# ![@StephanAJensen Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::4525253835.png) @StephanAJensen Stephan Jensen

Stephan Jensen posts on X about afghanistan, ukraine, russia, hamas the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@KyleKulinski @JoeBiden No love for Bidens decision here but feels like Trump and his guys might have had something to do with it too no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1427372474472312833)  2021-08-16T20:51Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Live footage of @CapelLofft preparing for the upcoming thunderdome-style history death-match of the year where he will face off against @holland_tom @dcsandbrook (and @TedVallance) over the posthumous reputation of evil tyrant and/or noble martyr King Charles I. Remember Refreshing a few bits and pieces for the @TheRestHistory Battle Royale: https://t.co/rebXTs1Jqn Refreshing a few bits and pieces for the @TheRestHistory Battle Royale: https://t.co/rebXTs1Jqn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1489380080774172672)  2022-02-03T23:27Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements


"What is unique was that after the intervention in [----] we in the West somehow forgot everything that had happened in the previous [--] years and thought it was "normal" for Afghanistan to be utterly destroyed: "it's always been this way." And that is why we failed. Fin/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1582187348372377601)  2022-10-18T01:50Z 10.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The only two things preventing Russia from invading more of its neighbors in Europe is NATO's military deterrence and Ukraine's success on the battlefield. No well-meaning diplomacy clever deals or worthless promises extracted from the Russian government can change that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1610069885400371201)  2023-01-03T00:25Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"The far left is made up of nationalists pretending to be internationalist; the far right is made up of internationalists pretending to be nationalists. Doesn't matter both are hell-bent on destroying everything good both in their own countries as well as the rest of the world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1628815869647241220)  2023-02-23T17:55Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"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 [------] Afghan soldiers died fighting the Taliban. Their sacrifice deserves honor not gaslighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1661066774949904394)  2023-05-23T17:49Z 10.1K followers, 297.3K engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1663477723262603264)  2023-05-30T09:29Z [----] followers, 118K engagements


"Broadly soeaking the main thrust and intention of the post-9/11 political order was headed in the same direction as Afghanistan prior to the outbreak war in 1978: education development democracy human rights etc. But it was a huge challenge I think that this often wasn't recognised playing into the Talibn narrative of a puppet givernment trying to "impose" a political and social order that was essentially incompatible with Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1664805802295582720)  2023-06-03T01:26Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1666921730709790721)  2023-06-08T21:34Z 10.4K followers, 28.9K engagements


"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 [----]. Why Was choking off the Afghan forces also part of the Doha deal 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1668703621771304960)  2023-06-13T19:35Z [----] followers, 833.1K engagements


"There were many reasons why logistics got difficult but blaming it all on corruption is a cop-out. The major problems began as a result of the Doha deal which massively restricted Afghan forces' offensive operations making it easy for the Taliban to cut off supply lines. 3/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1668703641912393729)  2023-06-13T19:35Z 10.3K followers, 34.4K engagements


"Couldn't agree more. The idea that leaving Afghanistan allowed the West to "refocus" on Russia and China is ludicrous. Leaving Afghanistan massively increased the geopolitical risk from Russian and China and led to war in Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1668974625949200384)  2023-06-14T13:32Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"- In [----] when the Afghans were beating the Taliban US+ flew [---] sorties of direct air support. - In July [----] when Afghan forces were fighting the most difficult and decisive battles of the war they got just [--] sorties of air support. -- What the hell happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1671879617328877569)  2023-06-22T13:55Z [----] followers, 46.7K engagements


"THREAD: More than anyone else the Taliban caused the War in Afghanistan to continued for [--] years after 9/11. After [----] 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1672265628139286529)  2023-06-23T15:29Z 10.2K followers, 39.2K engagements


"Once you scratch the surface of the Taliban's propaganda there is nothing at all "traditional" or "national" about their movement. The Taliban is an utterly modern movement mostly based on 20th-century political ideas and foreign religious teachings. 1/11"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1673604631404982272)  2023-06-27T08:10Z 10.4K followers, 972.1K engagements


"Eid Mubarak to all those who fought for the Afghan Republic - may you never be forgotten"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1673935020178677760)  2023-06-29T23:03Z 10.3K followers, 114.3K engagements


"Defeat was never inevitable in Afghanistan. Not by a long shot. It was never even the most likely outcome. But two US presidents let themselves be persuaded by weak-minded defeatist snake-talk and chose to lose the war - both for the West and the Afghan Republic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1674172514505728006)  2023-06-28T21:46Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Those arguing that the West is better off abandoning Afghanistan do well to remember we tried that in the 1990s - after the country had been utterly destroyed fighting communism as our unofficial ally. The results of that were not easy to escape and they won't be now either"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1674328120386617347)  2023-06-29T08:05Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"By [----] the Taliban had failed to re-conquer Afghanistan for [--] years suffered [------] casualties unable to take a single provincial capital. Yet somehow Western media was full of tales about how the Taliban were winning and it was time to give up. What is wrong with us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1674432647471464450)  2023-06-29T20:46Z 10.3K followers, 32.2K engagements


"@photon6800 We should have continued to provide the Afghans with the very light-touch but critical support we had committed to and make clear to the Taliban that the war ends when they put down their arms and stand for election instead. Even if it had taken ten or twenty years it would"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1674472704156598273)  2023-06-30T01:00Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@MemyselfandI019 @ac209Kali Yeah - almost nothing was done to prevent civil war from breaking out so "almost anything" is a reasonable answer to what might have been done different. You almost couldn't come up with a worse outcome than what actually happened over the ten years from 1991-2001"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1674546633319522305)  2023-06-29T22:33Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Even after we removed the critical enablers that we had promised the Afghans not to take away they held on for nearly two years. But when they finally collapsed for that reason and the other ways they had been undermined by the US in Doha we blamed them. Shame on us. 🧵/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1675036704195977219)  2023-07-09T17:05Z [--] followers, [----] engagements


"The West was completely right -both morally and strategically- to intervene in Afghanistan in [----] 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1675746962597896192)  2023-07-03T06:03Z 10.2K followers, 97.7K engagements


"Without massive and loyal support from Pakistan the Taliban would not have lasted past [----] (let alone 2001) "  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1677312270290878465)  2023-07-07T13:43Z 10.3K followers, 142.2K engagements


"From 2001-2021 [------] Afghan soldiers and police died fighting for their country defending it against the Taliban. Their sacrifice and courage should not be forgotten"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1677573331250184194)  2023-07-08T07:00Z 10.3K followers, 60.4K engagements


