas
You invaded another country - by what right ?
You were never right from the very start. I am amazed you still did not understand why you lost there! You were wrong and that is why you lost!
@muhammadasifaslam1089 I literally said why we lost haha. I'm guessing you don't read before immediately typing
@RussellAlami well that would fall upon UN Resolution 1378- 2001 authorizing ISAF... maybe read before asking stupid questions.
A country that has never lost war in its entire history. Someone should have told them about Afghanistan and the lions that’s live in Afghanistan ❤ come in peace and we will welcome you come with guns and you won’t go back alive
If they want to erase the whole Afghanistan they can. But they want to help you people to integrate with the rest of the world but you still live like in first century and your beyond help....if you worked with the western world you would have better life like in Saudi Arabia Dubai Qatar...so now stay and eat sand with Taliban..live in mud house
Afghanistan have lost wars. Second anglo-afgan war = british victory
@ciaranReal Afghanistan has lost every war coz every year someone invaded them and they still live in the dark ages
@temich1985 I don't understand why you still live in America...why don't you move to Afghanistan???...
Bull@@ciaranReal
As an American combat veteran I'd just like to say. I love my Australian cousins. Thank you for everything you done and your countrymen you lost. We hold you up high and appreciate your sacrifices. God except them
young men die for old mens greed
What's new?
@@NLYS27 nothing new but we seem to want to do it over and over kinda boring af at this point
Young men die for their own feckin ego
Not solely but there is an element in some wars which would support that. Ukrainians are dying to remain free and to protect their families. Our lads and yours who go there go because they believe the horror of Tsar Putrid has to be stopped one way or the other and they feel they can and should contribute to that. Lose that sense of right and wrong, duty to your fellow man and we're all f------.
People lay peaceably abed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf - attributed to Orwell but not conclusively. As true today as it has been in any part of history you care to turn the page to.
@@Scaleyback317what happen in Ukraine before Russia invade them? What happen in Cuba when Russia put one, only one military base? ....... Yeah you know what i mean. All hypocrisis.
Did you think the Afghans would fight thier own brother's for a foreign army😅😅😅😅
They thought that everyone was the traitors, their allies
Are you seriously that stupid?
Wow...
US have a mentality of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", Islamic extremists, neo nazis, no barriers to who this friend can be
Like foolish indians😂😊
Since world war 1 they were experts in divide and rule . The theory worked out in many dozens of countries . More than 50. People became enemies to each other who belong to same country . We are still suffering the poison of the seeds they sow. But the theory failed in Afghanistan. Not just once , multiple times . May Allah make Afghanistan a source of peace to whole world
When bad guys come to your house at the same time call you the bad guy. Interesting world 🌎
With friends like america who needs enemies
Israel
@jackwilliam2965 true its how they keep the paranoia going
You could always try your hand with the Chinese, the Russians. They 'll probably give you a square idea.
@@bigjake2061 africa did and they got uplifted finally, thanks to china and russia.
Why Australia were fighting America's war
We definitely lost this war.
And the vie5ltnam and the emu war
No they didn't. Militarily they dominated almost every engagement and fight. The war wasnt lost, building a 21st century country for a bunch of 18th century backwards goat humpers was a failure. They were too busy molesting little boys, getting high and selling all the equipment that NATO supplied them with on the black market to want to fight for their country. It was like trying to get the crips and the bloods to form a common government and get along. All those fuckers would rather have their local war loard tell them what they can and can't do.
Its funny what gets called war.
Invasion*
The Europeans 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 don't understand the mindset of an Afghan. Indians do so
Therefore India 🇮🇳 refused to send troops to Iraq 🇮🇶 and Afghanistan 🇦🇫 despite so much pressure from USA. The Europeans thought they could get a MODERATE CLEAN SHAVEN MUSLIM running the Afghan State when they leave.
Just as they think of their dear friends....the Double faced Pakistanis
Afghans do not forgive anyone who attacks their land
War is not like Hollywood
I
My deep suport for afganistan freedome fighters.. Vieatnam, and afganistan show the strength of asians.
