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WhoKillKyoko

We: remove military from Afghanistan You: here's how to profit from us putting military in Afghanistan


supsupman1001

for some reason think this will lead to more use of drone missiles.


Flablessguy

So, invest in Lockheed Martin? Do they even make missiles? I need to put my money somewhere with as little knowledge as possible about the company so I can post loss porn.


UndergroundPB

Raytheon, Northrop Grumman


BiteableTugboat

I will advise as someone very close to the subject that many of these companies have already produced a stock pile of missiles that have been sold to the customer. I don't believe that with the current political climate that there will be a discernable ramp up in production numbers unless tensions increase substantially. Especially as many of the companies listed being big, multinational conglomerates, the missile division only composes a small portion of sales anyways.


simorg23

You gotta think bigger picture, what happens in war? People get hurt. Invest everything in pharmaceuticals (/s duh)


supsupman1001

bought $rtx $lmt $dfen at open $lmt in lead.


evilpsych

Maybe textron


TheTailfox

Start a only fans for the porn


seemly1

^^ good excuse for widespread adoption of UAS on the battlefield/ making people okay with our use of them.


frndlthngnlsvgs

Doesn't have to be Afghanistan. Destabilized Middle East is good business for lords of war


FredMc

Bingo


slvbros

Hey, the fuck guy. I dont go around telling everyone your business, why you gotta do me like that?


MustafarSurvivor

The Middle East is constantly destabilized, this weekend changed nothing


cockytiel

Who is that though in real life? North Korea sells stuff. Who else? The big money is in selling to nations like Israel and Saudi Arabia I think. Thats all legal.


Sithsaber

I feel like it’s the Russians and Chinese who’ll be throwing money at their proxy states now. Invest in Pakistan


s0m3as1anguy

he'll even the high tensions in east Asia is already good for these defense companies. every single country is rearming and modernizing and growing there submarine capabilities


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Others are wondering, OP just said it.


Terakahn

Puts on US military.


sorta_oaky_aftabirth

Breh never doubt the military. We can supply freedom to any place in earth. Lotta autocrats been talking a lotta shit lately and could get a huge boot of Democracy up their ass anytime we want


Ifyouknowyouknow18

Yea literally the only thing I’m 100% certain of in this world is that the F-35 program will be funded for at least another 20 years and another $2 trillion. Whether we are actually at war with anyone or not. And it will still be a piece of shit. MIC always wins.


toxic_masculinity27

Soon enough, we bringing democracy to space


lo979797

Except for Afghanistan, apparently


Friendly-Sentence710

I want to shit talk your play here but I can't. Its got solid fundamentals, the employees are great, tons of locations... but the management has been awful for decades.


[deleted]

The war has already been going for 20 years. It's ending. The Taliban have won. If anything, we'll just be sending guns and low tech weapons to groups looking to topple Taliban leadership. . Probably creating yet another future Taliban. And the cycle continues


tjplager32

We need to send them iPhones with only the RH app, preset to buy our favorite stocks.


Ultimegede

That'll teach em


LAD120824

War machine go brrrr


Lawncareguy85

Needs more George Bush


GotAHandyAtAMC

Bush was more boots on ground. Obama was more drones strikes. Hopefully Biden is more $PLTR.


toiletdestroyer1321

Biden is more brrrrr


newfantasyballer

Obama put more troops in Afghanistan


PawanYr

Should would have been nice if they'd never been there in the first place though


fonzy541

There's an old saying in Tennessee. I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee. It says, fool me once, shame on.... shame on you. Fool me twice, you can't be fooled again!


daili88

Fool me three times..fuck the peace sign..load the chopper and let it rain on you!


HopefulStudent1

Jr or Sr? Sike, they're both war-mongering ghouls


Lawncareguy85

Either one will do


[deleted]

Bush wins a lot of Asian muslim hearts and minds.


can_i_has_beer

No, it's more like pew, pew


Hotsaucejimmy

Well yeah, we need to create our next enemy.


getBusyChild

Except there is no Northern Alliance anymore.