"Just a friendly reminder that the Taliban self-proclaimed protectors of traditional culture and religion were founded in the same year as the Spice Girls. The Taliban are as old as the Spice Girls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678314410484326400)  2023-07-10T08:55Z 10.3K followers, 31.4K engagements


"There are few more clear-cut signs that a country is descending into darkness and horror than the devaluation and loss of books"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678353967107960832)  2023-07-10T10:59Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"THREAD: One of the most baffling decisions of the whole War in Afghanistan is the US refusal to provide air support to Afghan Forces during the Taliban offensive of [----]. Despite all the other mistakes made this alone could have changed the outcome of the war. 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678369783291551744)  2023-07-11T13:24Z 10.3K followers, 110.9K engagements


"Nevertheless in [----] the US chose to *not* provide the one type of support they could have provided their ally Afghanistan without distrupting the withdrawal - despite the fact that it could have changed the outcome of the war. The mind boggles. 🧵/10"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678369953404026881)  2023-07-10T11:45Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@ruinwanderer @calxandr Exactly. Not the Spice Girls though. They are far more authentic about who they are and what they stand for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678399343294808065)  2023-07-11T00:07Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@LionKin45697963 And the Soviet Union"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678423554122035200)  2023-07-10T17:06Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@DandyGent Its extremely disturbing how much Biden makes it look like that was the case. I dont want to believe it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678442588750114816)  2023-07-10T17:04Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"@pheonixtrading @randymot4 I mean the people who say Ukraine "can't win" are either mentally ill or shilling for our enemies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678528500876075008)  2023-07-11T07:06Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The idiots saying we 0failed in Afghanistan because it has never been conquered profoundly misunderstand the [--] years after 9/11. The West never tried to "conquer" Afghanistan. We helped the Afghan Republic defend itself against the Taliban who did want to conquer it 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678646086460735491)  2023-07-11T07:06Z 10.3K followers, 31.1K engagements


"The weirdest thing about "the last soldier to leave Afghanistan" is that he wasn't the last soldier at all. He was (probably) the last US soldier. But British French and other allied troops stayed behind for several days after the US left continuing to evacuate people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678676817085857793)  2023-07-11T08:05Z 10.1K followers, 32.9K engagements


"The War in Afghanistan was never "unwinnable". Not even in late July [----] was that the case. But the belief and endless talk about it being so for at least ten years prior to the collapse of the Republic was one of the main reasons why it happened"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678732135857897473)  2023-07-11T14:55Z 10.3K followers, 14.9K engagements


"@AminTarzi1 Wow Was it as nice as it looks on the picture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1678929954766045184)  2023-07-12T00:51Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Khyber Restaurant in Kabul Afghanistan - likely late 1960s or early 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1679007742508318722)  2023-07-12T06:15Z 10.3K followers, 11K engagements


"Afghanistan early 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1679777028126416896)  2023-07-19T05:13Z 10.3K followers, 19K engagements


"Girl Scouts Afghanistan - likely 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1680230506477019137)  2023-07-20T01:56Z 10.3K followers, 14.7K engagements


"THREAD: #OTD Exactly [--] years ago Mohammed Daoud ousted his cousin King Zahir Shah took power in Afghanistan and declared it a Republic - first opening the door to more than [--] years of violence and war in Afghanistan. Nevertheless his legacy remains a complex one. 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1680991526535454720)  2023-07-18T15:34Z 10.3K followers, 117.7K engagements


"Daoud also made major steps forward for women's rights a key pillar of broader development. In [----] Daoud Zahir and other ministers appeared in public with their wives faces uncovered. Their example signaled that purdah was now optional - at least in the cities. 5/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1680991708748685316)  2023-07-17T17:23Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"But much of Daoud's efforts were dependent on exploiting the cold war rivalry between the US and the USSR to increase development aid. Daoud famously said that he likes to light his American cigarettes with Soviet matches. But playing with matches can be dangerous. 7/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1680991721205710848)  2023-07-18T02:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Vogue Magazine special Afghanistan issue - [----] 1/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1681347124422754305)  2023-07-19T06:59Z 10.3K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Girls on their way home from school in Kabul Afghanistan - late 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1681544481273786373)  2023-07-20T01:56Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


""A nation transformed" indeed - tear gas and electric shock used by the #Taliban to break up a peaceful demonstration of women demanding their most basic rights be respected. I suppose this part of Afghanistan's new reality wasn't part of @ellwood_tobias' itinerary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1681716787618914305)  2023-07-19T23:23Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban will fall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1682366035645661186)  2023-07-22T05:06Z 10.3K followers, 79.2K engagements


"Classroom in Afghanistan 1980s (Communist banner in the background)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1682434287872647189)  2023-07-21T23:18Z 10.3K followers, 30.5K engagements


"@nigroeneveld to be fair it was not so much Trump's strategy as HR McMaster and Mattis' strategy. They provided much more air support and slightly increased the number of SOF+advisors in Afghanistan (still a very small total troop commitment) and at the same time took a much harder line on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1682890530957455360)  2023-07-23T01:12Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"THREAD: I keep hearing nonsense about the Afghan forces not being willing to fight. It's a disgusting lie. We took out almost all our troops in [----] - since then the Afghans fought like hell. But in [----] we left them without ammunition food water and air support. 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1683175143923675136)  2023-07-23T18:00Z [----] followers, 884.8K engagements


"Our failure to stand by our one of the West's closest allies Afghanistan was a key factor in emboldening Putin to invade Ukraine. Every time the free world gives in to authoritarianism and tyranny in one place it has dire consequences elsewhere too. Both the Ukrainians and the Afghans are now facing the consequences of our lack of resolve and loyalty to our allies. And if the morally and strategically bankrupt idiots that want the West to offer up Ukraine as a sacrificial lamb to Putin get their way Taiwan will be next. And then the rest of Eastern Europe and then. If we get a World War [--] it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1683416278113959936)  2023-07-24T09:58Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1683862227676168192)  2023-07-25T15:30Z 10.2K followers, 219.4K engagements


"Our defeat in Afghanistan and the fall of the Republic was first and foremost a self-fulfilling prophecy. The real turning point was defatist narratives taking hold in the West and in Afghanistan. And the real enemy was not the Taliban but our own impatience and fatalism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1684584110298103810)  2023-08-06T09:20Z 10.3K followers, 36.1K engagements


"Nearly two years after many still argue about the wisdom (or lack of it) of the total withdrawal from Afghanistan in [----]. But the argument is superfluous. Of course if was a total disaster - both strategically and morally. Afghanistan the US and the West are in a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1685305101957660672)  2023-07-30T05:47Z 10.3K followers, 53K engagements


