Evacuation flights out of Kabul are taking off near-empty after the Taliban formed a ring of steel around the airport – blocking tens of thousands of desperate Afghans from entering as westerners said they are unable to get through the crush.
Foreigners including British and German expats say they have become trapped in the chaos, unable to get through the disorderly crowds to board flights home.
The situation is fueling fears that the West’s Afghan allies have almost no hope of making it out of Afghanistan. And there are growing fears that the fate of Westerners could become a bargaining chip for the Taliban, and they could even end up as hostages.
The first Dutch evacuation flight reportedly left Kabul without a single Dutch national on board after passengers were blocked by US troops.
‘The Americans were guarding the gate. I showed my passport and said I was Dutch,’ a man told Dutch media outlet NOS. ‘After saying three times that I was Dutch, he told me to keep my distance otherwise he would shoot.’
Massive US cargo planes are taking off with an average of just 100 passengers from Kabul – despite being able to carry more than 600.
Flights bound for Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, France and Italy – which between them have vowed to rescue thousands of people – have been taking off with just a few dozen people on board despite having capacity to take hundreds.
This despite Washington’s pledge to ferry out at least 20,000 people at a rate of 9,000 per day.
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This is an insanely, incredibly, horribly botched mess. Biden and his entire administration of incompetent, arrogant fools should go down in history as guilty of the murder or ruination of every single person who gets trapped by this fiasco.
A stark example of the grave consequences of recklessly allowing leftists - to whom reality is a foreign concept - to take the helm of the greatest ship of state - it turns into the greatest disaster in history.
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