🤝
There are hundred ways to enter Afghanistan, but there's no single way to get out safely
When you look into the eyes of the soldiers who say they believe in and are proud of what they are doing and the deaths of their comrades is worth it, they are trying to convince themselves and the listener. The Afghanistan's did not want them there. The soldiers did not want to be there.
Fighting and losing for lies - that must be so gut wrenching. Stupid idiots for not doing sufficient due diligence and believing their politicians.
When will everyone stop following the US into their self serving actions I wonder...
And, as a citizen of a supposedly democratic nation, will we get to vote on whether we actually get involved in wars or not?
That'd be nice...
Military industrial complex does not take your suggestion to consideration.
What democracy? That's why we Afghans laugh at u. Democracy is not our Afghan way but we still have mire democracy than u do.
It's a republic, not a pure democracy
You will never get to vote where your tax dollars are spent..
a democracy doesn't mean a citizen will have the right to vote for every major decision made by the government, but to elect a small number of indviduals that would make those decisions for them. In theory, these people are supposed to represent the interests and voices of the people that elected them. However, we can see how this doesn't translate that well in practice.
I was in Kandahar in the US Army and was part of the build up in 2010 as well and lost friend too. I would like to thank all our allies for coming the our aide after 911!! We are always going to be brothers!!
In which district did you fight? Was it in panjwai or zhari district?
all of this for Halliburton and the other military industrial complex companies....
Bush and Cheney's companies , but also Lolo Sotero , who was a CIA asset in the 50s and friends with the Bush family.
Bud/s 217 here, these poor bastards gave their lives as the politicians/controllers families stayed safe at home. These warriors got swindled into thinking they were fighting for their country when in reality they were getting maimed and killed by an enemy that their own government funded and armed as they invested in war stocks and made profits 10-1000x. In the end they would give the territory back to the Taliban and leave behind $85 billion worth of military equipement so that they would have to dip into the tax tank and fund more weapons and more war and more profits. Create war by funding the bad guys / bad guys do bad things and then a reason to boost military weapons production / and if you invested as they did - the profits keep coming in. These same people are invested in pharma as well. Its a pay for play game and the question isnt why its how much. Just say got paid $50 mil and then you no longer have to ask why. And its all funded by the citizens own tax money - so they are funding their own extinction. As the warriors and police leave their positions they will be filled by indentured immigrants that will be obligated to enforce the controllers rule. They will do the job that the citizens wont but against the citizens. They will also be expendable. This wasnt a war this was an investment trading soldiers for profits. Find out who profited and you will find the ones responsible for the death of your brothers. Hoo-Yaah - God bless you all - keep training - we work in the dark to preserve the light.
All these comments saying the war served no purpose.. money was the purpose.
Fact
It served the interests of one particular small country on the eastern edge of the mediteranean, which maintains so much influence that I can't mention them by name.
So what the documentary doesn't want to say is the Afgan soldiers were turning their weapons on their Australian mentors on more than one occasion
Then you're wasting lives for SFA at that point
They’ll conveniently leave those stories out. Doesn’t change the fact that it wouldn’t have happened if we didn’t invade. Something had to happened after 9/11 but a full on 20 Year invasion and occupation clearly wasn’t the answer.
Your te'rrori'sts were war'monggers, and even some of our traitors realised it.
Many of soldiers wno u trained actually were also supporting our T'alib'an and hated u.
39:30. It clearly says this
It’s well known and documented, that some Afghans soldiers turned on NATO soldiers! 😉
It was ALWAYS wasting lives for SFA. Why WOULDNT Afghan soldiers turn their weapons on a foreign army that invaded their country, bombed it to bits and (what YOU dont want to mention) killed thousands of civillians.
I served in the Stan and the question crossed my mind 100 times a day "what the fuck are we really doing in this shit hole." And that aussie in the beginning nailed it. All I was doing was trying to come home with all my people
That shit holes births lions every day!