"Appeasement-retards arguing that Ukraine should be sacrificed "to avoid WW3" miss the whole bloody point Just like in [----] nothing could be more conducive to bringing about WW3 than appeasing Putin If we really want lasting peace Ukraine must win and Europe must re-arm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1686103025696321536)  2023-08-02T16:42Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Afghanstan Ukraine and even Taiwan shouldn't be seen as separate issues. They're all battles in the bigger global contest between freedom and tyranny human dignity and human despair reason and madness. And victory or defeat in one place is a victory or defeat everywhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1686658485495250944)  2023-08-02T08:41Z 10.3K followers, 34K engagements


"Freedom justice and human dignity is worth fighting for. In Ukraine in Afghanistan in Taiwan in Iran in Hong Kong - everywhere. And those who seek to destroy it must be defeated. How is that even remotely controversial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1687055023061028864)  2023-08-03T10:57Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"These are just a few of the heroic sacrifices members the Afghan armed forces made year after year - and that Biden Trump and so many others refuse to acknowledge. More than [------] Afghan soldiers and officers died fighting our common enemies. May they never be forgotten"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1687814937916084224)  2023-08-05T13:16Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban no more represent "authentic Afghanistan" than the Nazis represented "authentic Germany." And extremist movements born of chaos whose only real claim to power comes from violence and terror are bound to be transient"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1689306207914205184)  2023-08-09T16:02Z 10.3K followers, 34.6K engagements


"If the Taliban's propaganda was true and most Afghans really did support them they would have had no reason to mount a 20-year campaign of terror to gain power. They could have just stopped killing people and run for election. But they knew they'd never win one. 1/3🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1689879359811678209)  2023-08-11T06:00Z 10.3K followers, 38.2K engagements


"Between [----] and [----] Afghanistan held: - Four presidential elections - Three parliamentary elections - 100+ provincial council elections But no one purporting to represent something like a Taliban political platform ever ran. Because they knew they would never win. 2/3🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1689879391990431745)  2023-08-11T06:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The only key constituency which consistently "voted" for the Taliban after [----] was the Pakistani ISI. Eschewing democracy because they and the ISI knew they were unpopular the only way for the Taliban to gain power was terror. Insanely we let them get away with it. 3/3🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1689879424034840576)  2023-08-11T06:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"If the West had not demonstrated a complete lack of resolve by abandoning Afghanistan Putin would not have dared invade Ukraine. You reap what you sow. Or rather - Afghans and Ukrainians reap what presidents Trump and Biden sowed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1689990531584065536)  2023-08-11T13:21Z [--] followers, 12.5K engagements


"As Kabul fell two years ago we were told lie after shameful lie about Afghan forces giving up and not being willing to fight. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is at least [------] Afghan soldiers and officers died fighting for their country - [--] times the number of Western soldiers who lost their lives fighting in Afghanistan. And through the spring and summer of [----] they kept fighting even as they were left without food water ammunition air support and political backing. In the end the brave men and women who sacrificed everything were betrayed and abandoned - and their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1691253088726790144)  2023-08-15T00:58Z 10.3K followers, 64.9K engagements


"On this dark anniversary we do well to remember the sacrifices of the soldiers and officers of the Afghan Republic that fell on this day two years ago. At least [------] of them gave their lives for a free Afghanistan and they kept doing so after everyone else had given up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1691442638736752640)  2023-08-15T13:32Z 10.3K followers, 21.8K engagements


"It's not just Afghans who are heartbroken by how Afghanistan was betrayed two years ago. US and coalition veterans too are still devastated by how our leaders made us abandon Afghanistan - as @AggieWill00 shows in this powerful essay"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1691445929143111681)  2023-08-15T13:45Z 10.3K followers, 13.8K engagements


"Liars propagandists and ignoramuses claim the fall of Afghanistan two years ago as evidence that most Afghans **wanted** the Taliban to win. I can't speak for the people of Afghanistan but I can present what the data says: Only **4%** of Afghanistan supported the Taliban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1691461891296796673)  2023-08-15T14:48Z 10.3K followers, 24.1K engagements


"Dear @unherd -as you proudly claim to be committed to independent voices- might it be relevant to note when you publish a piece praising the "Taliban's success" that the article's author is the wife of the lead US negotiator whose deal with the Taliban brought them to power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1691589962649452864)  2023-08-15T23:17Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@GosalaTimes @JaroslavH @Asia_Foundation Here's some more drivel:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1692682590023557424)  2023-08-18T23:39Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@MaxRobe84318834 @Asia_Foundation The methodology and demographics are sound. N is close to 20k people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1692683370457674081)  2023-08-18T23:42Z 10.1K followers, [--] engagements


"I think that's a fair push-back but the survey methodology and demographics for the Asia Foundation survey is sound and generally regarded as being reliable - you can look it up the mechanics of it in the report itself. And even of this underestimates real support dor the talban by a factor of 4-5x its still only a small minority of Afghans who actually support the Taliban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1692684773389406311)  2023-08-18T23:47Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Taliban orders taxi drivers in Kandahar to only allow women in the trunk of their cars. You cant make up this s**t. Pure barbarism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693222271869939746)  2023-08-20T11:23Z 10.3K followers, 14.3K engagements


"💯 right. Young democracies are fragile no matter where in the world they are. Out of ca [--] established democracies in Europe 20-25 or so only managed to make it "stick" after two three or more attempts. The republic that fell in [----] -Afghanistan's second proper attempt at democracy- lasted longer than the Weimar Republic which was Germany's attempt no. 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693308764055630049)  2023-08-20T17:07Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Co-ed school class in Afghanistan likely 1960s or 70s. This somehow is what the Taliban are so afraid of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693533443253006745)  2023-08-21T08:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Blue Mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif Afghanistan - before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693646674516664520)  2023-08-21T15:30Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Nursing students in class Afghanistan - likely 1950s or 60s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693668297143714029)  2023-08-21T16:56Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Presidential palace of Afghanistan before the return of the Taliban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693895866380149110)  2023-08-22T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Two years after the fall of Afghanistan lies are still told about the Afghan military supposedly giving up without a fight. Nothing could be further from the truth - the Afghan Republican forces fought like lions but were left high and dry by the Doha deal and the withdrawal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1693996375649009963)  2023-08-22T14:39Z 10.3K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Afghanistan didn't fall because Western **troops** were withdrawn. That happened in [----]. Afghanistan fell because Western **support** was withdrawn by US politicians who had no f**king clue what they were doing. The result remains both a moral and strategic catastrophe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694017852255154686)  2023-08-22T16:05Z 10.3K followers, 12.9K engagements