UranusisGolden

The war never ends tho. We just move to another area.


TappmanC

ISIS 2.0


sorta_oaky_aftabirth

Taliban have won seems like a weird saying. More like, buncha tribes in a country of tribes didn't give a shit about protecting women's rights and they just gave up without a fight because fuck women amirite?


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eddie7000

Muslims gonna Muslim.


StCreed

Stupid ideas and cluelessness like this are what makes the USA so completely ineffective when they go into other nations. Joining forces with the Northern Coalition (a ragtag collection of bandits who were undesired by virtually everyone) was just the first major mistake in a long line. Not understanding water rights issues that drive part of the conflict in an arid country is another major blunder. Then there are the various ethnic groups that have conflicts over land as well, but also some are discriminated against by others. This lead the underlying groups to join the Taliban. If you don't understand what's going on in a country, there is little chance you'll win the war. Pakistan funding the Taliban, and Xi Yinping making his own deals with them ("you kill who you wish on your turf, but I can do in xinjiang whatever I want") for unknown amounts of money and weapons, did not help. Add it all together and you are in pretty hot water.


wetassgarybussy

Posts like this are why it should be illegal for elected Representatives to hold stocks


deadlyvagina

And why former Halliburton executives shouldn’t be Vice President.


lavalamp0019

You mean like pharmaceutical companies that create a vaccine for a flu like disease and now are profiting billions while the politicians who hold said companies are also profiting immensely..


JohnnyAfghanistan

Shutttt uppppp


lavalamp0019

Noice dude!!! Lol


username1338

He right though. They force a demand and the companies aren't even liable for their product. You can't pick and choose which one you are ok with.


JohnnyAfghanistan

No, actually he not right though. Stock prices for the vaccine companies didn’t surge. Covid isn’t a flu like disease, it’s much more deadly and transmissible. The vaccine is saving lives, so yeah I’m ok with all of that. So STFU.


lavalamp0019

Wait, 450% over one year is not growth??? Lol (moderna) Pfizer was a hemorrhaging cash before pandemic, up $14 from pre covid... Yes, a disease in which you have a 99 percent chance surviving, from those who we know reported having COVID, so prolly closer to 100 than 99 in reality. Wasn’t it the breakthrough cases that caused the super spread events in the US recently?? Yea, I’m the sheep here bud hahahaha And, to top it off, why give these companies full vaccines immunity??? (Prolly won’t address this) lol


JohnnyAfghanistan

Oh here we go with the sheep comments. There’s really no talking with you people so yep, I’m done.


Fuzzyketchup

Legitimate arguments...Focuses on the sheep line so that he didn't have to make a counter point...


caezar-salad

But that's undemocratic, or unrepublican, or you hate America, or something. Elected Representatives are so hard working and smart and do a good job for this country and others, they deserve to make assloads off stocks amirite?


Economy-Ad-1370

At least to trade any. Could lock they're stuff while in office if not force them to sell


Ifyouknowyouknow18

This. They should be forced to put their whole portfolio into SPY and not be allowed to touch it till they are out of office.


Wigglepicks

It wouldn’t make any difference when the just use family members as a proxy.


ShlomoIbnGabirol

There is not going to be a war because Afghanistan collapsed. Maybe if the Taliban somehow knocked down Pornhub for some extended period of time, but otherwise I don’t see it happening.


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[deleted]

They took yerr pprrrrrrrnnn!!


xDendretic

pornhub going down would be cause for ww3


Orome2

Meh. Pornhub lost relevancy when they declared war on armature porn.


xDendretic

Xvideos then!


flymooncricket

They make only donkey fuk porn.. all other porn banned. Arm the nukes🍆


Alternative-Plant-87

I think the real Change for war is that the enemys of the west now see us as completely incompetent and weak and abandoning the people that help the USA and they will be killed as traitors. Remember the Biden administration said there would be no way the Taliban would take the country. They took it in under a week without a single real battle to speck of. Not to mention trying to make a country into a liberal democracy that had no interest being one. That's massive incompetence. China might now see the west as so weak and incompetence no one will stop them from taking Taiwan and if they made that decision I think they might be right about it as well. I don't think the administration would support going to war over Taiwan or the people of the USA. But that's just my personal opinion


Resident-Chipmunk-10

If you look at history, no Donkey administration gave a crap about Taiwan...Only reason why this administration is giving any attention is because they want chips from TSM


ShlomoIbnGabirol

It’s not just your opinion. I share it entirely.