Piece shit 💩 who the fuck asked u to come to Afghanistan Remeber Afghanistan defeated ur father Britain so u Americans are nothing dude 😂
Going into someone else's country armed to the teeth never ends well,
Why do the Allies think there way of life is what everyone else wants
I love how the seriousness of the situation is about why foreign troops are being attacked... and, the sense that their mission has some sort of purpose beyond destroying people, in a different country, because yeh...
You don’t even know the real reason you were sent there to get shot at…..
It s don't matter what the United states and NATO forces did they lost the war so the soldiers died for nothing
Our soldiers was doing good at first but now everything is trash and our country grew weaker thanks to the politicians crap ww3 is about to start.
Its better that way in thé begining you sent for nothing
Farmers always win against any invaders
Wasn't the VC recipient at the beginning, one of the Aus SAS blokes that got done for war crimes. He got off scot-free and the whistle blower got jailed.
You should do a video on that.
Ya i remember seeing that on abc news back in 2017ish...forgot that whistleblowers name
@@Roshankeyal
Ryan McBride
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@@RoshankeyalDavid McBride.
Yes he did got done for war crimes, people that were there with him testified against him. There’s a documentary on 60 minutes I think
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
So true. Look where the Ukrainian situation is leading for a current example of that theory!
Nice
@06:00 This guy is fighting not to let down his mates. The Afghan on the other end is fighting for his home, his woman and his children possibly revenge from losing comrades. which one do you think has a stronger will fight and will fight more ferociously.
Man they act as if they fought a major war wen actually they fought against farmers 😂😂
And still lost
They call farmers with machine guns and explosives. Trying to take your life. In combat. An enemy combatant.
@@tatsnneeps341 they did not lose a war, they lost a country
LOL so what other types would we fight other than farmers? Who do you think our greatest fighters from America are? All of the special elite american forces is all made up of 90% of very rural country white farmers
@@chuckbiker9400 trying to take back their country from invader
When I studied economics our lecturer told us outright war is a good stimulant for the economy and sciences. Coincedently we were involved in a war at the time defending a piece of desert that once was a German Colony. Conscripts cirect out of school - if you refused jail time up to possible 6 years. After that your life was f...d. Who appoints a 24 year old with a prison record and refused to support the cause? How much of the larger countries with really large economies depend on weapon manufacturing. If the economy slumps start a war boet. Works everytime. So, as for the Aussies and many other countries, - we fought for shit and now get treated like it as well. Apart for the sake of self defence no children of mine will wear a army uniform of any sort. They can try the police but if politics endanger them they will leave. A country must have an army.....for self defence. Apart from that stay out of other countries and let them sort out their own crap.
We see how the penny drops, Israel always behind it.
you are 100 per cent correct.
Thinking that the earth belongs to you won’t make you invincible
Bless all the brothers and sisters who have fought and died all over the world
Would be interesting to know just how many trillions of dollars were saved after endex in Iraq and Afghan.
Odd that despite both campaigns coming to an end, we allegedly still have no way of funding our NHS, shools, or borders.
WTF was it all for then?
RIP My Brothers
now they're chucking all the money at ukraine in the hope they can get hold of resources over there and maybe russia. but its not going according to plan by all accounts
Not much, just a new war to replace a dud ward and a new war to replace that. Anything to keep the military industrial complex fed.
funds been diverted to ukrain and Israel 😅
It was for those who lives in ivory towers, bunkehs, yaht owners, etc. Peasants just have to Keep Calm And Carry On while the elites drink their champagne.
Your guys were sent to Hellsinki
Tbh without Air Cover most of the Allied Troops probably wouldn't have been that successful ?
Wasn't called in as frequently as people think,a lot of the engagements where at too close a range.
True.