"It is not so long ago that hippies rather than soldiers were the ones going to Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694030695654404287)  2023-08-22T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 30K engagements


"Of all the things that could have been done differently in Afghanistan providing the Afghan forces with the air support they needed in [----] and [----] would have been one of the simplest and most effective. But for whatever reason both Trump and Biden refused to do this👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694052710549434446)  2023-08-22T18:23Z 10.3K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Queen Homaira of Afghanistan with guests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694258218275369401)  2023-08-23T08:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@Startre72377111 I agree completely. But it should also be kept in mind that the US led the Western coalition after [----] and it was a US-Taliban deal and US decisions regarding withdrawal that led to the collapse in 2021"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694339330070733258)  2023-08-23T13:22Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"As we reflect on the deadly and chaotic evacuation from Kabul two years ago -and the decisions that led to it- one important insight looms above al **Letting the Taliban win was an avoidable unnecessary and self-inflicted catastrophe** Two US presidents in a row willingly chose to lose the war - for no good reason other than brainless election slogans. And in doing so they disregarded their own military leaders and strategic advisors; America's allies; and most egregiously of they disregarded the sacrifices of both US coalition and -in far far larger numbers- Afghan soldiers who gave their"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694390285210448340)  2023-08-23T16:44Z 10.3K followers, 10.2K engagements


"Volleyball game in front of one of the Bamiyan Buddhas - Afghanistan 1992"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694393101073125528)  2023-08-23T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 39.5K engagements


"Salang Pass Tunnel - Afghanistan before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694755465010332083)  2023-08-24T16:56Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban claims to be the representatives of a primordial traditional order in Afghanistan. In reality it represents an utterly radical blend of modern political extremism and "remixed" traditional concepts twisted into a new & strange form. The Taliban movement itself of course is no older than the Spice Girls"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694792941083009212)  2023-08-24T19:24Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Snow in the garden outside the Arg the presidential palace of Afghanistan - before the return of the Taliban"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1694983011769430038)  2023-08-25T08:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Less than 12% of people in Afghanistan today were alive when their country descended into war in [----]. Less than 6% were older than ten years old. And less than 3% of people in Afghanistan today were adults when war broke out. What does this mean. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695014512171082225)  2023-08-25T10:05Z 10.3K followers, 12K engagements


"There is a double tragedy here: Both one of inheriting the intractable war violence and extremism that grew out of the 80s and 90s. But also one of *not* inheriting the memory and experience of unworried peace combined with the tolerance to live and let live 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695014543854874770)  2023-08-25T10:05Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Outdoor school class (with a brilliantly well-dressed teacher) - Afghanistan before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695096266034680183)  2023-08-25T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 72.9K engagements


"Former King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695117847972757985)  2023-08-25T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Kabul-Herat Highway Afghanistan - Mid-20th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695458603308650551)  2023-08-26T15:30Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Art students in Kabul Afghanistan - 2002"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695821004042289374)  2023-08-27T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 14.3K engagements


"King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1695842630561579131)  2023-08-27T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 11K engagements


"King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan with family and friends"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696070197268857314)  2023-08-28T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 23.1K engagements


"Paghman Afghanistan - 2013"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696183368033968400)  2023-08-28T15:30Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Road trip in Afghanistan 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696205014123921919)  2023-08-28T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 22.5K engagements


"Girl scouts in Afghanistan - likely 1960s or 70s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696432560371376196)  2023-08-29T08:00Z 10.1K followers, 14.3K engagements


"Record store in Kabul - long before the War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696567424177340649)  2023-08-29T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 22.6K engagements


"Afghanistan 1970s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696794949205835932)  2023-08-30T08:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"King Zahir Shah and Queen Homaira of Afghanistan with President Kennedy and his wife Jaqueline 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696908192209305903)  2023-08-30T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 16.7K engagements


"English class for nursing students in Kabul Afghanistan - 1960s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1696929785501393271)  2023-08-30T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 14K engagements


"I have slight trouble expressing in words exactly how hard I'd like these terrorist whitewashers to go f**k themselves. Make no mistake the "NGO" they're launching in our city London next weekend is nothing but a lobby group for extremists and should be treated as such"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1697736928668307933)  2023-09-01T22:23Z 10.3K followers, 15.1K engagements


"We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances. Devestating - this is the reality of the Taliban's "peace" 💔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1698459725279502651)  2023-09-03T22:15Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"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)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1701775798670073973)  2023-09-13T01:52Z 10.3K followers, 184.2K engagements


"Complete madness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1702996827845357898)  2023-09-16T10:44Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"The delusional pascifism of many in the West is an extreme luxury. And it is paid for with the blood and lives of those who can't -or couldn't- afford it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703030363667276156)  2023-09-16T12:57Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"If you live in the West and you think we can continue to enjoy peace freedom and prosperity without defending it -and standing by our allies who defend it with us- then you really need to get your head examined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1703395557459292652)  2023-09-17T13:08Z [--] followers, 19.4K engagements


"What does Putin the Taliban and others like them want - Slavery instead of liberty - Tyranny instead of democracy - Ignorance instead of knowledge - Destruction instead of creation - Degradation instead of dignity - Death instead of life They will continue to advance for as long as we let them. Appeasement is a self-inficted defeat and a betrayal of those who have no choice but to keep fighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703397782113910910)  2023-09-17T13:17Z 10.3K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Thank you to @TimesGlo for inviting me back on to their podcast to talk about the Taliban's lies about Afghanistan and the bravery and sacrifice of the ANDSF"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703430350515376505)  2023-09-17T15:26Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The gender apartheid must end - both in Iran and in Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703529466436186411)  2023-09-17T22:00Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is extremely important: Afghans aren't leaving Afghanistan because they *want* to but because the Taliban leave them no choice. The least we can do is provide a safe haven until they can go back - and help make that possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703731904527151379)  2023-09-18T11:25Z 10.2K followers, 14.5K engagements


"@zeekhankhogyani What's your argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1703865032298070378)  2023-09-18T20:14Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"This is one of hundreds of tragic reasons why we need to radically accelerate our efforts to get former ANDSF personnel out of Afghanistan and to safety. 💔 The Taliban beheaded a former military personnel in Kandahar after being tortured Rahmatullah Andar the spokesman of the #NSC during the Republic wrote in "X" that the Taliban took former army member Khalil Akhlaqi and then left his body with his head cut off near his house. https://t.co/5FjU4cFRRh The Taliban beheaded a former military personnel in Kandahar after being tortured Rahmatullah Andar the spokesman of the #NSC during the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1704060284963377558)  2023-09-19T09:10Z 10.1K followers, 23.8K engagements