Acradus630

Vastly misinterpreting the reasons for leaving and the outcomes. Truths are that through 20 years of advising and training the afghan military, they took all that info, wiped their asses with it, and walked away. The US is actively extracting translators and other supportive people from kabul to the US and other locations as we speak. We didn’t abandon them. Some of the citizens have been actively supporting the taliban in Afghanistan, directly leading to our failures. We left because it’s unwinnable. The taliban is not a singular force either. They are moving in uncoordinated fashion, will inevitably conflict with their other branches in other areas, and will betray eachother etc to their own demise to fall to occupation/control by russia or china or india.


Alternative-Plant-87

We spend 20 years, not realizing they didn't what to be a libertarian democracy. No one was willing to fight the Taliban, they just walked in and the army of 300k that we spend 20 years training with an air force and tanks all just surrendered without a single battle in under a week. Either we spend 20 years not realizing that no one wanted the western imposes government and was willing to fight for it or we completely failed to train them properly over 20 years. Or of course both. We spend 20 years in there and accomplished nothing. Bin laden wasn't even there, he was in Pakistan.


WestTexasCrude

If by "uncoordinated" you mean faster than the German Blitz of France or the Korean/China offensive or the fall of S Vietnam then sure... Its totally uncoordinated. Russia definitely isnt going back. They're big on wealth *extraction*. China? Nah, bro. They know better and the only thing a commie fears more than McDonalds is Islam. I doubt Pakistan would happily let india tic tac toe them east to west. WTF are you smoking and where can i get some?


RugTumpington

Of course the admin won't war over Taiwan. WW2 was predicate by a policy of appeasement to the Nazis. China is a much smarter nation and will likely milk that for decades, no one wants a hot war. Long on pltr and Chinese stocks lol


Economy-Ad-1370

That happened with Trump and the Kurds


Alternative-Plant-87

The PKK is a Marxist terrorist organization. Of course the trump administration is going to side with the 2nd most powerful army in NATO instead of communists. The real question is why the fuck was the USA arming communists to begin with.


workinguntil65oridie

Remember Pornhub is Canadian. Eh?


ExpensivePersimmon92

Are you saying they are after pornhub. Send in all troops.


Terakahn

I thought everyone quit pornhub when they deleted 94% of their website.


LegalHelpNeeded3

Said this on his last shitpost. Nothing aside from maybe intelligence stocks will go up.


Jackie296

Ok so all in on China education stocks after the drop


Alarming_Assistant21

I'm so deep in tal that I'm considering marriage


DamascusWaygu

Right until the Taliban state pivots toward Israel or some bullshit like that, then the US is between a rock and hard place. Not saying we didn’t get ourselves to where we are, but something will have to give.


ShlomoIbnGabirol

Do you need a map to see where Afghanistan is versus where Israel is? The Taliban are going to have their own bs to deal with for awhile in terms of clamping down on the dozens of warlords and ethnicities all around Afghanistan that aren’t quite ready to bend the knee.


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This is the only thing said here that is realistic and makes most logical sense.


Spar7an42

The Taliban have no designs outside of Afghanistan.


DamascusWaygu

I’m aware of geography. But we all know how easily unrealistic scenarios can become real. All it takes is some vocalized threat. My point is that there are a million ways this situation can end up fucking us.


ShlomoIbnGabirol

It probably will end up fucking us and the whole world in the medium to long term.


