What this means
August 30, 2021•152 words
Not all the people who helped the US, the UK and other powers in Afghanistan will be evacuated. Some of their contact details were left lying on the ground when the British embassy was abandoned1. It seems likely that many of those people will be killed, probably in horrible ways.
So the message here is very, very clear, isn't it? If you plan to help the US, the UK or probably anyone else in a situation where you might later depend on them for your safety, don't: they will leave you to your fate with nothing more than some empty regrets when, apparently inevitably, they lose the war you are helping them fight.
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Why sensitive information was being kept on paper rather than in some encrypted storage which would be valueless the moment the keys were destroyed is an interesting question: for British diplomats it is still, apparently, the 19th century. ↩