"I wrote this thread more than [--] months ago and it's still true: Biden (like Trump) has tried -and is still trying- to wash his hands of Afghanistan and pretend it doesn't exist. That has been tried before with disastrous consequences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1704534141545373935)  2023-09-20T16:33Z 10.3K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Afghanistan ca. [--] years ago. In the face of violence and extremism the passage of time does not always bring progress. 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1704581846644797739)  2023-09-20T19:42Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Without Pakistan there would be no Taliban. Not now Not after [----] And not even in the 1990s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706217038916493430)  2023-09-25T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 206.3K engagements


"No one sacrificed more in the fight against the Taliban after [----] than the Afghan Security and Defence Forces - about [------] of whom sacrificed their lives for their country. The notion that they gave up easily or didn't care is a bare-faced lie. They were betrayed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706330271778271413)  2023-09-25T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 28.6K engagements


"@qasimking1999 If Pakistan didn't give the Taliban safe haven I guess it must have been some imaginary government harbouring them in a magical invisible land somewhere between the Afghan side and the Pakistani side of the Durand line. Makes complete sense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706404202442891361)  2023-09-25T20:23Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"We pretend that Afghanistan is not important at our own peril. There is no shortage of extremists and terrorists waiting to take advantage of our hubris - now as before"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706457252247289883)  2023-09-25T23:54Z 10.1K followers, [----] engagements


"One of the most tragic aspects of the West's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan is how "well-meaning" Western progressives thought our disengagement would be the solution to all of Afghanistan's problems. Instead it handed Afghanistan to the Taliban. 1/8"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706579417856639341)  2023-09-26T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 53.1K engagements


"THREAD: Afghanistan was not destroyed by post-9/11 war or even (first and foremost) by civil war in the 1990s. Afghanistan was destroyed by the Soviet intervention of the 1980s. More Afghans died *every year* from 1979-89 than in all the [--] years after [----] *combined.* 1/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706688348985737424)  2023-09-26T15:13Z 10.2K followers, 75.1K engagements


"In [----] Afghanistan's population was about [--] million people. By 1989: - ca. [---] million had died - ca. [---] million had become invalid - ca. [--] million people had become refugees. In total that's 50% of Afghanistan's pre-war population. 2/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706688432783675641)  2023-09-26T15:13Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"More civilians died in Afghanistan from 1979-89 than in the UK France Italy Belgium the Netherlands Norway Denmark and Finland *combined* during World War [--]. Those countries had a population of ca. [---] million people in [----] - more than ten times Afghanistan in [----]. 3/4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706688462546428357)  2023-09-26T15:13Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"THREAD: The people arguing for abandoning Afghanistan forget that we tried this thirty years ago. .with disastrous consequences - both for Afghanistan and the rest of the world. 9/11 was just one of the results of pretending Afghanistan didn't exist in the 1990s. 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706941853243765073)  2023-09-27T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 30.9K engagements


"Imagining the US going through what Afghanistan did in the 1980s gives a sense of scale: Adjusted for population - [--] million dead - [--] million invalid - [---] million refugees It's difficult to comprehend that level of destruction. But this is what happened. 5/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706943834423169071)  2023-09-27T08:08Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Beyond the huge loss of lives the 1980s brought huge broader destruction as well. Huge parts of the countryside had been bombed destroying irrigation systems and local infrastructure. Even more disastrously Afghanistan was covered in mines maiming old and young alike 6/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1706944312846533052)  2023-09-27T08:10Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Because Europe (including the UK) has stopped investing in robust defense capabilities we remain dependent on the United States for all of our big strategic geopolitical decisions. As American politics become increasingly insane and unstable that's wildly irresponsible. 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707055021890703401)  2023-09-27T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 10.8K engagements


"In return for being dependent on the US Europeans get to keep 0.5-1.5% of extra GDP that we can spend on strudel biscuits croissants and lkplse instead of on defense. The real question for Europe is whether stinginess ought to trump strategic responsibility. 2/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707055042123932060)  2023-09-27T15:30Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Do we really think its worth not having a say in the biggest geopolitical decisions that affect our future - in order to keep one pence on the pound or a cent on the euro If we really think the answer is "yes" we deserve the consequences. And they won't be pretty. 3/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707055074596229221)  2023-09-27T15:30Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Putin's Russia is trying to do to Ukraine today what Soviet Russia did to Afghanistan in the 1980s. Whether or not they succeed will depend on how the West honors its commitment to stand by Ukraine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707077856235307109)  2023-09-27T17:00Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"Afghanistan before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707304221400322097)  2023-09-28T08:00Z 10.3K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Ariana Afghan Airlines before the war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707359530823114760)  2023-09-28T11:40Z 10.3K followers, 10.3K engagements


"THREAD: It is weird and unhealthy how so many in the West struggled to sympathize with Afghanistan until after it fell. As soon as the Taliban took over we lined up to express our support for the people they trample on. But where were we when the Republic still stood 1/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707417407009026099)  2023-09-28T15:30Z 10.3K followers, 15.8K engagements


"Defeat in Afghanistan was never inevitable. The United States chose to lose"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707439077786583071)  2023-09-28T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 16.9K engagements


"Minaret of Masoud the 3rd East of Ghazni Afghanistan - 1950"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1707801431288271269)  2023-09-29T16:56Z 10.3K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Timothy Snyder is 100% spot on. Just like shamelessly screwing over the Afghans who fought with us against Al Qaida IS-K & the Taliban and betraying the Kurds who fought with the West against ISIS produced the exact same effects before. Those moral and strategic failures have already led to the invasion of Ukraine. A similar failure there will lead to the invasion of Taiwan. At what point do we put on our big boy pants and the forces of tyranny "you shall not pass" like we mean it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1708505630032458162)  2023-10-01T15:34Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Afghan Republican forces fought like lions in [----] and [----]. But their courageous efforts were sabotaged by the shameful Doha deal and the US-led withdrawal of critical support capabilities we had promised the Afghans they could rely upon to continue the fight - a fight which the Afghan forces had already led for seven years after Western combat troops left in [----]. Western politicians subsequently blaming the Afghans for the consequences of our fecklessness as an ally adds insult upon grievous injury"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1708522114171432984)  2023-10-01T16:39Z 10.3K followers, 46.1K engagements