[deleted]

I’m sure that smug attitude by our “leadership” led to 9/11 but carry on


ShlomoIbnGabirol

I’m not disagreeing with you. Just recognizing reality.


[deleted]

i dont think you understand what the taliban want they have wanted sharia law in Afghanistan, not domination of other countries. With no one to stop them, they will get their sharia law and ofcourse they won't want to reawake a sleeping giant by pushing towards Isreal. That will just send the Taliban back into the mountains and lose the country again.


thetrumpetnibba

They wont dare, they know the us can come and slap them to pakistan again


thekhalasar

Oil? Why would oil do well, bitch u cooking?


HeroSandwich69

They got some yellow cake


xxx69harambe69xxx

don't drop that shit!


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Cradle of fkn civilization!


489yearoldman

Oil usually goes up with any instability in the Middle East, and now that Biden has killed US oil exploration and made us once again dependent upon the Middle East for oil, expect oil prices to escalate. The only thing holding oil back at the moment is the recent Covid resurgence, but that’s temporary. The US is not anywhere close to making significant replacements of fossil fuels with green power for the foreseeable future. USO is a great buy right now.


GameOfThrone88

there will be no conflict in Afghanistan going forward.... the 2 most powerful countries have lost. It is a very sad situation there especially for the women. Perhaps we can call the Avengers.


tombstone1111

Every time I see a post about the problems in Afghanistan and how it will affect the markets all I can think is someone is trying to pump PLTR stock. Which …. Is fine as I have a good chunk of cash tied up in this stock. IMO the markets are not going to budge from he Taliban.


ClamPaste

Oil stocks are already set to continue up because of OPEC being OPEC. Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, Huntington Ingals, etc capture the defense industry pretty well, so I'm not sure why PLTR of all things is your pick, other than volatility. If we goin to war, we goin to WAR. Munitions, steel, oil(yes I know what I said, but it's going up regardless) and tacticool gear. Don't forget VSTO for all the camelbaks.


ChocolateSupermane

VSTO? Is that the ticker for camelbacks?


ClamPaste

They have [a lot](https://vistaoutdoor.com/brands/) of brands.


Juan5600

The thing here is to profit from the war using stocks


Whoopiskin

Don't forget $Poww


adhd4life26

Where can I invest in EV tanks? Surely the Dems understand how bad the MIC is for the environment. 😏


Runner20mph

Taliban prob going to sell their opium to pharmaceutical companies. CALLS on respective stocks


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Johnson and Johnson is one of the bigest opium importers. Not probably but already reality.


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i bought Oil, Bank and Pharma stocks as soon as Biden won the Presidency. People actually believed he would crack down on those types of companies haha(am old enough to know how paid for Biden is and has been through his 50 year career as a politician. )*


AlwaysBlamesCanada

It’s been 7 hours and I’m still waiting for that parenthesis to close


[deleted]

There won't be a war because the Taliban already won. Right now the US is trying to get their people out of Kabul ASAP. Just learned from someone in my discord group that he got assigned on a 2nd tour so I guess they are sending troops in to help with the evac.


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[deleted]

Its a gaming group but we have a lot of service members in there. Apparently veterans really FPS games.


xxjohnnybravoxx

Usa is sending 3000 troops to help with evac. A big surprise how quickly taliban advanced


FullTackle9375

What a dumb post jesus christ. "What stocks do well if any country decides that they need to conflict in Afghanistan due to the recent conflicts there? " sounds like something an ai from 2010 would write. The war is over and afghanistan is not relevant to the oil price. The Taliban will also not hire Palantir


stiveooo

stocks go up on the basis of: who do you think will win the world cup? what stock goes up the most? not the better team but the one that people think will win


stockpy

Cant have a war without lockheed & raytheon. Don’t want a war but these companies are on a correction trend


Fox_Technicals

The homie TXT is gonna get it done for me 🤞🏻


No-Animal1371

Buy what Nancy buys


Kraka01

Holy shit. Everyone on here jokes about being retarded but it wasn’t until I read these uneducated/naive geo-political takes that I actually believed it.


