First picture: Saigon, Vietnam, 1975
— Wars on the Brink (@WOTB07) August 15, 2021
Second picture: Kabul, Afghanistan, 2021.
History repeats itself in some way or another. pic.twitter.com/INckPYqkGI
* Helicopter - believed to be US Air Force Chinook - seen flying over Kabul today from the US Embassy in Kabul
* It comes as Taliban closes in on the Afghan capital with shots heard on outskirts before fighters stormed city
* Around 3,000 US troops have been sent into city to aid with US evacuation, while British troops also deployed
* It is believed around 500 British staff needed to be evacuated and by Saturday the number was in 'the tens'
This is the moment US diplomats are seen being evacuated from Kabul as Taliban forces stormed the Afghan capital.
In a scene mirroring that of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, a US Air Force helicopter was seen taking off from the US embassy earlier today.
The Chinook helicopter was seen taking to the skies above the city - just like in 1975 when a US Marine helicopter was seen evacuating embassy staff from Vietnamese capital.
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Update: ‘Manifestly not Saigon’? WATCH US helicopters evacuate Kabul embassy as Blinken defiantly rejects Vietnam pullout comparisons -- RT
WNU Editor: It's too late .... US criticised as it races against time to save its Afghan helpers from Taliban (The Guardian)
