Important!-----Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

Did America just lose Afghanistan because of WhatsApp?

"...What I think has not been considered enough is the degree to which WhatsApp DMs were a strategic blind spot for the United States.

...WhatsApp is an American product. 

It can be switched off by its parent, Facebook, Inc, at any time and for any reason. 

The fact that the Taliban were able to use it at all, quite apart from the fact that they continue to use it to coordinate their activities even now as American citizens’ lives are imperiled by the Taliban advance which is being coordinated on that app, suggests that U.S. military intelligence never bothered to monitor Taliban numbers and never bothered to ask Facebook to ban them.
They probably still haven’t even asked Facebook to do this, judging from the fact that the Taliban continues to use the app with impunity.
This might explain why Afghanistan collapsed as quickly as it did...Read all