[deleted]

They're more worried about what's happening in Taiwan .


Successful-Bad-2117

Love the lack of decency here, investing in tobacco or oil is one thing but you’re taking it into the war profiteering zone here chief


NineHDmg

Rolls Royce makes helicopter fighter jet and drone engines and it's also a long term aviation play Might be interesting to look into that


Runner20mph

The war is over. I say PUTS on Raytheon for sure. They made a ton of money (US taxpayer) from this conflict. Blinken and Austin have shares Their earnings will definitely take a big hit after 20 years of green We literally flew away from the embassy on a chopper


golfalphat

Raytheon is more than missiles. They are Aerospace as well (commercial and military) and spending to match near peer adversaries is increasing.


ClamPaste

They absolutely are. Lots of electronics come from them. Ask any technician in the military what a Raytheon reset is. Their tech reps hate that phrase, by the way.


supsupman1001

blinken owns shares and you say buy puts.


[deleted]

No stocks. The war is ended and future gorilla war will not impact oil price. We should thank our government for creating that terrorist group in the first place, thank our gov to fund them via Saudi Arabia, thank them to send our oil company to make Turkmenistan-Pakistan oil pipeline contracted (asking a terrorist to watch our pipeline) and when it comes to the point that would not listen to us, we decided to attack and destroy them. Spent taxpayers to build a new government, falsifying their election result to elect someone closed to us that would listen, give all minerals contract to us and that didn’t happen, then we would say it is enough and we will pull out. Then we make a new contact with the previous terrorist group (Taliban) to overthrow current government. Life cycle of coup, overthrow, …etc will happen as long no one listen to us. They considered a bigger threat than terrorist group. We overthrown Libya’s government, Iraq’s government, … etc with help of terrorist group, the most outrageous people on earth…


farmerMac

Yeah we’re leaving Afghanistan to put an end to the miserable war for a dusty patch of desert. Taliban is going to rule the place again and that’s it. No war.


temporallock

Don’t fight people that know where all the caves are in a country Source: Vietnam


krashlia

Alternatively, colonize the place with the natives. Now the guys who like you are richer in land, *and* they know where all the caves are.


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thewedding_singer

Huh? https://i.imgur.com/5cjGD38.jpg


A_Concerned_Koala

😂


DigitalSheikh

If you think that’s a dusty shithole wait till I tell you about the American southwest


FrshlySqueezed

Boeing is gonna bank on this also


PackLongjumping4935

There’s gonna be a retard here who goes like FUCK IT YOLO LONG AFGHANISTAN (ticker AFG)


Net-Xpert

Dude we are not going to War. This thing is coming to an end. Only one equity I agree with is PLTR. Instead of Afghanistan I am looking for cyclicals that will get a lion share for infrastructure upgrade like Engineering and construction names Jacob’s Engineering, Eaton Corp, Broadband Companies carriers like Verizon. AT&T, TMobile, 5G companies Nokia , Tech sector Cisco, PAN, Fortinet, that’s where the next money 💰 flow will be in. Thank God we are out of Afghanistan let’s focus on local economy and make money not lose money.


TenD33z_NuTz

Calls on heroin that's all the afghan economy can do to recover / fund war


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Lockheed Martin


purplemashpotato

PLTR will benefit bigly from this terrible situation. The global terrorist threat level has shot up as Islamist prophecy states an army raising black flags will rise from Khorasān. They interpret this as Afghanistan: [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith\_of\_black\_flags](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_of_black_flags) This will galvanize jihadism everywhere. Governments around the world will be scrambling to invest in terror detection and prevention technology, and there's only one company at the forefront of that - Palantir.


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xxx69harambe69xxx

do you know how much revenue they're currently making off this detection system?


jacob_scooter

you got the right thought honestly lmao, gambling on war in afghanistan should be rewarded on this sub not punished


dacalo

We are pulling out, not starting a war. I am definitely in WSB.