Western are weak Heart people. Can't go face to face
It’s all fun and games untill the rabbit got the gun. No one has ever stopped to think that they are in another persons country calling them insurgents😂
And now our border has been open for 3 and 1/2 years and we don't know who's here
Ever since I was a very young kid I wanted to be in the army. I started "training" or what I thought I should be doing very young. Did 4 years JROTC and planned to join the moment I got out of high school. 9/11 happened when I was in late middle school years so that lit even more of a fire under my ass. My family was stupid poor so we didn't get to go on vacations. I heard my older brother was going to D.C. I saved up every penny I had just so I could go visit The tomb of the Unknown Solider, The Changing of the Guard, and the Vietnam Memorial. Like it meant everything to me. Long story short I was hanging out with a group of guys I didn't know very well. We got pulled over and one of them threw weed down in the car. No one would take blame so we all got charged. I was already dealing with medical issues and they told me they weren't excepting anyone with any type of drug charges at all at the moment. Can't even get a waiver to try again in a few years. That destroyed me. I tried a few more times with no luck. By the time that I heard that law changed my medical issues we're past the point of joining. It depressed me for many many years. Then I started seeing my buddies come back home(some not). They all said the same shit. They had absolutely no idea why we were over there. Those people do not want our help. Blah blah blah. I just couldn't understand though. Anywho when Biden pulled out a weight lifted off my shoulders. I'm now so glad I didn't go and I guess stuff does happen for a reason. The reason I'm saying this is to say how miserable it felt when that happened. Like everything was for no reason at all. If I feel like that and lost sleep over it I can't imagine how all you guys that actually fought there, lost brothers there, left sweat and blood in that sand feels. It's literally a feeling I can't even fathom. Thanks for your sacrifices and sorry the government let you guys down so badly. Love and appreciate everyone of you.
When war comes let the warriors run it and fight it.
Problem being that, that very rarely happens and instead politicians play puppeteer with fucked up consequences.
To much idiocy pervades, its like the saying: Too many cooks spoil the broth. What else can be expected especially of the USA, that is chaos incarnate, with all those fingers digging in the pot pie!?
For you 😂😂😂😂😂
I salute the Australian hero who brought to light the war crimes committed by his colleagues. He is a real hero 💪
Worth it , my bollox 😢
When I was deployed there was a contractor who used to wear a shirt that said "War is a business, and business is good." A lot of people from many nations got rich from this war. The cost of many fellow Soldiers' lives was an acceptable price for these companies who realized that no one was watching the global checkbook raking in billions on the backs of other people's sons and daughters. The next coming wars will be the same if we let them.
17 minutes into, nothing about why they left Afghanistan. Just advertising their contributions.
You left Afghanistan because your pride, cause and courage is unlike Pashtuns.
Men in sandals defeated the entire western army 🤣👌
May they be increased and ever made stronger ameen.
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂
This was such a perfect war for shareholders. It's why we are presently drip feeding Ukraine with enough stuff to prolong the fighting but not to bring it to an end. The recent situation where the US delayed supplying them is so transparent. The F16's are always just over the horizon.
its a good earner! people are getting rich of it
Putin has achieved his territorial goals in Ukraine. But the US pushes Ukraine to provoke Russia to continue the war.
@@yogiguitar1mostly our congressmen and senators
@@annezone6b494 thats one job that pays pretty good eh !
@@annezone6b494 you even get to write their own paycheques and take paid vacations whenever the fuck they need to! thats one hell of a great job eh!
Now there are more taliban in Sydney than Kabul! 😂
You and I both know that's a stupid and unfactual statement.
they're in your govt mate they always were . the real taliban have always been in control of the world
The global war on terror did definitely help export radicals more than contain them
@@yogiguitar1thats just a bunch of nonsense. You confuse the taliban with the zionists that control your country
you were forced to take phoney afghans who were really spies for US and had no afghani papers because they were all smuggled into country
Brits tried in 19th century
Russians tried in 1979.89
Americans 2002 to 2022
Who will be next
Chinese maybe!
They all left. If they used used their very full might, Afghanistan wouldn't have existed today.
Us in 2002?
