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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I am not at all surprised that the locals were caught off guard - they didn't know the extent and suddenness of the exit that was to come. But Biden certainly did, and Trudeau presumably had some information about what the US was going to do. So failure to foresee this and ensure that it wasn't a cluster**** is absolutely something he should be criticized for harshly.
That said, and I'm not as educated on this as some, but assuming that no one could convince the Biden administration not to suddenly vanish in the dead of night along with all of the civilian contractors and associates that the Afghans were relying on, did Trudeau have much of a choice but to go along with it? I mean, the only circumstances in which Canada was going to stay there was with the protection of a US security umbrella. It's not like the Canadian military could have said, "oh, 2,500 military personnel are being removed? We'll replace them with 2,500 Canadian service members", and just gone on as normal, right?
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the withdrawal deal, signed over a year ago was clear, the yanks were supposed to be long gone by May, I dont know how anyone would think when the US lose a war and sign the surrender that they would do anything but leave.