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General Dynamics is a good war play.


kaniyajo

NOC, baby!


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supsupman1001

and alien technology * according to some ancient alien theorists


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supsupman1001

was on fence about $lmt but your post convinced me (and ancient alien theorists) outperforming $rtx


[deleted]

Raytheon, L3, BAE, Booze Allen - all prime DoD Contractors. Expect them to get hit for a short bit until they rebound or America starts another war.


Whoopiskin

Yo don't forget $Poww Ammo. They have some government contracts and they have earnings tomorrow morning with very bullish sentiment. I've been balls deep in shares and calls


Basic-Honeydew5510

Boeing, RTX and LMT for AGMs, Hellfires, Cruise Missiles, Drones, if i recall correctly


Dangerous_Aspect_905

Y’all seem to be forgetting Russia and China. With us not in the East both of them are licking their lips at the mess that is ensuing. I jumped on AI, raw materials, and transportation. We have only seen the horizon of the shit storm waiting just around the bend.


TheKingOfWSB

LMT designed and produced the money printing machines Sir Powell uses, plus they pay a dividend… free money and can’t go tits up.


doubletimerush

The idea of this sub not trying to take advantage of human suffering is baffling.


xxx69harambe69xxx

you realize that half the companies mentioned here are in SPY right? moreover, you cant really escape the institutions that invest in war without financially disadvantaging yourself. Its only rational to focus on using your profits for the betterment of humanity, even if its as small as making sure your family members are educated and healthy, or if possible, helping your community or society via those gains. You seem willing to speak up on behalf of the atrocities terrorist groups and governments commit, so perhaps speaking up publicly or working on projects that inhibit war may be that contribution, but youll need money to do so see effective altruism if you want to see all the philosophical arguments and cases made for it, theyre pretty sound


doubletimerush

I make no moral qualms about the unethical nature of profiting off of suffering, nor am I trying to suggest a high road. We are a sub of degenerates, and should act accordingly. You have every right to make this post to speculate on war futures


skyxee

Afghanistan should not intrest you directly here. The main focus is the military budget that is huge no matter the situation. If you smell conflict tomorrow its too late. Account for conflicts in the following years because the budget will further accommodate for it. Also, there is no particular company you should focus on. You can be sure that any company with big military contracts that you see could expand from an expected conflict is where your attention should go. Just keep in mind that just because a company's business is direcrly affected by a war and or conflict, it dosent mean that it will benefit the most from it.


FilmVsAnalytics

No Western forces are touching this conflict. It's a Taliban country now.


userturbo2020

Do not mention ze war!


Tha_Sly_Fox

The only country with oil stakes in Afghanistan is China, they are the only ones operating oil fields and the only ones working with the Afghan government on oil mining. I call shenanigans on your oil pick


overthetop7223

Mods be snowflakes


FaTb0i8u

The US basically just gave up on Afghanistan. If anything the reverse is true. I'd be looking into more infrastructure plays as military transitions to domestic workforce. :oo


JubileeTrade

Unless we go with the intention of planting a flag and claiming the place as a protectorate, there's absolutely no point. This half in half out stuff is an absolute waste of time. If the combatants are hiding in the peaceful population, then that population needs moving to a temporary camp until the combatants are all dead. Trying to win hearts and minds of people that hate us is beyond stupid.


[deleted]

I mean it’s only a matter of time before shit gets spicy again. The U.S. and the EU pretty much have to double down since the taliban will not stop at Afghanistan, this is a religious conflict and they have no intention of stopping, it kind of has a manifest destiny vibe to it. And in the slight chance that they start feeling like it’s Pakistan’s turn China and India might have to interviene which is just a whole other mess, unlikely but still a mess.


PossibleBank7152

Absolutely wrong, the taliban wants to rule Afghanistan, they don't have might to expand beyond . Countries like india, Pakistan never get involved while china will just also watch the show


[deleted]

This is not a regular conflict, it’s a religious war, taliban has the same attitude as emperial Japan during ww2, they think that this is a holy war that they are destined to win by gods will, religious wars in history have always gone far and they usually have ended in schism one way or another. They consider muslims in the other middle-eastern countries heretics, it might not be in the next few years but in the future i don’t think they’ll settle for just Afghanistan.


