I think you can safely say that the war’s not going well when you have to pay the enemy to protect your supply lines. That’s just seriously [expletive deleted] up. U.S. indirectly paying Afghan warlords as part of security contract The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of [...]
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