Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

-Country director 🇺🇦 Ukraine @InstituteGC -Former 🇳🇴 army and @EY_Parthenon 🇬🇧 -Upcoming book: Triumph of Chaos, Afghanistan 1978-2021 -All views my own. quillette.com/author/stephan/ Kyiv, Ukraine Joined December 2015

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

From 2001-2021, 70.000 Afghan soldiers and police died fighting for their country, defending it against the Taliban. Their sacrifice and courage should not be forgotten.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

Pakistan is like a man setting fire to his entire neighborhood and then expecting pity when his own house burns down too (and then blames India).

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

- Afghanistan got a democratic constitution in *1964* - Afghan Women got the right to vote before women in Switzerland - The legends about the first Afghan King say that he was *elected* And yet I keep hearing democracy in Afghanistan was "imposed" by the West after 2001. 1/🧵

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

🇦🇫 If the lies about Afghan forces not being willing to fight had been true, the Afghan Republic would have fallen in 2014. From then to 2021, they did 99% of the fighting, taking tens of thousands of casualties. But in 2020-21, we pulled the plug on them for political reasons.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

3 years ago

THREAD: During the first 75 years of the 20th century, 🇦🇫#Afghanistan experienced less war and political unrest than almost every country in the West, including eg. 🇳🇴Norway, 🇧🇪Belgium, and 🇫🇮Finland. 1/🧵

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

The 🇺🇸United States' decades of deep and loyal support for 🇵🇰 Pakistan while Pakistan kept funding, arming, training, and hiding America's enemies and engineering the Taliban's comeback in 🇦🇫Afghanistan must be one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time. The mind boggles.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

🇦🇫 THREAD: More than anyone else, the Taliban caused the War in Afghanistan to continued for 20 years after 9/11. After 2001, like now, the US government was desperate to leave Afghanistan behind and forget about it. And they would have if the Taliban not re-started the War. 1/6

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

🇦🇫The West was completely right -both morally and strategically- to intervene in Afghanistan in 2001, helping the Afghans take their country back from the Taliban What we deserve to be condemned for is abandoning the country again and betraying our allies when we left in 2021.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

The idea that Afghan Republican forces weren't willing to fight for their country might be the single most perfidious lie told about the war in Afghanistan. More than 60.000 Afghan soldiers died fighting the Taliban. Their sacrifice deserves honor, not gaslighting. 🇦🇫

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

From 2014 to 2021, 127 US and coalition troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. During the same period, more than 50.000 Afghan soldiers died too, fighting the same enemy as us. And yet, feckless charlatans claim the Afghans weren't willing to fight for their country. 1/🧵

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

Many in the West have become so pathologically pacifistic that they truly believe military means are always futile and counterproductive - even when fighting to defend against those who want to take away everything they believe in. They have short memories. 1/2

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 weeks ago

While pitiful hordes of very online man-boys think complaining about feminism on twitter will one day turn them into real men, this Ukrainian farmer is casually shooting down *ussian FPV drones with his shotgun in order to harvest his watermelons. Reflect on that, kids.

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Sgt. Tibbs 🏴‍☠️ @SgtTibbles

3 weeks ago

What are you willing to part with, America?

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Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina

3 weeks ago

I’m from Donbas. I remember Ukrainian songs in school. I remember books, not bunkers. Don’t tell me we were “always russian.” I was there. We lived. Then russians invaded.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 weeks ago

Now as before, truth is a crime in *ussia.

Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en

2 weeks ago

Now as before, truth is a crime in *ussia.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 weeks ago

The best protection against world war 3 kicking off in Asia is defeating *ussia and kicking it out of Ukraine.

JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley

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The best protection against world war 3 kicking off in Asia is defeating *ussia and kicking it out of Ukraine.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

🇦🇫 THREAD: Every single Afghan frontline soldier or officer I have spoken to has told me they were desperately short of ammunition, fuel, water, food, and other supplies during the decisive fighting in 2021. Why? Was choking off the Afghan forces also part of the Doha deal? 1/🧵

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

3 weeks ago

The level of delusional retardation from absolute fuckwits like mannarino is so astonishing it borders on being an achievement in itself. These are the kind of people who would be blaming Poland for the outbreak of World War 2.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

3 weeks ago

Exactly right - russia's goal was always and still is the full restoration of its empire of tyranny and death. And make no mistake: that dark ambition does not end on the border between Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts.

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Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen

2 years ago

🇦🇫 The idea that the Afghan Republic was always doomed is not an "uncomfortable truth", but a self-soothing cop-out designed to rid ourselves of responsibility for the outcome. The reality is, the Taliban won and the Republic fell because we chose to let it (or make it) happen.