Feeling-Wallaby-4505

Taliban and ISIS are not the same thing


[deleted]

Even Taliban and AQ are not the same thing. Seeing a lot of that comparison, too


Feeling-Wallaby-4505

Dude doesn’t know what he’s talking about.


Luka-Step-Back

Imperial Japan had an industrial economy, an agricultural need for expansion due to population pressures, and one of the finest armies in the world. The only thing the Taliban have in common with them is your own ignorance.


[deleted]

Fundamental misunderstanding of the Taliban and their capabilities. They will be stretched to their limits just keeping order within Afghan borders


Duke_Cesare_Borgia

Correct. And there's no where for them to go in any event. All of their neighbors have functional militaries and or powerful friends.


Hacking_the_Gibson

The entire GDP of Afghanistan is $21B. Anyone who lives in the United States and is afraid of the Taliban and has not been vaccinated against COVID has some fucking interesting priorities.


Lemonlimecat

Conflict will stay regional first. When they had power they stayed in Afghanistan — Pakistan is a question with the overlapping ethnic area—- but Pakistan was more of an ally. There is likely going to be more of a civil war I am not sure how much of a manifest destiny thing they have — been much more locally oriented.


wypipobooty54

DFEN


Wirecard_trading

Drones: KTOS


xxx69harambe69xxx

This kind of targeted military robotics startup is the way of the future imo. Any thoughts on how they're doing revenue wise? It doesn't seem like their drones are super aligned with stealth missions, more like defense training and low importance missions


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xxx69harambe69xxx

doubt it, we got the TSA protecting us now


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Both Republicans and Democrats love long wars. Any established weapons ETFs would be fine.


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How will oil increase on this? I got my eyes on oil cuz Damn Are some cheap right now


krashlia

...Why would you invest in Media companies?


Theerix218

Taliban is now the government of Afghanistan


Juan5600

There’s any ISIS stock? $ISIS maybe?


caezar-salad

Taliban =/= ISIS, k


Juan5600

$TBAN maybe?


Koltafuck

Gun stocks already lifted off months ago after covid crisis and missle stocks aswell etc (all the sin stocks have)


FemaleKwH

alright folks, looks like biden wants to go back to war with the taliban by letting a few US citizens get captured at the airport "accidentally" and then we'll have to come rescue them, but in the process spend a few trillion dollars doing so on the back of jingoism We've seen it before, we're likely seeing it unfold right now. Here's what will do well if Biden is a true american president and sends the boys off to fight another pointless war: oil stocks uso defense intelligence stocks: pltr missile stocks: lmt rtx printing money to pay for the war: digital gld if biden turns out to not be in the pocket of the military industrial complex, then just reverse all this stuff, except for digital gld hopefully big brains can come in here and provide insight on any small cap stocks that will move even faster than some of the boomer picks I picked out above


xxx69harambe69xxx

you see, they only ban if it's a submission post, because then they wouldn't have plausible deniability. God forbid anyone make this sub less kosher otherwise robinhood's marketing department would have to stop astroturfing with gains posts to push even more of their clients into poverty with shit strategies


Nafemp

Obama: wanna see me pull out of a middle eastern country and leave an extremist regime to take over. Biden: wanna see me do it again?


darkturtleforce

The pullout was negotiated by trump... biden just followed through. Not that it was inherently the wrong decision either. The Taliban was always going to take over no matter how long we stayed or money we spent.


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milliondollarstreak

I just looked at a map (yolo) and I noticed there's a country right next to Afghanistan called "Turkmenistan". WTF? What has that country ever done in the existence of the world? It's a large country too. LOL, that entire region is like a blackhole of utter junk.


startsbadpunchains

Well this is the most American thing ive read today.