You know nothing lol
Chinese are not fools..they play chess and soduku n majhong..not some alcohol fuelled field sports
🤯 ohhh man! So insightful, we got ourselves a class A analyst over here 👈
@@RoshankeyalI really have no clue where this idea about how the Chinese see geopolitics as some 4d chess game that they are ten steps ahead in came from but it’s a farce. Maybe 1000 years ago but that ship sailed in the 15th century and their system was so ossified that by the 19th century they couldn’t do a thing as Europe and Japan essentially partitioned the nation. And the current system is so reactionary and obsessed with saving face to the point that y’all send a spy balloon, deny its existence, then deny it’s yours, then demand it back when we shoot it down, then accuse us of aggression when we say no.
And I say ‘we’ and ‘you’ because I’m sure this is a Chinese ‘tankie’ or even outright bot, you are at the very least a ccp sympathizer and let me tell you now that the CPC has lost the Mandate of Heaven and the good people of China will know freedom again one day sooner than later.
In every war there should be a mandatory military service for Politicians who declare that specific war.
Please explain to me why aussie boys are fighting in Afghanistan.
Its called treaty...treaty btwn govts.
For CIA poppy field protection.
Because we had info that those terrorists were gonna bomb us didn't u see 9/11
To stop another 9/11 7/7 etc
@grahamconquer8117 educate yourself
PART 1 & 2? Please and thank you.
Search for the same title with Part 1 and 2 substituted. They are on YT and worth seeing.
retiring usaf after 22 years...the pullout was gut wrenching and I am so sick/tired of it all....I will never understand it and will only ever consider it a great mess...20 years, 9K+ lives, and $8T to replace the Taliban with the Taliban....Hats off to you Aussies, Brits and everyone else that stuck with the USA during this mess - you are loved and your sacrifices are saddening but greatly appreciated.
haha nice to see you so disappointed
Never in the "sandbox"; never in Vietnam. I AM a former Active Duty (4) C/A Marine, with another 14+ years as an Army Reservist.
This breaks my heart.
It's the SAME game, just DIFFERENT places, and names. Instead of Afghan Army, it was ARVN; instead of Taliban, it was VC. Nobody can tell who is who, and NOTHING is what it seems. Strong, good young men bleed and die, for WHAT OBJECTIVE, in the grand scheme of things. It is the EASIEST thing in the world to get young men to kill other young men under some pretense.
Given the times, in the wake of 9/11, I can SEE how Americans could be fooled....
How was Afghanistan Australia's fight? Because of Britain's terrorist attacks? Because the Aussies are part of the UK? That's just a BS reason to send someone ELSE'S sons to fight in YOUR war.
Reasons to go to war, frankly, are MANUFACTURED; and ALL the people in gov't KNOW it; they just can't SAY it. The "leadership" in charge, won't say it EITHER; or it's the end of their careers; with RARE exceptions [eg, LtC John Paull Vann; Daniel Ellsberg; Col David Hackworth; LTG Harold Moore; MGen Smedley Butler; LtC Robert Schirer; handful of others...].
When somebody DOES speak the truth, everyone ELSE SHUTS UP, for fear THEY will be targeted as well. The system DOESN'T tolerate those who speak the truth, no matter HOW obvious it is. If ONE speaks the truth, MORE will follow, and when ENOUGH do so, the entire system is in jeopardy, because everyone involved has to FACE the truth; which FEW can AFFORD to do.
During Vietnam, the motto of MAC,V-SOG was "Death is our business; and business is good." Sounds really sick and twisted, huh?
It's all cool fun and games; until you see your friends die; perhaps even the enemy. There IS a thrill, like NO OTHER, of DEALING death, while MISSING the Reaper's sickle, by inches. In one's 20's one feels invulnerable. Someone ELSE'S misfortune isn't MY problem; sucks to be THEM. Better them than me.
Assuming they make it home in one-piece, they are NEVER the same as before. As they get older, and see the Reaper inevitably coming for THEM, they start to see things with a much greater clarity; and they've learned to ask QUESTIONS....
