Welcome back to New World next week. I'm James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.

And I'm James Evan Polato from Mediamonickey.com. The new advisory is not based on any actual threats or plots.

We've got that story.

Plus, hopefully, some good news.

But first, indeed, Graveyard of Empires Claims Another Victim.

And this was, James, I hadn't actually read it yet.

You posted this to corporate report.com over the weekend.

I believe the timestamp on your site says the 15th,

which probably means it was still the 14th to me here in the States.

This was posted to corporate report over the weekend when I guess actually, James, you should have been playing lottery or Pachinko with the amazing crystal ball sooth saying.

The war in Afghanistan is over. Long live the war in Afghanistan. Yeah, in case you haven't heard, the U.S. Armed Forces are withdrawing from Afghanistan at the end of this month,

and NATO's Resolute Support Mission, which took over from the NATO combat mission that ended in 2014,

will wind up at the same time. Folks might remember these are stories, James.

You and I have been talking about these last few weeks.

I think we set the table quite well.

And now, exactly as predicted by us and tons of other people, everything is in chaos.

Everything is in chaos.

Taliban quickly taking over the country.

Stories, of course, developing by

the hour as you were writing this, James. So it'll doubtlessly, of course, moved on by the time

we were reading this. But as the time of your press, Taliban already seized half of Afghanistan's

provincial capitals, including, of course, Kandahar and Harat, second and third largest in the country respectively. And they're on their way, inevitably, to capturing, of course, Kandahar and Harat, second and third largest in the country, respectively,

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