"@PeterWrangel @McgregorJonryan How is it even a question whether or not NATO's air power is vastly superior to Russia's The question is whether Russia would try to contest a no-fly zone *at all* given the extreme force disparity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1708639062666424540)  2023-10-02T00:24Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Pakistan was actively aiding and abetting our enemies in Afghanistan for the last [--] years. All those young Afghan American and NATO soldiers coming home in bodybags That was exactly what the ISI were doing everything they could to make happen. They celebrated it. @StephanAJensen We watched daily drone video of Taliban (on other) combatants crossing the border from the tribal areas often within sight of Frontier Forces. The soldiers knew we were being played. Why this continued baffled us. @StephanAJensen We watched daily drone video of Taliban (on other) combatants crossing the border from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1708832607184560152)  2023-10-02T13:13Z 10.1K followers, 60.8K engagements


"@cybertosser @jitendramr I think the problem is with the assumption that Pakistan can (or wants to) deliver on anything at all for the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1708955413238947980)  2023-10-02T21:21Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"As you point out the ISI were supporting the proto-mujahedeen prior to the communist coup. But the Americans had nothing whatsoever to do with this - they had a long relationship with Daoud and no desire for or interest in destabilising him - quite the opposite. The Americans only got invokved after the communist coup - and to begin with only with a tiny trickle of non-lethal support and money (hundreds of thousands of $ not millions). Only aftet the Soviet invasion did any meaningful American support for the Mujahedeen really start to take shape. Then of course through the Pakistani ISI who"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1709067885958545695)  2023-10-03T04:48Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Europe only has to give up two cents on the euro to build the independent defence capabilities we need to protect our sovereignty without having to rely on the vagaries of mad American politics (and the permanent largesse or US taxpayers)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1710018723891814588)  2023-10-05T19:46Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The most destructive forces in human history arise when nave idealism is mixed with hateful resentment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1716513888999465002)  2023-10-23T17:56Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Where was this sick grifter Jackson Hinkle -who cynically uses the death of Palestinian civilians to whip up support for Putin and Assad- when Putin and Assad turned Aleppo into a heap of ruins Or when the Russian regime he propagandizes for bombed more than **fifty** hospitals across the whole of Syria Or for that matter when Putin actually *did* do exactly what's on the picture below to Kyiv Mariupol Bakhmut Kharkiv. (and no nukes were launched at Moscow) Make no mistake this guy does not care any more about people dying in Gaza than he did about people dying in Aleppo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1716529455290610088)  2023-10-23T18:58Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"💯 - This was all that would have been needed to prevent the disastrous self-imposed and utterly humiliating Taliban takeover of [----] and the immense suffering it has caused the people of Afghanistan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1716723514332356775)  2023-10-24T07:49Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Hamas is an extremist terrorist organisation. They are not a force for the liberation of anything. They literally support Hitler - *because of* the Holocaust. Those are simply facts. You can still sympathise with the suffering of Palestinian civilians while recognising that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1717278692886413473)  2023-10-25T20:35Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"For Western progressives the idea of supporting Hamas ought to be no less absurd than supporting Al Qaida ISIS the Taliban or actual neo-Nazis. The same goes for moderate Muslims. Hamas is the enemy of civilization freedom and justice everywhere: above all in Gaza itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1717278696434720890)  2023-10-25T20:35Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Recognising that Hamas is f**king evil does not mean being uncritical of everything Israel does or denying that ordinary people in Gaza are suffering terribly as a result of the Israeli campaign against Hamas atm (albeit as part of a war started by Hamas). But they really are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1717278701702853004)  2023-10-25T20:35Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The IDF should take a far more careful approach to civilian casualties in Gaza. An indiscriminate approach to civilian casualties is both ethically wrong and counterproductive to Israel's stated goal of destroying Hamas. But Israel cannot not fight Hamas. No government in the world could reasonably be expected to watch more than a thousand of its citizens get killed in a massive surprise attack by a terrorist organisation controlling the government of a neighbouring country and then not go after that group. In fact a government declining to use force against a clear and present threat like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1718301413078405584)  2023-10-28T16:19Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"@VasekDoc @benyameenp I'm not denying that. But Hamas literally wants to kill all Jews and establish a global caliphate. That is qualitatively different and radically worse from the stated goals of Israel and the IDF or the goals implied by their behavior"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1718411375460929725)  2023-10-28T23:36Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements


"A lot of you are deeply opposed to the IDF's campaign against Hamas given the terrible suffering it is causing civilians in Gaza. With that in mind what do you think is the right approach for Israel to take vs. Hamas in the wake of the 10/7 attacks Serious question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1718913317224260016)  2023-10-30T08:50Z 10.2K followers, 11K engagements


"I can think of few things more likely to bring about WW3 than Vivek's idiotic & naive non-strategy for making sure we don't get a WW3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1719817287421534452)  2023-11-01T20:42Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Reasonable people can disagree about immigration in Europe. And although I think he's wrong @DouglasKMurray has written intelligently on this. But he has absolutely no f**king clue what he is talking about re. Afghanistan and Pakistan and it's a radically different context"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1720583624754385339)  2023-11-03T23:27Z 10.2K followers, [---] engagements


"What kind if barbarism is this Where is the outrage Where are the front-page headlines Where are the protests and condemnations Where is the diplomatic pressure Where are the sanctions And most importantly of all where the hell is the humanity All gone 💔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1721263008465162709)  2023-11-05T20:27Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Supplied financed given safe haven recruits training political backing - the full package"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1724083510602813905)  2023-11-13T15:15Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm shocked but shouldn't be by how fast mad know-nothings have gone from vaguely conspiratorial anti-westernism to actively sympathising with Hamas to openly praising Osama bin Laden and framing 9/11 as "an act of resistance" Madness evil and idiocy dance in the darkness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1725455141640249359)  2023-11-17T10:05Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Israel ended it's occupation of Gaza in [----] - it removed all of its troops and even forced Israeli settlers in Gaza to leave (that of course does not justify the many abuses Israel has still commited in the West Bank). Since then Gaza has de-facto (although not formally) been an independent country. The blockade of Gaza - which is an Egyptian blockade as well as an Israeli one came after Hamas had taken control of Gaza's government and began using Gaza as a launching pad for terrorism. Terrorism in Egypt as well - hence why *Egyptian* security forces flooded the tunnels between Gaza and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1725857339733876799)  2023-11-18T12:43Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements


"We are again trying to pretend "there's nothing to see here" in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That hasn't turned out so well in the past"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1726162233808331013)  2023-11-19T08:55Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"My country Norway has also long been wildly complacent about defense. But keeping universal military conscription is one of the smartest and wisest decisions we have made - both from a defense perspective and because of the broader societal benefits it brings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1726920183112167749)  2023-11-21T11:07Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban are determined to arrest every single woman who still has a voice. .and it seems very few in the West have a problem with that. But if you really think this doesn't matter and is none of our business anyway you maybe ought to get your head checked. 1/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1727595270341321145)  2023-11-23T07:49Z 10.3K followers, 19K engagements


"Keep in mind: The Taliban are in power because the US turned its back on their allies in a spectacularly dishonourable irresponsible and stupid way. .and none its other allies had the guts to say "f**k no" or fill the gap themselves. 2/2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1727595274191655276)  2023-11-23T07:49Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban will fall"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1728846689929470435)  2023-11-26T18:42Z 10.3K followers, 65.8K engagements


"Our allies have been left behind in Afghanistan for so long that Hollywood has had time to make *two* feature films about saving them. But in real life thousands are still hiding from the Taliban trying to kill them with no hope of tangible help. How do we sleep at night"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1728857049734529474)  2023-11-26T19:23Z 10.3K followers, 15.8K engagements


"@ResearchMonk I'm Norwegian mate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1728860638561419446)  2023-11-26T19:37Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@BRRubin That is the real question"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1728873174539096209)  2023-11-26T20:27Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban are determined to destroy every trace of Afghanistan's cultural heritage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1729831513942904975)  2023-11-29T11:55Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"People want to pretend away the plight of Afghan women and girls because they know the Taliban wouldn't be in power if we didn't profoundly f**k things up with the Doha deal and the withdrawal. That's an option Afghan women and girls don't have"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1730081988621554118)  2023-11-30T04:31Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"It seems a lot of people are unaware that the [----] border between Gaza and Israel **is identical** to the border between Gaza and Israel today. Only difference is Egypt rather than Hamas was occupying Gaza. Is that what Hamas wants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1730131374697234586)  2023-11-30T07:47Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"There is still a widespread misconception that Afghanistan fell in [----] because the Afghan military didn't fight hard enough. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The ANDSF fought like lions keeping the Taliban and other terrorist organisations in check for years. .until in 2020-21 the US pulled the rug out from under them - politically militarily and logistically. Utterly catastrophic decisions driven by the geopolitical myopia of two consecutive American presidents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1730218530677633388)  2023-11-30T13:33Z 10.3K followers, 11.5K engagements


"@teddyvonbaer "without losing face" is I think wildly inaccurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1730273349421474297)  2023-11-30T17:11Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@kamilkazani How are the sanctions being circumvented Surely the number of suppliers is not huge and monitoring should not be difficult"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1731447436504146084)  2023-12-03T22:56Z 10.3K followers, 53.9K engagements


"Is this what the Taliban calls "peace""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1731790511684391060)  2023-12-04T21:40Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is such a seemingly minor but extremely important and under-told counterpoint to the story of Israel as a Western "colonizer-state". The fact is 70% of Israelis are descended from people who never lived anywhere but the Middle East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1732155462844297560)  2023-12-05T21:50Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Old but excellent thread on how the Taliban hasn't just destroyed Afghanistan politically morally culturally and spiritually - but economically too. And contrary to the Taliban's propaganda the situation is getting worse not better. The reality of the Taliban's so-called "peace" is starvation and death"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1732160240932553147)  2023-12-05T22:09Z 10.3K followers, 11.9K engagements


"The Taliban claim that "there is no abuse against women" in Afghanistan because husbands are only allowed to beat their wives "softly". Madness and evil goes hand in hand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1732914775955308702)  2023-12-08T00:07Z 10.3K followers, 16.9K engagements


"From [----] to [----] US and Coalition forces took an average of [--] casualties per year fighting the Taliban. During the same period 5000-10.000 Afghan soldiers gave their lives fighting the Taliban each year. In other words the Afghan casualties were up to **500 times** as high as the coalition casualties. Even so Biden spread the bare-faced lie that the US was fighting a war in Afghanistan the Afghans weren't willing to fight themselves. And he used that lie to justify the continuation of Trump's disastrous withdrawal plan pulling the rug out from underneath our allies' feet. Absolutely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1733159466500084211)  2023-12-08T16:19Z 10.3K followers, 22K engagements


"@tariq_basir Nothing was ever "destined" for anything - neither success nor failure. The War in Afghanistan was lost because we stopped supporting those who were fighting it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1733216323050619290)  2023-12-08T20:05Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"This is absolutely unacceptable on every possible level - as the military and diplomatic leaders involved in this has tirelessly pointed out. It's high time the politicians stop disgracing themselves and live up to a bare minimum of moral our"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1734178512859218104)  2023-12-11T11:49Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"100% right. And this is the same reason why Trump and Biden ceasing support for the legitimate government of Afghanistan was a catastrophic decision for the US (as well as Afghanistan Europe Taiwan etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1735554673426215203)  2023-12-15T06:57Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"The Taliban's rule is so profoundly life-denying that increasing numbers of women in Afghanistan would rather die than continue living under their tyranny. This is what happens when we stop supporting those who fight for freedom and let the forces of darkness take over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1736348982408880493)  2023-12-17T11:33Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"These know-nothing "influencers" running around Afghanistan to propagandize on behalf of the Taliban are absolute scum. In return for their "fun trips" they carry water for a totalitarian terrorist movement hell-bent on destroying the lives of [--] million girls and women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1736742959557554376)  2023-12-18T13:39Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Afghanistan became a democracy in [----]. The "culturally sensitive" argument about the folly of the West supposedly "imposing" democracy on Afghanistan is performatively sanctimonious and pretend-pragmatic while also being deeply orientalising and ignorant of Afghanistan's actual political history. 2/🧵 https://t.co/sN8fPPhPkJ The "culturally sensitive" argument about the folly of the West supposedly "imposing" democracy on Afghanistan is performatively sanctimonious and pretend-pragmatic while also being deeply orientalising and ignorant of Afghanistan's actual political history. 2/🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1745790608118059081)  2024-01-12T12:51Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Pakistan is reaping it's own bitter harvest - a pyromaniac finally seeing his own house catch fire. But what Pak is experiencing now is still just a tiny taste of the catastrophes it has caused Afghanistan. If #Pakistans patience had really been exhausted it would have taken concrete steps against the #Taliban. But how can it act against its own child This anti-Taliban narrative by #Pakistan is to portray Pakistan as a victim of terrorism. @StephanAJensen https://t.co/WNV1kVDLTh If #Pakistans patience had really been exhausted it would have taken concrete steps against the #Taliban. But how"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1747246813508247971)  2024-01-16T13:17Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@JasonKirell Perhaps it will be enough to persuade the White House to order Army to pull out at the last minute so Navy can win by default"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1747253816603689127)  2024-01-16T13:45Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"If Hamas' tunnel system really is this large it feels not inconceivable that it could reach all the way into Syria. - JUST IN: The NYT cited anonymous senior Israeli defense officials who assessed that Hamass Gaza tunnel network is between [---] and [---] miles long which is far longer than the estimate the IDF made initially. The officials also assessed that there are roughly [----] - JUST IN: The NYT cited anonymous senior Israeli defense officials who assessed that Hamass Gaza tunnel network is between [---] and [---] miles long which is far longer than the estimate the IDF made initially. The"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1747653610647831028)  2024-01-17T16:14Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"@alexplitsas Happy birthday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1749359656412012558)  2024-01-22T09:13Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"It keeps baffling my mind that the people demanding a "ceasefire now" in Gaza think direct this demand at Israel rather than Hamas. There was a ceasefire before Hamas ended it on October 7th and it is now Hamas that is refusing to re-establish it. This time Israel offered Hamas a TWO MONTH ceasefire with a release of both hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel. And Hamas said no again. https://t.co/JG3iPVEYKA This time Israel offered Hamas a TWO MONTH ceasefire with a release of both hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel. And Hamas said no again."  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1749896200306786743)  2024-01-23T20:45Z 10.3K followers, [---] engagements