Then they look at their OWN sons, as they hear the steady propaganda of those beating the war-drums, and they begin to realize they were USED, like a tooth of a gear, in a giant machine [a meat-grinder] that has no REAL care or concern WHATSOEVER, except to justify YET ANOTHER war somewhere, for the benefit of a comparative handful, who will NEVER allow THEIR sons to "join-up"; because they all KNOW it's a BUSINESS; nothing more; and nobody cares.
Maybe THEN it will stop....
Very true. Quick question....how do you see those who served but saw no combat?
but the MIC made out like bandits... THAT'S the reason for so many wars, and dragging them on for so long... Elections have consequences and this is just one aspect of that fact.
@@firmbeliever3847 go sigh up and find out
@@firmbeliever3847 go sigh up and find out, before you do that don't delete my comment
Why you delete my comment?
You can dish it out but can't take it?
Thanks, my Aussie Brothers and Sisters, for serving the same cause!
cause no one knows about😂
Thousands of soldiers died in Afghanistan was it worth it, the answer is a big NO it was a waste of humans being.....
Australian war in Afghanistan, wtf, what were you looking there ?
there has to be a reason whatever it is they won't tell us
Just went in to buy some Afghan goats but got shot at.
You have the watches but we have the time. Afghan leaders quote.
My Work mates Son got killed by the very people he was training, An Afghan turned a machine gun on his British Instructors, Killing 10 Red caps. From that day on all trainers had a Soldier with a side arm on , Called a Guardian Angel.
so he wasn't really a traitor to his people
smart
@abdallhmohamed6442 when you love Allah but you done learned alot from satan...😁... I'm taking notes...
No one ever wins or looses a war . That’s just politics. Great doc. Appreciate the insights.
There is a saying - *Never help those who didn't asked for it.*
-Me
The first soldier that talked, isn’t he being tried for war crimes?
Why do they tried so hard to make this documentary appear like Vietnam War scenario; when in fact they are going against 8 Talibans with 1950 Ak47 with no outside support.
And still lost the battle, taliboys live on 😂😂
@@tatsnneeps341next generation Talib here🏳🏳🏳. The majority of us Afghans support our T-ali-ba-n
You are talking kak!! Most that lost their lives was because of IED's
@fransmurati2370 why u so angry? He isn't lying,it wasn't only I-E!-Ds. We won and were totally outnumbered and we had nothing in terms of weapons compared to ALLyour 52 plus countries,all your priva'te con"trac"tors and p"up'pets.
@fransmurati2370 why u so angry with all you !! ? He isn't lying,it wasn't only I-E!-Ds. We won and were totally outnumbered and we had nothing in terms of weapons compared to ALLyour 52 plus countries,all your priva'te con"trac"tors and p"up'pets.
Afghanistan famous proverb .. invading Afghanistan might be little easy but remain staying and going back from Afghanistan is not easy.
Read the history of British expeditions to Afghanistan how the returing forces suffered at their hands
No accountability at all
Ikr, invading someone’s home and acting like they don’t have the right to defend themselves…..same old European arrogance!!!
What's crazy is all the comments from people who were more than likely never there for ANY situation, but feel as if they know "what's what" when it comes to how the afghans "fought for their country".
I think a lot of it comes down to 20 years and the country went back to what it was before. So what did we the allies actually accomplish? It def leaves a bitter taste. Especially how they took their country over in less then 24 hrs.
Thank you
Whats crazy is you implying Afghans werent just defending their country from a foreign, invading army who bombed their once beautiful country to bits & murdered thrir families.
Dont tell me you STILL think they were fighting you because.....they hate freedum & were planning to invade America, kill you all & impose sharia law on the world?
How the Afghans fought can be referred to by reading some history. Every invader of Afghanistan suffers greatly. This lot embarked on this latest stupid adventure got off lightly
I’m afghan and my family was involved in both Soviet and American war and I can tell you that THEY CAME TO STEAL OUR URANIUM to build bombs which they used back on us and they succeeded
Imagine the taliban invading Australia and saying they are helping the local people, how do you feel, the excuses of us and its allies are disgusting
NATO trained the Afghan who are not interested in fighting the Taliban. Also, NATO intelligence appears very weak and incompetent, failed war strategy, and lacks the ability to counter the Taliban fighting experience and expertise.
