project exodus relief Mike Edwards
Why is Afghanistan so much worse than Ukraine?
If you think about it, Ukraine is in a conflict that has been in the works for 8 years but really
kicked off about a month ago, food supplies were not in short supply, i mean it’s the bread
basket of the world, the Economy was not excessively stressed, and the borders are open on all
sides for people to flee. Ukrainians are being accepted with open arms into any neighboring
country. The US government and almost every European country are funding and supporting
these refugees including paying for them to be evacuated across the world. Ukraine gets 24
hour per day 7 day per week media coverage on every media outlet. Every US politician is
wearing a Ukrainian flag lapel pin, people are ostracized for not changing their social media
profile image to the flag of Ukraine. The US government allocated over 13.6 billion dollars to
relief in Ukraine. Most NATO countries are sending weapons, ammunition and military
equipment to assist Ukraine as well.
Now let’s look at AfghanistanThe US pulled out of a war that in my opinion we needed to be done with, but we went about it
choosing the worst possible option for every single decision. We gave a list of our allies to our
enemy to ensure they were systematically destroyed or tortured, we removed their entire
economy (the US Military) without a thought of setting them up for success beforehand. We
then seized 9 billion in assets to “keep the money out of the hands of the Taliban.” We then
after the fact decided to evacuate our AMCITS which led to the US directly funding the Taliban
by paying enormous bribes, and negotiating with the Taliban since we are now in a position of
weakness. On top of that we left 84 billion dollars worth of the newest military equipment to be
used and sold by the taliban. Meanwhile the media coverage of the situation was minimal with
only occasional reports by some conservative media outlets. This just frames the situation for
what has become possibly the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history.
Now realize that all Afghanistan cant import food because they don’t have the money, they can’t
earn money on exports because the Taliban have closed the borders. The best and brightest in
Afghanistan can’t work because they were previously employed by the US or NATO and are
now on the target list. On top of that Afghanistan has some of the harshest winters on earth due
to the average elevation in the country being above 6,000ft. The 308 million dollars the US
provided for relief in Afghanistan has yet to be seen. Now you have a country with extremely
harsh winters, with no economy, closed borders, almost no internal food supply, the US
pressuring countries not to accept refugees from Afghanistan and funding border security in
neighboring countries to stop refugee traffic. This situation is the absolute worst case scenario
and literally “Hell on Earth.” Afghanistan’s only hope has been the veteran run ad hoc
evacuation groups like Project Exodus Relief, and the 18 other groups under the Moral
Compass Federation.
Why is Afghanistan not getting the same attention as Ukraine?
That’s a good question, it’s hard to say for sure but I do know that Ukraine is one of the most
corrupt countries on the planet. Back in late September or early October I spent 6 hours in the
middle of the night on a call with 2 Ukrainian parliament whistleblowers. They reached out to us
because they were aware of 40 million dollars being sent to Ukraine for Afghan refugees, but
said that the president Volodymyr Zelenskyy was taking all of the money for himself and refused
to accept refugees. We know that President Biden and his son have made millions off of shady
deals in Ukraine, as have Mitt Romney, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and others. It could be
possible that they are spending billions in taxpayer funding to protect their personal interests in
this criminal Disneyland called Ukraine. In contrast the US government sold all of Afghanistan’s
natural resources to China including 1 trillion in lithium, a deal that lined the pockets of US
politicians while undercutting any chance of prosperity for Afghanistan. This is only the tip of the
iceberg of the criminal activities that have been committed by US politicians Republican and
Democrat during the occupation of Afghanistan. Then during the fall of Kabul the US evacuated
all of the rich Afghan politicians who were involved in selling their country out and had become
rich because of it, then everyone else who was not involved but knew of these illegal acts were
left to perish.
Why do you care so much about evacuating Afghan SOF?
For starters I worked with them and know many of them personally as do the rest of our team.
They are the most vetted, having had intensive background checks, and polygraphs. They are
the ones who were loyal to us more than anyone over the past 2 decades of war. Then think
about this, these are the people who helped us evacuate our AMCITS, and LPR’s. They have
remained loyal until this day even knowing that it appears the USG cares nothing about them.
Here is something else no one really thinks about. These guys are our only hope of keeping
terrorism at bay in the region. As a former Special operations guy I know from personal
experience it is very hard and in some places impossible for non-Afghans to blend in. We can
drive around and get by but it requires locals to have access into most places. The country is
so tribal that even Afghans can’t reliably travel in places they are not from even within
Afghanistan. They are also our only hope for this “Over the Horizon” strike capability we are
told we have. Yes we have predator drones that barely have the legs to make it to Afghanistan
now, but even then we won’t have the eyes and ears on the ground to actually know what to
strike! So our drones barely have any station time when they get to Afghanistan, and then we
don’t have the intel network to find and fix the targets without these very special warriors.
Terrorism is set up for a comback like you cant imagine so it is imperative that we evacuate
these Afghan SOF before it is too late. If we wait too long the groups like those in the Moral
Compass Federation will run out of money to support these people and they will have no other
choice but to join the enemy just to keep their families alive. If this happens it will be the
western world’s worst nightmare. Imagine having the best trained soldiers, some of them
Ranger school and Special Forces “Green Beret” trained fall into the hands of the enemy. This
means they are trained to create more men like themselves as force multipliers. Now the
Taliban are equipped better than most armies in the world. This is the absolute worst possible
outcome. We must act before it is too late and that time is drawing near and fast!
How many of these Afghan SOF need to be evacuated?
If we were to evacuate all of the SOF on the rolls of the MCF including their family members that
would be roughly 25K people and would be one of the greatest investments we could make for
the future of our country. In contrast the US is already talking about evacuating 100K
Ukrainians who have not been vetted in any way, and don’t provide any strategic value to the
US. Not to mention almost every country in the world is wanting to take them in, while our
Afghan Allies are in a much, much worse situation and the US has actually told everyone not to
accept these people. Think about that for a minute, our government has pressured every
country we have talked to, not to take any Afghan SOF! Many countries have agreed to take
these guys but are afraid to piss off the USG so they say. For guys like me this decision is a “no
brainer.” We should by all means assist the people of Ukraine, but only after we finish the job in
Afghanistan. As the world’s largest superpower that waged war in over a hundred countries
simultaneously including Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Djibouti, Syria, Libya, the
Philippines to name a few, you would think we could multitask relief efforts with priority on the
catastrophe we caused in Afghanistan.