"Yes - as has been done many times before - and always rejected by Hamas. Years of negotiations for a permanent peace treaty (the Oslo accords) which were agreed by both Israel and Palestinian leaders went down the drain because Hamas has done everything they can to prevent the peace accord **that have already been agreed** from being implemented"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1750060963389141340)  2024-01-24T07:40Z 10.2K followers, [--] engagements


"@AzharMarium Netanyahu too of course has been a huge obstacle. He (+Likud) and Hamas have been sabotaging prospects for lasting peace for the last 20-30 years - and have succeeded in doing so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1750085612277817752)  2024-01-24T09:18Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"This is the Taliban's Afghanistan 👇 Arrest of a mother and daughter in (Makroyan-Kabul) under the pretext of hijab by the Taliban. @StephanAJensen @Jeannie_Hartley @SR_Afghanistan @hrwafghanistan @hrw @amnestybristol @SE_AfghanWGH @US4AfghanPeace https://t.co/ffacwUf2q4 Arrest of a mother and daughter in (Makroyan-Kabul) under the pretext of hijab by the Taliban. @StephanAJensen @Jeannie_Hartley @SR_Afghanistan @hrwafghanistan @hrw @amnestybristol @SE_AfghanWGH @US4AfghanPeace https://t.co/ffacwUf2q4"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1750898866642128915)  2024-01-26T15:09Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Exactly right. And also an important reason why the abandonment of Afghanistan wasn't just a moral disaster but also a strategic one. This is the lesson of the Cold War of deterrence that has been forgotten. You stand up immediately against small threats so you don't have to fight bigger ones later waiting for escalation on the enemy's terms that always comes. This is the lesson of the Cold War of deterrence that has been forgotten. You stand up immediately against small threats so you don't have to fight bigger ones later waiting for escalation on the enemy's terms that always comes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1751917600685035642)  2024-01-29T10:37Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"@kraeuterzucker V. interesting data. Do you think it's reliable Also striking that Hamas seems to be significantly more popular in the West Bank (where they don't rule) than in Gaza (where they have been the government for [--] years ish) "  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1751971716350222457)  2024-01-29T14:13Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"People have come up with lots of complicated explanations for why the War in Afghanistan was lost - spanning politics culture warfare etc. But at the end of the day it's very very simple: We pulled the rug out from under the Afghans who were fighting on our side. 1/3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1752322016022081721)  2024-01-30T13:24Z 10.3K followers, 19.9K engagements


"This is great news - but sadly we hear it far too rarely. The vast majority of Afghan special forces who fought alongside Western troops for years are still in hiding in Afghanistan Iran or Pakistan living in terrible conditions and constant danger. Far more needs to happen. Finally. Well done 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 At last Afghan special forces heroes set for sanctuary in UK after government U-turn. https://t.co/MZsOIouhnk Finally. Well done 👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 At last Afghan special forces heroes set for sanctuary in UK after government U-turn. https://t.co/MZsOIouhnk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1752324356674294181)  2024-01-30T13:34Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"I don't disagree with you at all. Without the myriad of problems which already had grown deep roots by 2020-21 the events of that year would not have been deadly for the Republic - or perhaps even occurred in the first place. That said I don't think anything was inevitable until the very end - and that was the point I was trying to make above. But the mistaken belief in inevitable defeat was a critical factor in bringing about actual defeat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1752403886550245622)  2024-01-30T18:50Z 10.3K followers, [--] engagements


"This is the consequence of ceasing our support for the republican government in Afghanistan - the country is once again a safe haven for Al Qaida and other international terrorists groups. Back to the 1990s. ⚠Al Qaeda almost ready to strike again. New training camps in [--] Provinces: Helmand Parwan Kandahar Zabul Nangarhar Nuristan and Badghis. Safe Houses in Farah Helmand Herat & Kabul. New Media Ops-Center (As-sahab) in Herat. It has +/- [------] members in #Afghanistan. https://t.co/nRHj7J2aYE ⚠Al Qaeda almost ready to strike again. New training camps in [--] Provinces: Helmand Parwan Kandahar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1752711955196891355)  2024-01-31T15:14Z 10.3K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the Taliban's Afghanistan 👇 This girl from #Afghanistan saying that she wishes God didnt create women in the first place is not a reflection of her actual beliefs. Its a reflection of her exhaustion. 1/2 @Jeannie_Hartley @StephanAJensen #LetAfghanGirlsLearn https://t.co/YrOvUk4uZ2 This girl from #Afghanistan saying that she wishes God didnt create women in the first place is not a reflection of her actual beliefs. Its a reflection of her exhaustion. 1/2 @Jeannie_Hartley @StephanAJensen #LetAfghanGirlsLearn https://t.co/YrOvUk4uZ2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StephanAJensen/status/1753411158088864170)  2024-02-02T13:32Z 10.3K followers, 10.3K engagements

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