The majority of us Afghans support our T-ali-ba-n. Lol, many of those u trained were T-ali-ba-n supporters, and many others saw your atrocities and hated u ter"rori"sts. Your traitors ran away with u. U also got the trash and T-ali-ba-n hot the quality fighters, whongought for a purpose.
Well, look who was president.
@@t.birmingham2668it absolutely doesn't matter. You can spend a century in Afghanistan and still gain nothing.... They fight endlessly
They were there to capture the last Tasmanian tiger.
“The men and women who fought Australia’s war in Afghanistan…” riiiigth. Makes sense.
The men and women who fought Americas war in Afghanistan. Let me correct you.
@@NabeelKhan-lx2ly More like Israel's war on the entire middle-east. Much easier to justify their own aggression when every muslim is seen as a terrorist.
11 dead...
In 2006, when I was in Iraq we called that 'Tuesday'. I don't say that to cheapen the lives of those lost, but to question the logic and resolve of the Australian government, because maybe... just maybe... if Australia took its own defense more seriously, and stopped hamstringing its own military with budget and staff cuts, there wouldn't be 47 service members dead. I served with both British and Australian soldiers in Iraq, and the frustration they felt because of their countries inability to back them up was palpable. You cannot go to war half assed, and thats exactly the situation commonwealth service members were forced into by their governments.
If that pattern continues, the next time it won't be just 47 dead...
You're a tool. Boot
Cheeky bastard.
Our lads were only IN afghan because you warmongering scum wanted to get rich so invaded foreign lands, dragging us to fight for you.
Clown.
You have learned nothing have you? Instead of calling for MORE money to be wasted on weapons to start more pointless wars with countries that did nothing to you, you should spend that money helping your own people in your own country.
There wont BE a next time and ZERO soldiers will die if you simply stop acting like Israel & Americas little lapdog and stop invading countries that did nothing to yours.
@@HopePeace-hr5qx tell that to our corrupt government clown...like we thr people have a say in shit lmao our government is corrupt not the people
First off, thank you for this great great documentary..brilliant...my utmost and total respect for all combatants...really...yes, we all need to research diligently for the real reasons as to why regime changes, government changes, etc are being implemented...to study what lies behind every conflict, every war, etc...very intetesting here
As an Afghan minority we are thankful for your services unfortunately the situation and the wrong policies from the US our dreams just died .
You are thankful for being deserted? How foolish you are. There's a reason why you don't take atheists as your allies in politics. Hopefully, you are one who learns from one lesson target then needed several.
What was Australia looking for in Afghanistan?
Poppies
So much destruction and death 💔
thats called war.it makes money for a small minority
Fantastic documentary
... totally deluded 'campaign' ... before committing to a 'war' ... read History and mitigate the 'impossible' and inevitable failure
In 2010 we were in a valley about 20km away in kunar on the pakistan border we took 36 US and 40 ANA, we lost 2 ANA and 8 1/2 hours of intense fighting, we had 250+ EKIAs, zero US kias. We left the FoB in the early morning, got back after midnight. My team expended 6000 rounds of ammo, 36 Grenades, 6 rockets and 16 gustov rounds, 8 gallons of water and 9 MREs. I still remember the count. We were awarded 4 CABs, 4 Bronze Stars, 2 purple hearts in my 5 man team including our interpreter.
Going to Afghanistan is easy but coming back is very difficult
ANA what a joke. I just thank God I made in out of 4 tours of Duty from Iraq and Afghanistan. God Bless all that served 🙏🏽 ✝️ Live your life for those that can't! 🙏🏽
Thanks brother, welcome home. Glad you made it back.
They are in hell now
I heard a story from al Jazeera that something like 40k ANA were killed fighting the Taliban
They fought to protect themselves from the United states and NATO forces in Afghanistan won the war
Afghan people is true warrior ..no one can defeat them
What can I say? I told you all so in the beginning.
Ikr